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	Firings Strengthen Pacifica Control of New York Outlet - http://www.current.org/rad/rad0101wbai.html From Current, a public broadcasting newspaper, about the removal of management at Pacifica's WBAI. Quotes the fired and banned.
	KPFA Report on WBAI Takeover - http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/122400-03.htm Transcript of a KPFA newscast the day after initial firings and bannings at WBAI provided by Common Dreams.
	A Firm New Boss at an Old Voice of the Left - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9901E2D8103DF934A25752C0A9679C8B63 New York Times article on U. Leid the interim Station Manager at WBAI which was imposed by Pacifica trough the "Christmas Coup".
	Listeners Mobilize to Save WBAI - http://www.workers.org/ww/2001/wbai0111.php Workers World on the takeover of radio station WBAI management by the Pacifica Foundation.
	Crisis at WBAI Radio in New York: An Attempt to Silence Alternative Views - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/feb2001/wbai-f08.shtml World Socialist Web Site on WBAI with an in-depth analysis of political motives behind the take-over.

	Mimi Rosenberg: On my Removal from the Air - http://www.wbaiaction.org/statements/01-02-27mrosenberg.html Mimi Rosenberg about her banning by management of Pacifica Station WBAI.
	Pacifica Management Moves to Undermine WBAI's Independence - http://www.fair.org/press-releases/van-isler.html Echoing the 1999 KPFA attack, Pacifica told WBAI's General Manager Valerie Van Isler that she is being removed. Fair Media Advisory.
	NY Radio Station Axes Two Leftist Producers - http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/09us1.htm 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.
	Gotham Gazette - WBAI - http://www.gothamgazette.com/commentary/95.kennedy.shtml Miranda Kennedy in the Gotham Gazette about the current situation at WBAI.
	Outraged Listeners of WBAI Radio March Into Studio - http://www.commondreams.org/news2001/0604-04.htm Members of listeners group Loud Rapp protest rightward political turn of Pacifica's WBAI in programming and attacks on workers' rights. Press Release.

	WBAI rally in Newark - http://revolutionarywebdesign.com/wbai/ 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.
	WBAI Rally on Wall Street - http://revolutionarywebdesign.com/wbai/jan6/ 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.
	Bernard White at WPFW-LAB Meeting - http://www.dc.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4814 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)
	Protesters Defend WBAI Against Pacifica Management - http://www.workers.org/ww/2000/wbai1221.php Workers World on WBAI and demonstration shortly before the takeover to protest Pacifica's plan to fire Valerie Van Isler the Station Manager.
	Cutting a Congressman off the Air - http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0114,hentoff,23539,6.html Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice describes Congressman Major Owens' being censored by WBAI's U. Leid and compares to censorship in dictatorships.

	WBAI-FM in Crisis - http://www.tenant.net/Tengroup/Metcounc/Feb01/wbai.html Article on tenant.net relating the takeover of WBAI and changes in the Pacifica National Board to the struggle for decent and affordable housing.
	This Just In: We're Fired. - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,96193,00.html A hostile takeover rocks radio's voice of the left. TIME Magazine article on "Midnight Coup" at Pacifica station WBAI.

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