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)