Dear Fellow Concerned Member and Supporter of WPFW,

As we write this, our beloved and precious Pacifica Radio, parent organization of WPFW, is in crisis. We are not even sure if, when you receive this, Pacifica will still continue to exist as an ongoing entity. Years of underfunding, mismanagement, sabotage by agent provocateurs have rendered the foundation to this point.

Pacifica is scheduled to default on a $3.4 million loan that was secured to solve the foundation’s financial woes. If this financial crisis cannot be solved, it could be that the five Pacifica stations will be put into receivership, and there will be bids for the takeover of our licenses, including the license for WPFW.

This is a relatively new and urgent crisis that is unfolding. If you or those you know are persons of wealth and can make a generous tax-deductible donation to WPFW for Pacifica, please let us know.

We originally started this correspondence to ask you to support your fellow members and supporters of WPFW who are candidates in the ongoing election for the WPFW Local Station Board. we believe we can help Pacifica overcome this financial crisis, and as we solve it in the coming days and weeks, please support people who have shown their dedication to the ongoing survival and operation of our beloved station and foundation. Unfortunately, many of the incumbent members of the board have participated in actions that have severely hurt WPFW, and we would like to replace those members with new people of integrity, who only have the good of the station at heart.

You may be aware that WPFW had the opportunity to move to a new location at the all new renovated Festival Center during the spring of this year and some of the incumbents running for reelection on the board participated in sabotaging the deal that would have slashed our rent by more than 3/4 from the current more than $17,000 to less than $5000. That debacle will remain a stain and a sore spot for the station as we have had to renew our current lease for at least another year while we look find another location. But we are determined to find a new location that will still drastically reduce our costs, conserve the precious dollars donated to us by our listeners, and allow the station to operate in an environment unencumbered by obsessive rent and other unnecessary financial obligations.

Below are candidates we are endorsing to bring new energy and excitement for jazz and justice to the Local Station board of WPFW. Please support them right now. Look for your e-ballot in your email and support this slate of candidates endorsed by Concerned Members and Supporters of WPFW. We know they will be good representatives of our community and stewards of our precious community station.

Listener: Robert Gordon, Andrew Kreig, Ilene Proctor, Karen Briggs, Tony Leon, Michael Byfield, Mariah McClain,

Staff: Ambrose Lane Jr., Eric Ramey

Thank You!

Signers –

Tony Leon-member/former delegate & PNB Officer/former Programmer/Engineer,

Irene Jefferson-member, current delegate,

Camille Seerattan-member,

Martha Peterson- member, former delegate & PNB Officer,

Maskeelah Washington- member, former delegate & PNB Officer,

Michael Byfield-member, former delegate

Esther Iverem – Producer and Host of On The Ground Voices of Resistance from the Nation’s Capital www.onthegroundshow.org

Eric Ramey – member, delegate, news producer,