When "construction" has a completely different meaning...
Pacifica Management locks out WBAI Website by R. Paul Martin
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We heard today, and I've confirmed, that Pacifica has taken over the WBAI Web site and shut it down!

When you go to the "official" WBAI web site, http://www.wbai.org/ you now see the name and frequency of the station and the legend "This site is currently under construction."

The Web Spinners who were maintaining the site found that Pacifica had changed all of the passwords so that they no longer had access to the Web site. Basically, Pacifica has now made sure that no one from WBAI has anything to do with the official WBAI Web site.

It was reported to me that when Staff asked WBAI GM Valerie Van Isler why this had happened, no satisfactory explanation was forthcoming. She just said that they owned it and could do what they wanted.

The mirror site at http://www.dorsai.org/~wbai is supposed to still be up. Unfortunately, I can't get into it tonight to confirm it. At the time of the typing of this message, it appears that dorsai.org itself is not on line.

They have spread beyond a gag rule on the air. Now they're trying to enforce a gag rule on line.

Of course my URL below is still there and has lots of stuff about Pacifica and its Union busting practices.

http://www.interport.net/~rpmartin