Attention WBAI listeners and staff -- If you would like to endorse the following petition, please forward this post with your endorsement to Paul Surovell at:

paul4sure@aol.com

If you would like a hard-copy version of the petition as an email attachment, please indicate that in your post.

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Petition to the Pacifica Interim National Board and the WBAI Local Advisory Board

FOR PACIFICA LOCAL BOARD ELECTIONS BY LISTENER-SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS, VOTING AS A UNIFIED MEMBERSHIP.

We the undersigned listeners and staff of WBAI wish to register our emphatic support for the following provisions in the Pacifica bylaws:

(1) At least 50% of local station board members shall be people of color; at least 50% of local station board members shall be women. Every effort should be made to elect board members who are pro- Mission activists from the disabled, youth, peace, social justice, environmental, artistic, labor, LGBT, and other Pacifica communities.

(2) Local station board members shall be elected by people who have shown a commitment to the Pacifica mission as listener-donors, listener-volunteers and station staff.

(3) Pacifica is a diverse family united in support of the Pacifica mission. All listener-donors and volunteers should vote together as a unified membership and should NOT be divided into separate categories according to racial, ethnic or other identity criteria, and should NOT be forced to vote for separate candidates according to those criteria.

Name _______________________________ Subscriber (Y, N)__

(optional) Address, phone, email
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Return to: WBAI Committee for a Unified Membership /
Coordinators: Manijeh Saba, Paul Surovell
PO Box 42 / Maplewood NJ 07040 / 973-763-9493 / paul4sure@aol.com