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- 'BAI Dissident Hides Out - Amy Goodman, host of "Democracy Now!," moving her show to an off-site studio after continued harassment and intimidation by interim WBAI management and Pacifica.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-15/new_york_now/television/a-121838.asp
- A Firm New Boss at an Old Voice of the Left - New York Times article on U. Leid the interim Station Manager at WBAI which was imposed by Pacifica trough the "Christmas Coup".
www.savepacifica.net/media/20010117_nyt.html
- A Protester Meets with Utrice Leid - A listeners memo after a meeting with WBAI's Utrice Leid. Points of discussion are the bannings, firings, the boycott and Major Owens among others.
dailyweekly.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi?n=/politics/wbai/paul.xml
- A Special Report on the Latest Conflict at Pacifica Radio's WBAI - WPKN's Scott Harris interviews two representatives in the Pacifica dispute: WBAI's interim station manager Utrice Leid and Pacifica Foundation board member Leslie Cagan. (RealAudio)
www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/borosage011901.ram
- Amsterdam News on WBIX Radio in Exile - Herb Boyd about the internet broadcasts by the banned, fired and exiled from WBAI's airwaves. WBIX is continuing a tradition of excellency in journalism which has come under attack at WBAI.
www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Pacifica/boydwbai.htm
- Angry Listeners Tune Out WBAI Fund Drive - WBAIs efforts to fire its audience and bring in replacement listeners appears to have failed. The stations spring fund drive netted less than half of the $850,000 it normally takes in, according to organizers of the Pacifica Campaign. By John Tarleton.
WWW.NYC.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6522
- Background of WBAI Struggle - Information on the activism and the efforts to save WBAI as a free speech radio station within the Pacifica Network from the perspective of the International Action Center.
www.iacenter.org/wbai_backgrd.htm
- Bernard White at WPFW-LAB Meeting - Bernard White fired Program Director provides a personal account of the "Christmas Coup" at WBAI at a meeting of WPFW's Local Advisory Board. DC Indymedia. (RealVideo)
www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4814
- Bernard White Interview - Fired WBAI Program Director, Bernard White on WPKN's Counterpoint program, full-length interview by Scott Harris. (RealAudio)
www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/white010801.ram
- Brooklyn Congressman Slams WBAI on Capitol Hill - Congressman Owens, NY City Council member Freed, and NY Public Advocate candidate Siegel joined ousted WBAI staffers at a press conference. Village Voice article.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0111/johnson.shtml
- Campaign Grows to Save WBAI/Pacifica - "Supporters who favor a politically conscious, activist WBAI continued their protests while more firings and changes take place." From Workers World.
www.workers.org/ww/2001/wbai0308.html
- Can WBAI be Saved? - Village Voice article about post "Coup" censorship, bannings and firings at WBAI, a changing Pacifica Board and efforts to restore WBAI to its original mission.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0115/hentoff.shtml
- Christmas Coup Rocks Pacifica's WBAI - Article by weekly "Haiti Progres" analyzing the removal of station management by Pacifica. Gives Background on installed Station Manager.
www.haiti-progres.com/2001/sm010110/xeng0110.htm
- Council Gets Earful on Strife at WBAI - The NY City Council discusses the WBAI case as its Civil Service and Labor Committee opens a hearing about the WBAI/Pacifica crisis . NY Daily News article.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-05-08/New_York_Now/Television/a-110273.asp
- Coup D'Etat at WBAI! - IndyMedia article by Bill Weinberg recounts events at WBAI and charges that the Pacifica Board has been stacked with individuals pursuing corporate interests.
www.nyc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1959
- Crisis at WBAI Radio in New York: An Attempt to Silence Alternative Views - World Socialist Web Site on WBAI with an in-depth analysis of political motives behind the take-over.
www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/wbai-f08.shtml
- Cutting a Congressman off the Air - Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice describes congressman Major Owens' beeing censored by WBAI's U. Leid and compares to censorship in dictatorships.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0114/hentoff.shtml
- Dissidents Confident They'll Win WBAI Fight - The usual subplots and minidramas swirl in the ongoing conflict at WBAI (99.5 FM), but dissidents who oppose the current management say one critical area has come down to a numbers game they think they can win. NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-01/New_York_Now/Television/a-120231.asp
- Don't Air Dirty Linen, Manager Tells 'BAI Staff After 2 Get Ax - NY Daily News article from the day after new management was installed at WBAI.
www.nydailynews.com/2000-12-27/New_York_Now/Television/a-93719.asp
- Exec Says a Healing WBAI Will Still Cause Static - Bernard White, WBAI's Program Director, says that despite recent tensions at 'BAI and parent Pacifica, a higher goal won't be forgotten. NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/2000-05-04/New_York_Now/Television/a-65460.asp
- Firings Strengthen Pacifica Control of New York Outlet - From Current, a public broadcasting newspaper, about the removal of management at Pacifica's WBAI. Quotes the fired and banned.
www.current.org/rad/rad0101wbai.html
- Gotham Gazette - WBAI - Miranda Kennedy in the Gotham Gazette about the current situation at WBAI.
www.gothamgazette.com/commentary/95.kennedy.shtml
- KPFA Report on WBAI Takeover - Transcript of a KPFA newscast the day after initial firings and bannings at WBAI provided by Common Dreams.
www.commondreams.org/headlines/122400-03.htm
- Listeners Mobilize to Save WBAI - Workers World on the takeover of radio station WBAI management by the Pacifica Foundation.
www.workers.org/ww/2001/wbai0111.html
- Listeners Want Their Free Station Back - The New Haven Register on the Connecticut Concerned Friends of WBAI and their efforts to fight the takeover by Pacifica and the interim management.
www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1808381&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7573&rfi=8
- Mimi Rosenberg: On my Removal from the Air - Mimi Rosenberg about her banning by management of Pacifica Station WBAI.
www.savepacifica.net/20010301_rosenberg.html
- NY Radio Station Axes Two Leftist Producers - Rediff.com article on the banning of WBAI producers Deepa Fernandes and Biju Mathew. "It's a total political purge," says Fernandes, who co-produced "Behind the News" with Mathew.
www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/09us1.htm
- Outraged Listeners of WBAI Radio March Into Studio - Members of listeners group Loud Rapp protest rightward political turn of Pacifica's WBAI in programming and attacks on workers' rights. Press Release.
www.commondreams.org/news2001/0604-04.htm
- Pacifica Begins Moves to Silence WBAI - Just as in 1999 in Berkeley, when Pacifica fired KPFA's general manager, it is trying to fire WBAI's general manager, Valerie van Isler. NYC Indymedia advisory.
nyc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=1131
- Pacifica Campaign Intends to Create Havoc During WBAI's Fundraising Drive. - Westchester Co. Weekly on the campaign to withhold donations to WBAI to ensure that bannings, firings and censorship will stop .
www.newmassmedia.com/nac.phtml?code=wes&db=nac_fea&ref=15827
- Pacifica in Crisis - Article about the struggle to save the last bastion of progressive viewpoints on the airwaves by Robert Nixon in the Westchester Weekly.
www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/pacifica.html
- Pacifica Management Moves to Undermine WBAI's Independence - Echoing the 1999 KPFA attack, Pacifica told WBAI's General Manager Valerie Van Isler that she is beeing removed. Fair Media Advisory.
www.fair.org/press-releases/van-isler.html
- Pacifica Troubles - NPR reports on the battle over recent changes at Pacifica's WBAI. Activists are protesting the new general manager, as a symptom of Pacifica's rightward drift. (RealAudio)
www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20010621.me.15.ram
- Pacifica's Temporary WBAI Minion U. Leid Censors On-Air Discussion - NYC Indymedia article compares WBAI's Coup to an occupation. "Like all occupation forces, they are illegal, immoral and they are going home."
nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=2522
- Peoples Video Network: Save WBAI - Demonstration at Pacifica's WBAI the morning after Pacifica coup that fired the Station Manager, the Program Director and Producer Sharon Harper. (RealVideo)
www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/wbai_coup.ram
- Producer is a Sight for Sore WBAI - With a wave of tension sweeping over WBAI after the move to fire Station Manager Van Isler, staffers got good news: producer Errol Maitland returned to join the fight. NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/2000-12-05/New_York_Now/Television/a-91048.asp
- Protesters Defend WBAI Against Pacifica Management - Workers World on WBAI and demonstration shortly before the takeover to protest Pacifica's plan to fire Valerie Van Isler the Station Manager.
www.workers.org/ww/2000/wbai1221.html
- Resistance Grows to "Christmas Coup D'Etat" at WBAI - WBAI producer Bill Weinberg gives the history of the conflict and an update on the current struggle to save free speech radio at this Pacifica radio station.
shadow.autono.net/sin001/bai.htm
- Return WBAI To Its Crusading Days - NY Daily News Op-Ed by Leslie Cagan a dissident on the Pacifica board.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-08-30/News_and_Views/Opinion/a-123546.asp
- Rule By Idiocy: WBAI Falls for Right Wing Conspiracy Theory - Discussing recent developments at WBAI which under U. Leid has used right wing antisemitic propaganda for it's spring 2001 fund raiser. By WBAI host Bill Weinberg.
www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Pacifica/idiocy.htm
- Rule by Idiocy: WBAI Falls for Right Wing Conspiracy Theory - Bill Weinberg on right-wing premiums in the spring 2000 fund-raising marathon by Pacifica's WBAI Radio.
shadow.autono.net/sin001/wbai2.htm
- Shakeups Make Waves at WBAI-FM - Juan Gonzalez in the NY Daily News. Concluding that the future of WBAI FM is up to the listeners and donors.
www.nydailynews.com/2000-12-29/News_and_Views/City_Beat/a-93988.asp
- Sparring Continues at WBAI - Critics of the present management at WBAI and its parent Pacifica Foundation are keeping up the pressure for change. Article in the New York Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-03-26/New_York_Now/Television/a-104718.asp
- The Christmas Coup at WBAI - Article in the Revolutionary Worker on Pacifica's board carrying out a coup at WBAI by taking over the station, changing the locks, firing three people; then banning staff who disagreed with their actions.
www.rwor.org/a/v22/1080-89/1085/wbai.htm
- The Daily Weekly - WBAI Coverage - Articles about the issues surrounding the takeover of WBAI by Pacifica from the Daily Weekly on-line magazine.
www.dailyweekly.org/cgi-bin/view.cgi?n=/politics/wbai
- The Pacifica Counterrevolution Hits WBAI - Article on infoshop.org by Edward S. Hermann encouraging people to get involved in the struggle against Pacifica in order to save WBAI.
www.infoshop.org/news5/wbai_herman.html
- The Struggle for The Soul of Listener Sponsored Radio - WBAI host Elombe Brath about the growing resistance against the Pacifica Board 'Coup' at WBAI.
www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Pacifica/brath.htm
- The Village Voice - WBAI Coverage - Articles about the issues surrounding the takeover of WBAI by Pacifica from The Village Voice a New York City weekly.
www.villagevoice.com/search_bidness.php3?keyword=wbai&x=8&y=9
- This Just In: We're Fired. - A hostile takeover rocks radio's voice of the left. TIME Magazine article on "Midnight Coup" at Pacifica station WBAI.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,96193,00.html
- Union to Aid WBAI - The staff of WBAI has gotten a boost in its dispute with station management: The National Labor Relations Board filed a complaint against WBAI and the Pacifica Foundation for unfair labor practices. NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/1999-05-21/New_York_Now/Television/a-29405.asp
- WBAI - Race And Power at Pacifica Radio - "U. Leid and C. Reilly, under the guidance of its current national board, are upholding, by extension a profoundly racist and classist vision for Pacifica's future." Indymedia article.
www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=1843
- WBAI and Czech Public Television Fearful Symmetry - Article by WBAI host Bill Weinberg relating events at WBAI to the struggle for free speech in reporting at a Czech TV station.
forum.oneworld.net:8080/~mediachannel/read?2911,398
- WBAI Bans Talk of its own Woes - Hours after protesters were arrested at WBAI, acting station manager Leid announced that she'll permit no more on-air discussion of "internal matters". NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-01-25/New_York_Now/Television/a-97191.asp
- WBAI Executive Denies It's on the Block - Ken Ford, vice chairman of the Pacifica Foundation, says that despite reports sparked by comments he made earlier in the week, Pacifica has no intention of selling WBAI.
www.nydailynews.com/2001-10-26/New_York_Now/Television/a-129786.asp
- WBAI Fights Managements Move to Turn the Station into NPR Lite - Village Voice article by Bharati Sadasivam about changes made at WBAI by interim Station Manager Utrice Leid.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0103/sadasivam.shtml
- WBAI Is Latest Pacifica Storm - NonProfit Times on the WBAI takeover. Giving voice to Pacifica's version of events what has been called the "Christmas Coup".
www.nptimes.com/Mar01/npt_1.html
- WBAI Listeners Rally for Pacifica, Amy Goodman - John Tarleton quotes Paul DeRienzo, host of WBAI's "Let'em Talk", stating that Pacifica's actions against Amy Goodman were politically motivated.
www.cybertraveler.org/goodman.html
- WBAI Listeners Rally in Support of Robert Knight - John Tarleton on listeners in front of WBAI for an impromptu protest in support of award-winning broadcaster Robert Knight. Knight was banned from the station.
www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=7497
- WBAI Outcasts Broadcast their Message Over the Net - The Villager on broadcasts by WBIX, WBAI in Exile, which broadcasts daily, featuring the banned and fired continuing to uphold the pre-coup quality of WBAI programming.
www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1840&dept_id=112392&newsid=2167096&PAG=461&rfi=9
- WBAI Protests Disrupt Secret Pacifica Meeting in NYC - Station managers Pacifica stations and the Executive Staff of the Pacifica Foundation arrived in New York City for a secret meeting. Members of the Pacifica resistance movement organized a spontaneous, disciplined, peaceful protest.
www.nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6759
- WBAI Rally Denounces Pacifica - Herb Boyd in the Black World Today on one of many demonstrations at Pacifica's WBAI to protest the firings, bannings and censorship.
www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/special%20report-2_01-07-01.asp
- WBAI rally in Newark - Photographs of protest held in Newark, NJ against the banning and firing of producers by the interim Station Manager U. Leid at Pacifica's WBAI.
revolutionarywebdesign.com/wbai
- WBAI Rally on Wall Street - WBAI listeners converged in front of the station's studio to protest the firings of WBAI's station manager, program director and a producer of the popular morning show Wake Up Call. Images of the protest.
revolutionarywebdesign.com/wbai/jan6
- WBAI Staff Blasts 'Anti-Labor' Tactics - Staffers at WBAI join colleagues at KPFA in blasting Pacifica for policies that could destroy it as radio's last non-corporate alternative. NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/1999-07-21/New_York_Now/Television/a-35372.asp
- WBAI Supporters Take to the Streets - A thousand New Yorkers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the historically eclectic, leftwing station be returned to community control. By John Tarleton.
cybertraveler.org/wbai.html
- WBAI The Coup on Wall Street by Mumia Abu Jamal - Column in the Nation Magazine. "Coup" at Pacifica's WBAI as "opening salvo in a pitched battle designed to silence radical dissent".
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=abu-jamal20010215
- WBAI-FM in Crisis - Article on tenant.net relating the takeover of WBAI and changes in the Pacifica National Board to the struggle for decent and affordable housing.
www.tenant.net/Tengroup/Metcounc/Feb01/wbai.html
- What's the Real Deal at WBAI? - Haiti Progres article calling WBAI Interim Manager Leid an "agent of a reactionary segment of the Pacifica National Board" and looking back at the post "Coup" time.
www.haiti-progres.com/2001/sm010425/wbai0425.htm
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