No one hears the tree fall
The current LSB is dysfunctional the most basic level. We don't even have minutes of our meetings - we don't even have a record of what we have done. What this means is that station members who want to find out what (if anything) is going on with the LSB can't simply go to the LSB website, because nothing is there from 1-11-06 on. Yet "Justice and Unity" refuses to allow someone not part of their faction to fulfill the important task of board secretary. Here is something from Mitchel Cohen about it:
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Tibby Brooks as LSB SecretaryPosted By: Mitchel Cohen, Monday, 29 October 2007, at 8:36 a.m.
Tibby Brooks, the Just-Us elected secretary of the Local Station Board, has not produced minutes of the LSB meetings for almost a year, now.
The effect of this is to conceal the actual votes of her Just-Us cohorts.
Votes such as to cut the salaries of all staff at WBAI, who are already very low-paid to address the financial crisis that they claim in their on-air statements doesn't even exist.
All the non-Just-Us Board members voted against these cuts, and strenuously objected to this pathetic, anti-working class decision.
When I and Alex Steinberg, as independent Marxists on the Board, commented: "Some socialists you are -- socialists against the working class. You should be ashamed of yourselves," Tibby Brooks lashed back at me the following brilliant rejoinder: "Get a job, asshole."
You can see that for yourself on the videotape near the end of the meeting posted on google videos.
Tibby Brooks -- votes for slashing workers' meager salaries. This is capitalism as usual.
Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss.
We don't need no stinkin' bosses at ALL -- we need people who will live by their stated principles and fight to save the station and the workers who make it happen, not destroy it, as Tibby Brooks and the Just-Us crew have been doing and will continue to do -- unless YOU join in stopping the madness, the lies, the wrecking crew NOW!