[Imc] Pacifica May Cut Off WEFT June 7

[Paul Kotheimer]

hi friends

not to be crumudgeonly, but i have two keystrokes to chip in of which i
hope people will take SERIOUS note regarding the matter of upping our
production committment to WEFT. they are:

$?

in order to produce audio at the IMC sustainably, we will need production
staff, equipment maintenance, rent money, and a second audio workstation.
the current set of volunteers (incl. myself) could burn out any day now.  
we need a substantial, reliable, and sustainable financial committment
from the commmunity to make quality broadcast audio.

and (speaking as an impoverished key volunteer) i NEED a financial
committment from the community to be able to keep doing what i do for IMC
audio.

so i repeat my two keystrokes:

$?

solidarity,
paulkotheimer:)


On Wed, 30 May 2001, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:

> 
> This affects the IMC.  WEFT may be looking for more public affairs
> programming soon (June 7th).  We can't replace 5 hours of Democracy Now! a
> week, but we may want to be part of this discussion.
> 
> danielle
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:49:28 -0500
> From: Mick Woolf <mwoolf at prairienet.org>
> To: weft-b at prairienet.org
> Subject: Pacifica Cut Off
> 
> Well, it finally happened.  I got a call from Marianna from the
> Accounting Dept. at Pacifica on the west coast.  She is doing her job.
> Apparently the Dev. Dir., JoAnne Merideth is in charge of the affiliate
> issues now.
> 
> And Marianna has been charged to send us a bill, and a letter, and a
> supposed correspondance from Feb. that WEFT has never received, letting
> us know that we have until June 7th to pay $3050.00 in full (this covers
> the price of Democracy Now at our level of affiliation) AND sign the
> contract, or they will cut off our service at that time.
> 
> I have much to comment on, but am too busy at the moment.  Suffice to
> say, WEFT has played it completely above board.  Pacifica has blown us
> off, dissed us, been unresponsive, irresponsible, unaccountable, and
> simply don't give a shit about us or their previous agreement with us.
> That's it for now.  More will come from me to you, you can be sure of
> that.
> 
> I have left a message at work for Chairman Mark, and I am going to leave
> a message for Marvin Gerstein.
> 
> This is truly up to the BOD to deal with this.  Pacifica's decision will
> go into effect, theoretically, the day after the Associates meeting.
> 
> This is an opportunity for the whole station to figure this one out.
> 
> Good luck.  And be not afraid to call it as it is, which ever way you
> all decide.--Mick
> 
> 
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