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SPIN CYCLE: Pacifica CEO Bessie Wash interrupts Democracy Now! Broadcast to make claims of violence targeting the Pacifica Campaign  3/26  - Transcript | Download mp3 audio 
 
FROM OUR SIDE: 
THE SMOKING GUN: 
GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT IN POLITICAL CENSORSHIP OF PACIFICA RADIO  - Dan Coughlin's 3/25 Speech
TRANSCRIPT | MP3 AUDIO

IN OTHER SPIN CONTROL: after failing to derail a teach-in in Los Angeles, KPFK station manager Mark Schubb threatens the 1200 person audience with corporate sponsorship or station sales if they don't send money 
 

FREE PACIFICA LEGAL ACTION FUND 
$300,000 FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
Explanation of  the three Lawsuits
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LEGAL UPDATES
Adelson v Pacifica
Discovery Documents
Listeners' Lawsuit Document Archive
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Why the call for dialog doesn't ring  true
ACTION CALENDAR
WBAI gag rule Jan 2001
THE PACIFICA COUNTERREVOLUTION HITS WBAI:
Another Call for Action
Edward S. Herman
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XMAS COUP at WBAI
Overview, sound files, and transcripts
(updated frequently)
KPFK Gag Rule - February 1996

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Mumia  Abu Jamal:
WBAI: THE COUP ON WALL ST
Gloves Off
by Michael Albert
STATEMENT
OPPOSING THE ILLEGITIMATE TAKE-OVER OF WBAI
Joint Statement of 
the united movement
read by WBAI's Janice K. Bryant
TRANSCRIPT | AUDIO

Some context on the crisis:
Pacifica's Digital Divide
From Principles to Principal

Other Websites with Info
WBAI Union Site
WBAI Producers
WBAI Listeners
Save WBAI
Save Pacifica

NATIONAL CAMPAIGN TO TAKE BACK PACIFICA
www.pacificacampaign.org
pacificacampaign@yahoo.com
212-871-9322

JUAN GONZALEZ RESIGNS FROM DEMOCRACY NOW! 
CALLS FOR CAMPAIGN TO TAKE BACK PACIFICA
HIS RESIGNATION LETTER | AUDIO (32KBPS MP3) | AUDIO (16KBPS MP3) | TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO
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The Epstein, Becker and Green/John Murdock Protest Kit
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JOHN MURDOCK "THEFT" BY-LAWS DRAFT
pdf file | ms word doc | html
Annotated transcripts and board reports, with legal actions explained and hyperlinked to the actual PNB transcript

Comparative Index of Pacifica Foundation By-Laws:
 Proposed, Current and Past

Contribute to a joint fund to support all three lawsuits. The legal effort urgently needs whatever support you can give. It's the only thing that really scares the Pacifica Board

Free Pacifica Legal Action/Vanguard Foundation, 
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"People use radio like an appliance," responds Schubb. "If they find something they enjoy listening to, they'll listen to it. It's a wonderful time slot. Whatever we put there, we'll find an audience."

 ---KPFK Manager Mark Schubb on his removal of the well-loved "Folkscene" from KPFK. Read more

Censorship as a Pacifica Management Tool
An essay by Edward S. Herman

Our Mission | An Introduction to the Struggle
 Get Involved: KPFA | WBAI | KPFK | WPFW_| KPFT
Chronology of Abuses 
by the Pacifica Board and Management
NY Zapatistas Statement on WBAI XMas Coup
"It is dishonest to claim that the forced removal of people from WBAI, through firings carried out with calculated cruelty and changing the locks on the doors, is an "internal matter." Once they are no longer on the inside, neither is your conflict (this should be obvious). If you don't want your "family business" to be out in the street, then you mustn't put so many members of your family there" more

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BOARD MEMBER PETE BRAMSON SPEAKS OUT: Berry/Chadwick lied to press about KPFA sale
IT'S NOT ABOUT DIVERSITY, IT'S ABOUT MALFEASANCE!
PACIFICA: NOTES ON MANAGERIAL DYSFUNCTIONALITY
Edward S. Herman
Blase Bonpane: We must Save Pacifica.

 

IT'S NOT FOR SALE!!
Send a petition to the FCC

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Why Public Radio Isn't
by
Rachel Anne Goodman

ROBERT McCHESNEY
Media Matters: Monopolies, Pacifica, NPR & PBS

Verna Avery-Brown speaks out about her resignation: "The Pacifica I had fallen in love with no longer existed. I refused to lend my name, my voice, my energies to a farce"

And speaking of farces, here's the report of the "audience building consultant" - paid with your money

SETTING A NEW STANDARD FOR CENSORSHIP: 
  Pacifica  News Director Dan Coughlin removed for airing report 
 chronology and commentary
Pacifica Stringers Strike Against Censorship 
See their strike page for updates
 See and Hear the Pacifca Board in Action
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Protesting Epstein, Becker  and Green in San Francisco 
story and photos

Black Radical Congress:
Statement on Pacifica
 

KPFK Management misappropriates California grant funds:
a KPFK staff member reveals pattern of abuses
Half a Million spent on KPFA Lockout!
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Where Was/Is KPFK?  A Look at The Pacifica Crisis
By Robin Urevich BANNED FOR WRITING THIS ARTICLE 9/1/99
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