September 2015 e - Newsletter
Berthold Reimers
Dear WBAI Family,

It's September and our thoughts turn to those of you preparing to send children off to schools, colleges, or heading there yourself.

WBAI has from its inception, the mission to "establish and operate for educational purposes...In radio broadcasting operations to encourage and provide outlets for the creative skills and energies of the community...to employ such varied sources in the public presentation of accurate, objective, comprehensive news on all matters vitally affecting the community."

With this in mind WBAI will bring you many informative and creative programs and activities this fall. Take a look at some of them listed below. We will once again be hosting an extensive internship program for students from universities across the metropolitan area, offering them on-air opportunities few radio stations make available.

Listening to WBAI programming is often assigned to students in local colleges. We will be partnering with some new ones, bringing you their informative podcasts and live streamed lectures by well known progressive personalities.

We wish you all a successful school experience this fall and hope that those of you who are lifelong listeners and learners will pass on the call numbers 99.5fm or our stream at wbai.org to those close to you.

Berthold Reimers
General Manager
Events @ WBAI

The income of the top 1% has increased almost 300% in the last 40 years and 1% of the population now rakes in almost a quarter of the national income each year, while working class wages have been stagnant. Wealth inequality gaps are widening and deepening.  The voices of we the people of the working class, and leading social analysts, major movers and shakers and cultural workers from across the globe will ring loud and clear this Labor Day over WBAI resisting going backwards and providing  inspiration and insights to reverse the war on the workers. This Labor Day, Monday Sept. 7 from 6 to 10 pm, we'll Build Bridges to you.
  
NOMMO Radio Production in conjunction with Brooklyn Commons will present a collaborative modern live AudioDrama; "Uprising of the Downtrodden".The AudioDrama will be broadcast live over WBAI (99.5 fm) and stream at www.wbai.org. Doors will open at 5:30pm for the 7:00pm airing. The event is  free- first come, first served, and will include audience participation. At the Brooklyn Commons Performance Space (388 Atlantic Ave between Bond And Hoyt).

Savona Bailey-McClain
Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund will host a special WBAI program; THE STATE OF THE ARTS in NYC on Wednesday, September 16, 2015  from 2 to 3pm. Though NY has become a creative capital, the high cost of rent, food, and space along with battles for permits, insurance and the police is pushing artists to the brink of crisis. What are some solutions? Can we reverse this trend? Joining Savona are: Adam Forman from the Center for an Urban Future, Times Square Alliance, Billy Clark from Culture and Scherezade Garcia, live from Brooklyn. 
ALSO: The West Harlem Art Fund in partnership with Pratt Digital Media will present 4 new digital artworks Under the Viaduct on 12th Avenue in Harlem starting at 125th Street. Bring the family on Saturday, October 3rd. Celebrate the fall in WHITE LIGHT after dark. Starts at 6 p.m. ART, PLAY, RIDE, DINE.

The WBAI Committee of Inclusion (COI) is seeking additional members. This committee is established by Pacifica By-laws to "monitor the under-representation of communities' in our radio station area. The COI will work with the Local Station  Board, station management, and staff to impact on and improve diversity in all aspects of WBAI's functioning; including programming, staffing, board candidacy, and other areas.

The board members on the committee have decided to add 7 members. We are opening the application process to everyone in the WBAI listening area and are seeking great diversity-both demographic and geographic-in the composition of the COI. The application form below is designed to help us reach that goal. Any WBAI listener member or staff member (paid or unpaid) may apply. Meetings will be public, but only committee members can vote. The term will run until December 2016.

NOTE: The application linked here must be RECEIVED (not postmarked) by September 21, 2015. Send to: WBAI-COI, 388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11217.  Or you may email the application(or any questions) to: wbai.inclusion@gmail.com. Or leave a message with questions at: 206-736-9106.

WBAI Online + On-air Community Calendars 
WBAI publishes an online calendar of events and call-to-action announcements that we think might be of interest to our listeners and members. As a community service, we also offer the on-air Community Bulletin Board to help organizations publicize their events to the community at large.
Submit both web and on-air announcements using the online form HERE.
Host Highlights
 
John Kane of WBAI's "Talk Back" will be appearing at two meet and greets for the documentary film The Doctrine of Discovery, based on the book Pagans in the Promised Land, which he produced. The film will make its premier at The Commons (388 Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn) on Sept. 16th and 23rd at 7:30pm, donations encouraged.


 Daulton Anderson, host of High Praize, will be hosting opening night, Saturday, Sept. 5th, of the largest Christian/musical conference coming to New York City; The New York Empowerment  Summit at Madison Square Garden, Labor Day weekend, Sat. Sept. 5th & Sun. Sept. 6th.
Jim Freund, producer of WBAI's "Hour of the Wolf"
will begin his 25th Anniversary season of presenting The New York Review Of Science Fiction Readings .  The event will include readings by writers
Rajan Khanna and  
Michael Swanwick.

Tuesday, Sept. 8th; doors open 6:30 PM at 
The Brooklyn Commons Cafe, 388 Atlantic Avenue. Free Admission, donations encouraged
 
Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Lakota elder Marcella LeBeau and documentary filmmaker Hasse Åkerwall Lisskog
Host Tiokasin Ghosthorse of "First Voices Indigenous Radio"  traveled during the summer solstice to the Hawaiian Islands to give two presentations, one in Hilo on Hawai'i Island
(AKA the "Big Island") and in Hana on Maui's remote east coast. His time in the Hawaiian Islands included meeting with Kanaka Maoli colleagues and visiting sacred sites; paying his respects on Hawai'i Island to Mauna Kea, where the Mauna Kea "Protectors" are keeping vigil to prevent the construction of a monstrous 30-meter telescope that threatens this sacred place; and visiting with the Hawaiian goddess of fire Pele at her home at Kilauea volcano at the southern tip of Hawai'i Island.
In Memoriam
Armand DiMele

WBAI mourns the passing of Armand DiMele.
 
Armand F. DiMele (March 14, 1940 - June 22, 2015) was a psychotherapist and radio broadcaster from New York. He was a Board Certified Diplomate in Clinical Social Work, a Certified Rehabilitation Specialist and a registered graduate education Supervisor.

He grew up on the Lower East Side of New York City. A self-styled drummer, he had an early introduction to jazz living on 6th street, neighbor to Bill Barron, Lee Morgan, Booker Ervin, Elvin Jones and countless other jazz greats.

The Five Spot Cafe in the Bowery neighborhood was his second home. He was also exposed to radio at a very young age. His parents owned a radio repair store at 247 East 10th Street in New York.

Armand was the WBAI on-air radio host of "The Positive Mind", a program discussing psychotherapy and how it impacts our lives. Each program opened with, "bringing up ideas, concepts and guests to help you lead a more positively minded life". He started broadcasting on WBAI in 1982 .

Armand died from complications related to pneumonia and pulmonary disease on June 22, 2015.

The Positive Mind will continue with hosts Giullian Gioiello and BenStarr.
The program airs live at 1 pm Tuesdays and Wednesdays from a studio located at The DiMele Center.
Intern + Volunteer @ WBAI
 
 
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for credit and non-credit internships in the following areas: marketing, accounting, event planning, social networking, program and news production, web management and graphic design. Email a resume HERE. 
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Richard Renelique

WBAI INTERN OF THE MONTH: 
Richard Renelique
"I'm a 21 year old Haitian-American senior attending LIU Post in Greenvale to obtain a degree in radio broadcasting. I intend to use my voice as a means to both communicate my ideas and entertain, so radio is the perfect medium to do just that in.

When I heard of WBAI, a station that honored the right to speak freely as well as speak truth to power, I thought I'd find like-minded individuals. And I was right. I met interns and producers who put their soul into being a voice for the voiceless and spreading ideals of equality.

I helped with WBAI's website management, updating social media, researching content, mailing out exclusively offered thank you gifts and more. I gained hands-on experience with operating studio equipment and how to write radio scripts. I honestly don't think any other radio station would have given me the level of satisfaction and knowledge I obtained here. I still listen to WBAI in my free time to tune in to programs like The Morning Show, Positive Mind and Eco-logic. In the future I would like to do what I can to support them."  
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WBAI is seeking a special person who wants to help WBAI by volunteering their time to co-ordinate our volunteer program.
This means that you have the following:
* strong computer skills
* experience managing people, places, or things
* organizational and planning skills
* several days per week that you can be at WBAI during working hours

The role entails vetting new volunteers, training volunteers in administrative tasks, keeping an updated list of volunteer contacts, and helping to recruit and retain our volunteers.

There are also the fun parts, like meeting some pretty interesting people.
Having a good sense of humor and playing well with others is a definite asset.
Please send a letter of interest HERE.

 
VOLUNTEER @ WBAI 
Help is needed at live events, making phone calls, stuffing envelopes, and doing research. Have a specific skill? Let us know. Contact us HERE
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