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WHEREAS, the interim Pacifica National Board in its votes of September 21, 2002, called for the immediate establishment of a ‘National Commission on Affirmative Action and Equality’ which would include both Pacifica activists and respected academic and community leaders to develop a detailed action plan on issues of inclusion throughout the network, WHEREAS, the interim Pacifica National Board in its votes of September 21, 2002, supported the ‘adoption by the next board of a bylaws amendment creating meaningful affirmative action for disenfranchised groups in the election of local and national boards, therefore be it Resolved, that the Pacifica National Board shall establish a Blue Ribbon Commission,
whose members shall be identified by the ad hoc National Committee of Inclusion
then recommended to the PNB with the advice and input of the Executive Director,
in order to attain qualified legal opinions from civil right a attorneys and
scholars on what forms affirmative action measures in Pacifica’s staffing,
programming and governance might take, that said Commission be comprised of
qualified attorneys, anti-racist activists, and legal and cultural leaders of
communities of color.
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