NEW ITEMS

• Kicking station founder Jim Ellinger off the air
• Status of our struggle

Breaking the law (and KOOP's bylaws)

• Summary of illegal acts
• Making a false police report against the station engineer
• Illegally forwarding our postal mail to the station
• Raiding the equipment fund
• Libeling and slandering the former General Manager, and others
• Hiding corporate records
• Failing to provide information requested by members
• Violating the Bylaws in the Community Board Election
• Failing to hold an annual membership meeting
• Violating quorum rules
• Using the airwaves for self-promotion

Lies and Dirty Tricks

• Paul Odekirk falsely claiming that the Paramount Theatre & Solidarity signed his letter
• Eduardo Vera lying that our benefit had been canceled
• Station Manager Marcelo Tafoya lying about why KOOP went off the air
• Board President Teresa Taylor lying about bouncing a check to the station engineer
• Removing David Barsamian's "Alternative Radio" tapes from the studio
• Making a false police report against the station engineer
• Illegally forwarding our postal mail

Election Improprieties

• "Springboarding" three Community Board members onto the Board of Trustees
• Other irregularities in election of the Board of Trustees
• Stacking the Community Board with more supporters
• Engaging in nepotism
• Ignoring the wishes of the Community Board Election Committee
• Violating the Bylaws in the Community Board Election
• Failing to call another Community Board election in a timely manner
• Stacking the Programming Committee election process
• Irregularities in Programming Committee ballot

Indifference & Hostility toward Membership

• Ignoring the concerns of the overwhelming majority of volunteer members
• Failing to acknowledge proposals offered by membership
• Trustee Mac McKaskle blasting volunteer Carol Teixeira's for expressing her concerns
• Rewriting the Bylaws and Mission Statement without input from or a vote by the membership
• Failing to provide information requested by members
• Eduardo Vera's insensitive remarks to Noel Waggener
• Eduardo Vera's hostile statement to Ricardo Guerrero
• Paul Odekirk's dismissal of Jerry Chamkis' concerns

Bad Leadership

• Financial Mismanagement (intentionally trying to bankrupt the station?)
• Failure to get important work done because of time spent in grabbing power
• Canceling Pacifica Network News through a questionable process
• Comments about the Board of Trustees' failings

Meeting Improprieties

• Failing to call and hold an annual Membership Meeting in 1998
• Failing to post meeting announcements, agendas, and minutes
• Criticizing members for posting meeting summaries
• Holding unannounced board meetings
• Poor attendance at meetings and failing to meet quorum
• Voting without quorum
• Failing to disclose which meetings were canceled due to lack of quorum
• Holding executive session regarding GM without previous posting

Censorship & Stifling of Democracy

• Board members' attempts to subvert the membership meeting
• Threatening the Unitarian Church if they allowed KOOP members to meet there
• Kicking station founder Jim Ellinger off the air
• Kicking people off KOOP's email lists, without their knowledge
• Banning Jerry Chamkis from setting foot in the station
• Revoking Ricardo Guerrero's membership, without giving him a hearing
• Attempt to conceal Friends of KOOP website
• Threatening to kick a member out of KOOP for linking to this website
• Paul Odekirk's attempt to remove Michael Bluejay as email/website coordinator
• Attempt to quash dissenting email discussion list
• Hiding corporate records
• BoT and Paul Odekirk assuming production of KOOP newsletter

False Allegations & Insults

• Our reply to a whole host of false statementss about us
• Mac McKaskle's charges against Friends of KOOP on his radio program
• Paul Odekirk's claim that Friends of KOOP is trying to change KOOP's Mission Statement
• Paul falsely claiming that a Friends of KOOP member said "All gays are sinners".
• Eduardo Vera's claim that Friends of KOOP is trying to change KOOP's Mission Statement
• Eduardo Vera's claim that Friends of KOOP are racists, sexists, and homophobes
• Eduardo Vera's saying that Michael Bluejay never dares to go to the East Side
• David Santos' claim that we ran the membership meeting unfairly
• Paul & Eduardo falsely claiming that Michael Bluejay harassed Paul at his workplace
• Paul & Eduardo falsely claiming that Ricardo Guerrero wants KKK programs
• Paul & Eduardo falsely claiming that people were trying to get "white males" listed in the Mission Statement as an underserved group
• Eduardo falsely accusing the GM of changing the Mission Statement
• Paul Odekirk falsely accusing the GM of posting misinformation about BoT meetings
• Paul Odekirk falsely claiming that the Community Board holds no power
• Falsehoods in Celeste Rowan's letter to the Chronicle

Non-cooperation with General Manager

• Not allowing the General Manager to hire her own staff
• Attempt to link mediation with GM to GM evaluation process
• Failure to renew the General Manager's contract
• Deterioration in relationship between General Manager & BoT

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