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Goodman Embroiled in Pacifica Conflict - http://www.current.org/radio/radio020pac1.html
Article in Current on difficulties Amy Goodman, of Pacifica's Democracy Now!, is encountering. She alleges a "poorly disguised attempt at censorship". |
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East Timor Action Network Open Letter on Amy Goodman and Pacifica - http://www.etan.org/news/2001a/08wbai.htm
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. |
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Staffers Protest Pacifica Transfer of News Chief - http://www.current.org/rad/rad921p.html
Article in Current, a magazine covering public broadcasting, about Pacifica's ouster of National News Director Dan Coughlin. |
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Is the Troubled Progressive Radio Network Drifting to the Right? - http://www.salon.com/june97/media/media970613.html
Article on the efforts by the Pacifica management to remove progressive content from its airwaves. From Salon.com. |
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Broadcast Blues - http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2001-07-05/cover.html
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. |
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Let Us Now Praise 'Unfamous' Journalists - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2345
Norman Solomon on the integrity of Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, award winning Pacifica journalists. Fair Media Beat. |
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Idealism: A Viable Alternative in Today's Media World? - http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2147
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. |
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Wash Leaves Top Post at Embattled Pacifica - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A27501-2001Nov1
The Washington Post on Bessie Wash's dismissal from her position as the executive director of the Pacifica Radio Network. |
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Current.org - Pacifica moves to Washington as the news anchor leaves in dispute - http://www.current.org/rad/rad002p.html
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. |
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Pacifica's Pacific Coup - http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/06/gonzalez2506.html
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." |
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WMNF May End a Station Staple - http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/main/doc/000000078889003.html?MAC=bb06b7d58cdd805ab2ce47d334705990&QIID=000000078889003&FMT=FT
WMNF took an active role in a dispute over issues between former and current employees and Pacifica management. WMNF might not renew its contract with Pacifica and is airing Free Speech Radio News instead of PNN. St. Petersburg Times. |
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Jose Ramos-Horta on Amy Goodman and Santa Cruz Massacre - http://www.etan.org/news/2001a/09hortadn.htm
Nobel prize winner Ramos-Horta in support of Pacifica's Amy Goodman. Ramos defends the 'Democracy Now!' host against slander by WBAI management personnel. |
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As Foes Slam Pacifica, Their Targets Cry Foul - http://www.current.org/radio/radio0115p.html
Current magazine articles dealing with tactics employed by free speech activists and Pacifica's efforts to discredit them. |
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Days of outrage - Pacifica Protests Planned to Gemand 'Democracy Now!' Reinstatement - http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11817
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. |
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More Democracy-Now! - http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010903&s=editors2
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. |
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There's Something About Mary - http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/12/berry/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110
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. |
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Workers Charge Pacifica With Union-Busting - http://www.current.org/rad611.html
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. |
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CPB Chastises Pacifica - Shutting Out Dissidents is an Issue in Ongoing Battle - http://www.current.org/rad/rad709p.html
Article in Current on the Pacifica Radio Network's violation of the FCC's open meetings rule. |
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Are KPFA and WBAI For Sale? - http://www.counterpunch.org/sellmemo.html
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 |
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I want my Democracy Now! - http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=11741
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.. |