Auntie,
please sign the petition urging PBS affiliate WGBH to remove David Koch
from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council because of his
anti-science positions. Click here to sign.
David Koch is a known climate denier who gives tens of millions of dollars to fund organizations whose mission is to spread misinformation to the American public about climate change and science. For this reason, he should not be associated with an organization whose mission includes “fostering an informed and active citizenry.”
Click here to call for his removal from WGBH.
WGBH defends Koch’s role at the station. Board Chair Amos Hostetter Jr. has said Koch brings “diversity” to the board, and that there is no “political litmus test” for board members.
The problem is that climate change denial isn’t a political viewpoint––it’s completely false. It’s anti-science, anti-education, wrongheadedness meant to mislead the public about scientific fact, which contributes to the Kochs bottom line. This type of misleading “diversity” doesn’t belong at an education organization.
Recent public pressure prompted David Koch to resign from the board of New York’s WNET after questions of conflict of interest and self-censorship arose around the documentaries “Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream” and “Citizen Koch”.
We need to make his next resignation happen now.
Sign the petition urging WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council.
Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
David Koch is a known climate denier who gives tens of millions of dollars to fund organizations whose mission is to spread misinformation to the American public about climate change and science. For this reason, he should not be associated with an organization whose mission includes “fostering an informed and active citizenry.”
Click here to call for his removal from WGBH.
WGBH defends Koch’s role at the station. Board Chair Amos Hostetter Jr. has said Koch brings “diversity” to the board, and that there is no “political litmus test” for board members.
The problem is that climate change denial isn’t a political viewpoint––it’s completely false. It’s anti-science, anti-education, wrongheadedness meant to mislead the public about scientific fact, which contributes to the Kochs bottom line. This type of misleading “diversity” doesn’t belong at an education organization.
Recent public pressure prompted David Koch to resign from the board of New York’s WNET after questions of conflict of interest and self-censorship arose around the documentaries “Park Avenue: Money, Power, and the American Dream” and “Citizen Koch”.
We need to make his next resignation happen now.
Sign the petition urging WGBH to remove David Koch from the Board of Trustees and Science Visiting Council.
Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
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