WBAI JUSTICE AND UNITY CAMPAIGN SLATE - Fall 2004

Endorsed by Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition, Metropolitan Council on Housing, ProLibertad (Campaign to Free Puerto Rican Political Prisoners), Resistance in Brooklyn - list in formation

LISTENER CANDIDATES
* Marian Borenstein (former co-chair, WBAI Local Advisory Board; Treasurer, Black Radical Congress-NYC)
* Omowale Clay (member, December 12th Movement; a key organizer of National Rally for Reparations and Black participation in intl. conferences on racism & women's rights; created slogan "No Justice, No Peace")
* Lisa Davis (member, People's Organization for Progress/New Jersey; chair, P.O.P. Reparations Committee; drama teacher, Creative Spirits youth organization)
* Sara Flounders (co-director, International Action Center; author; resistance organizer for many mass mobilizations against U.S. wars)
* Cheryl Ife Griffin (progressive attorney; board member, Bed-Sty Community Legal Services Corp. and Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium; experienced fundraiser)
* Ed Marshall (Black community activist; member, Local Station Board Management Evaluation Committee and Programming Committee)
* Nick Martielli (progressive musician and WBAI activist on Long Island; former member of WBAI Search Committee that recommended hiring of Don Rojas as General Manager)
* Berta Silva (Chicana/Latina community activist; labor organizer and contract writer with Local 1199; member of 1199 Peace & Justice Committee)
* Evan Tobias (27-year-old progressive activist and music educator; former webmaster for Rockland Peace & Justice before moving to NYC; member, LSB Membership, Outreach, & Fundraising Committee)

STAFF CANDIDATES (note: only staff members vote for staff candidates):

* Margareth Dominique (co-producer/co-host, Haiti: The Struggle Continues; Haitian community activist)
* Vajra Kilgour (co-producer, Community Bulletin Board, substitute host for Housing Notebook, vice chair,
Metropolitan Council on Housing; member, New York Zapatistas)

TO READ THE JUSTICE AND UNITY PLATFORM in the Winter 2004 election, click HERE.

WBAI JUSTICE AND UNITY CAMPAIGN
www.justiceunity.org * (212) 591-2111 * email: info@justiceunity.org
To join our email list for campaign updates (announcements only, no discussion, very low traffic), Click HERE.

 

CONTINUING LOCAL STATION BOARD MEMBERS
FROM THE JUSTICE & UNITY CAMPAIGN

(2 years left in terms):

Listeners:

* Mariana Gaston (also elected Vice Chair of LSB; Cuban American anti-blockade activist; community mediator in the public schools; founder/administrator of a Brooklyn public school; parent activist for educational reform)
* Ray Laforest (also elected member of Pacifica National Board; labor and Haitian community organizer)
* Father Lawrence Lucas (author, lecturer, Black liberation theologian, chaplain on Rikers Island, longtime Harlem activist)
* Michael Tarif Warren (activist attorney for political prisoners and victims of police brutality, works with campaign to defend Mumia Abu-Jamal and Central Park Five)

Staff:
* Tiokasin Ghosthorse (producer/host, First Voices Indigenous Radio, Spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator, community activator)
* Bob Lederer (co-producer/co-host, Health Action, Editor, WBAI Website and Folio; anti-racist/queer activist)

Mariana Gaston
Ray Laforest
Father Lawrence Lucas
Tiokasin Ghosthorse Michael Tarif Warren Bob Lederer

 

Listener Candidates

Marian Borenstein
Omowale Clay
Lisa Davis
Sara Flounders
Cheryl Ife Griffin
Ed Marshall
Nick Martielli
Berta Silva
Evan Tobias

 

Staff Candidates

Margareth Dominique
Vajra Kilgour