{"article":{"id":5307,"heading":"Proposed Pacifica By-Law Revision Permits Sale of Stations","author":"Save Pacifica","created":"2001-01-27 19:00:42","modified":"2001-01-27 19:16:05","last_modified":"Sun, 28 Jan 2001 02:16:05","article":"

A proposed by-law revision, drafted by John Murdock,

a partner in an anti-union Washington law firm and

Mary Frances Berry's designated legal

representative on the national Pacifica board, is

now being circulated for possible adoption at the

upcoming March board meeting in Houston.

The revision would...

* Reduce to as few as five members the Pacifica

Board of Directors (currently 19).

* Allow hired Pacifica executives to be members

of the board.

* Allow key decisions to be made by as few as

three board members.

* Permit the sale of Pacifica assets (i.e. stations

like KPFA and WBAI, estimated to be worth at least

$250 million to commercial broadcasters) by a vote

of the executive committee only, as long as the sale

did not include \"all or substantially all of the

assets or or property of the Foundation.\"

* Allow directors (such as Murdock, a partner in

the law firm of Epstein, Becker and Green, currently

handling many legal matters for Pacifica) \"to receive

reasonable compensation for services...in a

professional capacity.\"

* Reduce meeting notice time to as little as 24

hours, and meeting notice to consist of as little as

a message on an answering machine.

* Allow the national Pacifica board to appoint

1\/3 of local advisory boards, and ban membership

on such boards of staff and volunteers.

* Ban elected local advisory board members (as at

KPFA) from serving on the national board.

There are other centralizing, corporatizing measures

as well, as may be seen in reading the proposed by-laws

at http:\/\/www.savepacifica.net\/bylaws_revise.html<\/a>

(a PDF version is also available at:

http:\/\/www.radio4all.org\/freepacifica\/murdock\/murdock-bylaws.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.savepacifica.net\/bylaws_revise.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Pacifica's corporate raiders propose by-law changes that permit sale of stations such as WBAI and KPFA.","numcomment":2,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/01\/5307.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":5308,"heading":"How you can help","article":"IF THESE BY-LAWS, OR ANYTHING LIKE THEM, ARE \r\nPASSED, PACIFICA RADIO AS A FREE SPEECH, COMMUNITY-\r\nBASED INSTITUTION WILL BE DEFINITIVELY DESTROYED!\r\n\r\nYou help is urgently needed in defeating these by-laws.\r\n\r\nPlease do the following:\r\n\r\n1) Telephone Epstein, Becker, and Green if you object \r\nto the money you've donated to Pacifica being used to \r\nfurther the destruction of the organization. (Ask to \r\ndiscuss this with John Murdock or any partner in the\r\nlaw firm!)\r\n\r\nIn San Francisco: (415) 398-3500\r\nIn Washington, D.C. (202) 851-0900\r\nIn New York (212) 297-5600\r\nIn Los Angeles (310) 398-3500\r\n\r\n2) There is a public comment period on these by-laws \r\nwhich ends February 8. Murdock has said that comments \r\nwill be accepted only from board members. There are six \r\nboard members who can be trusted to oppose these by-laws.\r\nPLEASE WRITE TO THEM TODAY at whatever length you \r\nchoose so that they may collect opposing comments!\r\n\r\nTomas Moran , \r\nPete Bramson , \r\nLeslie Cagan ,\r\nBeth Lyons ,\r\nRob Robinson ,\r\nAaron Kriegel \r\n\r\n3) Make a donation IMMEDIATELY to our legal defense fund, \r\nas we explore our options in opposing Pacifica's latest, \r\nand ultimate, power grab! Either send a check to:\r\n\r\nSiegel and Yee Trust\/Pacifica Account\r\n499 14th St. #200\r\nOakland, CA 94612\r\n\r\nFor tax deductible donations:\r\n\r\nFree Pacifica Legal Action\/Vanguard Foundation\r\n333 Rhode Island #301\r\nSan Francisco, CA 94103\r\n\r\nAnd please keep following our daily reports at \r\nhttp:\/\/www.savepacifica.net\r\n\r\nThank you!","author":"Save Pacifica","parent_id":5307,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-01-27 19:13:07","modified":"2001-01-27 20:00:00","fileurl":""},{"id":5309,"heading":"Email WBAI's Corporate Raiders","article":"Below are email addresses for all of the owners (they call them \"members\") and owners-in-training (\"associates\"), of Epstein, Becker, and Green, one of the most evil corporate union-busting law firms in the U.S. One of E,B,& G's \"members,\" John Murdock, represents the Pacifica board against its own listeners. E,B,& G specialize in orchestrating exactly the kinds of actions as occurred at WBAI on the Friday before Christmas, namely midnight firings, changed locks, and blacklisted programmers. To let all of these people know how you feel about WBAI, simply write them a one-size-fits-all message, and paste all of the addresses below into the \"To\" section, and press send. \r\n\r\ncbachenheimer@ebglaw.com, kwilliams@ebglaw.com, cshattuck@ebglaw.com, hwolf-rodda@ebglaw.com, cwilkins@ebglaw.com, jweinberg@ebglaw.com, pwagner@ebglaw.com, tvanderbilt@ebglaw.com, lthorpe@ebglaw.com, estottlemyer@ebglaw.com, eshrift@ebglaw.com, nrosenbaum@ebglaw.com, lerobins@ebglaw.com, jrah@ebglaw.com, kpotter@ebglaw.com, mportnoy@ebglaw.com, jpeterson@ebglaw.com, kdixon@ebglaw.com, lnorwalk@ebglaw.com, cnix@ebglaw.com, emurphy@ebglaw.com, jmoriarty@ebglaw.com, cmcrae@ebglaw.com, mmarta@ebglaw.com, mmaloney@ebglaw.com, mlehrhoff@ebglaw.com, kkeith1@ebglaw.com, skatz@ebglaw.com, jjesperson@ebglaw.com, tjakubowski@ebglaw.com, thopkins@ebglaw.com, tbatra@ebglaw.com, ahawkins@ebglaw.com, kgally@ebglaw.com, rfox@ebglaw.com, mecisneros@ebglaw.com, gbreen@ebglaw.com, mbissegger@ebglaw.com, jbenton@ebglaw.com, jbennett@ebglaw.com, mbell@ebglaw.com, kbackstrom@ebglaw.com, bsteinbach@ebglaw.com, lcalligaro@ebglaw.com, kweckstein@ebglaw.com, cvaliant@ebglaw.com, dtemchine@ebglaw.com, dtatge@ebglaw.com, lsnyder@ebglaw.com, rreif@ebglaw.com, creaves@ebglaw.com, jmurdock@ebglaw.com, fmorris@ebglaw.com, dmatyas@ebglaw.com, dmanoogian@ebglaw.com, mlutes@ebglaw.com, llewis@ebglaw.com, wkopit@ebglaw.com, akaplan@ebglaw.com, skanwit@ebglaw.com, jjones@ebglaw.com, dhastings@ebglaw.com, mhandler@ebglaw.com, cgray@ebglaw.com, bgradle@ebglaw.com, sgerson@ebglaw.com, rfioravanti@ebglaw.com, tfarah@ebglaw.com, sepstein@ebglaw.com, jcowan@ebglaw.com, jcampbell@ebglaw.com, cbarnes@ebglaw.com, dabrahams@ebglaw.com \r\n","author":"Free Pacifica","parent_id":5307,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-01-27 19:16:05","modified":"2001-01-27 20:00:00","fileurl":""}]}