PRESS RELEASE
Los Angeles — Feb-04-2025
The International community faces the loss of a critical media stronghold of free speech.
The Pacifica Foundation, Inc is a non-commercial, educational radio broadcasting network, comprised of 5 FCC licensed FM radio stations.
Pacifica Foundation began as Pacifica Radio Network, Inc. in 1949 as a registered California non-profit operated in the public interest providing a uniquely independent platform for news, education and the arts. Its origin as a Pacifist organization promoting peace can be found at: https://www.britannica.com/topic/pacifica-radio
In recent years, Pacifica Foundation, although governed by a system of internal by-laws regulating election of board members, standing committees and meeting protocols, has been ruled through a strategy to capture the governance and financial leadership of the Pacifica National Board (the “PNB”).
A faction within the Pacifica Foundation is a group identifying itself as “New Day Pacifica” an association of people with a website and campaign mailers, has now gained control through lawsuits and gamesmanship (including Bylaws-violations, re-written and reinterpreted the governing Bylaws using a flawed membership referendum in 2020), which removed democratic controls over Pacifica’s program content, decisions on on-air personalities and management.
Individuals within the New Day Pacifica faction have created large financial losses to the foundation by selling real property, imposing bad fundraising and failing to see the shift in demographics of listeners and programing.
In 2020 Pacifica Foundation membership voted down the New Day Pacifica Bylaws referendum, which attempted to remove two separate classifications of workers at Pacifica Foundation: Paid employment and Volunteer employment. The 2020 New Day Pacifica referendum also sought to take power away from members known as Listener Sponsors.
After losing the 2020 referendum, in 2021 Plaintiff “New Day Pacifica”, an unincorporated association led by Jan Goodman, a Los Angeles area lawyer, filed a lawsuit against the Pacifica Foundation, asking for the Court to overturn the vote by Pacifica Foundation’s Listener Sponsors which rejected New Day Pacifica’s 2020 Referendum.
In 2022 the Court threw out New Day Pacifica’s lawsuit, but Jan Goodman remains in the picture driving New Day Pacifica, using Pacifica Foundation’s democratic governance to overturn board member and board director term limits, holding illegal votes to divide locally elected radio station board members and cancel properly noticed board elections.
“New Day Pacifica” has drafted an illegal Non-Disclosure Agreement which they are demanding every Pacifica Foundation board member sign or face removal from their respective Pacifica Foundation board or committee.
The Pacifica Foundation, Inc Bylaws can be accessed at:
https://www.pacifica.org/indexed_bylaws/index.html
Manipulations by New Day Pacifica have caused damage to Pacifica Foundation’s governance structure which has transformed Pacifica Foundation into something mission creep, in contrast to Pacifica Foundation’s founding Mission Statement: https://www.pacifica.org/
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