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» Are KPFA and WBAI For Sale?
   Counter Punch article that discusses a memo by Pacifica board member Michael Palmer encouraging the sale of Pacifica Stations WBAI in New York and KPFA
   http://www.counterpunch.org/sellmemo.html

» As Foes Slam Pacifica, Their Targets Cry Foul
   Current magazine articles dealing with tactics employed by free speech activists and Pacifica's efforts to discredit them.
   http://www.current.org/radio/radio0115p.html

» Broadcast Blues
   The national news program Free Speech Radio News has been heard every night on WMNF. This is the first sustained attempt at creating an alternative to the daily news radio broadcast, The Pacifica Network News. M. Perry in the Weekly Planet.
   http://www.weeklyplanet.com/2001-07-05/cover.html

» CPB Chastises Pacifica - Shutting Out Dissidents is an Issue in Ongoing Battle
   Article in Current on the Pacifica Radio Network's violation of the FCC's open meetings rule.
   http://www.current.org/rad/rad709p.html

» CounterPunch Magazine Stories on Pacifica
   Collection of articles about the Pacifica Network.
   http://www.counterpunch.org/pacstories.html

» Current.org - Pacifica moves to Washington as the news anchor leaves in dispute
   Pacifica moves after protests by many of its affiliate stations and departures of key on-air staffers, including Pacifica Network News anchor Verna Avery-Brown.
   http://www.current.org/rad/rad002p.html

» East Timor Action Network Open Letter on Amy Goodman and Pacifica
   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.
   http://www.etan.org/news/2001a/08wbai.htm

» 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.
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/02/01/MN64508.DTL

» 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".
   http://www.current.org/radio/radio020pac1.html

» Idealism: A Viable Alternative in Today's Media World?
   Norman Solomon on a Nation magazine article. After repressive actions at WBAI, The Nation, published a editorial that didn't denounce Pacifica management, contrary to what seemed to be in line with The Nation's pronouncements.
   http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2147

» Is the Troubled Progressive Radio Network Drifting to the Right?
   Article on the efforts by the Pacifica management to remove progressive content from its airwaves. From Salon.com.
   http://www.salon.com/june97/media/media970613.html

» Jose Ramos-Horta on Amy Goodman and Santa Cruz Massacre
   Nobel prize winner Ramos-Horta in support of Pacifica's Amy Goodman. Ramos defends the 'Democracy Now!' host against slander by WBAI management personnel.
   http://www.etan.org/news/2001a/09hortadn.htm

» Let Us Now Praise 'Unfamous' Journalists
   Norman Solomon on the integrity of Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, award winning Pacifica journalists. Fair Media Beat.
   http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2345

» 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.
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/07/22/DD78344.DTL

» 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.
   http://www.vote.com/magazine/editorials/editorial2841424.phtml

» Pacifica's Pacific Coup
   Juan Gonzalez for In These Times about the "Coup" at WBAI. He concludes: "As Berkeley showed, in this war it's the listeners and donors who will have the last word."
   http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/25/06/gonzalez2506.html

» 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.
   http://www.current.org/rad/rad921p.html

» The Neutering of Pacifica
   Article in CounterPunch outlining some of the changes within Pacifica that have been points of disagreement between the National Board and media activists.
   http://www.counterpunch.org/pacifica.html

» There's Something About Mary
   Management problems and divisive racial politics have followed Mary Frances Berry from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission to the Pacifica Radio Network. Salon.com.
   http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/12/berry/index.html?CP=YAH&DN=110

» Wash Leaves Top Post at Embattled Pacifica
   The Washington Post on Bessie Wash's dismissal from her position as the executive director of the Pacifica Radio Network.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A27501-2001Nov1

» Workers Charge Pacifica With Union-Busting
   Pacifica hired a labor relations firm, which the AFL-CIO says is a union buster and has given its three unionized stations new labor contracts that could sap the bargaining units. Current Magazine.
   http://www.current.org/rad611.html