1. PACIFICA WILL BOYCOTT LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS - PROTEST PLANNED OUTSIDE - LIVE BROADCAST SCHEDULED ON KPFA
2. CHARGES MAY BE DROPPED AGAINST SOME PROTESTORS
3. ADVERTISEMENT CALLING FOR MARY FRANCES BERRY AND HER BOARD TO RESIGN, SIGNED BY PROMINENT ACTIVISTS, AUTHORS, AND ARTISTS APPEARS IN NY TIMES
 

1.Pacifica reportedly has decided not to send anyone to testify to the
California Join Audit Committee hearings Friday 8/20 in Oakland.

Pacifica's latest corporate attorney, Daniel Rapaport, of the Oakland law
firm of Wendel, Rosen, Black, and Dean, wrote the legislative committee
last week contesting its jurisdiction over Pacifica, a California
incorporated non-profit (which also receives state money for the now
threatened apprentice training program).

The legislative committee sought testimony from board chair Dr. Mary
Frances Berry, executive director Lynn Chadwick, and controller
Sandra Rosas.  The hearings are expected to explore whether Pacifica
has violated its charter by planning to abandon local programming,(or
sell) KPFA, and whether it violated its trust with donors through recent
expenditures on armed security guards, anti-union personnel consultants,
public relations firms, and corporate attorneys.

The committee has apparently decided not to seek subpoenas for Pacifica's
testimony or its financial records at this time.
 

A PROTEST PICKET LINE...DEMANDING THAT PACIFICA APPEAR TO EXPLAIN ITS
OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR...AND THAT THE LEGISLATURE SUBPOENA PACIFICA IF THEY
CONTINUE TO REFUSE TO COOPERATE...WILL BEGIN AT 10 A.M. FRIDAY OUTSIDE THE
ELIHU HARRIS STATE OFFICE BUILDING...13TH AT CLAY STREETS... IN DOWNTOWN
OAKLAND (NEAR 12TH STREET BART). Limited seating is available in the
hearing room.  A public comment period is scheduled at the end of the
testimony.

KPFA will broadcast the hearings live starting at 10 a.m., and lasting to
their conclusion.
 

2. Pacifica has stated it will seek to drop charges in some of the more
than 100 arrests of protestors inside and outside KPFA.

Chadwick and Berry have presented this as a gesture of "healing" and
"reconciliation."

However, both Chadwick and Berry might have been subpoenaed to testify in
any trials, and may still face suits for false arrest, since the police on
several occasions refused to act, and "citizens arrests" were initiated by
Chadwick and scab Houston manager Garland Ganter.
 

3.  An advertisement asking for the resignation of Pacifica board chair
Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Lynn Chadwick, and their colleagues on the board,
appears in today's N.Y. Times (in N.Y. and the national edition). It was
paid for by donors to Friends of Free Speech Radio.

Signatories include Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Daniel
Ellsberg, Danny Glover, Dennis Brutus, Dolores Huerta, Helen Caldicott,
Howard Zinn, Jerry Brown, Joan Baez, Kathleen Cleaver, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Pam Africa, Pete Seeger,
Rashidah Ismaili AbuBaker, Richie Perez, Sal Roselli,  St. Clair Bourne,
Tom Ammiano and Vinnie Burrows.

More signatories are being added daily, and the ad will appear soon in
other print media.