PACIFICA RADIO BOARD SECRETLY OK'S BANKRUPTCY FILING & SEEKS NY SIGNAL SWAP (tags)
In secret meetings on Sept. 28 and Oct. 5, the Pacifica Foundation National Board, which governs the 5-station nonprofit progressive radio network, voted over strong opposition to authorize its executives to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and initiate an effort to make a lucrative deal to swap the frequency of iconic New York station WBAI with another station holding a less desirable signal position.
KPFK as Pacifica may be in legal jeopardy, again... (tags)
A notice was directed to California Attorney General’s Office Department of Justice about some illegal or unethical actions that have been taken at various Pacifica radio stations, including KPFK. Excerpts are provided below, FYI. And for anyone concerned to act accordingly as an activist wanting to maintain integrity of the corporations to which we contribute $$$.
Pacifica clearly endangered. Reposting info here: (tags)
This is a repost of an email being made available to many who care about keeping the Pacifica 5 stations together vs. some PNB members who want to sell off 3 ailing radio stations to maintain the remaining 2 in California. - - - - - - - If you want to : Please sign their court petition at http://www.jotformpro.com/PDGG/petition Otherwise, the information contained in this reposting may update what else is secreted and not-known-in-LA because there is no transparency, no openness and only requests for $$$ pledges by local KPFK.
Summer Reese is the Pacifica Foundation’s Abe Lincoln (tags)
Is the Pacifica Foundation Board Trying to Dissolve the Foundation’s Five Station Union, Place Each Station’s Broadcast License under Local Ownership, Sell WBAI into the Commercial Marketplace and Distribute the Proceeds as "Endowments" to the Remaining 4 Stations?
LA, let's bring up our media game!
J'accuse! The Betrayal of WBAI (PACIFICA RADIO) (tags)
After more than 20 years, WBAI has cancelled the Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade. Producer Bill Weinberg examines the politics of this move, and demonstrates how it is an illegitimate act of political retribution. (Tony Bates-former KPFK volunteer coordinator has been for over 2 years interim program director at WBAI).
CORPORATE MEDIA IS COMING TO HOME (tags)
Capital’s most severe crisis in seventy years ought to be a moment of significant opportunity for the left. But as the right mobilizes disgruntled Americans via its vast radio, television, web, and print empires, the one mass medium available to the left is driving out its best and brightest.
In His Own Words: [KPFK] Candidate Chris Bayard Condon (tags)
the new Pacifica??? Copied this from TakeBackKPFK.org
4 FILE LAWSUIT AGAINST PACIFICA RADIO FORMER LEGAL COUNSEL DAN SIEGEL AND BAMBI (tags)
Dan Siegel is being sued along with Bambi and 99 other as-yet-unnamed co-defendants for conspiring to quit his paid position as Pacifica Radio's Legal Counsel in order to serve as an unpaid member of the KPFA Berkeley Local Station Board. The lawsuit is widely seen as a political witch hunt as Pacifica drifts to the right in pursuit of monied white middle class donors.
Injunction Hearing Set in WBAI Election Suit (tags)
A court injunction was requested as part of a suit brought by a group of listeners, staff and local station board candidates challenging the integrity of the election process which has been stopped and rescheduled numerous times since last summer. Among the listed plaintiffs is someone who has already been in the news in the past week - civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, a local station board candidate heading the Justice and Unity ticket.
Toward an Understanding of the Causes of KPFK's Conflict: A Voters' Guide (tags)
Looking for the truth at KPFK? Check this out, by a long-time insider. Read this, and get your ballot in by Thursday.
KPFA/Pacifica: Conn Hallinan misinforms Doug Henwood (tags)
an intriguing email exchange
KPFA: Lords & Ladies vs. the Peasants (tags)
by a gray-haired KPFA listener who missed the French revolution
Good news from WBAI, Pacifica in NY (tags)
WBAI is KPFA's Pacifica sister station in New York. Unfortunately, for several years WBAI was dominated and mismanaged by a group which called itself the "Justice & Unity Coalition" (JUC). The rule of the JUC ended this spring, when Grace Aaron became Pacifica's PNB chair and acting Executive Director; she intervened and made changes. Below is a report from WBAI by Doug Henwood.
Pacifica's NY - WBAI stewards exposed misinformation that needs corrections...see here ..l (tags)
this is a repost from a blog article and information intended to reveal corrections to other Pacifica-WBAI writers claiming & blaming, as usual, for their own mistakes and lack of efficiency....see original as well as corrections below
[Audio] Cynthia Mckinney Lands in NYC, speaks to Wake-up Call (tags)
Audio of Cynthia Mckinney Speaking to WBAI's Wake-up Call (now shortened to 2 hours by the new management.)
Take Back WBAI rally- photos on facebook and audio, incl. Lynne Stewart (tags)
Photos and audio (Don DeBar and Lynne Stewart) from Take Back WBAI Rally in NYC, sister Pacifica station undergoing serious purge!!
New Leadership in Pacifica Radio (tags)
Pacifica radio has new leadership--people who are attempting to deal with a serious financial crisis which was building for years.
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez Issue Letter of Dissatisfaction with WBAI (Pacifica) Changes (tags)
Amy and Juan express dismay at the firing of Bernard White: "Given Bernard's decades of dedication and devotion to 'BAI , the way he was treated lacked basic human consideration." Regarding the change in broadcast time of Democracy Now! on WBAI, they write, "This decision disturbs us deeply and we ask that it be reconsidered." " ..... we urge that the scheduling of Democracy Now (should) not be used as a weapon by the current management of WBAI against its opponents."
[Pacifica Issue] JOIN TAKE BACK WBAI (NY 99.5FM) ON FACEBOOK! (tags)
Take Back WBAI Coalition just got our facebook page up!
Calling KPFK! Ousted WBAI ex-GM Speaks Out on the Coup by Pacifica Network. (tags)
"Let Me Set the Record Straight." Former WBAI 99.5FM General Manager Anthony Riddle speaks out on "ridiculous rumors" circulated by the coupsters. Title: Half of What You See, And None of What You Hear....
Pacifica Network(CA) Fires Program Director of WBAI FM(NY)! VIDEO ft.Rosa Clemente (tags)
Video of Bernard White speaking about his firing as Program Director from Pacifica station WBAI. Bernard White contextualizes his firing as Program Director of WBAI in the larger struggle for the direction of the Pacifica Network. Details financial interests in the station and divisive tactics used against him. Other members of the WBAI community make comments denouncing the firing and supporting the station.
Pacifica is the basis of KPFK, and there are concerns about WBAI...more (tags)
Actions and decisions made within Pacifica affect all the KPFK people here too, even if it is New York's WBAI's main issue. We too must be concerned and informed and give input to what happens...anywhere our money goes too...
Pacifica Radio Coup Redux Part II (tags)
New York: An Examination of the Current Coup Attempt at WBAI With Reference to the KPFA Takeover in 2000
Pacifica Radio Coup Redux (tags)
New York News Flash: Coup at WBAI Radio (99.5 FM) Pacifica National Orders Locks Changed on WBAI Transmitter
Coup d'etat at WBAI radio (tags)
Interim Executive Director of Pacifica changes locks at WBAI transmitter, coming to take over. Without any notice to WBAI manager Toney Riddle, nor to the governing board of the Pacifica Foundation, the interim executive director, Grace Aaron of Los Angeles, has conspired with some of her appointees to take control of WBAI in an undemocratic process.
What's happening to Pacifica's NY station - WBAI ? (tags)
Alert !!! Find out about a proposal soon to put WBAI into “internal receivership”...Please share this information widely and confirm it as necessary. No false rumors necessary. Let's see what is happening so close to our own KPFK radio station. Does this affect KPFK's financial standing too? Tell us what you know too.
Forty Years Since King: With Dr. Clayborne Carson (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INDYMEDIA LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio: Baraka on Obama and Black Liberation (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK
Dan Siegel & Pacifica Radio (tags)
Dan Siegel is now both interim Executive Director and General Counsel for Pacifica. He intervened in last fall's KPFA board election to help insure a victory for the Sherry Gendelman slate. Meanwhile, the board election at WBAI, the Pacifica sister station in New York, was even more blatantly corrupt than the one at KPFA, and it became the subject of a court case. In this letter, counsel for the plaintiffs tells the Pacifica National Board (PNB) that Dan Siegel is "an unreliable source of legal advice and facts about this lawsuit."
Building Bridges: Mass Evictions in New Orleans (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio: Writers Strike for their Future (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio: Kucinich on Impeachment (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 26.5 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio: War & Healthcare are SICKO (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio: Utah Mine Disaster; Midsummer Markets Meltdown (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 28.5 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON INTERNET LINK BELOW
Building Bridges:Religion Gone Bad and Labor Gone Wrong - Politics Today (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 29 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio: Global Class War (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents this 58 minute radio program. TO LISTEN CLICK ON WEB LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Radio- Lula Speaks to Labor (tags)
Building Bridges presents this 27 minute radio program. To Listen click on Indymedia Link
Pacifica's New Bylaws: A Victory for All of Us (tags)
The third (of five) radio station advisory boards voted Saturday for an historic set of bylaws for the Pacifica radio network. This was the last hurdle required under a Settlement Agreement to get the anti-war network back on track, and ends a period of vicious acrimony within the Pacifica community, which has important reprecussions for all Independent media in the United States.
KPFK (dead) Stream Update (tags)
A little over a week ago I posted a petition so that folks in the KPFK community would learn about WBAI's use of live365.com's service for spill-over at times when KPFK.org's streaming audio croaks. Roy Tuckman ("Roy of Hollywood") wrote about the petition and the issue at his show summary page:
KPFK streaming SUCKS - here's how to help make it better (tags)
This was posted before but I'm tossing it up as a repost because it's well worth signing the petition. It will likely not cost KPFK a penny to do what WBAI does to get their "over flow" streams on to www.live365.com
KPFK Expand Web Streaming Petition (tags)
a petition ... go to the site at the URL below
Building Bridges Radio - Behind The Invasion of Iraq (tags)
WBAI's Building Bridges Your Community and Labor Report presents this 27 minute radio program. Building Bridges can be regularly heard over wbai Mondays 4-5pm pt streaming at http://www.2600.com/offthehook/hot2.ram
9/11 as a False Flag Operation (WBAI Radio, NYC // MP3) (tags)
trying to make sense of 9-11 // an mp3 file of a show aired on WBAI. Runs for about 57 minutes
Building Bridges Radio presents Silkwood -A Women's History Month Special (tags)
Building Bridges:Your Community & Labor Report produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash presents Silkwood-a 58min radio program.Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI 2-3 PM EST streams live atwww.2600.com/offthehook/hot.2.ram & rebroadcast Wednesdays at 8pm EST on WBAI in Exile www.wbix.org To listen to Silkwood click the indymedia link.
Building Bridges on immigration & on the death penalty (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report presents a 58 minute radio program featuring Ron Tabek – Pres. Of NY Lawyers Against the Death Penalty and Steve Colatrella author of “Workers of the World : African and Asian Migrants in Italy in the 1990s”
Building Bridges Radio - Denis Brutus & Horace Campbell on Globalizatio (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Reports presents this 59 min Internet Radio progam in which Denis Brutus and Horace Campbel talk about corporate globalization. Building Bridges is broadcast over WBAI Radio in NYC. PLEASE CLICK ON INDY MEDIA LINK TO LISTEN TO THIS PROGRAM
Democracy Now! Returns, Censorship Continues (tags)
Democracy Now! Returns to the Pacifica Radio Network, after five month ban. NY Home Station WBAI defies new listener-backed board, censors live broadcast. Filmmaker Michael Moore Calls WBAI live on Democracy Now! to ask: "Where Am I?" KPFK-Los Angeles removes program from peak airtime
Building Bridges Internet Radio for the new Year - Wm Katz and Jesse Jackson (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report in Exile presents this New Year's 75 min radio show with speeches from author William Loren Katz and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI IN EXILE www.wbix.org Tuesdays from 9-10PM est TO LISTEN NOW CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE
Building Bridges Radio-Labor in Pakistan & Immigrant WTC victims demand rights (tags)
Building Bridges:Your Community & Labor Report in Exile presents a 59 min radio program 1.LABOR IN PAKISTAN TODAY - an interview with MAQBOOL A. BABRI, Pakistani labour videographer & 2.IMMIGRANT VICTIMS OF THE WTC DEMAND RIGHTS AND BENEFITS. Building Bridges is broadcast over internet radio WBAI IN EXILE www.wbix.org Tuesdays9-10PM est
Building Bridges Radio-Labor in Pakistan & Immigrant WTC Victims Demand Rights (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report in Exile presents a 59 minutes internet radio program 1.LABOR IN PAKISTAN TODAY - an interview with MAQBOOL A. BABRI, Pakistani labour videographer and 2.IMMIGRANT VICTIMS OF THE WTC DEMAND RIGHTS AND BENEFITS. Building Bridges is broadcast on WBAI IN EXILE www.wbix.org Tuesdays 9-10pm EST
Building Bridges Internet Radio - NYC Union Sq Rally - the War at Home & Abroad (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report in Exile presents this 58 min radio program linking the War Abroad to sweatshops, globalization, and attacks on civil rights and civil liberties at home. Building Bridges is broadcast on WBAI In Exile www.wbix.org Tuesdays at 9PM EST YOU CAN HEAR THIS PROGRAM NOW BY CLICKING ON INDY LINK ABOVE
Building Bridges Internet Radio presents Solidarity Forever Concert (tags)
Building Bridges; Your Community and Labor Report in Exile presents this concert/discussion held in conjunction with the ICFTU'S "Global Days of Action". Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI In Exile www.wbix.org on Tuesdays from 9-10PM EST
Building Bridges Internet Radio present International Labor & the War (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report in Exile presents a 57 min. internet Radio program on International Labor & the War in Afghanistan with participants from Pakistan, the U.K., the U.S. & South Africa. Building Bridges can be heard over the internet on WBAI In Exile on Tuesdays from 8-9PM at www.wbix.org
Building Bridges Internet Radio features the War & International Law (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report in Exiles presents a 58 minute internet radio program on the War featuring Michael Ratner,Abdeen Jabarra & Manning Marable. Building Bridges is broadcast over WBAI In Exile-www.wbix.org Tuesdays 9-10PM EST. TO LISTEN TO THIS PROGRAM NOW CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW
Building Bridges Internet Radio presents:Update on the Case of the Charleston 5 (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report in Exile presents this 58 internet radio program featuring the Ken Riley, President of Charleston, S.C. Longshore Local1422.BUILDING BRIDGES IS NOW BROADCAST OVER WBAI IN EXILE www.wbix.org ON TUESDAYS AT 9PM EST-
KPFK Listeners' Internet Forum (tags)
Five weeks ago the KPFK Listeners' Forum appeared on the internet at: http://disc.server.com/Indices/165346.html The KPFK forum is one of five forums provided for listeners to all of the Pacifica stations: KPFK in Los Angeles; KPFA in Berkeley; WBAI in New York; WPFW in Washington and KPFT in Houston.
Salute to John McDonagh ~ NY Firefighter and WBAI Show Host (tags)
Recently, I gained access to internet audio. One of the first shows that I heard on New York's WBAI by way of the net was Radio Free Eireann, a weekly show on Ireland, hosted by John McDonagh.
Amy Goodman and Edwin Johnston on Building Bridges over wbix.org (tags)
On Wednesday, August 29th from 8-9 pm est Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report (In Exile) will broadcast a special one hour program on the crisis at WBAI and Pacifica
Continued assault on Pacifica & Journalism (tags)
a look at the continued attempts at destroying widecast free speech corporate america style.
Building Bridges presents Harry Belafonte (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report in Exile presents a one hour conversation with Harry Belafonte on Wednesday, Aug.22 from 5-6pm PT over WBAI Radio In Exile www.wbix.org
Leid Harasses Democracy Now! (tags)
Sources say that minutes before air time this morning, and without explanation, interim general manager Utrice Leid once again threw Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! (DN) out of the master broadcast studio and into WBAI's Studio 3--a small, sub-standard broadcast space not suited to a national program.
Building Bridges Internet Labor Radio-3 Crises:Argentina, Pacifica & Welfare (tags)
Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report is broad- casting Wednesday, August 8 from 8-9pm over WBAI RADIO IN EXILE over www.wbix.org.Tonight we explore 3 crises: Argentina's financial meltdown, Welfare in the U.S. and continuing purges at WBAI-Pacifica
Building Bridges - Labor Internet Radio - Wed 8/1 (tags)
Building Bridges, which was exiled from WBAI-Pacifica is still produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash and is now broadcasting over WBAI in Exile, Wed. 5-6 pm PT
Flashpoints Radio, July 26: Interview w ROBERT KNIGHT FIRED BY WBAI (tags)
KPFA Flashpoints Radio July 26, 2001 (link to audio in 'full story' text below) - AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST, ROBERT KNIGHT, FIRED BY UTRICE LEID, BANNED FROM WBAI - Dennis Bernstein, Noelle Hanrahan: Interviews with Barbara Lubin, Bernard White, Pacifica Board member Leslie Cagan (35 min) - INTERVIEW W ROBERT KNIGHT (17 min)
NY Jobs with Justice with WBAI (tags)
Building Bridges presents NY Jobs with Justice 10th Anniv Reception & Awards Presentation.Broadcast Live over WBAI's Radio in Exile www.wbix.org Thursday, June 21 6-8 PM EST
Pacifica Update: Angry Listeners Tune Out WBAI Fund Drive (tags)
WBAI’s efforts to fire its audience and bring in replacement listeners appears to have foundered during its recent spring fundraising drive. The station’s 20-day spring fund drive netted $350,000-$400,000, or less than half of the $850,000 it normally takes in during its spring drive, according to organizers of the Pacifica Campaign.
NYC IMC reporter alleges assault by WBAI/Pacifica staffer at protest (tags)
NYC IMC reporter, Kevin Prichard was hospitalized yesterday for an injury sustained at a protest at WBAI/Pacifica in NYC. Prichard claims he was assaulted by WBAI staffer, Paul DiRienzo.
Irate Listenners of WBAI Radio March Into Station (tags)
Outraged Listeners of WBAI Radio (99.5 FM) March Into Studio Protest Targets Rightward Political Turn in Programming and Attacks on Workers' Rights
Special Webcast: Monday 6AM-10AM ET: KPFA/Democracy Now! WBAI WAKE-UP CALL (tags)
This morning, a special broadcast of WBAI's WAKE-UP CALL, In Exile, live from New York City. WBAI is a Pacifica Radio station, which is the last remaining left-wing radio network in the country -it is under corporate attack and we are fighting to save it.
WBAI Supporters Take to the Streets (tags)
A thousand supporters of WBAI (99.5 FM) marched across the brooklyn bridge Saturday demanding that the historically eclectic, left-wing station be returned to community control.
DEMOCRACY HOW? Attention All WBAI Radio Listeners (tags)
Want a say in how WBAI community radio will sound in the future? We'll send you info about the democratization of the WBAI Local Advisory Board through listener elections! Send us your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
PACIFICA:GREAT KPFA REPORT-CURRENT LEGAL/LEGISLATIVE STRUGGLE TO RECLAIM NETWORK (tags)
Excellent Pacifica Station KPFA report on the current legal and now legislative struggle to reclaim the Foundation and local stations from the renegade Board.
PACIFICA: FEDERAL COURT FREES LAWSUITS: INJUNCTIONS TO BE SOUGHT AGAINST BOARD (tags)
PACIFICA: FEDERAL COURT FINALLY REMANDS BOTH THE LISTENERS' & THE DIRECTORS' LAWSUITS BACK TO STATE COURT Injunctions Against Renegade Board To Be Sought Post Haste.
Public Citizen Condemns Pacifica Hijackers Threats-Joins Defense Of Free Speech (tags)
Pacifica Foundation Hijacker's To Critics: Take Down Your Web Sites or We’ll Sue. Public Citizen To Defend Free-Speech FROM Pacifica Network Board Thieves And Their Station Stooges (Mary Francis Berry, Bessie Wash, David Acosta, John Murdock (of EB&G), David Palmer, Ken Ford, Garland Ganter, Utrice Lied, Clayton Riley...et. al.
Pacifica Radio Hijackers& Anti-Union/Health Firm EBG Threaten Listener Campaigns (tags)
Audio of excellent KPFA report, including interviews, covering: Pacifica thieves employ Board member John Murdock's anti-worker/labor/health firm of Epstein Becker & Green (EB&G) to threaten listener's campaigns to reclaim the Network; California Legislators sign letter to Pacifica Board; Actions continue in CA to bring and end to the hijacking. 8 minutes.
Pacifica Dem Now! Goodman v AntiFree Speech/Pacifica Theft Abettor Clayton Riley (tags)
Pacifica's Democracy Now! Show Co-Host and Award Winning Journalist Amy Goodman Attempts To Debate Anti-Free Free Speech/Pacifica Theft Abettor Clayton Riley, A Recently Installed Wake-Up Call Show Co-Host The Day After Democracy Now! Co-Host Juan Gonzalez's resignation.
Pacifica-WBAI: Anatomy of a Corporate Take Over by Bernard White (tags)
Anatomy of a Corporate Take Over: WBAI in Crisis Bernard White Fired WBAI Program Director In His Own Words SOURCE: MailList-
Proposed Pacifica By-Law Revision Permits Sale of Stations (tags)
Pacifica's corporate raiders propose by-law changes that permit sale of stations such as WBAI and KPFA.
Who's Behind the Pacifica-WBAI Coup? (tags)
Who's Behind the Pacifica-WBAI Coup?
PACIFICA UPDATE: Forcible Seizure of WBAI (tags)
Very late last night (D22), while most people with lives were partying, the Pacifica National Board siezed WBAI in New York. A program in progress was stopped by an on-air diatribe by the "new" boss. It appears the Pacifica crisis has escalated once again.