-Caveat Lector-
Here are some details of the KPFA protests last night... from
http://www.savepacifica.net/
URGENT: DOZENS ARRESTED AS PACIFICA TAKES OVER KPFA AIR... WHAT YOU
CAN DO TO HELP!
Dozens of protestors were arrested tonight by over 50 Berkeley police
in riot gear in a massive five hour protest inside and outside KPFA.
Pacifica had taken local KPFA programming off the air shortly after 6
p.m. and substituted taped programs from the archives, run by an
engineer, Mark Torrres, brought in from the Pacifica Program Service
in Los Angeles. The takeover operation was supervised by Pacifica
Houston station manager Garland Ganter, who a year and a half ago
cancelled almost all of KPFT's community programmers and installed a
nearly all music format, "The Sounds of Texas."
The last words heard on KPFA were those of KPFA news co-director Mark
Mericle describing "Flashpoints" host Dennis Bernstein being dragged
out of the studio by the armed security guards who have been inside
KPFA for a month. Bernstein could be heard in the background.
More than 500 people blocked both downtown Berkeley streets leading to
KPFA, and several dozen, along with KPFA staff people, refused to
leave the building. They were arrested - sometimes with painful arm
holds used - and taken to the nearby police station, where most were
cited and released.
YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED TO PROTEST THIS INSANE ACTION BY
PACIFICA!
THERE WILL BE A MASSIVE PROTEST AT 5 P.M. WEDNESDAY JULY 14 IN FRONT
OF THE STATION
First, it is time to get our elected officials involved in stopping
Mary Frances Berry before she demolishes this federally licensed
broadcast entity any further. Please call Berkeley Congresswoman
Barbara Lee either in Washington at (202) 225-2661 or in Oakland at
(510) 763-0370 and DEMAND that she get involved IMMEDIATELY! KPFA's
tradition of free speech, advocacy for peace and justice, and
community control is threatened as never before by the Berry/Chadwick
regime! (NOTE: Congresswoman Lee inherited legislative aide Roberta
Brooks from her predecessor, Ron Dellums. Brooks, who resigned under
pressure as a Pacifica board member a few months ago, seems to have
been one of the architects and supporters of Berry's disastrous
activities. Therefore Congresswoman Lee may need a great deal of
education on the KPFA/ Pacifica conflict.)
Another official to call IMMEDIATELY - Berkeley residents especially!
- is Berkeley city manager James Keene. PROTEST the exhorbitant use
of police power - more than fifty officers on duty for over five hours
- against peaceful demonstrators. Let Keene know that you resent your
tax money being spent to enforce Dr. Berry's schemes, and that in any
case he needs to be present to supervise police officers who used many
painful tactics in arresting non-violent people. (510) 644-6580.
(Also: Berkeley residents contact your councilperson and mayor Dean
and DEMAND that they be present at 5 p.m. today!)
Mark Torres of the Pacifica Program Service is running tapes on KPFA
to replace regular programmers. Call him at (818) 506-1077 Ext.266 to
express your opinion about his scab activities.
Garland Ganter of KPFT has been imported to KPFA to enforce the Berry/
Chadwick takeover. Call him at (713) 526-4000 ext. 310 and let him
know what you think about his role in this devastation of KPFA.
VERY IMPORTANT: Pacifica programmers have been terrorized into silence
under threat of dismissal if they discuss on the air what Berry and
Chadwick are doing. CALL THESE STATIONS AND DEMAND THAT THEY TALK
ABOUT THE RUINATION OF THEIR NETWORK...BEFORE THEIR STATION GETS
RUINED, TOO!
KPFK: (818) 985-5735
KPFT: (713) 526-5738
WPFW: (202) 588-0893
WBAI: (212) 209-2900
Pacifica Network News - 1-888-770-4944 ext. 323
Amy Goodman - (212) 209-2800
HELP GET THIS MESSAGE OUT...SEND IT ESPECIALLY TO PEOPLE YOU MAY KNOW
IN PACIFICA AFFILIATE COMMUNITIES LIKE MADISON, PORTLAND, TAMPA (SEE
PACIFICA.ORG SITE FOR FULL LIST)
On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 02:31:29AM -0700, Linda Mickelson wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> I had heard that something was going down at KPFA, but exactly what I wasn't sure,
>so I hailed a cab and
> hightailed it over there (after midnight). Some stragglers from a protest, but
>nothing much still going on
> that I could see. Still didn't know what had happened. Now I read this, and after
>clicking on the link to the
> web site, I learn that this is really, really serious indeed. I called KPFA "my
>university" for a long time,
> and Dennis Bernstein's show "Flash Points" was the best radio show I have ever heard
>in my life, consistently
> the best radio show ever. Is this what happens when the agenda of the New World
>Order begins to be
> implemented in Berkeley? If they can get away with this, there is far worse to come
>down the road! We must
> resist this!
>
> El Snatcher wrote:
>
> > -Caveat Lector-
> >
> > Pacifica Board Ousts KPFA Staff; Hammers Down on Protesters
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