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| Approximately 200 people from Sonoma
County rally along with labor leaders in front of KPFA, Saturday, July 24,
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| Photo: Steve Freedkin |
1/24/2001:
WBAI SIEGE [RESOLVED].* 
Local activists arrested, locks changed, personnel fired, armed guards installed
at Pacifica's New York station in late 2000. Problems resolved after community
control restored to Pacifica national governing board.
Amy Goodman and her award-winning news show threatened by Pacifica management.
Issues resolved after community control restored to Pacifica.
KPFA's partner station in Fresno fends off anti-democratic forces trying
to undo their ouster from the station's board
Progressive, free speech radio is under siege. The chair of Pacifica Foundation has threatened to close and sell "its" flagship station, KPFA, which has broadcast progressive news and analysis for 50 years. Please keep up with news of the crisis and participate in efforts underway to take back KPFA, as reported at the Web sites listed below, among others:
* Analysis by Belinda Griswold, Media Alliance
* http://www.savepacifica.net
* http://www.radio4all.org/freepacifica/alerts/index.html
* My correspondence with Pacifica's now-FORMER PR firm
[with lots of Web links; on another Web site; may open in new window]
Help publicize this effort to regain control of community radio. Copy one of the buttons shown below and put it on your Web site. Coding shown below the buttons tells how to make a link to www.savepacifica.net, a Web site dedicated to saving KPFA and Pacifica.
For a large version you can print as a bumper strip,
CLICK HERE.
NOTE: For best results, print the bumper strip on Legal Size
paper.
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