[grc] Pacifica By-laws Reform

[Tracy Rosenberg]

Hi all,

I would agree with Tom's statement that this post is completely
inappropriate for GRC. Besides the technical matter that the petition is
fake because the bylaws amendment proposed will never be
submitted because the timeline contained in it is impossible to carry out,
the proposal is antithetical to everything GRC has said for more than two
decades. Removing the prohibition against selling
station frequencies without a vote of the members is a non-starter. And
placing that decision solely in the hands of six unelected people is what
we fought against. The proposal is also severely
anti-worker and needs to be opposed by anyone who believes in worker
rights. Removing the indemnification of Pacifica employees against lawsuit
protection means that any individual named in a
lawsuit against Pacifica including managers, program directors, and
programmers would be forced to hire their own attorneys and pay their own
attorneys fees. I suspect that violates all the union
contracts in existence, all the management contracts in existence, and even
if it doesn't, it is morally reprehensible.

Most of the people signing this simply aren't reading it and are believing
misrepresentations about what it says.  I'm not even sure most of the
people hawking it have read it. If they have, they should
be ashamed of themselves.

On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 12:52 AM Tom Voorhees via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
wrote:

>
> Adrienne, Please do not bring this Pacifica major internal controversy
> to the GRC. I will destroy the GRC in the same way it's destroying
> Pacifica. It will bring a rapid response from the Pacifica loosing board
> minority of last weeks engineered major power shift. Tom Voorhees
>
> On 2019-09-17 23:06, Adrienne Lauby via grc wrote:
> > I'm cautious about posting Pacifica information
> > here because I know a lot of you don't
> > want to hear the arguments that seem to
> > follow any Pacifica post.
> >
> > But, there's a new effort to restructure Pacifica
> > and tonight I'm taking the plunge to tell
> > you about it for two reasons,
> >
> > 1.  Many small stations, affiliates and affiliate
> > representatives on the Pacifica national board
> > have told me that Pacifica is too caught up in
> > its own contentious affairs to do right by the
> > larger community.  This is the first hope I've
> > been able to offer in response for many years.
> >
> > 2.  Norm Stockwell, a GRC guy who spent
> > two decades as WORT's Operations Coordinator.,
> > is one of the "transitional board members" who
> > will help Pacifica get to a better place.  (Thank
> > You, NORM!)
> >
> > The details are here:
> > https://form.jotform.com/42244096312953
> > (You have to be a member of a Pacifica station
> > to sign the petition.)
> >
> > There are no designated board seats for
> > Affiliate Representatives on this proposed
> > 50%-smaller Pacifica National Board.
> > (Article VI, Section 1).  Affiliates can ask the
> > Transitional Board to appoint an Affiliate
> > representative to one or more of the 6 at-large
> > seats.
> >
> > There's lots more if you follow the link and
> > click on the links inside the basic announcement.
> > Feel free to contact me off list for questions.
> > I am not part of the group who are moving this
> > forward but I can put you in touch with them.
> >
> > Thanks for reading.  The link again is:
> > https://form.jotform.com/42244096312953
> >
> >
> >
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