The Concerned Friends of WBAI
Featuring current events; updates on actions, meetings and other local events; the work of committees and area groups; and directories for where to find crucial information about the Pacifica struggle on the internet
www.wbaiaction.org

Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
Homepage for the Listeners Lawsuit brought against the Pacifica Board in 2000 by Carol Spooner and twelve plaintiffs representing listeners in the five Pacifica signal areas.
www.home.pon.net/wildrose/pacifica.htm

Coalition for a democratic Pacifica, New York (CdP-NY)
A clearinghouse of information about WBAI LAB elections and other aspects of democratization in the WBAI and national Pacifica struggle. This activist group that his been serving listeners in NY since 1996.
www.wbai.net

Community for Progressive Radio
An independent advocacy group of communities of color to advance progressive radio and media which empower and b ui ld our communities. This site focuses on issues related to WBAI and the Pacifica struggle.
www.activistradio.org

Save WBAI Email List
Subscribe for this free email list, maintained by Lyn Gerry and Eileen Sutton, to receive announcements of NY regional events, demos, actions and crucial information relating to the WBAI/Pacifica struggle, programming alerts and transcripts and more.
www.savewbai.tao.ca

North Bay for KPFA !
The listeners' group responsible for resurrecting and publishing KPFA's "Folio"
www.freestone.com/kpfa

The Folio Project
Read all twelve issues of the KPFA "Folio" published to date by the listener group North Bay for KPFA .
www.ringnebula.com/folio

Coalition for a democratic Pacifica, Berkeley(CdP)
Keep up with Bay Area listeners' attempts to democratize KPFA, through listener LAB elections and other means.
www.cfdp.org

Houston Committee for People's Radio (HCPR)
A Houston listener group founded in the summer of 1999 as a response to the takeover of radio station KPFA/Pacifica in Berkeley, engaged in the Pacifica struggle on behalf of the communities no longer served by Houston's KPFT.
www.hal-pc.org/~edi/hcpr.html

Alliance for Progressive Radio's Free WPFW site
A Washington D.C. listener group attempting to democratize Pacifica station WPFW and end censorship at the station.
www.freewpfw.org

Pacifica Listeners' Union
Read the Plan of Action and 15 demands of this listeners group, founded on the west coast in 1999.
www.pacificalistenersunion.org

Pacifica Campaign
The site of the group founded by former "Democracy Now!" co-host Juan Gonzalez, engaged in and advocating direct action tactics, including a nationwide boycott of Pacifica pledge-drives, to force the resignations of majority Board members.
www.pacificacampaign.org

Free Pacifica
Visit former KPFK programmer and shop steward, Lyn Gerry's site for up-to-date information, background, and extensive archives documenting all aspects of the Pacifica struggle nationwide.
www.radio4all.org/freepacifica

New Pacifica
An open email discussion list for participants in workgroups, nationally, to forge a new Pacifica.
www.groups.yahoo.com/group/NewPacifica

The Real Sounds of Texas
Listen to audio files of all the public comments from the March, 2000 Pacifica Board meeting in Houston concluding with the sounds of protestors shutting down the meeting with shouts of: "Resign Now! Resign Now!"
www.freespeechnow.org

Pacifica Board Actions
Read a chronology of the Pacifica Board's actions through Sept, 2000 and transcripts of several important Board meetings.
www.ringnebula.com/PNB

LISTEN TO PACIFICA LIVE ON THE INTERNET

WBAI Live
The most dependable site to hear WBAI live on the internet.
www.2600.com

KPFA Live
Live streaming audio of KPFA, Pacifica's Berkeley station.
www.radio.transbay.net:7070/ramgen/kpfa.ra

MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CRISIS

Free Speech Radio News
The striking Pacifica Network News stringers are now broadcasting regularly via www.wbix.org or hear them at their homepage.
www.savepacifica.net/strike/news/index.html

WBAI: The Coup on Wall Street
A commentary on WBAI and Pacifica by Mumia Abu-Jamal, February 15, 2001.
www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=special&s=abu-jamal20010215

Pacifica Activism Center
Maintained by the media-watchdog group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) www.fair.org/activism/pacifica-history.html

Fear and Favor in the Newsroom
Read a review of an important documentary, narrated by Studs Turkel, on censorship in the media.
www.fearandfavor.org

Inside Pacifica
A 1997 article by David A delson, lead plaintiff in the Local A dvisory Board lawsuit against the Pacifica Board.
www.lbbs.org/ZMag/articles/June97Pacifica.html

New York IndyMedia Center
For coverage of the WBAI/Pacifica struggle as well as many other progressive New York City community, national, and international issues. Tune into the frequent Radio Project programs listed here.
www.nyc.indymedia.org

Who Decides? - Governance, Democracy and
A ccountability in Pacifica
Background on the Pacifica crisis written in the late 1990s.
www.radio4all.org/fp/whodecides.htm

Pacifica Crisis Coverage
Visit the Z Magazine/Znet archive of articles on the Pacifica crisis, dating back to the later 1990s.
www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/progpacif.htm

Censorship as Pacifica Management Tool
An article by media critic Ed Herman from the November, 2000 issue of Z Magazine.
www.zmag.org/ZSustainers/ZDaily/2000-11/02herman.htm

New York Free Media Alliance
Home page of a regional coalition working to increase democracy and public space in local and national media.
nyfma.tao.ca

NETWORK AFFAIRS AND IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS

Official KPFA LAB site
Visit the home page of the KPFA Local A dvisory Board, the only democratically-elected board in the history of the Pacifica Network.
www.kpfalab.org

Democracy Now! The official site for Amy Goodman's show, with archives of past stories.
www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow.html

Pacifica's 1997 Strategic Five Year Plan
The Five-Year Strategic Plan, prepared by Pacifica management in the early 1990s, adopted and implemented in 1997, and used by Pacifica management to justify many of their actions to purge the network of radicals and reprogram it to appeal to more upscale and mainstream audiences.
www.pacifica.org/board/docs/avision.html

WBAI Site, pre-Coup
See WBAI's website as it was before being censored by management in the wake of the coup.
www.savewbai.com/mirror

WBAI Staff Union
The home page for the WBAI staff union, UE Local 404, maintained by shop steward R. Paul Martin.
www.glib.com

WBAI Producers' Pages
Visit home pages of various WBAI producers and obtain a staff perspective on the crisis.
www.wbai free.org

- AREA GROUPS -

Concerned Friends groups have developed throughout the WBAI listening area. We encourage you to contact the group where you live....find out when they are meeting, how you can get involved and what you can do to help their efforts.

NEW JERSEY
Contact: Bob Bender
965 West 7th Street, Plainfield, NJ 07063
908-755-5846
RBender65@aol.com

LONG ISLAND
Contact: Jim Krivo
P.O. Box 168, Huntington, NY 11743
516-541-1006 ext. 55
peace1064@aol.com
islandwebsites.com/wbai

WESTCHESTER
Contact: Dennis Lombardi
40 Hardscrabble Road, North Salem, NY 10560
914-551-4900 (pager)
914-669-5238 (phone)
dennlom@netscape.net

ROCKLAND
Contact: Sheila Hamanaka
77 South Main Street, New City, NY 10956
845-365-3631 or 845-354-1277

MID-HUDSON
Contact: Mike Kaufman
12 Echo Lane, Warwick, NY 10990
845-988-0442
elgmk@warwick.net

CONNECTICUT
Contact: Laura Briggs
203-256-1417
savewbai@angelfire.com

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