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The Pacifica Foundation, a Berkeley-based community radio network that includes the progressive radio station KPFA, is in financial crisis because of mounting debt — and is now teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Pacifica, a nonprofit founded in 1946 by conscientious objectors from World War II, is the mother of America’s alternative radio, pioneering decades of left-leaning public affairs programs and community-based music.

Pacifica Radio in Time of War Peace and War Special by Matthew Lasar Anarcho - pacifists created the Pacifica Foundation. In the 1930s they belonged to groups like the War Resisters League and the Fellowship of Reconciliation. So ardently did they oppose organized violence that they challenged the United States' entry into World War II, the most popular war in American history. They feared nothing, these pacifists - not the camps and prisons to which the government sent them or the jabs of those who condemned their opposition as capricious and immature. They did not even fear that which intellectuals...