Rethinking Pacifica

The following is posted here to comply with former iED Bill Crosier's request for wide distribution. It addresses and seeks to find an overdue solution to an important problem that should plague anyone with true concern for Pacifica's future. —Chris Albertson

It's time we start Rethinking Pacifica - not the Pacifica mission, but how our boards/governance help or hinder the fulfillment of that mission, and about whether and how our Bylaws should be changed to improve our governance, so that Pacifica can not just survive, but grow and make our mission more significant.

Please visit this new web site https://rethinkingpacifica.org for information and click on the link there to fill our our survey - we need to know what you think.

I realize many of you have been thinking about this for some time. When I was Pacifica's interim Executive Director last year, I got a lot of suggestions and feedback from people at all our stations about our governance - about how dysfunctional it is, about how we (those on our boards) should be working together to help our stations instead of spending so much time and energy fighting with each other, and lots more. Despite lots of good intentions, we (board members) have been unable to resolve the problems.

I've continued to get comments, suggestions, and feedback this year, too- - again, mostly negative about our governance. There have been a lot of suggestions for change.

I've been working with some other current and past board members who all agree that we need to fix our Bylaws, this year, if we hope to be able to pay off our debt, get more listeners and members, and survive so that we can further the Pacifica mission. Our priority is to help Pacifica - not to help our friends (or ourselves) to be elected or re-elected to our boards. Our country, and the world, need Pacifica, but Pacifica needs better boards than what I and others have been able to provide, if Pacifica's going to continue.

We need your feedback on what you - Pacifica listeners and supporters (not just LSB and PNB members) - think should be done.

Please take a look at our new web site for Rethinking Pacifica (that's https://rethinkingpacifica.org in case the link does not come through in the e-mail) and fill out our survey - it only takes a few minutes. 

The link to the survey is on that web site. The questions came from suggestions from many people, like you, who care about Pacifica but who realize we need to adapt if we're going to continue bringing people independent news, music, culture, and public affairs that they can't hear anywhere else. We have multiple choice options - check as many as you like, and you can also add your own comments and suggestions at the end of each question.

Please forward this message to your Pacifica friends and share on social media.

Thanks!

Bill Crosier 
for Rethinking Pacifica
Working to build a stronger Pacifica Foundation
https://rethinkingpacifica.org 
kpft@crosierbiomed.com