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WEFT Associates Resolution |
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by Zachary Miller
Email: wolfgang (nospam) wolfgang.groogroo.com (unverified!)
Phone: 217-344-7464 |
02 Feb 2001
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The WEFT Associates is the committee of active volunteer members at our local community radio station. On February 1, 2001 the Associates held a special meeting to discuss the situation with Pacifica in general and WBAI in particular. At the end of the meeting the following resolution was passed, the text of which is taken from a nationally circulating petition. |
We, the Associates of WEFT, reject the way WBAI's general manager, Valerie van Isler, was removed by the Pacifica Foundation in collaboration with local personnel, and how the interim general manager, Utrice Leid, was installed. We deplore the Foundation's coming in secret in the middle of the night at the start of a holiday weekend to change the station's locks, and the illegitimate installation and imposition of new station management. We deplore the firings, the bannings, the presence of security guards in the station, and the denial of access to personal property belonging to staff. We deplore the racial divide-and-conquer strategy now being used, and we deplore the scapegoating of any staff member or listener.
We call for the return of all fired and banned staff, and we demand a democratic process to determine the leadership of the station. |
