Pacifica board agrees to resign: ‘The Pacifica National Board agreed today to voluntarily dissolve, reconstitute itself as an interim board with new members, and then to implement a democratization process for the five-station network.

Dissidents and majority factions on Pacifica’s embattled 15- member board agreed to each appoint five of their members to a new interim board. In addition, five entirely new members would be appointed by the chairs of Pacifica’s five Local Advisory Boards.

While the formula would effectively place majority control of the board in the hands of the Pacifica reform movement (four out of the five LABs are dominated by reformers), all decisions of the interim board must be agreed upon by two-thirds vote or 10 out of the 15 members.’ The move came after a dramatic confrontation with more than a hundred public radio activists at a weekend board meeting in Washington. The concessions seem to arise from the fiscal insolvency of the network and its inability to afford more damage, according to the activists.