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Article in CounterPunch outlining some of the changes within Pacifica that have been points of disagreement between the National Board and media activists.

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The Neutering of Pacifica
Inside the January 15-31, 1999 Issue The Neutering of Pacifica Those involved with public radio are sadly familiar with the largely silent privatization of the small slice of the FM broadcast spectrum set aside for non-commercial purposes. At small public radio outlets, the process has often

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2. Saving Amy: "The Exception To The Rulers"

Media Channel article by Danny Schechter on Pacifica and its program 'Democracy Now!'. Host Amy Goodman asserts being harassed by Pacifica.

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3. CounterPunch Magazine Stories on Pacifica

Collection of articles about the Pacifica Network.

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Lawsuit Challenging Pacifica
by alexander cockburn and jeffrey st. clair CounterPunch Stories on Pacifica Labor reporter David Bacon on the Pacifica crisis. The first-hand account of how Pacifica fired one of the world's leading authorities on gospel, the blues and the birth of rock-n-roll. Alexander Cockburn on

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4. Staffers Protest Pacifica Transfer of News Chief

Article in Current, a magazine covering public broadcasting, about Pacifica's ouster of National News Director Dan Coughlin.

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5. East Timor Action Network Open Letter on Amy Goodman and Pacifica

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Did Coughlin lose his job for breaking the 'dirty laundry rule'? Staffers protest Pacifica transfer of news chief Originally published in Current , Nov. 15, 1999 Pacifica Radio's top journalists have urged their Board of Directors to reinstate the chain's national news director, who, they say,
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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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Open Letter to WBAI and Pacifica The East Timor Action Network/U.S., a grassroots human rights organization working in solidarity with the people of East Timor for over a decade, is deeply disturbed and troubled by comments attributed to some WBAI staff asserting that no massacre occurred in
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6. Pacifica Radio's Uncivil War

Article by Randy Baker co-producer of 'Fear and Favor in the Newsroom', a documentary on self-censorship in the press, posted on vote.com.

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Pacifica Radio's Uncivil War Last summer a dispute at Berkeley's KPFA radio station erupted into what was -- even for Berkeley -- an extraordinary level of public protest: sit-ins, teach-ins, perhaps the largest street demonstration the city had seen since the Vietnam War, and even a benefit
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7. Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News Radio

San Francisco Chronicle reports the beginning of the ongoing strike and boycott against the Pacifica Network News.

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More than 40 free-lance reporters for Pacifica News went on strike yesterday to protest censorship at the free-speech radio network after months of turmoil that began with the firing of a popular station manager at KPFA...
Article:Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News / Radio reporte:/c/a/2000/02/01/MN64508.DTL Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Free-Lancers On Strike at Pacifica News Radio reporters call for end to gag rule Debra Levi Holtz, Chronicle Staff Writer (02-01) 04:00 PDT

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8. Goodman Embroiled in Pacifica Conflict

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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Pacifica doubters find more to fear Goodman and the President butt heads in impromptu interview President Clinton got an unexpected Election Day grilling from Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman when he called New York's WBAI to deliver a get-out-the-vote message. Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto
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9. Pacifica Radio - The Rise of an Alternative Network

Review in the San Francisco Chronicle of the book 'The Rise of an Alternative Network' written by Matthew Lasar.

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PACIFICA RADIO The Rise of an Alternative Network By Matthew Lasar Temple University Press; 277 pages; $34.95 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Correction: A column by George Voigt in The...
Article:`Pacifica's' Years of Uneasy Listening:/c/a/1999/07/22/DD78344.DTL Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see `Pacifica's' Years of Uneasy Listening Derk R.'s readers pick the top albums: was loud, scraggly, mostly male and very rockin'. Imagine a giant clock that put

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10. I want my Democracy Now!

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..

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