Posted on 03/14/2003 10:58:06 PM PST by MigrantOkie
In Houston, listener-sponsored Pacifica radio station KPFT (90.1 FM), said it would play the Dixie Chicks now more than ever.
"I just heard about it an hour ago from a caller who said there is some kind of boycott against the Dixie Chicks," said Wendy Schroell, KPFT administrative assistant. "That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. We are going to be playing them all the time.
"administrative assistant" = office secretary.
Sounds pretty authoritative, all right.
That is HILARIOUS! I've heard it. I think that old queer Ray Hill is the host. It's a real hoot:
Mom: Billy? Billy? This is mom. How are you? We got the Chevy running! How are you honey?
Billy: I'm ok. Hi! The Chevy? That's great!
etc,etc,etc
as in git along little carrots?
Put it in a baggie and send it to them...
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That this corporation, contemplating no pecuniary gain or profit to the members thereof, has no capital stock.
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That this corporation shall have perpetual existence and shall possess all the powers provided for in Section 597 of the Civil Code of the State of California.
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That the principal office for the transaction of the business of this Corporation shall be located in the County of Los Angeles, State of California.
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That the number of directors of this corporation, to be known as the Committee of Directors, shall be five (5), and that the names and addresses of the persons who are to act in the capacity of such directors until the selection of their successors, are as follows:
Lewis Hill, 748 Shrader Street, San Francisco 17, California.
H. Don Kirschner, 2?23 Haste Street, Berkeley, California.
Homer Sisson, 2617 Pine Street, San Francisco California.
William Triest, 1850 Vallejo Street, san Francisco, California.
John Waldron, Pedro Valley, Shelter Cove, Box 2, San Mateo County, California.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 7, 1999
CONTACT:
Andrea Buffa 415-546-6334 x309
Foundation admits spending $500,000 to shut down KPFA as censorship campaign escalates at KPFK, Pacifica's Los Angeles station.
Under threat of subpoena the Pacifica Foundation today handed over financial records to the California Joint Legislative Audit Committee, chaired by Scott Wildman, D-Glendale. The committee requested the documents as part of an investigation into Pacifica's compliance with non-profit regulations, undertaken at the urging of Assemblymember Dion Aroner, D-Berkeley.
Pacifica Executive Director Lynn Chadwick turned over documentation of the foundation's recent expenditures to Wildman's office. Pacifica controls the license of KPFA, the nation's oldest listener-sponsored radio station, as well as the licenses of four other progressive community sponsored stations across the country. The foundation closed down KPFA for 23 days this summer, locking out staff and broadcasting canned programming in place of the station's usual lively mix of local and national news and music.
As many staff and community supporters of KPFA had feared, Chadwick revealed that Pacifica has spent half a million dollars on armed guards and a high-priced public relations firm in its campaign to silence local programmers. According to Chadwick's figures, Pacifica spent over $380,000 on guards alone.
"For Pacifica to spend $500,000 of listener funds to carry out a hostile take-over at KPFA in the face of principled and non-violent community opposition is clearly in violation of organization's mission," said Media Alliance executive director Andrea Buffa. "This is more evidence that Pacifica's leadership, including Lynn Chadwick and board chair Dr. Mary Frances Berry, is incapable of leading the network out of this crisis and must step down."
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, KPFK management canceled the city's only non-commercial Spanish language public affairs program because it mentioned the crisis spreading through the Pacifica network.
"This is a community station, paid for by the contributions of people who want to hear coverage that is free and uncensored," said Enfoque Latino Executive Producer Rubén Tapia. "Management is acting as if it is completely unaccountable to its listeners."
The cancellation of Enfoque Latino comes just days after another KPFK journalist, Robin Urevich, was banned from the station for writing about the conflict between Pacifica and its stations in an alternative newspaper.
85% of Pacifica's revenues come from its listener-sponsors. Long known as a bastion of free speech, Pacifica's national management and board leadership have recently censored and arrested journalists in Northern California, threatened to sell its Berkeley or New York stations, and censored reporters at its Los Angeles and Washington D.C. stations.
For background information, see http://www.savepacifica.net or www.radio4all.org/freepacifica.
Anti-War Sentiment Fuels Record Pacifica Radio Fund Drives
March 4, 2003 Contact: danc@pacifica.org
Pacifica Radio Release
WASHINGTON, DC (Mar. 4) – Fueled by growing anti-war sentiment nationwide, the five-station Pacifica Radio network surged to its highest ever fund-drive totals, posting more than four million dollars in listener contributions this winter, Pacifica announced today.
Three Pacifica stations registered on-air fund-drives of more than one million dollars each and, overall, the network raised more than $4.1 million in listener pledges.
“Listeners are responding to Pacifica’s alternative war coverage,” said Dan Coughlin, the Executive Director of Pacifica Radio, which was founded 54-years ago by pacifists. “The big media giants have been cheerleaders for war and Pacifica, the only national non-commercial broadcaster in the country, is providing a real diversity of views which includes perspectives on peace.”
WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City led the way with a record $1.2 million pledged. The network’s original, flagship station KPFA 94.1FM in Berkeley, California, raised some $1.12 million. And for the first time in its 44-year history, Pacifica station KPFK 90.7 FM posted more than a million dollars in a single fund-drive, registering $1.02 million in pledges.
Pacifica station WPFW 89.3 FM registered $440,000 in pledges and KPFT 90.1FM in Houston blew by its fund-drive goal of $300,000, posting $354,000 in on-air pledges. This marks the third straight fund-drive that the Houston station has raised more than $300,000.
Listeners responded strongly to Pacifica’s news and public affairs programming, including live coverage of the historic coast-to-coast peace marches this fall and winter. National programs like Democracy Now!, Flashpoints, Free Speech Radio News, and Peacewatch performed particularly well during the winter drive. Democracy Now!, which is known for its hard-hitting political coverage, raised more than $800,000 in listener pledges at the five Pacifica stations.
Pacifica’s mission is to engage in any activity that shall contribute to a lasting understanding between nations and between the individuals of all nations, races, creeds and colors; to gather and disseminate information on the causes of conflict between any and all of such groups; and through any and all means compatible with the purposes of this corporation to promote the study of political and economic problems and of the causes of religious, philosophical and racial antagonisms.
Yep. They're to the left of the radical left. Pacifica, for those who do not know, is run by Mary Fances Berry - the race baiting chairman of US Civil Rights Commission infamy.
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