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- 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
- 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.
www.backstage.com/backstage/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1031666
- 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
www.counterpunch.org/sellmemo.html
- 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.
www.current.org/radio/radio0115p.html
- Bill Gets an Earful on 'BAI - NY Daily News article about Amy Goodman of WBAI/Democracy Now! interviewing Bill Clinton. The article questions the implications of this interview.
www.nydailynews.com/2000-11-09/New_York_Now/Television/a-87734.asp
- 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.
www.weeklyplanet.com/2001-07-05/cover.html
- Cloak and Dagger - Marc Cooper - LA Free Press on The Nation magazine's Marc Cooper and his role within Pacifica, he is believed to have had an influence in firing the Pacifica News Director.
www.radio4all.org/2000/0219cloakdagger.htm
- CounterPunch Magazine Stories on Pacifica - Collection of articles about the Pacifica Network.
www.counterpunch.org/pacstories.html
- 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.
www.current.org/rad/rad709p.html
- 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.
www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11817
- 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.
www.etan.org/news/2001a/08wbai.htm
- For Democracy Now! - Nation Magazine editorial praising Pacifica's Democracy Now! broadcast from WBAI, while Amy Goodman's harassment by Pacifica management is described.
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20001113&s=editors2
- 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.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/01/MN64508.DTL
- 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".
www.current.org/radio/radio020pac1.html
- HoustonChronicle.com - Sorting out the Static - Controversy continues as tradition collides with a quest for new listeners at KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston.
www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/headline/entertainment/1276481
- 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..
www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11741
- 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.
www.fair.org/media-beat/010906.html
- Is the Troubled Progressive Radio Network Drifting to the Right? - Article on the efforts by the Pacifica management to remove progressive content from it's airwaves. Salon.com.
www.salon.com/june97/media/media970613.html
- 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.
www.etan.org/news/2001a/09hortadn.htm
- Juan Gonzalez, Lyn Gerry & Tomas Moran on Pacifica - Counterspin interviews Juan Gonzalez, Lyn Gerry and Tomas Moran about the state of organizing the movement to save the Pacifica Radio Network. (RealAudio)
stream.realimpact.org/rihurl.ram?file=webactive/cspin/cspin20010309.rm&end=
- Let Us Now Praise 'Unfamous' Journalists - Norman Solomon on the integrity of Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, award winning Pacifica journalists. Fair Media Beat.
www.fair.org/media-beat/990429.html
- Media Database at savepacifica - Archive of news articles, transcripts, press releases, audio files, and photos about the Pacifica Crisis.
www.savepacifica.net/cgi-bin/media.pl
- 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.
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010903&s=editors2
- National Effort to save Pacifica Radio - Berkeley Daily Planet on the nationwide struggle to save Pacifica with a report from an event in with Dan Coughlin, Amy Goodman and Bernard White.
www.interweavers.com/berkeley/article.cfm?archiveDate=03-27-01&storyID=4068
- News Director's Axing Roils Staff at Pacifica - The removal of National News Director Dan Coughlin at Pacifica Radio has sparked protests against Pacifica Foundation. Article in NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/1999-11-13/New_York_Now/Television/a-47052.asp
- 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.
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010212&s=mcchesney
- Pacifica in Crisis - Westchester Weekly, NY on the "The internecine struggle to save the last bastion of progressive viewpoints on the airwaves."
www.westchesterweekly.com/articles/pacifica.html
- 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)
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=gerry20010524
- 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. Current magazine.
www.current.org/rad/rad002p.html
- Pacifica Outlets are Roiled by Internal Conflict - At a time when radio hosts make a show of ripping their bosses, it's ironic that on the stations with the deepest genuine rift, listeners don't hear a word about it.
www.nydailynews.com/1999-07-17/New_York_Now/Television/a-35004.asp
- Pacifica Politicking - SF Bay Guardian: Critics say "Pacifica leadership's recent moves, hiring a communications director from the Justice Department and appealing a federal labor ruling, raise disturbing questions."
www.sfbg.com/News/31/23/Features/pacifica.html
- 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.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/22/DD78344.DTL
- Pacifica Radio Airs its Troubles at Hill Forum - The Washington Post on the forum convened by congressman Major Owens to address issues of censorship in the Pacifica Network and at WBAI.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31132-2001May15.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.
www.vote.com/magazine/editorials/editorial2841424.phtml
- Pacifica Rebels Turn Up Volume - John Tarleton analyzing political motivations of the Pacifica Foundation and covers protests at its 2001 National Board meeting in Houston.
cybertraveler.org/pacifica.html
- Pacifica to Critics: Take Down Your Web Sites or Well Sue - Public Citizen article on Pacifica's attempted censorship of web sites criticizing the National Board.
www.citizen.org/Press/pr-lit32.htm
- 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."
www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/06/gonzalez2506.html
- 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.
www.blackjournalism.com/racismat.htm
- Reporters Strike Pacifica Over Censorship - The SF Bay Guardian on correspondents and reporters for Pacifica's flagship program, the daily Pacifica Network News, and their strike to pressure the network to relax its censoring of its stations.
www.sfbg.com/News/34/18/pac.html
- Saving Amy: "The Exception To The Rulers" - Media Channel article by Danny Schechter on Pacifica and it's program 'Democracy Now!'. Host Amy Goodman asserts beeing harassed by Pacifica.
www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/amy.shtml
- 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.
www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/Smoking_Guns.ram
- 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.
www.current.org/rad/rad921p.html
- Storm Clouds Over Pacifica - 1999 marked the 50th anniversary of the founding of Pacifica radio whose future, some say, is cloudy. Article in NY Daily News.
www.nydailynews.com/1999-04-16/New_York_Now/Television/a-25886.asp
- 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.
www.counterpunch.org/pacifica.html
- 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.
thenation.org/special/2001pacifica.mhtml
- 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.
www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/12/berry/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110
- Turmoil Continues to Rock Pacifica Stations - LA Times on the ongoing Pacifica Crisis and the resignation of Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez.
www.calendarlive.com/top/1,1419,L-LATimes-Search-X!ArticleDetail-20739,00.html?search_area=Articles&channel=Search
- Two More Pacifica Board Members Resign - Pacifica Board Chair Acosta and board member Van Putten have resigned, the second and third to resign as a result of a nationwide campaign to stop the corporatization of free speech radio. NYC IndyMedia.
WWW.NYC.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=6500
- 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.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27501-2001Nov1.html
- What's Going On at Pacifica? - John Dinges on the Pacifica Radio Network and the activism to save it as an alternative media outlet. The Nation magazine.
past.thenation.com/cgi-bin/framizer.cgi?url=past.thenation.com/issue/000501/0501dinges.shtml
- 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.
www.afsc.org/pwork/0300/0318.htm
- Whose Network? Our Network! Voices of the Free Pacifica Movement - John Tarleton interviews among others: Dan Coughlin, Errol Maitland and Kirstin Thomas on the changing Pacifica and how the changes have affected local and national programming.
cybertraveler.org/pacifica_intervws2.html
- 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 it's contract with Pacifica and is airing Free Speech Radio News instead of PNN. St. Petersburg Times.
pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/main/doc/000000078889003.html?MAC=bb06b7d58cdd805ab2ce47d334705990&QIID=000000078889003&FMT=FT
- 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.
www.current.org/rad611.html
- ZNet's Contribution to Resolving The Pacifica Crisis - Znet articles covering the Pacifica Network.
www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/progpacif.htm
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