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Pacifica's Pacific Coup
Juan Gonzalez for In These Times about the "Coup" at WBAI. He concludes: "As Berkeley showed, in this war it's the listeners and donors who will have the last word."
http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/06/go...
Broadcast Blues
The national news program Free Speech Radio News has been heard every night on WMNF. This is the first sustained attempt at creating an alternative to the daily news radio broadcast, The Pacifica Network News. M. Perry in the Weekly Planet.
http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2001-07-05/cov...
Workers Charge Pacifica With Union-Busting
Pacifica hired a labor relations firm, which the AFL-CIO says is a union buster and has given its three unionized stations new labor contracts that could sap the bargaining units. Current Magazine.
http://www.current.org/rad611.html
East Timor Action Network Open Letter on Amy Goodman and Pacifica
Letter to WBAI and Pacifica on East Timor and Amy Goodman, reporter and host of 'Democracy Now!', challenging attacks on her integrity and rumors that the Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor did not occur.
http://www.etan.org/news/2001a/08wbai.htm
Days of outrage - Pacifica Protests Planned to Gemand 'Democracy Now!' Reinstatement
Laura Flanders reports on 'Democracy Now!' and the outcry about the continued harassment by WBAI and Pacifica staff as well as Pacifica's refusal to broadcast the show.
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cf...
As Foes Slam Pacifica, Their Targets Cry Foul
Current magazine articles dealing with tactics employed by free speech activists and Pacifica's efforts to discredit them.
http://www.current.org/radio/radio0115p.ht...
Saving Amy: "The Exception To The Rulers"
Media Channel article by Danny Schechter on Pacifica and its program 'Democracy Now!'. Host Amy Goodman asserts being harassed by Pacifica.
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissecto...
The Fairfield County Weekly - Pacifica Prepares to Reinvent Itself
The Pacifica Foundation has settled a collection of lawsuits from listeners and some foundation board members filed in a California state court.
http://www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code...
Idealism: A Viable Alternative in Today's Media World?
Norman Solomon on a Nation magazine article. After repressive actions at WBAI, The Nation, published a editorial that didn't denounce Pacifica management, contrary to what seemed to be in line with The Nation's pronouncements.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2147
Racism at Pacifica?
The Black Journalism Review asks: are anti-Pacifica Radio protesters racists? Many radio activists counter that it is Pacifica that employs racially divisive tactics.
http://www.blackjournalism.com/racismat.ht...
Are KPFA and WBAI For Sale?
Counter Punch article that discusses a memo by Pacifica board member Michael Palmer encouraging the sale of Pacifica Stations WBAI in New York and KPFA
http://www.counterpunch.org/sellmemo.html
Goodman Embroiled in Pacifica Conflict
Article in Current on difficulties Amy Goodman, of Pacifica's Democracy Now!, is encountering. She alleges a "poorly disguised attempt at censorship".
http://www.current.org/radio/radio020pac1....
CounterPunch Magazine Stories on Pacifica
Collection of articles about the Pacifica Network.
http://www.counterpunch.org/pacstories.htm...
CPB Chastises Pacifica - Shutting Out Dissidents is an Issue in Ongoing Battle
Article in Current on the Pacifica Radio Network's violation of the FCC's open meetings rule.
http://www.current.org/rad/rad709p.html
Pacifica Radio's Uncivil War
Article by Randy Baker co-producer of 'Fear and Favor in the Newsroom', a documentary on self-censorship in the press, posted on vote.com.
http://www.vote.com/magazine/editorials/ed...
Staffers Protest Pacifica Transfer of News Chief
Article in Current, a magazine covering public broadcasting, about Pacifica's ouster of National News Director Dan Coughlin.
http://www.current.org/rad/rad921p.html
Pacifica - A Way Out
Article by R. McChesney in The Nation delineating a proposal to solve Pacifica's crisis through a temporary National Board comprised of progressives.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010...
WMNF May End a Station Staple
WMNF took an active role in a dispute over issues between former and current employees and Pacifica management. WMNF might not renew its contract with Pacifica and is airing Free Speech Radio News instead of PNN. St. Petersburg Times.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/main/d...
Jose Ramos-Horta on Amy Goodman and Santa Cruz Massacre
Nobel prize winner Ramos-Horta in support of Pacifica's Amy Goodman. Ramos defends the 'Democracy Now!' host against slander by WBAI management personnel.
http://www.etan.org/news/2001a/09hortadn.h...
Smoking Guns
Corporate and government interests have hijacked the Pacifica Network, the only independent, listener supported and progressive radio network . RealVideo by Free Speech Internet TV.
http://www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/Smoking...
For Democracy Now!
Nation Magazine editorial praising Pacifica's Democracy Now! broadcast from WBAI, while Amy Goodman's harassment by Pacifica management is described.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20001...
There's Something About Mary
Management problems and divisive racial politics have followed Mary Frances Berry from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to the Pacifica Radio Network. Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/...
The Pacifica Crisis in The Nation
Coverage of events such as the "Coup at WBAI" and the harassing of Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, from The Nation magazine. Includes web only material.
http://thenation.org/special/2001pacifica....
I want my Democracy Now!
Laura Flanders on WorkingForChange.com in support of Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!, broadcast from WBAI in New York. The article details harassment by Pacifica and U. Leid Interim General Manager of WBAI..
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cf...
More Democracy-Now!
Editorial by The Nation on the banning of A. Goodman from Pacifica's airwaves. The Nation's coverage of the Pacifica crisis has been increasingly condemned Pacifica radio activists.
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010...
Pacifica Management's Lies and Misrepresentations
The Nation online article on M. Schubb and his text "Pacifica Myths and Realities" giving the progressive and activist perspective. (in 6 parts)
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=speci...
What's Up with Pacifica?
Chuck Rosina a News Director and Pacifica coordinator at WMBR in Boston on the deepening Crisis in the Pacifica Radio Network.
http://www.afsc.org/pwork/0300/0318.htm
Wash Leaves Top Post at Embattled Pacifica
The Washington Post on Bessie Wash's dismissal from her position as the executive director of the Pacifica Radio Network.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?p...
Let Us Now Praise 'Unfamous' Journalists
Norman Solomon on the integrity of Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, award winning Pacifica journalists. Fair Media Beat.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2345
AFTRA Fears Danger at WBAI
Roger Armbrust in Backstage on the Pacifica Radio Network's and WBAI's harassment of 'Democracy Now!' staff as well as statements by AFTRA the involved union.
http://www.backstage.com/backstage/news/ar...
The Neutering of Pacifica
Article in CounterPunch outlining some of the changes within Pacifica that have been points of disagreement between the National Board and media activists.
http://www.counterpunch.org/pacifica.html
ZNet Pacifica Crisis
Archive of online articles about the network, particularly the past struggles for control and free speech.
http://www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/progpaci...
Media Database at savepacifica
Archive of news articles, transcripts, press releases, audio files, and photos about the Pacifica Crisis.
http://www.savepacifica.net/cgi-bin/media....
Pacifica to Critics: Take Down Your Web Sites or We'll Sue
Public Citizen article on Pacifica's attempted censorship of web sites criticizing the National Board.
http://www.citizen.org/Press/pr-lit32.htm
Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News Radio
San Francisco Chronicle reports the beginning of the ongoing strike and boycott against the Pacifica Network News.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...
Pacifica Radio - The Rise of an Alternative Network
Review in the San Francisco Chronicle of the book 'The Rise of an Alternative Network' written by Matthew Lasar.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...
Is the Troubled Progressive Radio Network Drifting to the Right?
Article on the efforts by the Pacifica management to remove progressive content from its airwaves. From Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/june97/media/media970...
Current.org - Pacifica moves to Washington as the news anchor leaves in dispute
Pacifica moves after protests by many of its affiliate stations and departures of key on-air staffers, including Pacifica Network News anchor Verna Avery-Brown.
http://www.current.org/rad/rad002p.html
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