To the Listeners:
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Berthold Reimers
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Occupy Wall Street has been a movement organized by our youth so I find it more than appropriate to yield to our young intern PhD candidate Marcin Rusinkiewicz to craft a message to you this month. This is an abbreviated version of his commentary, the full length version is available here.
It should come as no surprise to the average WBAI listener that the government sometimes fails in its obligations to the People, and that the People must stand up and demand their rights.In this time of Wall Street greed, politicians' tone-deafness, and popular anger, it is instructive to look at this country's history of popular uprisings and protests. One crucial, but less studied, event was the march of the Bonus Expeditionary Force in the midst of the Great Depression, when unpaid veterans stood up to the rich and the "budget hawks" to demand their promised pay.
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Through the lens of this event, we can see the debate over the freedom of assembly, social spending on employment, the deficit and debt ceiling, and the greed of the wealthy few. Now is the time to reclaim the hard-won victories of our predecessors in the movement for peace and social justice.
In 1932, twenty thousand veterans with their families marched on the nation's capitol and occupied what is today Section C of Anacostia Park in the District of Columbia.The veterans were armed, angry, and determined to get what they had been promised: a bonus for their service in the First World War. Although Congress had passed the Bonus Act in 1924, it had remained unpopular with many in Washington and the veterans could not actually collect their bonuses in full for twenty years. The bonus was opposed as inflationary, with Republicans threatening to filibuster a raising of the debt ceiling. Inflation hawks then as now represent the interests of creditors and the wealthy. They fear large disbursements to the poor and working classes, because the money these poor people use to pay their debts may be worth less than the money that was loaned to them. It was the brutal actions of the police and Army in putting down the protests that turned public opinion against the policies that favored the rich for over a generation. Hoover and his Republicans were first swept out of power, and with maintained pressure, Roosevelt was pushed from the center to the left of American politics. After initially vetoing full payment of the bonus, and having that veto overturned in 1936, Roosevelt saw which way the political winds were blowing and embarked on the expansionary social and employment programs collectively known as the New Deal.
So, why should we tell this story today? The persistence, organization, and unity of the Bonus Army serves as a model. Their methods and their will to stand up to authority are needed today if the Occupy Movement is to achieve its ambitious goals. The issues at stake - social spending in times of depression, the deficit and the national debt, freedom of assembly and to petition the government, and even the nature of fiat currency - are again central to our national dialogue. The fact that we are refighting the battles of the 1920s and 30s shows how much Progressive causes have lost, and how much the powers of Wall St. have clawed back since the New Deal and the Great Society. Hopefully, we can see a cautionary tale for how history is written. The war criminals who attacked their own people in Anacostia - MacArthur, Patton, and Eisenhower - were promoted and became the heroes of World War II, but the martyrs of that July in 1932 are largely forgotten. When the story of our own times are written, who will we remember and how? WBAI will be there to tell the Occupiers' side of the story, as it has been there since 1946 - telling the stories of the People. |
- November 3, 10 - 11:40am - Peoples Court Trial of Goldman Sachs - Broadcast live from Liberty Park, Occupy Wall Street trial featuring Dr. Cornel West.
- November 4+5 - Ibn 'Arabi and Rumi Teachings for the Modern World- A
 conference at Columbia University, New York City Post-conference event: Nov. 5 -7:30 p.m. Celebrating Sufism through Poetry, Music and Dance - Coleman Barks, the Grammy Award winner cellist, David Darling, Sufi rock star - Salman Ahmad, British actor, Aaron Cass and musiciians, and whirling Dervish, Sakina. Info: The NY Open Center: 212-219-2527 Ext. 2 Tickets Here
- November 4, 5 pm - Cave Canem Poetry Prize Reading
Iain Haley Pollock debuts work from his 2010 Cave Canem Poetry Prize winning collection Spit Back a Boy, joined by contest judge Elizabeth Alexander and honorable mention Vida Cross. Book signing and reception to follow. New York University, Lillian Vernon House 58 West 10th Street. www.cavecanempoets.org * 718.858.0000
- November 9 - DARK SISTERS- Co-commissioned and co-produced by Gotham
Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group, and Opera Company of Philadelphia. If your home is a kind of prison, but that prison is the only home you've known, what do you do when the chance of escape arrives? Such is the dilemma facing Eliza, the heroine of Dark Sisters, a suspenseful, emotional, and lyrical depiction of one woman's struggle with obedience and love. For tickets to the Opening Night Gala, call 718-797-1145. Click here for tickets to all other performances.
- November 14 - 7pm, Fukushima on the Hudson- WBAI Host of Eco-Logic and author of Chernoble-on-the-Hudson, Ken Gale, speaks about the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Park Slope Methodist Church, 18th St + 6th Ave.
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November 14, 7pm Great Conversations: 3rdi NY presents Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the U.S. and India. The evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay raises the question: has the "war on terror" forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? Transnational Torture focuses on the legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States-two common-law based constitutional democracies-to theorize the relationship between law, violence, and state power in liberal democracies. Alwan for the Arts, Free, doors open at 6:30pm, 16 Beaver St, 4th Fl. (646) 732 -3261
- November 15, 7pm - "Like the Wheels of Birds: Emily Dickinson's Itinerary of Escape,"
 A talk by textual scholar Marta Werner. The lecture will explore Dickinson's late artistic itinerary through an essay and visual presentation of the rarely seen, visually stunning late fragments, including her canceled writings, pinned texts and poems composed on envelopes. Poets House, 10 River Terrace, (212) 431-7920 ,Info here
- November 17, Day of Programming Devoted to Occupy Wall St - Beginning at 6am and continuing throughout the day, WBAI will dedicate an entire day of programming to the Occupy Wall Street movement with coverage on the local, national and international levels. The day will consist of political and social analysis, sound from various locations across the globe and cultural presentations by poets, artists and musicians performing live in the WBAI studios. Executive Producer: Dred-Scott Keyes.
- November 18-20, Haiti Film Fest: Opening Night Reception + Film Festival
You are invited to an evening fundraiser for HCX that will start off the film festival with a bang on Friday Nov. 18! The evening will include a cocktail reception attended by some of the weekend's featured filmmakers and will host a special performance by one of Haiti's oldest bands, Orchestre Septentrional. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway. Tickets Here
The Film Festival on Nov.19+20 is free. Long Island University Brooklyn campus, Spike Lee Screening Room 12-8pm. Info: (347)565.4429
- November 21, 8am - Meeting on Fracking: At Delaware River Basin Commission
Representatives of the governors of NY, NJ, PA and DE and President Obama will meet to decide if this drilling will be allowed. The Delaware River Basin Commission will meet to take votes on whether or not to allow fracking in this region. The meeting will be at the NJ War Memorial in Trenton, NJ. Bus trips are planned for citizens opposed to fracking. Find a bus trip near you here or visit: www.FoodandWaterWatch.org.
December - December 5, 7pm - Greg Palast Benefit for WBAI - Greg Palast and Friends,
 lecture, film, and book signing. Greg and a panel of surprise well-known guests will discuss his newest publication: Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates and High-Finance Predators. A tale of oil, sex, shoes, radiation and investigative reporting. From the Arctic Circle to the Islamic Republic of BP, from a burnt nuclear reactor in Japan to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Palast uncovers a story you won't get on CNN. Greg Palast's crew of journalist-detectives chase down British Petroleum bag men, CIA operatives, nuclear power con men and "The Vultures," billionaire financial speculators who, through bribery, flim-flam and political muscle, take entire nations hostage for mega-profits. Community Church Of NYC, 40 East 35th Street. Tickets can only be purchased in advance Here
Listings of events for not- for- profit organizations must be submitted by the 15th of the month prior to publication of the e-Newsletter for the next month. Email information here.
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Michael G. Haskins - Chief Announcer
NOT LOST IN TRANSLATION:
WORLD LANGUAGE INITIATIVE SOARS AT WBAI
Founded more than 60 years ago as a public education foundation, the Pacifica Radio Network aspires, in part, to "encourage and engage" in such activity as shall "contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors." It is against this background that Chief Announcer Michael G. Haskins has initiated one of the most unique projects in radio broadcasting to be found anywhere on the spectrum. He calls it the World Language Initiative, through which peoples of all linguistic backgrounds are enabled to bring their diverse voices to our air.
Now entering its second year, the Initiative invites speakers of all languages to record a series of personalized station IDs in their own native or "mother tongue," together with an accompanying English translation. Both versions are aired together in 30-second promotional spots broadcast throughout the day. Among the languages currently in rotation are Korean, Urdu, Haitian Kreol, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Russian, French, German, Vietnamese, Albanian, and Swahili.
This pioneering radio initiative reflects and builds upon a number of significant demographic realities in our station's New York-New Jersey-Connecticut tri-state signal area. For example, in New York City alone, there are an estimated 170 languages other than English spoken at home, and nearly half of all New Yorkers do not speak English as their first language."What this means is that WBAI listeners constitute one of the most cosmopolitan communities in the world," Haskins says. "The World Language Initiative seeks to recognize, cultivate and promote that unique and incredibly rich resource from which we can all benefit."
Michael actually came to WBAI as a volunteer in the mid 1980's. His interest in public affairs immediately took him to the newsroom where he began training and doing updates on the morning program. The eclectic nature of WBAI's programing encouraged him to begin a more detailed study of history. With veteran producers Dred Scott Keyes and Sally O'Brien, Michael worked on "Lynching: An American Tradition," the production he remains most proud of over his 20 year career.
During the early '90's he worked with Bernard White and Ulysses T. Good on Emanations, a program that focused on the black community locally and the broader African Diaspora. The Emanations Collective organized a serialized reading of "The Peoples History Of The United States," and invited author Howard Zinn on its inaugural broadcast. Michael G., as he is fondly known around the station, was the interim Operations Director for a year during that time as well. Michael also often worked with volunteers during pledge drives in the tally room, and dedicated untold hours to helping WBAI and Pacifica raise funds for the network's mission.
The station began looking for a new chief announcer in '96 and after a year's search and an application review committee process, Michael was awarded the position. He is the station's "afternoon host and radio guide," maintaining the station's on-air continuity. He produces his own program once a month, Light Show, and assists producers during the station's fund drives. ___________________________________________________________________________________
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Healthstyles:
Diana Mason and Barbara Glickstein
Healthstyles is produced and hosted by registered nurses Diana Mason and Barbara Glickstein, with Hunter College's Center for Health, Media and Policy (www.centerforhealthmediapolicy.com}. The show airs every Thursday from 11:00 PM to 11:30 PM. The program focuses on personal health, health policy, and health issues locally, nationally and internationally. It frequently features cutting-edge information or news from front line health care workers and health advocates in our community, including discussions of the sociopolitical factors that jeopardize the health of individuals, families and communities. The hosts and guests provide listeners with the information necessary to advocate for their own health and well-being, as well as a more humanistic, holistic health care system. Healthstyles is the only nurse-produced radio program in New York City. Diana Mason, RN, and Barbara Glickstein, RN, have been producing Healthstyles since 1986. They have received awards for their work through the American Association of Childbirthing Centers, the Public Health Association of New York City, and the American Academy of Nursing. The use of radio to promote health was the focus of an article published in the January 2000 issue of the American Journal of Public Health by Mason and staff at the city's Community Service Society on their collaboration to offer a live two-hour workshop to educate listeners on how to select and use a managed care plan, as the state was forcing Medicaid recipients into managed care plans.
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Gary Null's Death By Medicine Receives Awards We are thrilled to announce that his recently completed documentary 'Death By Medicine' has taken the award for 'Best Independent Documentary' at this year's Best of Fest Festival! The award distinguishes DBM as one of the top 5% of over 37,000 Independent films this year. You can order the DVD AND the BOOK for a pledge of $80.00 here: November Premium of the Month. The film has also garnered the following: | Accolade Competition | Best Documentary | | Alaska International Film Festival | Best Documentary, Kodiak Award | | Canada Film Festival | Best Documentary, Rising Star Award | | Hoboken International Film Fest | Best Documentary | | Hoboken International Film Fest | Best Director | | Honolulu Film Festival | Best Documentary, Gold Kahuna Award | |
LA International Underground Film Festival
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LA International Underground Film Festival
| Best Documentary, Honorable Mention | | Las Vegas Film Festival | Best Documentary, Golden Ace Award | | Litchfield Hills Film Festival |
Extraordinary Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking
| | Los Angeles Reel Film Festival | Best Documentary Visual Effects | | Los Angeles Reel Film Festival | Best Documentary, Honorable Mention | | Metropolitan Film Festival of NY | Best Documentary, Honorable Mention | | SkyFest V Festival | Best Documentary, Honorable Mention | | The Indie Gathering | Best Documentary, 2nd Place | | World Fest Houston | Best Documentary, Gold Remi Award
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Vanessa Cooper + Gary Byrd
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The WBAI family is saddened to report the passing of Vanessa Cooper. Vanessa, a talented broadcaster and writer was the professional and life partner of Imhotep Gary Byrd. On October 12, 2011, "Sister Cooper" made her transition after a heroic battle with pancreatic cancer. She will be forever remembered and loved by her friends, family, and colleagues for her warmth and generosity.
Vanessa Cooper was the creative partner for Imhotep's Guide to Black Events weekly column which appears in the NY Amsterdam News and on WBLS Radio. A graduate of Syracuse University (with a BA in Radio/TV Broadcasting), Sister Coop was also a regular contributor-writer to Imhotep's broadcasts on WBAI Radio and served as Co-Producer, GBE Mind Flight and Express Yourself. At WBAI Radio, she was also a member of the WBAI Women's Collective/Women's Circle and a regular broadcast-contributor to the station's annual Working Women's Day programming, as well as the station's Caribbean Carnival programming. Sister Coop's professional credits also include actress, model, film critic, and co-executive producer for The Sweet Suite: Music from the Unsigned.
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The Cell
WBAI partners with many community organizations as media sponsors. One partner is The Cell.
The Cell, is an artist-run organization..."to mine the mind, pierce the heart, and awaken the soul...". It is a not-for-profit collective for theater artists to incubate and present new work in. Their November calendar includes:
November 3-5 / 10-12 / 17-19, 8pm
Heroes and Other Strangers- It's 1971 and Lenny finds himself searching for two runaways in San Francisco, where he finds hippies, revolutionaries, lovers, killers, heroes and other strangers and as it turns out, himself. Written and Performed by Zac Jaffee. Directed by Christian Haines
Sunday, November 13, 5pm -Tandem Reading Series- Notable and emerging writers read from their works, published and in progress. www.tandemreadingseries.com
Sunday, November 13, 7pm- Darrell Larson's MYTHIC GOSSIP. Tales & Truths from Hollywood -a series of lecturettes. The first half of the investigation into the phenomena of the love goddess in her most tragic and alluring form--the Doomed Blonde. Featuring clips from the works of JEAN HARLOW, CAROLE LOMBARD, MARGARET SULLAVAN, & FRANCES FARMER.
Monday, November 14, 7:30pm -Blackboard Reading Series devoted to the Black Playwright.
www.blackboardplays.com
Tuesday, November 29, 8pm- The Songs of Beulah Rowley. Written and performed by Mary Lee Kortes. Mary Lee Kortes, with a band of stellar musicians, presents the story and songs of Beulah Rowley, a depression-era singer from the Midwest who rose to regional fame but until now has remained little known to the world at large.
All tickets for Cell events can be purchased here or by visiting www.thecelltheatre.org for more information on all events.
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Special Report: Occupy Wall St.
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Located at each end of Wall Street, the Occupy Wall Street movement and WBAI Radio happen to bookend the block. WBAI has copiously followed the movement from the start, making daily reports to listeners who wholly support this protest. In addition to chronicling the growing numbers, the marches, the personalities in attendance, as well as the actions of New York City's police force, the station has now enabled OWS voices to be heard first hand. "Occupy Wall Street Radio" began on October 26 with a special hour and a half program. The regular time slot will be Monday to Friday from 6:30pm to 7pm and will be streaming live at www.wbai.org. Shows will be archived and accessible on the website. "Occupy Wall Street Radio" will feature OWS participants reporting on activities at the site and "Occupy Everywhere". A series of reports will be aired from across the nation as well as the globe. "OWS Host/Producers" will include Victoria Sobel, Luke Richardson, Daniel Levine, Dan Feidt, Sade Adona, Michael Premo, Max Hoades and Amy Hamburger. "WBAI felt the best way to cover the movement is to allow occupiers to speak in their own revolutionary voices," says Tony Bates, WBAI Program Director. ***November 17, Thursday - "Occupy WBAI" - A full day devoted to OWS programming |
Volunteer of the Month: Alan Lee AKA "Data"
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Alan Lee has been one of our newest and most welcome volunteers. He volunteers as the administrator of WBAI's blog (wbaiblog.wordpress.com) and frequently updates our Facebook page and Twitter account. Lee also represents WBAI during our pledge drive and other community events. He has been a contributor to Disinformation and F4W Online, and composed the biographies for Scientific Wrestling's 2006 Submission MasterClinic DVD. As host of the Invisible Web, he interviewed blogger Austin Gandy, New Yorker cartoonist Paul Karasik, Fortean Times contributor Joe Nolan, writer Ric Gillespie, and Margot Adler. Lee was also a correspondent for the Combat Hooligans podcast. He would like to thank Khosrow Vaziri and Robert Anton Wilson for being inspirations. If you would like to contact him, please email wbaiblog@gmail.com.
If you have well developed skills and talents like Alan's and would like to volunteer, please contact us here.
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Accounting Intern Rumena Aktar
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Internships
Applications are now being accepted for Fall + Spring (credit and non-credit) internships in audio engineering, marketing, accounting, graphic design, social media networking, event planning, general station support, and business organization . Please email resumes and days/hours of availability, and areas of interest to internship@wbai.org. We would like to welcome Rumena Aktar who is interning in the business and administrative offices. Rumena is an accounting major at Queens College.
***Please note: WBAI is seeking (2) interns and volunteers in the area of Marketing and Public Relations.
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Introducing the 2011 WBAI T-shirt!
Pledge $60 and make the season's most important fashion statements;
that you support WBAI and that WBAI is radio for the 99%.
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I listened for more than 3 hours to Pacifica's Sunday Special on 9/11. All in all I think that the network did an excellent job and kudos are due to all the folks who made it possible, put it together, and participated in it. There was a great diversity of topics covered that dealt with the many issues --political, geopolitical, economic, religious, imperial, technical, sociological, etc.-- impacted by that event. There was a great diversity of participants and opinions involved in the mini panel discussions that took place in a manner that was substantive and respectful in tone and of the guidelines set by the moderators. Kudos to the latter as well! It was also gratifying to see the manner in which the Pacifica network as a whole participated with the active involvement of others such as Democracy Now! Thank you all.
Max Blanchet
Berkeley
Gary Null is narcissistic, self absorbed, self serving and divisive.Though he provides good information, his self absorbed and self serving rants can be exhausting and distracting. I find it hard to listen to him for an entire hour since he exhausts so much air time on his grandiose, delusional comments. Sarah, EO, NJ
I am a longtime listener /activist& supporter. who has been arrested many times for WBAI. Even though I am an 80 year old radical priest activist , I was ,strangely enough, also a Jewish child Holocaust refugee from Nazi Germany. I see that Steven? the Road Warrior is having a program on the Iranian President's UN speech. I am definitely in favor of free speech & against censorship.While I oppose the rabid anti -Iranian politics , we cannot overlook or even support his Holocaust denying rhetoric. This would be very painful to me & to the memory of many loved ones who perished in the gas chambers. It would also alienate actual & potential BAI supporters. I hope that you will share this heartfelt message & I would be willing to talk to Steve (?) myself.
Further, this is a potentially important moment for Pacifica. NPR is about to get a new president who ( unfortunately ) sounds like he wants to move things to the Right. I suspect that eventually many NPR listeners will be looking for a new home.It is essential that WBAI continue to move in the hopeful, creative, non rhetorical direction without sacrificing our radical vision and attract many new listeners & supporters. We must not jeopardize or even - God forbid- lose our beloved station. Thanks for your good work & God bless you. In peace & justice, Father Paul Mayer
I loved Andrea Clarke show on Saturday night. The music she played was great.
Lyndon Baskerville
I'm an ex-patriate Manhattanite sequestered in S. Florida listening on the web. I've been a supporter since the '70's. I recently heard an LSB show on BAI and since it was on the archives I couldn't phone in comments. With regard to programming, I was sorry that you made certain changes recently which I felt were not an improvement. For example, Taking Aim, should be on prime time. I can't blame them for not wanting to be on at the unearthly hour you wanted to move them to. (By the way, one of your staff said that they resigned without even mentioning the reason why. It's explanations like that which should be on FOX, etc., but not on BAI! Also, Expert Witness is another great show and was moved, as you know, to midnight on Tuesday's. As I use the archives for the off hour shows it really doesn't matter to me but does matter for your FM listeners and bear in mind that not all BAI listeners have access to a computer so they must hear programs live.
One caller was upset with not have Free Speech Radio News on the 6:30 PM hour and again moved to the unearthly hours of 5:00AM. I agree. Moving Explorations to Saturday when most people are either doing chores, working, exercising, etc., was not a good idea. It's one of your best shows and should not have been relegated to Saturday.
When I tell people about WBAI, if they want I recommend some of what I believe are your best shows. These include, Democracy Now, Guns & Butter, Law & Disorder, Counter Spin, Daily Briefing, George Galloway, Radio Un-nameable, Economic Update, Gary Null and Earth Watch. I also like some of the Wake-up call shows when they don't deal only with local NY things. The evening news and 5 O'clock Shadow are also good programming.
Al Jazeera is very good at times but should not have replaced Free Speech Radio News in their time slot. I should mention Any Saturday as David does do some excellent fundraising with Broadway and Off-Broadway show tickets. Good luck with your upcoming fundraiser! Roger Gilde, Greenacres, Florida While I am a devoted listener of WBAI and am nearly always impressed with your reporting and programs, I was disgusted today to tune in at around 1:00 PM to hear Dr. Gary Null discuss 9/11 conspiracies, specifically that Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon. This segment was a complete discredit to WBAI and incredibly insulting- to suggest that Flight 77 never hit the Pentagon is an outrageous insult to the people who died on that flight. It's not only insulting to them and their families, but to your listener's intelligence- how can someone deny the fact that 60-odd passengers on flight 77 were no longer alive on 9/12?? Was the suggestion that those people- some of whom I personally knew- never real in the first place?? Today WBAI disappointed me in so many ways. You are a better radio station, a much more intelligent, rational radio station than to allow this kind of outrageous ignorance and stupidity on your programs. I expected much better from WBAI. Laura Fiorelli I wrote you a while back regarding the idea of having a radio program about sexual health, I am very glad that finally "Libido Talk" was put on WBAI, I only heard about the program when it was played on the Friday afternoon's spot "Take Charge of Your Health hosted by Corrine Furnari, I now try to listen to the archives at my job because of the early hours of the live broadcast. I am NOW a fan, and have expressed my feedback to Frenchie. Keep up the good work. Bert
Please send your comments, complaints, or compliments related to any program subject matter aired this month to listenercommentary@wbai.org with "Listener Comment" in the subject line. Submissions should be limited to 400 words and please include your full name and location. We reserve the right to edit where deemed necessary.
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Remember The WBAI Craft's Fair?
A new holiday tradition...We're having an Auction!
We need your donations of services and opportunities (and perhaps goods) for an online auction that will run from Thanksgiving through the first week of December. This annual tradition in the making will once more put BAI and its community at the center of NYC's holiday shopping and gifting.
Your donation can come from your vocation or avocation, or from your connections to unique people and places. Professional services of all kinds: that includes jugglers and clowns, as well as lawyers, interior designers, and financial consultants.
Arts, crafts, song, performance, culinary delights, backstage access, unique opportunities, local merchants, teaching, guiding, sharing, leading, mentoring, training, amazing! Foodists and Buddhists?!
- Concert + Sports Tickets (VIP access ?) Travel? Eateries?
- Politicos can share front line experiences and organizing tactics over lunch.
- Artists: Photography, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture; studio visits and art tours, professional critiques, auditions, reviews, edits, entrée.
- Local merchants that you are friendly with can donate certificates for their services, whether dry-cleaning or massages or plumbing.
- Writers: signed first editions!
Our goal is a collection of auction items that will show off the talents and accomplishments of our listeners, station staff, and their near and dear, and which speak to the values and interests of the WBAI community. Let's strut our stuff. The rest of NYC will be watching!
For Info and to donate/ send pics of your items: email here
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Berthold Reimers - General Station Manager
WBAI Pacifica Radio
120 Wall Street, 10th Floor
(212) 209-2800
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JOBS at WBAI:
Development
Director:
A managerial position working closely with the management team to co-ordinate fundraisng and grant related activities. Qualifications: - Minimum 5 years experience in a top level administrative position.
- Masters degree in Administration.
- Proven record of grant writing abilities and successful foundation initiatives.
- Experience with coordinating public/art/fundraising related events.
- Knowledge of not-for-profit fundraising opportunities.
- Experience with desktop and online publishing as well as new media.
- Expertise in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Constant Contact.
Responsibilities: - Oversee new fundraising ventures and maintain an ongoing online auction initiative as well as other online fundraising.
- Organize a capital fundraising campaign and donor circle.
- Develop relationships with appropriate public and private foundations (write grants and make applications).
- Publish the monthly newsletter and organize email lists.
- Integrate new media into regular PR procedures.
- Oversee recruitment and supervision of interns/volunteers.
- Develop partnerships with complimentary community organizations and other public radio stations
- Coordinate re-branding, marketing, and advertising activities.
- Analyze and design procedures for efficient operations of fund drives and collections.
- Keep producers apprised of grant opportunities.
- Assist with the co-ordination of fund drives, pledge collections, and sponsored events.
Application Instructions: Send letter of inquiry and resume to: Berthold Reimers,
General Manager
berthold@wbai.org
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