Marcel Reid Candidate Statement

Hello, My name is Marcel Reid, I am a candidate for the WPFW station board as a long-time listener and member. I have always been impressed with the way WPFW engages it’s listeners in issues and addresses community concerns. I am the president of DC ACORN, a grassroots organization that focuses on Poverty Tax in our communities. I have spent most of my career in recruiting/marketing. I think that experience gives me a unique perspective when it comes to helping grow WPFW ‘s audience. I am now actively involved in grassroots organizing on the both the local and national

levels. DC ACORN, is one of the fastest growing ACORN(Association of Communities Organized for Reform Now) chapters in the U.S. I have energy, determination and experience and I believe in the core message of Pacifica and WPFW.

I believe that people when armed with knowledge can make informed decisions.

WPFW is one of the last bastions for free, full spectrum news, no subscription needed, no computer needed, just a radio. Not news captions, but news, as complex and as in depth as it needs to be, for people to see the many sides of an issue. Other channels may discuss a plethora of issues but, none from the unique perspective of WPFW from the scholarly discourses of Ambrose Lane’s “We Ourselves” to Amy Goodman’s hard hitting “Democracy Now”. With WPFW’s programming we have an opportunity to truly hear the news and gleam from it our own conclusions. Others may tout being Fair and Balanced but WPFW is Fair.

I come to WPFW fully committed, to doing whatever I can to help, and open to learning.

Other organizations:
CARCLE (Council Against Racism and Corruption in Law Enforcement)
National Justice Center
Jobs with Justice
Workers Rights Board
DC Move
NCNW (National Council of Negro Women)
ASMOC (ACORN School Modernization Oversight Committee)
ACORN (National Board Member, National Predatory Lending Committee Member)

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DomenicU: Despite of Everything....

Predatory lending is a blanket term for the practice of forcing or tricking people into taking out very bad loans. Fortunately for South Carolinians, our state passed a law in 2004 that gives us some of the strongest protection in the nation from these abuses. Payday loans get a bad reputation everywhere they go, in spite of the demand for them and the good they can actually do. There was a recent editorial in The Herald, a South Carolina newspaper, about how payday loans are predatory lending. Even though the Federal Reserve published evidence to the contrary, the diatribe continues. It has become apparent that no one will rest until banks and credit cards have a complete monopoly on short term credit, and then are free to charge all the interest they want. Don't have enough cash to cover a car repair, even something as pithy as a new alternator? Well, you'll be paying for it until you're dead. You'll be missing payday loans then.

February 26, 2009

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