We are hoping that the departure of Pat Scott from Pacifica will open the door to democratic and accountable conduct within the Pacifica organization and radio stations.  The three-year tenure of Pat Scott as executive director of the Pacifica Foundation has resulted in a series of actions that have damaged Pacifica's reputation for integrity and destroyed public trust:
 

• financial secrecy
• a burgeoning National upper-management bureaucracy financed at the expense of local stations
• the loss of local autonomy and community participation, replaced by an imperious, unaccountable centralized authority
• attacks on unionized workers and workplace democracy
• the issuance of gag orders designed to keep contributors in ignorance about the state of internal affairs
• the calculated dissemination of lies and half-truths in regards to questions from the public and the press about the Scott administration's policies
• the elimination of politically controversial and intellectually challenging material as arbitron ratings, rather than community service and intellectual courage, became the basis for decisions

• an immediate, complete, independent, and public audit of Pacifica's finances by October 1, 1998, to account for the fiscal decisions of the Scott administration.
• the immediate withdrawal of Pacifica's NLRB appeal against the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, Local 404 at WBAI.
• the formation of a commission to investigate the best methods for reconstructing Pacifica Radio as a democratically-governed organization, with power centered in the local communities that Pacifica stations serve.