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Listeners, paid and unpaid staff across the Pacifica Foundation (The Pacifica Radio Network), are coming together to address a series of firings of employees, threats of program cancellations, and undemocratic actions taken by the current management. The changes at Pacifica include targeting mostly people of color and a movement towards the main-stream, clearly not a time to exclude the voices of the most affected communities in the current political and economic climate in the US. And not the time to exhibit cowardly behavior towards an empire-building USA, hate crimes and mass persecution of immigrants. At stake here is the future of the country, riddled with an unprecedented indebtedness, a never-ending war on terror with its severe consequences on civil and human rights, and the future of democracy, both inside Pacifica and in the US. “The Pacifica Resistance” alliance proposes the creation of a web site filled with daily updates, news headlines, clips of banned and cancelled radio programs, links for the extended version of those programs, and a live-stream featuring audio clips produced by members of the alliance and its supporters. The inclusion of intellectuals, community activists, and others to reverse the current trend, and to advance the network into a more interactive body in tuned with the rest of the democratic globe. As a point of departure, “The Pacifica Resistance” alliance proposes the nomination and support of candidates for the upcoming July 2009 Local Station Board elections. A nation-wide victory could give Asian, African, European, Indigenous and Latino communities (real people of color, not white supremacists or careerists in disguise) the opportunity to share the radio air waves as one family. A new Pacifica could bring together multi-national and multi-ethnic collectives, get them trained in all aspects of radio production, and have them address all the important issues related to their communities. The opportunity for people to work together and become familiar with each other’s concerns could make the Pacifica Mission a reality and move the network away from the predictable daily routine of lip-service. We can as well create news bureaus across town and around the country, especially in areas where there are no Pacifica radio stations. As well as LIVE broadcast of Town Hall meetings and music festivals geared to make community improvements. More community based reporters with news bureaus and training of community reporters in these areas. Also web links to these news bureaus with reports from the regions and that can be reached on the web through Google and other search engines. Re-establish and Open up the Program Council meetings to the public. Programmers and management can have a voice but no vote. The listeners need to be the decision makers on changes of programming. Reorganize the network’s news departments to get more in depth news reporting and make segments such as labor and environment available as a Google news feed. The ground-up development of a national and regional community network designed to produce national programming. Re-establish regular community town hall meetings every 6 months that are required under station bylaws but have been ignored by the current management. A victory for “The Pacifica Resistance” means also the opportunity for the network to engage in serious investigative journalism and multi-disciplinary training that includes audio, video and print, and all matters in line with the Pacifica Mission; to explore the roots of conflicts in order to promote peace. For more information write to: info@pacificaresistance.org |