KPFK is stuck in Pacifica's financial morass, still, mortgaged and more.

Others 'in the know' of Pacifica and it's affairs, problems, solutions, fightingnesses ...also have relevant words to add to the story, as it can be here & there revealed, a bit,  here:

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"It would be prudent to make that option available to the membership…”

 Q: But:   what constitutes that “membership”  ? 
and who as listeners without donations that 1 yr or how many years ago would be excluded ?
words like “members” “directors” and vague references are made about what by-laws say that most readers have Never Ever read nor would search thru for a particular reference.. 

 Please Define, simply, clearly, for everyone to remember, record and use appropriately after. thanks ]“the internal mis-identification of the Pacifica project as one of community radio rather than of public educational broadcasting”     

[ is a major problem, but definitions are again not clear, specific, detailed enough to Identify which is which and which is not-enough so.  Words are so easily understood by the writer to mean 1 thing and they assume others, of course, agree & will know what is being said. Not. 

We have written with no responses to that issue of where & how is Educational emphasis clearly stated in The (holy) Mission then is a major or frequent factor in any broadcast programs.  

Anything can be mis-labeled as ‘educational’ assuming others do not know what
programmer knows and they are then ‘educating’  The Rest Of Us about their biases, prejudices, political slants and anecdotal findings. hmm 

Note:   boldings and emphases are here to make easy skim-reading for pertinent topics. Tho the writers of these words & thoughts are not named here, it is not to plagiarize but to further expose their publicly written views more widely, thru this blog-site too. 

It is the clear, bold writing of what is not always read, heard, agreed with, or even acknowledged with replies, elsewhere, that we copy-paste here for further viewing and to INFORM anyone involved with KPFK and Pacifica to also 'be in the limited know" that is possible. 

This is not revealing anything confidential, nor needing to be hidden further, as much else continues to be, as has always been at this over-cautiously-secretive organization.

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                                AND HERE ARE SOME WRITINGS OF OTHERS: 

"Also notice that Board decisions are based on insider politics and personal agendas not on sound business practises ….the PNB making no decisions or bad decisions, which includes  decisions based only on insider factional power plays….the CPB funds, ....

Pacifica lost them starting in 2013 for failure to properly notice its meetings to the public, which are also FCC rule PNB for the last year has also violated those same CPB/FCC rules by having multiple closed meetings dealing with public matters, as shown by a leak of closed session motions passed. 

After that Pacifica failed to comply with its audits and that has been the reason for the loss of CPB funds ever since. Further, KPFK lost its CPB funding  by either 2012 or 2013 because of low listenership and low donations. CPB gave KPFK three years to fix it and they didn’t. KPFK will not be eligible even if the audits could get done.


It’s possible the open meetings violations would disqualify Pacifica even if the audits are completed the CFO has quit and the auditor said he will not do the FY2017 audit. You need both to do an audit and they are not easy to get at Pacifica. 

The due  date for the FY2017 audit and Form 990 to the IRS are due August, 15, 2018.    Pacifica’s expenses are greater than its revenue and has been for years.   

KPFK has budgeted 140 fund drive days this year. It still owes about $200k in central services from 2015. 

The PD gives out programs to board members’ friends and keeps his job. While the iED signed a $3.7 million loan, with all of Pacifica’s real estate assets, including everything inside the buildings, plus KPFK’s transmitter and the Pacifica Radio Archives, both irreplaceable  
[this needs to be confirmed as accurately stated ]


Pacifica is woefully understaffed in all its areas of operations, especially those that could help grow revenue. To get a development director or national program director – or even something as basic as business managers at two of the stations – would cost as much as they would likely bring in. And there’s no money to float those jobs until they do bring in funds."
                                                  
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"....  nothing replaces the production of complete and unaltered, unredacted documents in a situation like this. [to iED} You  work for the listeners. Not the other way around and certainly not for your or anyone else’s enrichment.    In addition, please provide a complete breakdown of the costs of all the loan(s), and full details as to the pledging, collateralizing, or the putting at risk of loss of any and all Pacifica assets as a result of these recent actions trumpeted in the    [see where OUTSIDE this may have appeared ?] April 5 press release. "
 
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"So, ordering people about what they should and should not do and expecting it to help is the old, usual Pacifica way -  by having competing groups trying to dominate the PNB and the LSBs is the commonly used  Pacifica way…..

Transparency. I think you and the PNB are making a great mistake and expand distrust among the membership because you are not releasing documents about the settlements. You are denying to members of the organization the right to view and copy documents that affect the organizations future…. 

This is secrecy and not transparency. Lots of people in and around Pacifica are offended by secrecy.  Your administration should be changing that tendency to hide things and promoting openness at all levels."
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Pacifica Bylaws, Article Twelve, Corporate Records, Report and Seal,

Section 4: Members: Inspection Rights
Members of the Foundation shall have the following inspection rights, but  only for a purpose reasonably related to such person's interests as a  Member of the Foundation, and subject to the Foundation's right to  provide a reasonable alternative method for achieving the Member's articulated purpose:
 

A. To inspect and copy the record of all Members' names, addresses and  voting rights, at reasonable times, upon five (5) business days' prior written demand on the Foundation, which demand shall state the purpose for which the inspection rights are requested. 

( read the clauses) Where the Foundation reasonably believes that the information  will be used for an improper purpose, or where the Foundation provides a reasonable alternative to achieve the Member's articulated purpose, the Foundation may deny the Member access to its membership list and information;


B. To inspect at any reasonable time the books, records, or minutes of   proceedings of the Members or of the Board or committees of the Board, upon written demand on the Foundation by the Member, for a purpose  reasonably related to such person's interests as a Member, provided,  however, that said Member will not be permitted to review sealed Minutes from closed meetings; and 


C. To inspect and review copies of reports filed by the Foundation with  the Attorney General consistent with Section 6324 of the California  Corporations Code…..

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 (c) bt 2018 only words not quoted in black above, but those written to explain what this post is all about.

PACIFICA is still hiding documents that must be seen by all members !

This was an open letter - sent to National Board PNB, current interim and permanent executive directors of Pacifica, CFO - chief financial officer of Pacifica, et al. 

[It is quoted here below with a few extra additional emphases, but words unchanged from original ]  

It is being reproduced here to show concerns, questions and continued lack of TRANSPARENCY in urgent, extreme & dire financial solutions to the recent debt, judgment and other WBAI lease arrangements that brought many Pacifica land properties into being mortgaged to cover a loan, to help payments towards the federal court judgment that could otherwise bring down the whole institution & organization of 5 radio stations.


                                        

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"Subject: Urgent Request for information please - [to Tom Livingston, iED, PNB, LSB, et al. ]
 
Greetings my PNB !

Pacifica’s 4/5/18 press release announced settlements and agreements on a number of items with respect to Empire State Building and Empire Realty Trust.

This is  my request to make all of the information relative to the matters covered in the 4/5/18 press release public.  By information, I mean any and all legal documents (signed or unsigned) agreements , correspondence, and all communications related to any and all of the matters covered in your 4/5th press release.

These materials  should already have been made available for review/download to listeners, donors , and members of Pacifica. It is beyond troubling to hear board members at the 4/5th PNB meeting state that they had not received or reviewed these documents.

How did these board members cast an informed vote on this high risk loan package without reviewing these documents?  Nancy Pelosi became a laughing stock after suggesting that the Obamacare legislation needed to be passed and passed in a hurry—so she and others could learn what’s in it.  Why model that at Pacifica?

F. G.  wrote an alarmingly negative review of the loan proposal,  raising all kinds of questions. All of them need to be answered, not in glib monologues during a PNB meeting, but point by point. 

With the opportunity for us little folk to engage you in Q&A. A lot of dressed up A  with non existent Q is worthless.

But as skeptical and concerned Pacificans you know all that.  One criticism that really alarmed  me was Ford’s stating that Pacifica is barred from entering bankruptcy (should the need arise) under the loan agreement. Please explain how this could have possibly been agreed to by you?

When it comes to Pacifica, I’m a cynic. My cynicism tells me that shaking  ALL OF this information loose from you—the folks who approved it, signed it and set Pacifica on this path to acquiring ?  about 4 million in debt will not be easy. Partial releases, hiding documents, must seem so easy, so attractive, when there are hundreds of pages in play. 

Being requested. But trained, forensic reviewers always find them. One way or another.  But you know this too.    An easy way to get these records is to subpoena them. But let’s try the hard way first. And ask that people hew to their better selves.

Despite secret meetings and secret agreements, like so many scandals, Watergate for example, the truth will out. Justice will be delivered. By a system far less forgiving than the largely apathetic listener base you, fortunately for you, are being asked to answer to.

Just remember: it only takes a few dogged people to prosecute these matters, and turn lights on in a kitchen such that all its denizens and cronies run for cover. Would that Pacificans were not litigious. But even that fig leaf of a hope isn’t available. 

Especially to cover up things.  It is a mistake to play ALL of us for a fool.
Please make plain where these documents,ALL NOT PART, can be reviewed, downloaded and read by Pacifica members and their legal representatives.

This letter should not have been necessary. The document release is days overdue. Pacificans love to call out people and institutions and demand full release and transparency. I and many others are now demanding the same of you. 

This is your time. Emulate your  heroes—the risk of an Ellsberg, the bravery of a John Dean, the sunlight ....., the covert courage of Bradley Manning and on and on.

This is your time. Time to model your heroes. Honor truth.  So many questions abound. Questions from us, who I like to call “the peons.”  Give us, the voiceless compared to you, functioning vocal cords and air in our lungs to drive them!!  Help us as we now speak/ask truth to Power =  (that would be you!!).

Many of these questions appear at Radio Waves—a [email] Group familiar to you. Excellent questions, questions neglected and crying for answers, are being asked by  K—she’s given years of tears and sweat and blood trying to help Pacifica. She’s been disrespected and humiliated and mocked, by and large by Pacifica. Ironically, that treatment, in a sense, is Pacifica’s highest compliment. 

They are being asked of you Tom Livingston.[iED currently]

Judging from K’s latest posts, she’s not received even the basic courtesy of a reply.. That is wrong, Tom. And you know that. You stand for fairness. You know that one of the most anger provoking scenarios in life is screaming out questions and concerns and being utterly ignored. Like an infant begging for his mom to attend to him and being fully ignored.

To a cynic, it makes it look like you can’t answer. Or are hiding things. Let me appeal to you—don’t cover up. As a Pacifica cynic, I’d normally recommend it, but for the fact that it never ends well.

But as a frequent critic of society and fierce advocate of holding those in power (the fascists as Travis is wont to call them) accountable, you know all this.   You’ll find K’s emails at the Waves or ask me and I’ll ask her to send them to you, yet again.  But there shouldn’t be a need. They’re in your email box. I’m sure you’ve seen them.

Answers to her and anyone else’s questions is necessary. But it is not sufficient to the many of us who want to review ALL of the documents.Of the many questions, I think  this one is central: What will it take for you,    Pacifica’s board of directors to, ... be true to what you say loudly and demand if others, with your so frequently raised voices.

Thanks for your prompt response.

S. C.     a  listener member. " 
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another source of more reporting on Pacifica's problems and it's PR sent out claims are found elsewhere too, such as:

 
If you go to this page at RadioWorld.com:

https://www.radioworld.com/news-and-business/pacifica-settle-nyc-tower-dispute

              Pacifica Settles NYC Tower Dispute     

Nonprofit plans to move WBAI transmission facilities to 4 Times Square    by     RANDY J. STINE   APR 6, 2018

                                 and 

others have written : 

   "it is everywhere else also suggested to any number of Pacifica members that they ask their PNB representative for copies of the documents that are not being shared openly - i.e. to all the stakeholders, donors, and fund-raisers, etc.  who have so far paid up so much !  "

                      
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"....the way to improve PNB representation and performance is to demand accountability"

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"it is time for PNB and LSB members to make themselves more accessible.  There is NO, no individual email access to individual LSB or PNB members.... just looked at Pacifica’s bylaws.  Article 12, Section 4 defines members inspection rights.

Section B. and maybe C. as well appear to be the most relevant ones, if the Attorney General receives a copy of the settlement with ESRT.

In Section B, a member has a right to “inspect at any reasonable time the books, records, or minutes…”  This statement is quite clear to me.  I don’t think a member should have to sue Pacifica to see the agreement.  I think if the PNB wants Pacifica members to thank them for this settlement, they should make available copies of the settlement for members who request one.  This is particularly true at a time when the board requests that the members patience and financial and other assistance when trying to rebuild the network.

Now is the time for the PNB to include rather than exclude members from the decision making process.  "                                 [snip]

Article Twelve, Corporate Records, Report and Seal, Section 4: Members: Inspection Rights

Members of the Foundation shall have the following inspection rights, but only for a purpose reasonably related to such person's interests as a Member of the Foundation, and subject to the Foundation's right to provide a reasonable alternative method for achieving the Member's articulated purpose:

A. To inspect and copy the record of all Members' names, addresses and voting rights, at reasonable times, upon five (5) business days' prior written demand on the Foundation, which demand shall state the purpose for which the inspection rights are requested. Where the Foundation reasonably believes that the information will be used for an improper purpose, or where the Foundation provides a reasonable alternative to achieve the Member's articulated purpose, the Foundation may deny the Member access to its membership list and information;

B. To inspect at any reasonable time the books, records, or minutes of proceedings of the Members or of the Board or committees of the Board, upon written demand on the Foundation by the Member, for a purpose reasonably related to such person's interests as a Member, provided, however, that said Member will not be permitted to review sealed Minutes from closed meetings; and

C. To inspect and review copies of reports filed by the Foundation with the Attorney General consistent with Section 6324 of the California Corporations Code.      "

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"actually the management & Pacifica needs to hear from a concerned listener, as you are , obviously.
They usually avoid anyone who may want to claim some Rights to Questioning their non-representatives on PNB or LSB or staff....pretending to hide behind no-replies, no acknowledgements to voice mails, or emails, holed up in their privileged on-air-access niches.

NO one has ever bothered to reply or explain anything for many years of my asking any questions, mundane ones or pertinent to their management ones either.

It takes so much time, effort, work to even TRY to communicate or be heard, even tho the fake-claim of "freedom", "open", owned by listeners / members, and all that BS that is not operational, actual nor reality at Pacifica- anywhere that I have seen or heard.

Even their in-group emails are non-responsible and non-responsive to questions asked, except for maybe 1-2 people who tend to care enough to reply there.

why some continue to stay loyal or care if they drown in their chaotic ineptness or if they continue emphasizing miniority-victims-mainly, plus some music to relieve the pains, is not clearly understood - by any others who also complain, as many do here at this blog too.

there must be some secret yearning for their ideals and words to COME TRUE vs. just be blather, repeated cliches, and fake lures for money $$$. I guess..."
 

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end of selected words from others that explain what ELSE is happening-not-happening at Pacifia and it's national board members PNB.

april 10 2018   (c) only words in purple written by blogger here. 
All other words belong to others. 

Notice: Negative Criticalness, prevails, even here ?

Find that we tend to be negative, critical and not so nice in our views about KPFK or Pacifica here ?  of course.

We too have noticed and reflected that we do more than report the few available actuals, facts,
changes that occur at PACIFICA or KPFK , our main focus here.

We are repeated requesting, demanding, ASKing Openly and Publicly for TRANSPARENCY  + HONEST + INGEGRITY  +  ACCOUNTABILITY  + RESPONSIBILITY  + and more Professional- & well-experienced management.
 Especially when it comes to monies  $$$$$$$ – the main substance requested for 5/8 of the whole year’s focus on KPFK  - also  more casually euphemism-called “fund drives”.

We reflected on our own words here – we are criticizing while asking-for More than has been or maybe ‘can-be’ done at a million-dollar FM Radio station –  located on radio dial at 90.7           in Los Angeles.  And then we noticed the very few available Investor-Stakeholder sources of information of how OUR RADIO STATION is being controlled, mortgaged, run or managed, not all by local bosses, but by Boards – Local or National.





                                                          
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LSB= local station board members – who are unknowns and only Selected by a very few who are required to fulfill the required minimum # of votes, and then make decisions with No Other Vetting, Proof of expertise, stability or skills, or prior work for a large [tho called ‘non-profit’
by legal papers] Corporation. 

Also we know of no LSB member that reports back or holds even local or station meetings to who they Claim, falsely. to "represent" or get feedback as to what LSB's do or that person is doing, or not.

From those 24 or so dis-agreeing people they self-or-crony-nominate 4 to become part of the PNB – Pacifica National Board  - those then Elevated into more powerful positions that make decisions that affect all 5 stations plus more. 

Again  there is no vetting, qualifying criteria [or written so in bylaws ? = those the ruling ‘laws’ that interior are suppose to be followed & obeyed within all Pacifica stations & doings].  It has often been commented elsewhere that those venerable “bylaws” are ignored, by-passed, denied, and re-interpreted by demanding individuals and warring factions within the PNB - and within any radio station’s LSB too.

So as INVESTORS, large or standard payers to KPFK , becoming thus STAKEHOLDERS, donors, money-and-time-and-more CONTRIBUTORS to KPFK ’s maintenance, there is almost no or slanted tidbits of information shared or released, by anyone who Knows Most or in In Charge of OUR RADIO STATION.   
                                            
                                                    
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There are some email groups that bicker, rant, criticize a lot, [critical attacks, critical long essays and harangues, critical of each other most frequently, critical of anyone outside of those who considered themselves as ‘essentials’].

And almost all the PROGRAMS heard on Pacifica and KPFK are also CRITICAL – of government, of anyone the liberalized left righteously claims is different than their chosen view or group.  Programs rant and acclaim those VICTIMS they chose and ignore others, selectively insuring that ‘their own’ gets heard on-air access while others, less relatable are then ignored and not on-air, at all.

The government and all officials therein are obviously the worst – the most greedy, grabby, evil, thieves and elite that are to be demolished, voted out until the next set gets the same demeaning treatment via all Pacifica people & programs.  The USA voted the republican form of Government - however it happens which may or not be revealed only 20+  years later, not before – must be BAD, cheating, corrupt, and not “one of  us” per the KPFK determined view and attacks.

There are a few ‘other nations’ that are sort of allowable, because they are known “victims” of USA govt allies, like Palestine, claimed to be right, innocents, deserving – as other nationals elsewhere are not…not given broadcast air time support and admiration. Many people’s are displaced, moved aside, taken out, removed and replaced and other tribes/ ethnic groups/ political parties/ dissenting nationalists, et al exist and want to be heard too. However, there are the favorites we all hear mainly and repeatedly on OUR RADIO STATIONs.   
Maybe occasionally another regional group, political attempt to be Chiefs, Presidents, Reclaimers of lands, and such exist, simultaneously…but they may have a 1x or 0x opportunity to have their side known to KPFK or Pacifica listeners. 


                                            
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The very SELECTIVE SLANTS, BIASES, CHOSEN ‘VICTIMS’ that are exposed and given that precious on Radio news exposure – as any other media offers often to their own chosen ones – are very limited and selective, and must be poor, downtrodden, rebels, so-called tho not really ‘voiceless’ so heard less often by mass corporate media.

 [Note: KPFK is also a corporation, but non-profit seems to indemnify and make innocent what happens there, as no visible Cash Trades is known to be done there…maybe. Much pride and repeated !!! over & Over = bragging is done on-air about this being ‘non-commercial’, tho what is actually “commercial” defined is not admitted either ]  commercial means: "concerned with or engaged in commerce." so what is all the money we send in called instead?  a trade ? 

do we just give-away : a free- wheeling gift, present, donations?- but absolutely with no strings attached- our merely passing on of hard-earned-monies ? 

Do we really dare TRUST that dysfunctioning systems that have not done proper each station audits... not on time as required by laws, & not abided by Corporation for Public Broadcasting to receive in turn $1M / yr ? Or to end up paying for NY expensive leases we who INVEST & pay for KPFK's survival here in LA ? or whatever other financial disabling shenanigans that are never revealed because of shame and wanting to continue being an empowered PNB person? huh?

That any other available sources of news, revelations of how KPFK or Pacifica operates and what is owed, what is owned, what is traded, how it is managed, who is more in Power &  in charge than the PNB group that are  the “directors” – directing how & by what means besides an occasional group vote – is SECRET, NOT KNOWN, NOT REVEALED and hard to decipher or find.

The negative criticism of all the ‘others’ – those not chosen to have KPFKers support and sympathize and drum [loudly & repeatedly] Up into audio-volume-Sounds  & View – those negatives predominate the airwaves. So only a selective audience listens. Those who also resent not having more and not feeling life has been fair to them and it must be the fault of the pre-dominantly * USA government * & those officials, workers, agencies, anything tainted by the USA American taint/ symbols.  

                                                       
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Not just the general ANTI-WAR protests and actions are at KPFK. That was the emphasis from the Original Mission in 1959.   But later, it was  Not just the claimed “JUSTICE” for every poor person, even if not USAmerican, not those who have made claims they have not paid-for or
even ‘deserve’ for any reason other than they want More…of course ….   

It is the repeated demands that anyone ‘else’, [any ‘others’, outside the USAmerican main-stream, majority, norm, prior taxpayers & builders of whatever USAmerica has become by now….that dominate at KPFK and Pacifica stations.  

There are so many !  So varied people’s on this earth anywhere else and inside these USA borders too that must be SAVED and rescued !!! by those who seem-to ‘care’ and be ‘active’ – to speak in their names and then get prestige and feel-good from being NEGATIVE & CRITICAL of any-everyone who is not  then:       
                                         
                                                 
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a poorer, minority, protestor, less-powerful, and different [sometimes disabled by physical or other means to get MORE, sometimes by being born in a country, region where less is available and sometimes being brought-up/ raised in cultures that are ‘different’ than the USA’s majority = that were Christians, mostly tho not only lighter-toned-skin-colors, called “whites” tho that is not their skin hue actually, and some ‘pinkish’ and spotted tones are visible. ===

 and all “OTHERS” – the world’s dominant people’s of  hues –like what is labeled: browns, beiges – or even darker brown-bluish-unnamed skin tones, or even ‘yellowish’, “brownish’, and all the subtle differences of what is called Color  - or then labeled as RACE that are not the predominantly European heritaged one.

Oh….this must be then negatively attacked as, Not Allowed ! as this must be ["bad, insulting, demeaning, not-allowed "] " RACISM !!!"   – to even mention  that differences Are Seen and Admmitted ! No No NO !!!!  not allowed by politically-correct people at KPFK , especially ! What KPFK adherents ‘see’ only can be named and allowed, no others – views, words, experiences,
labels, definitions.

Per the ordinary defining abilities of the Oxford dictionary :   

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/critical

The word critical means [emphases added by us here -- and Definitions here to help us all realize how we misuse or exaggerate Our Own Versions of this commonly uttered word ! ] :  “ adjective “   [thus is it not a verb ! ? tho common use does so ? ]
 
 “Expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgements”  
[ as in ‘I was very critical of the previous regime’ ]       

“ Expressing or involving an analysis of the merits and faults of a work of
literature, music, or art.     
                   
as critical  (of a text) incorporating a detailed and scholarly analysis and commentary.”   
[as in ‘a critical edition of a Bach sonata’ ]

“Involving the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to
form a judgement.”    [ ‘professors often find it difficult to encourage critical thinking amongst
their students’]

critical  (of a situation or problem) having the potential to become disastrous; at a point of crisis.                       [‘the floodwaters had not receded and the situation was still critical’ ]

critical = “ Extremely ill and at risk of death.” [[ ill & death being seen negatively by many in society ]]    [‘she was critical but stable in Hospital’]

as in: “Having a decisive or crucial importance in the success, failure, or existence of something.”  [‘temperature is a critical factor   -- ‘getting banks lending again was critical to any recovery’ --in combination ‘time-critical tasks’] .                                                                                                                          = [end of dictionary quotes here ] 

 
Repeat the idea being dis-cussed here : KPFK & all it’s adherents,  followers, staff, management, emphases, issues, topics, and strong  biases are NEGATIVELY CRITICAL mostly…

With music being the main relief and alternative to all the heavy anger,  resentments, outrages, furies, insults, attacks, discounts, demeaning and negative words and sounds sounded Loudly, Repeatedly on KPFK . and Pacifica stations. Their claim to fame and identity is to be the ones who voice most and most often the ANGER and OUTRAGE that some others may agree to feel but have no radio-access-on-air-power.

duh…….

So when we wonder here why we are tending to also be critical, to demand Better and More from all and anything involved where we have INVESTED OUR MONIES, OUR TIME, OUR ATTENTION, OUR LISTENING and wanting to learn, we also are Negative more than complimentary.

Sadly. Surprisingly too.

We would prefer to be commending and admiring and praising. But because there is less of the Negative CONTAGION that emerges from air-talk and public-interest-programming at Pacifica’s on-air-programs, and even the news of what has happened or can occur at where we have INVESTED OUR TIME, MONEY, ENERGIES AND HOPES too…                                                  
 [like the recent financial judgment against WBAI, for which KPFK ’S PROPERTY WAS OFFERED UP AS COLLATLERAL TO A $$$$ LOAN to help out the network and it’s ignorant-lease-signing-officios who signed Empire State Building Trust for excessive rents they knew they Could Not Ever repay or continue to honor their signed lease ! – a sign made visible because it was in federal court and exposed ! or we, nor you, would have known the shenanigans, mis-management, excessive debt taken, and maybe even fraudulent dealings or corruptions yet un-admitted by WBAI & PNB & prior Executive Directors too – as we do now, because it Had To Be Made Public by that same USAmerican government courts.]    duh…..

Now….we would like to be more fair, balanced, equalized to the negative-positive poles and all in between, as between black & white  ends, extremes, there are many variations of rainbows too…. If only…. there were more positive results and less  secretive-hidden-shameful doings at OUR RADIO STATION.  It is not ‘theirs’, those who claim “power” and ability to decide, sign leases, spend our invested monies, chose programmers of their own slanted preferences, and do continual ‘money-begging-demanding-tiresome ‘fund-drives’ =[driving-us and most paid up listeners, prior donors -away].

That would be nice to be able to find and know and hear more positive aspects to what we have been so devoted and loyal, this far. But it does not seem to be improving, after this last revealed fiasco with WBAI’s extreme huge = YUGE debt that all other 4 stations had to also fund, or mortgage themselves to get loan money, or be forever after indebted until death = The-End: to all the absurdities that have been accomplished in recent Many Years ! not months, not recently, but for a long time, before ....Now, when we pay, for what ? Whom? Why ?

Admitting that we too, writing, reviewing, revealing also here, as there are only 2 other internet souces giving any information relevant to Pacifica and /or KPFK [ which are :Pacificainexile.org and http://wbai-nowthen.blogspot.com/,  == and then us. here. ] dealings, doings, fiascos, and changes therein.

While all those who paid their dues, their gifts, donations, estate gifts, and  more in volunteering time at stations, at LSBs and at paid-for-events that  give a part of entry-fee to that Pacifica station – all of us WANT TO BE AND KNOW THERE IS MORE POSITIVES than we have heard, known, so far.      maybe later ? maybe…. nothing visible in any real factual, actual  horizons or audio-waves…yet.

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                 ANOTHER SOURCE OF INFO ON PACIFICA IS HERE TOO:


                                           http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/
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NOTE A WAY TO FIND OUT WHAT IS CLAIMED TO BE 'HOW IT MUST BE AT PACIFICA PER ONE OF  THEIR 'BYLAWS' :    [see Pacifica.org for all the bylaws somewhere there ]

The PACIFICA  bylaws say:

"Article Three, Members of the Foundation, Section 5: Rights =

 All Members shall have all rights granted to them by law or by these

Bylaws, including without limit the right to vote, on the terms and in the

manner set forth in these Bylaws, on the election and removal of

Delegates; on the sale, exchange, transfer or disposition of all or

substantially all of the Foundation's assets; on the sale, exchange,

transfer or disposition of any of the Foundation's broadcast licenses; on

any merger, its principal terms and any amendment of its principal terms;

on any election to dissolve the Foundation; on any amendment to these

Bylaws for which Member approval is required or permitted as set forth in

Section 1(B) of Article 17 of these Bylaws; and on any amendment to the

Articles of Incorporation. "

[emphasis italics added here only]