Carla Cubit Candidate Statement

I am registering to become a candidate as part of the 2007 Local Station Board Pacifica WBAI Elections. I would like to help participate in the decision making process for the WBAI local radio station board and give input and feedback as a listener. I am interested in serving on the local station board because I believe Pacifica and its affiliate radio stations are a great listener sponsored, community, non commercial radio who support free speech and broadcast the voice of the people and give power to the people. I would like to help encourage Pacifica and WBAI to reach a wider audience as well.

As a resident of the Lower East Side and East Village in New York City, I have been a listener of WBAI for over twenty years. I have also been a guest on several WBAI programs over the years for various causes such as housing and human rights and alternatives to psychiatry programs. I believe I have experience to contribute helpful feedback and input as an Local Station Board member and could contribute helpful information by joining local station board committees as well . I am a former secretary and member of a tenant association and I have been a board member of several housing rights organizations. I have administrative and organizing skills also, as I have helped to organize various community rallies and events for peace and justice.

It is my hopes to help in creating a more democratic local station board for WBAI and to help save the WBAI administration and board from itself, as Pacifica network stations have a history of turmoil and division amongst its members. I would like to help create a more democratic board with equal input for WBAI listeners and help to create more diverse programming and creative outlets for WBAI as well. I am a former squatter from 13th street on the Lower East Side and a visual artist who believes in religion, mysticism and all its meanings and the secret knowledge of the unknown and art as a universal means of communication.

I am currently a writer for a music magazine and I like to listen to live music and attend art openings and poetry events. I also maintain a blog at nopolicestate.blogspot.com and a myspace page at www.myspace.com/nopolicestategirl where you can listen to No Police State Girl's No Police State song. I sometimes perform with Unforgotten Voices, a visual and performing artists group of people who are otherwise living on the edge and I am a former member of Homelsess Clients Advisory Comittee and Support Coalition International, a Human Rights and Alternatives to Psychiatry organization.

I have also acted in various theater productions and I am a member of Oasis Garden in the East Village and like to garden and attend environmental events. I am interested in helping to save the world and whatever else comes to mind. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.

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edix: The real Carol Spooner

Carol Spooner, or someone pretending to be Carol Spooner, has spammed these blogs with identical comments urging people to vote for what she wants, living in the Berkeley Hills in California.
Spooner made sure, in a nasty offensive, that bylaws at Pacifica would not include affirmative action remedies in election results, which opened the foundation to control by whites majorities.
Spooner is angry that WBAI is not controlled by whites yet, so she is sticking her nose in at WBAI.
Her husband, Gregory Wonderwheel, regularly attacked many African Americans at WBAI in various attempts to force them out using lies, hyperbole and standard Republican-style put-downs. Make no mistake about it, Carol Spooner and her California cohorts want to control WBAI.

October 27, 2007

Carol Spooner: ...

If you haven't already received it, you soon will receive your ballot for the WBAI Local Station Board (LSB) 2007 election. Please don't lose your ballot -- vote!

I'm endorsing --

#1 - James Ross
#2 - Seth Goldberg

and, in alphabetical order,

Carla Cubit, Robert Gold, Jennifer Jager, Ken Laufer, Pat Logan, Don Mathiesen,
Lee McClure, Stefan Neustatder, Bernardo Palombo.

I hope you will rank James #1 and Seth #2 on your ballot, and then go on to rank the others listed above in order of your preference. James Ross is the only encumbent who deserves re-election this year. He has worked diligently to uncover and understand the station finances and to make recommendations to deal with the problems. Unfortunately, his efforts have been blocked by the current majority on the LSB (the "Justice & Unity" faction). Seth Goldberg has the financial and business skills that WBAI so desperately needs at this time. All of the above-named candidates are sincerely committed to helping to right the station by hiring station management that will strengthen & revitalize programming, restore the listener-base and rebuild financial stability. They can be the seeds of sanity at a very troubled institution if you elect them to serve this very important community resource.

This is a critical election for WBAI. I believe it is absolutely essential that NON "Justice & Unity" slate candidates take a majority of the seats on the Local Board if WBAI is to survive, and perhaps even Pacifica itself. As I wrote to you a few weeks ago, WBAI is bankrupt. It is paying its bills by borrowing money from the Pacifica National Office which is borrowing the money from other Pacifica stations. This whole house of cards could come down if the problems at WBAI are not solved quickly. There have been very serious financial irregularities at WBAI, including use of "restricted" grant monies for unauthorized purposes. In addition, when WBAI terminated Gary Null's program it also terminated a major source of listener-support for the station. Regardless of what you think of Gary Null's program, the station needed a realistic plan to replace that income or to reduce its expenses to live within its reduced income. It did neither, and that is one of the causes of the current bankruptcy. Other causes are overall mis-management, waste, poor staff morale, not enough good programming, and competition from other alternative media sources, both on the radio and on the internet.

The "Justice & Unity" faction has held the majority on the LSB for the past three years and has been blocking necessary management changes and other changes at the station. In addition, the LSB majority elects 3 of the 4 WBAI seats on the Pacifica National Board and they have been blocking necessary action by the Pacifica Executive Director and National Board. For this to change, at least 5 of the 9 listener seats , and 2 of the 3 staff seats on the LSB must be won by independents who are not part of the "Justice & Unity" slate. I honestly don't know why the "Justice & Unity" slate has been so destructive to WBAI, they have good "political" credentials and you would think they would want the station to grow and thrive. However, they have not acted that way, and if they are permitted to continue to control the Local board and to confuse and mislead the national board, then I am very very pessimistic about the future of WBAI and Pacifica. This is tragic in a time of national crisis where EVERY form of alternative media

Again, please vote -- Every vote matters. With "ranked choice" voting just one vote can determine who wins the last seat on the board.

Thanks, and best regards,

Carol Spooner
Pacifica National Board Member - Jan 2002-Jan 2005
Lead Plaintiff - Listeners' Lawsuit to remove the old Pacifica Board - 1999-Dec 2001

October 27, 2007

Petootiepie: Hi Carla it's working! ==NM==

October 24, 2007

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