Pacifica Organizational Lists (partial)

Pacifica National Board (post 2/25/00)

Dr. Mary Frances Berry - (former?) Chair Pacifica Foundation National Board
624 Ninth Street NW #700
Washington D.C. 20425
phone: (202) 337-0382 fax: (202) 376-7558 fax: U-Penn History: (215) 573-2089
fax: Fiske Univ. Race Relations Inst. (615) 329-8806
e-mail: mfberry@sas.upenn.edu (at University of Penn, Philadelphia)
MFB RESIGNS effective Sept. 30, 2000, one hopes.

NEWEST APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS:

Bertram Lee
800 - 25th St. NW Washington DC 20037-2207
202-965-6224/6223
- Buyer and seller of radio and TV stations, and evader of child support.

John Murdock
Epstein, Becker & Green
1227 - 25th Street, NW Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20037-1175
202/861-0900
jmurdock@ebglaw.com - http://www.ebglaw.com/home.htm - Lawyer from DC firm which supports union busting and "union free" environments.

Wendell Johns
Fannie Mae 3900 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016-2892
Contact: Deborah McKinnon, director, multifamily marketing, 202-752-7402 Telephone: 202-752-7000 V.P.,
Low Income Housing Tax Credits: Wendell Johns

Leslie Cagan
550 Ft. Washington Ave. #3
New York, NY 10033
lesliecagan@igc.org

MEMBERS SEATED AT FEBRUARY 2000 MEETING:

Valerie Chambers <vchamber@pop.uh.edu>- from Austin, TX. Accountant.

Beth Lyons - from NY <bethlyons@aol.com>

OTHER SITTING BOARD MEMBERS:

Tomas Moran - from the KPFA signal area. Tomas tried to raise a number of motions but NO ONE
seconded them, and they were quashed at the Feb. 2000 meeting. He has since been told he belongs to no committees.

Ken Ford - WPFW - Executive Committee, Vice Chair
11303 Sherrington Ct. Largo, MD 20774
202-822-0228;fax: (202) 822-0369 e-mail: kford@nahb.com [TPC.INT SAYS NOT REACHABLE PER RECIPIENT'S REQUEST] http://www.nahb.com/. Ford becomes Vice-Chair in September 2000.

Karolyn van Putten
c/o Western Public Radio
Fort Mason Center, Bldg. D
San Francisco, CA 94123
- from the KPFA signal area. Hand-picked by MFB. Western Public Radio (415) 771-1160. Van Putten steadfastly refuses to meet with any community groups and says she represents "the Board."

Frank Millspaugh - WBAI Executive Committee
32 King St. New York, NY 10014
212-741-0839 (H)
fax: (212) 924-7409; e-mail: fmillspa@aol.com Bio info at: http://www.wbaifree.org/fass/fasschp4.html

Andrea Cisco - WBAI
275 Clinton Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11205
718-230-3976 (H) fax: (718) 230-1415 e-mail: acdarius@aol.com Nominated to board:
http://www.radio4all.org/fp/pnbtranscript-la98.htm

Rob Robinson - WPFW
c/o M. Williams & Associates
2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W., Suite 701
Washington, D.C. 20037 (202) 338-3015 phone
fax: (202) 228-3017 [RECORDING SAYS NON-WORKING NUMBER AT US SENATE] [TPC.INT
SAYS NOT REACHABLE PER RECIPIENT'S REQUEST] e-mail: robrobin@erols.com
Political bio: http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/lips/bios/robinsonbio.html Nomination to board:
http://www.pacifica.org/board/transcripts/script9803.html Robinson has SUED the Pacifica Board, along with Aaron Kriegel. See the Complaint to his suit here.

Pete Bramson - KPFA phone: (925) 671-4000 Ext 2228 (Day); Night: 510-654-3001 e-mail:
prbram@aol.com Nomination to board: http://www.pacifica.org/board/transcripts/script9803.html Bramson does not attend the Feb. 2000 nor the Sept. 2000 meetings.

David Acosta - KPFT Executive Committee (Certified Public Accountant, Houston, TX)
102- S. Lockwwood Houston, TX 77011 713-926-4604; fax: (713) 921-2780; e-mail: Cpadga@aol.com
Acosta is annointed by MFB with no input from anyone to be CHAIR of Pacifica when MFB's term ends in Sept. 2000. At the Sept. Board meeting he said he is ill and cannot fulfill that role at this time.

Micheal Palmer - KPFT (Real Estate Broker, Houston, TX)
1001 Bayland Houston TX 77009 713-840-6646; fax: (713) 960-8583; e-mail: mpalmer@cbrichardellis.com
http://www.cbcommercial.com/home/mpalmer/homebase.htm . Placed on the Finance Committee, he who wants to sell KPFA and WBAI.

Robert Farrell - KPFK Executive Committee
3800 Crenshaw Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90008
phone: (323) 299-3800 Ext 255 fax: (323) 299-3896 [no tpc.int] e-mail: rfarrell@kamber.com or
Alfigo@aol.com .

Aaron Kriegel - KPFK
Temple Ner Maarav
17730 Magnolia Blvd. Encino, CA 91316 818-345-7833 Fax 818-345-2483 [no tpc.int] e-mail:
harav1@aol.com Endorsed congressman: http://www.instanet.com/~sherman4cong/endorsements.html He is also suing the rest of the Pacifica Board, as of Sept. 2000.

RECENTLY RESIGNED NATIONAL BOARD MEMBERS (other than MFB):

June Makela - Treasurer and at large member Executive Committee (School Board Member, Borough of Manhattan, New York, NY) e-mail: junemakela@aol.com Critical page:
http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica/alerts/makela.htm. Makela RESIGNS at the Feb. 2000 Board Meeting.

William Lucy - at large member Nat. Secretary-Treasurer, AFSCME Mbr., Exec. Board, NAACP fax:
(202) 429-1293; http://www.afscme.org/about/officers.htm#lucy Lucy RESIGNS at Feb. 2000 Meeting.

Pacifica Local Advisory Boards

KPFA	KPFK	WBAI	WPFW	KPFT
Sherry Gendelman - chair Pele deLappe Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi Jay Imani (nominated by the KPFA LAB to the Pacifica National Board) Lewis Sawyer Andrea Duflon Leona Jacobs-White Newly Elected Community reps: Two-year terms: Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Carol Spooner, Maria Gilardin, Alice Chan, Mark Hernandez, Diane Solomon, and Joe Wanzala. One-year terms: Les Radke, Irwin Silber, Thenmozhi Soundararajan, and Fadi Saba Interim Members: Max Blanchet* Carol Spooner* Lavarn Williams* John Sheridan** Mark Hernandez** * Appointed Interim Members (as of May 17, 2000) ** Appointed Interim Members (as of June 14, 2000) Pete Bramson, Jim Bennett and Phil Osegueda: ex-officio non-voting members	David Adelson (Chair) Julie Thompson (Vice Chair) Douglas Barnett (Secretary) Dawud Kallil-Ullah (nominated by the KPFK LAB to the Pacifica National Board) Lydia Brazon Cecilia Brennan Gabriel Buelna David Fertig Peter Goodman Kimi Lee Gerard Meraz Kwazi Nkrumah Erroll Parker Luis Sanchez Fabiola Torres	Austin, Beverly Bobb, Joanne (Chair) Borenstein, Marian Caruso, Cecilia Emerman, Anne (sec) Frillman, Karen Golden, Gail Hogarth, Connie Kee, Hank Lum, James Maitland, Erroll (PS) Maldonado, Miguel (vice ch) Michael, Ivan Norris, Andrew (sec) Rosenberg, Mimi (US) van Isler Valerie (GM) Zames, Frieda	Wenonah Hauter, Billy Ray Edwards, Sam Husseini, Richard Vanden Heuvel and Frank Wagner (may be others)	(No list)

KPFA Program Council:
Phone numbers: KPFA: (510) 848-6767, studio 848-4425.

Aileen Alfendary
Emiliano Echeverria
Weyland Southon
Susan Stone
Pratap Chatterjee
Rosi Reyes
Doug Edwards
Raquel Aguirre
Jim Bennett
Bonnie Simmons
Amelia Gonzalez
Max Blanchet - Interim member from the KPFA Local Advisory Board. Term ends Nov. 15, 2000
Alternates: David Bacon

(Plus a Community Representative: Rachel Jackson. Prior to her there were 2 interim community members, originally until Jan. 1, 2000. Their terms were extended until the end of June 2000: Sojeila Silva and Noelle Hanrahan).


Pacifica Staff (incomplete list):

Bessie Wash, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Gene Edwards, Director of Inhuman Resources
Cheryl Garner-Shaw, Pacifica National Development Director
Pacifica HQ E-mail: pacno@pacifica.org

Pacifica News Network E-mail: pnn@pacifica.org

Don Rush, Reporter: donrush@pacifica.org
Laura Iiyama, Headlines Editor: liiyama@pacifica.org
Michelle Garcia, Associate Producer: mgarcia@pacifica.org
Joe Gill, Engineer: jgill@pacifica.org
Amy Goodman: amyg@pacifica.org
Juan Gonzalez: juangon@aol.com

Purged:

Dan Coughlin: danc@pacifica.org
Verna Avery Brown, News Anchor

Recent Former employees:

Lynn Chadwick, former EXEC. DIRECTOR, now "consultant"
(Formerly 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, CA 94704
e-mail: lynnchad@aol.com

Mark Bevis, Reporter (Acting News Director)


KPFA Steering Committee

The Steering Committee came to be early in the crisis and has been attempting to first ask questions of
Pacifica utilizing a Federal mediator, Lydia Baca. Since Pacifica has consistently refused to talk in good faith, the Steering Committee has reconsidered Mediation. In order to restart Mediation, the Committee presented Pacifica a list of 12 Demands with a necessary result being one or more Executive Board members sitting down to speak with the Committee. The Steering Committee, after waiting for months called off Mediation in mid-January, 2000. They continue to meet and as of May 2000 are in the process of redefining their role which continues to be one of the few places all the constituencies in the Pacifica struggle can meet. They have added representatives from the National Lawyers Guild, Media Alliance, North Bay for KPFA and the Unitarian Church.

Steering Committee Members:

From the CWA Union KPFA Staff (kpfastaff@yahoo.com) Kris Welch Mark Mericle (on leave of absence) Philip Maldari Lisa Rothman (alternate)	From the Unpaid (non-CWA) KPFA Staff Mary Berg Gary Baca Robbie Osman (on leave of abscence)
From KPFA Management Jim Bennett	From KPFA LAB Jay Imani
From the Main Community Groups Barbara Lubin (Friends of Free Speech Radio) Les Radke (Coalition for a democratic Pacifica) Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi) Nicole Milner (Cdp Alternate) Carol Spooner (North Bay for KPFA) Jeff Chan (NB4KPFA alternate)	From the 50th Anniversary Committee (Ad Hoc Committee) Lavarn Williams
From Media Alliance Andrea Buffa	From the National Lawyers Guild Peter Franck Scott Fleming (alternate)
From the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Society Neil McClean	(Resigned Members) Wendell Harper Akila Zainabu C.S. Soong Ann Fagan Ginger

LAWSUITS:

There are currently 3 major lawsuits by groups involved in the struggle, not including wrongful termination suits brought by Larry Bensky, and Nicole Sawaya. These lawsuits are critical to unseating the current Pacifica National Board.

A suit by Rob Robinson and Aaron Kriegel. A Joint Legal Fund has been created:
Free Pacifica Legal Action/Vanguard Foundation c/o The Vanguard Public Foundation
383 Rhode Island Street, Suite 301
San Francisco, CA 94103

The Listener Suit contact info:
THE COMMITTEE TO REMOVE THE PACIFICA BOARD
Contact: Carol Spooner - 707-526-2867

The LAB Suit. Dave Adelson. (dadelson@ucla.edu) on behalf of Pacifica's local advisory boards (Adelson et al v. the Pacifica Foundation).


FURTHER INFORMATION:

For more on FAIR's role in and analyses of the Pacifica crisis, see: http://www.fair.org/activism/pacifica-history.html

For a full history of the turmoil at Pacifica, see Save Pacifica's chronology at:
http://www.savepacifica.net/sofar.html