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Anything going yet. Where is the election staff doing their thing?

Thanks, Alex: not sure I responded to this, but thank you again if I
have already.
We need some clarification on membership issues: I'll see what I can
find out about the membership "gift" idea, which I still believe is
illegal.
Getting money for software patches to make sure no staff members get

Friends,
I wrote to this email list a couple of times earlier this year to urge
action
in a timely manner to forestall potential problems with the upcoming
Pacifica Foundation elections. It is important to tune in now to prepare
for the 2012 and 1013 foundation election cycles.
It is, however, too late to reset the 2012 qualification database to

of starting the database from zero.
regardless if there is an election
list although obviously related to the
probably program memsys to create a new
expires before the due date while
be.
Good questions. I don't know who maintains the voter roll list. But, you
wrote to take the old memsys and then

Hello, I was a member of this committee last year as the PNB representative
from WBAI.

I am sure you have gone over this already but allow me to enumerate what I
see as the problems with membership lists:

1. Duplicate memberships. (Eg, the same person at the same address can
have a slightly different spelling of his name or the apartment might be

Folks,
After all the experience of holding these elections for the decade, this
upcoming one can be the smoothest
today. The most transparent. The most democratic. The most efficient and
cost effective.
The voter list is always a huge problem. Isn't it the case that on the
very first day of the one-year

This week I received the alarming news that the lawsuit
Cohen v. Pacifica Foundation et. al. is still ongoing.
It hopefully will be dismissed shortly will all parties covering
their own legal expenses. But that news prompted me to
look back at my final report as National Elections Supervisor.
You can find it at [link]

Thanks for your thoughtful reply, Terry.
I agree that a "2-year" hiatus would be too restrictive,
and that a 23-month, or even 18-month hiatus
would be more managable.
These proposals are, naturally, open to amendment
before being sent to the membership for adoption.
Thanks to all of you for your willingness to serve

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Because of the "a year equals 365 days" PNB misinterpretation of
bylaws language, a 23-month out of service period is preferable -- it
would prevent the two year hiatus becoming effectively a four year ban
on returning candidates if a second week of December Delegate seating
date was scheduled a couple of years after a third week of December

Dear PNB Election Committee members,
Please allow me to resubmit for your consideration a proposal I made
four years ago shortly after I became National Elections Supervisor. It
was based on my observations from two terms as Local Election Supervisor
for KPFK in 2003-4 and 2006, and from discussions with board members.

Attached is the final (I think) spreadsheet listing expenses for the 2009 and 2010 Pacifica delegate (LSB) elections. Thanks to Efren in the National Office for getting this compiled for us.
Note that line 266 has expenses for the 2009 elections ($243,740.78), and line 267 has expenses for the 2010 elections ($156,754.85). These lines have the individual totals for each station, as well as the grand totals.

Amen, Melinda.
Carolyn
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Considering how Lonnie perfomed as CFO, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot more
were left out. He kept his job based on political loyalties. I can still remember when he
joked at the 2007 Houston meeting at the Crown Plaza downtown, that he didn't know about all the bank accounts that had been set up by the take back movement and doubted that he ever would.

Sounds great, unless you're the secretary, of course. :-)
Some time ago Lonnie Hicks compiled a list of motions passed by the
PNB: he omitted a crucial one of the Elections Committee, and I think
the list stopped in 2007 or so, but it would be a good thing to ask
an executive secretary to do, just compile all the PNB motions in one

Good idea, Carolyn, but I probably won't have time to get all those together in time for the deadline (tomorrow) for those reports. Ken, as Elections committee secretary, can you help?
However, an even better solution, in the interest of transparency, would be for us to post all the minutes with the agendas on the kpftx calendar, so those not on the PNB can also have ready access to the minutes. Otis added that feature a while back - something I keep forgetting about, so that anyone can easily find minutes for any meeting. Most committee secretaries are not doing that, and may not even know about that feature.

“Streets paved with opal sadness,
Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy,
And jazz.”
Bob Kaufman, Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems

This week on From the Vault we treat you an amazing radio documentary about one of the most elusive poets of the twentieth century and the originator of the name ‘beatnik,’ Bob Kaufman. Written and produced in 1992 by David Henderson, with associate production and engineering by Vic Bedoin, Bob Kaufman, Poet: The Life and Times of an African-American Man features interviews with family members, scholars, and artist such as Amiri Baraka, Allen Ginsberg, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Roscoe Lee Brown. Despite his battles with alcohol, drugs, psychotherapy, and the justice system, Kaufman’s ragged life teems with poetic brilliance, as this documentary demonstrates. Highlights include a rare 1958 recording of Kaufman reading his epic poem Second April and a discussion of jazz with recordist Henry Jacobs. Part one of two.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

PURCHASE a copy of this program or learn more about the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

This week on From the Vault, Cal Green of WBAI’s The Critical People speaks with artist Andy Warhol about his film Chelsea Girls in a rather unconventional interview recorded on June 3, 1967. Joined in studio by Henry Geldzahler, associate curator of American painting and sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Paul Morrissey, film critic and director, and International Velvet and Ingrid Superstar (two of Warhol’s “Factory Girls”), Green and Warhol focus on how Chelsea Girls differs from Warhol’s previous cinematographic efforts. Not surprising, Warhol’s musings are filled with deflections, half truths, and feigned ignorance; yet through this all we still absorb Warhol’s personal examination of his filmmaking approach, in a most insightful and unique example of Pacifica Radio at its finest.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

PURCHASE a copy of this program or learn more about the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

This week on From the Vault we celebrate National Poetry Month with the American poet, novelist, and memoirist May Sarton recorded at the College of Marin in Cali in1983 by the KPFA Women’s Department.

Born in Belgium in 1912 but raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May Sarton suffered through early attempts at acting and running her own theater, until in 1935 she devoted her life to writing. Producing over fifty volumes of poetry, novels, journals, essays, and children’s books before she died in 1995, Sarton was an open lesbian but rejected the narrow label of ‘lesbian writer.’ Seventy-one years old at the time of this recording, Sarton draws from her entire canon of poetry to explore the theme of the evening: the hazards and joys of being a poet.

Poems featured are Sun Boat, The Beautiful Pauses, At Muzot, Where Dream Begins, Binding the Dragon, The Godhead as a Lynx, Death and the Turtle, The Muse as Medusa, At Lindos, The Frog That Naked Creature, Of Molluscs, The Lady and the Unicorn, Dr Abshchied, and On a Winter Night.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

PURCHASE a copy of this program or learn more about the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

This week on From the Vault we celebrate Chicana writer and one of the early voices of the Third Wave of Feminism, Cherrie Moraga, whose first solo authored work, Loving in the War Years, is considered one of the most influential works in Chicano Literature. First, we present an early 1983 recording of Moraga reading from Loving in the War Years, made by noted KPFA Women’s Department producer Cindy Madron. We follow that with a 2010 interview conducted by From the Vault producer Mark Torres; Moraga promotes her play Digging Up the Dirt, about coming to terms with the murders of two women in her life.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

PURCHASE a copy of this program or learn more about the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.

From the Vault focuses this week on a 1995 documentary about the United Farm Workers Union called The Flight of the Eagle. Produced by Chuy Varela from archival footage collected by Pacifica over the previous thirty years, this radio retrospective examines the evolution of the UFW from a local organization which mostly championed farm workers into a civil rights organization which fights for issues affecting the larger Latino community. The Flight of the Eagle gauges the impact of the 1965 Delano Strike and Dolores Huerta’s critical role in developing the UFW, the death of Cesar Chavez on the union, and the current challenges ahead for the organization.

From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio Listeners.

PURCHASE a copy of this program or learn more about the historic archival recordings used within this episode. To purchase a CD copy of this program by phone, please call Pacifica Radio Archives at 800.735.0230 x 262.