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Method Of Grace Aaron: The Interim Executive Director Of the Pacifica Network & The 60th A
Grace Aaron who is now running the Pacifica Foundation as interim executive director is an expelled member of the Scientologists and still claims to agree with their tenets although they label here as a heretic. The methods and training of this cult leaves one concerned about how this manager of Pacifica will operate in making "changes" at Pacifica.
Remarkable revealing documentation from Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard, who conveyed his
Fascist tendencies in his writings and capsulated in the 1951 book "Science of Survival",
and in a Bulletin from 1961 "The Political Enemy". Where he goes into painstaking anal detail
about policy & procedure on how to exterminate humans who dare resist any governmental
oppression in the continent of Africa, with wider ramications...
This is the embed psychological principles under which Mrs. Grace Aaron, adevout excomunicated
Scientologist follower, which Pacifica Radio recently appointed to Chair its National Board and as
Interim Executive Director!!!
Regrettably however, while Pacifica Radio is currently celebrating its 60th Anniversary of KPFA-FM
in Berkeley, CA, the first Network Station to go on air in 1949, Founder Luis Hill. Now this non commercial
Radio Network faces financial challenges, and could easily fall into an abyss of no return, if Mrs. Aaron
is permitted to continue her agenda of placing the Foundation in even more duress, like a possible involuntary
bankruptcy, while she's also pushing to eventually wipe out all local community programming across the
Network nationwide.
The historic strength of this non commercial Radio Network is precisely that it has provided on air space to many
voices otherwise never heard. Though critics today, still call for the need of more inclusivity.
Mrs. Grace Aaron's strategies are already a foot, when two weeks ago at WBAI-NYC, one of Pacifica's
five radio network stations, had its Transmitter keys changed (housed at the Empire State Blg.) without
consultation with Station Management. This action was coordinated underhandedly by Mrs. Aaron.
Many concerned Pacifica Listener subcribers have expressed alarming concern, especially at the Los Angeles
Sister Radio Station KPFK-90.7FM, KPFT-Hunston, Tx., and KPFW- Washington, DC, that may also meet similar fate.
So the fight is on once again to reclaim Pacifica by its duly owners, the listener supporters...
Folks, is coming down soon to Los Angeles Sister Radio Station KPFK...
Five Sister Radio Stations in the Networks, Known as Pacifica Radio...
We need mobilization to stop this take over right under our feet immediately.
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The Foundation displayed more financial transparency, effective board oversight, and intellectual honesty in its last board meeting than it has in the previous six years plus put together. They deserve kudos.
The idea that it was the local folks at WBAI who caused Grace Aaron to act in the underhanded way that she did is ludicrous. She has shown herself to be quite a dishonest sneak. I suppose her faith in Scientology helps her through the hard times others would experience as pangs of conscience. In any event, the NYC community is not served by Grace Aaron. We need WBAI.
http://www.solitarytrees.net/racism/intro.htm
"L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) is the creator of Scientology and founder of the Church of Scientology. As Source [glossary], his writings and lectures preserve his racism in official Church doctrine. We believe that Scientologists as a group are no more prejudiced than the general population, however, any biases they harbor may be overlooked or even accepted—as validated by Source.
"These pages are a collection of Scientology's racist ideas, supplemented by material to explain some of the Church's religious
principles. It is important to understand, for instance: that all of Mr. Hubbard's writings and lectures are considered unalterable sacred
scripture, so racist notions persist even if current Church policy is generally equitable; that lying is official Church dogma; and that the
Church will go to extreme lengths to infiltrate minority, social betterment, education and even government groups to spread its influence. We also describe some of its disreputable practices (though not specifically racial in nature) in order to illustrate its fundamental character and why its overtures to minority communities should be rebuffed."
- from the Introduction to the website, "L Ron Hubbard, Dianetics and Racism"
Grace is about the most competent, deeply peaceful person i know. As far as religion goes, I'm a confirmed agnostic but i did read one of the big books that Ken loaned me 20 years ago. I'm not saying Scientology has any answers, but it seems to me that they ask some of the right questions. For the record, i don't like cults and neither do the Aarons.
From what I've heard, Grace has made a lot of progress towards saving our network. Don't worry, she doesn't like the long hours involved with being executive director and she will moving on. For now we're lucky to have her. You might want to study how she operates (you might learn something), and compare that with the mayhem that is that normal pacifica listener/sponsor meeting that gets nothing done and makes everybody mad. With Grace, unless i miss my guess, stuff gets done and only half the people get mad.
What is worth attention and discussion is the many years that Pacifica has struggled with inadequate management and business discipline. Think finances are bad now? When will Pacifica get and sustain the talent, objectivity and focus necessary to grow the network? Maybe part of the problem is that the management model does not work. Who on national board has the time, talents, independence, priorities and commitment to focus on network building and governance and is not distracted or biased by local station demands? In other words, who serves as true "at-large" or big picture board members?
Read this excerpt from the Executive Director's report to the INTERIM Board in 2002:
June 21-23, 2002
As you all know, the new Pacifica Board and executive leadership inherited a financial and administrative nightmare in January of this year. The network had been looted and left rudderless. Stations did not even have funds to buy a paper clip let alone a pair of headphones and critical services like telephones and postage were being cut off. Pacifica?s transmitters were under threat, including KPFK?s historic tower on the top of Mt. Wilson. With no chief financial officer or controller, and chaos reigning in the national office, the network was on the verge of financial collapse.
An independent financial review published in February reported that Pacifica faced a 2002 calendar year budget gap of $1.5 million and a deficit of $4.8 million. Some stations were facing serious working capital deficits. WBAI was looking at a hole of $350,000 and KPFK $250,000. With only $11 million in annual revenue, these debts posed a serious threat to the organization?s survival. Bankruptcy was openly being contemplated.
- Quoted today from the Pacifica Foundation web site, E.D. reports.
Pacifica's troubles predate her and will outlast her, just as they outlasted each of her predecessors. It is an impossible place to lead. That it has survived its own board and management through the years is a miracle.
I have no dog in the internecine Pacifica fight. I'm a commercial radio professional interested in putting these stations to better use in the fight against fascism and a lawless executive and senate. Media has fragmented so completely into online niches that there is limited demand for a broadcast station that operates as Pacifica does, and there are more impactful ways to use the stations.
The licenses Pacifica controls in top ten markets are worth a lot—not what they were worth ten years ago, before smartphones and streaming really took hold--but they're worth a lot, and should be sold to endow an online effort from which a new, multiplatform Pacifica could rise.
As a voice of independence, fueled by a different host each hour, Pacifica's run is over. Broadcast radio remains a mass medium in an era of highly targeted narrow-casting. These frequencies could establish a bulwark against Fox News and the stable of conservative radio hosts who have wrecked havoc on our democracy. The right is disciplined and organized. In other words, everything we are not, but the Pacifica stations could begin to level the playing field. A consistent line up of A List progressives to take Fox, Hannity, Limbaugh et. al. to task everyday is more than called for.