PacificaWatch

the four tables sent by NES Penaloza to the PNB, Th5Mar (the first in the sequence) & F6Mar2020; elector & online-voting totals for Pacifica & stations, split for listeners & staff in the last two tables

The listener elector rolls for the referendum are drastically different from those used just nine weeks ago in the 2019 LSB pseudo-elections. There’s been a shocking, sudden change. A strange change. A Pacifica purge has been perpetrated, particularly at WBAI. And the Lord has delivered unto KPFT a heavenly host of new believers. Besides the practical implications for these existential referenda, there’s a lot here that needs explaining.

Highlights, the changes in only nine weeks:

• listener-membership has fallen 3 581 (−7.84%, 1-in-13), from 45 690 to 42 109
• KPFA listeners −13.6%, so 1-in-7 (14 334 → 12 385, so −1 949)
• KPFT listeners +21.2% (3 569 → 4 327, so +758)
• WBAI listeners −30.1% (8 240 → 5 761, so −2 479)
• WPFW listeners −4.2% (6 293 → 6 029, so −264)
• staff membership has fallen −1.5% (970 → 955, so −15)

Five topics are addressed:

• the listener referendum online-voting data – including necessary revisions to last Wednesday’s blogpost
• adding in estimated paper-voting
• the staff referendum
• predicted referenda turnout
• final, regrettable point: the coronavirus societal crisis, Pacificans (not least re the age structure & existing ill-health conditions), & the $3.265m loan from the Foundation for the Jewish Community (FJC); this crisis of capitalist society will necessarily cause both the largest & the swiftest contraction in the world economy in human history.

[I’ll finish writing this, & its replacement will be posted on the blog a day late, so apologies, on Referendum Day, Th19Mar.

https://mega.nz/#F!dN1VXLiQ!ywTPcyUP8SWg4BviRNx1xw (#5 in the series)]