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IN THIS ISSUE....

1...Women United for Peace, Sept 30th
2...Demo Support Barbara Lee
3...Police Spying on \"Hate Groups and Terrorists\"
4...Preserving Our Freedoms
5...Events/Meetings/Mumia Article
6...Pacifica Campaign Report
7...UPDATE - Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
8...Free Radio Berkeley Media Event Benefit - Sept. 30th
9...Nader Rally for Peace, Justice, and Public Power (Oct 11 in SF)
10..Information/Schedule for Nationwide Antiwar Protests
11..Sep 29-UC Berkeley Stop the War Coalition Student Conference
12..Bay Area Events - Global Exchange
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1. Women United for Peace, Sept 30th


From : \"Carolyn S. Scarr\" <epicalc [at] earthlink.net>
Subject : in Hayward: Women United for Peace, Sept 30th with Afghan
Women\'s Community.
Date : Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:44:54 -0700
forwarded by Carolyn Scarr
Sept 25, 2001
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Subject: Women United for Peace, Sept 30th
with Afghan Women\'s Community.
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:39:41 -0400
From: \"rebeccak [at] igc.org\" <rebeccak [at] igc.org>
To: \"rebecca_at_large [at] onelist.com\"
<rebecca_at_large [at] yahoogroups.com>



Sept 30th - Women United for Peace: A Call from the Afghan Women\'s
Community - please help spread the word; volunteers needed

Below is a notice about a great event coming up on Sept. 30th -
\"Women United for Peace: A Call from the Afghan Women1s Community\" -
you won\'t want to miss it. Please help spread the word. We are also
looking for volunteer help for the event, for organizing, outreach,
and gathering musicians, poets, and other performers. Please let me
know if you can help or would like more info. Thanks, June
--
June Brashares, Global Exchange
phone: 415-255-7296 ext. 253
june [at] globalexchange.org

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Women United for Peace:
A Call from the Afghan Women1s Community
Sunday, September 30, 2001
2-4 pm
Chabot College Performing Arts Center
located at the corner of Hesperian Road & Depot Road, Hayward

Afghan women of the Fremont/Hayward area, home of the largest Afghan
community in the entire United States, will join with women throughout
California to host a gathering for peace on Sunday, September 30.

We will mourn the victims of the September 11 attacks, and call for
the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
We will also say no to retaliation that endangers the lives of more
innocent civilians.

The event will be recognition of our common humanity, through music,
song, poetry.
We will raise funds to help Afghan women and to promote the peace
movement.

$5 Donation suggested.
Children welcome.
For directions call:
510-723-6600 ex t. 3
For more information, please contact June Brashares of Global
Exchange,
415-255-7296 ext. 253, june [at] globalexchange.org
Sponsored by Global Exchange and the Afghan Women\'s Association
International
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2. Demo Support Barbara Lee

From : \"Carolyn S. Scarr\" <epicalc [at] earthlink.net>
Subject : Demo Support Barbara Lee
Date : Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:44:12 -0700
Show your support for Barbara Lee.

Human bill boarding, downtown Oakland,Ca.
Wednesday, Sept. 26, 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.,
14th and Broadway.

Signs provided. Please RSVP at 510-208-3790.
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3. Police Spying on \"Hate Groups and Terrorists\"

Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:12:00 EDT
From: msdarkstarone [at] aol.com
Subject: Police Spying on \"Hate Groups and Terrorists\" [J20Action]

[from Sat Jan 13, 2001 3:19 pm]

\"A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
modified a 1981 consent decree that restricted operations of the
department\'s notorious Red Squad, a special unit that spied on
political dissidents for more than 50 years.
For the last 20 years, officers have had to show reasonable suspicion
of a crime before ordering surveillance. Police blamed the
restrictions for hampering investigations of street gangs and
terrorists.\"


Date: Sat Jan 13, 2001 3:19 pm
Subject: [J20Action] Police Spying on \"Hate Groups and Terrorists\"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MainLineNews/message/10582



Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 00:22:49 EST
From: Citizen117@a...
Subject: Police Spying on \"Hate Groups and Terrorists\"



Court Eases Police Spying Rules
NewsMax.com Wires
Saturday, Jan. 13, 2001

CHICAGO (UPI) A federal appeals court ruling will give Chicago
police more freedom to conduct investigations and surveillance of
terrorist and hate groups.
A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals modified
a 1981 consent decree that restricted operations of the department\'s
notorious Red Squad, a special unit that spied on political
dissidents for more than 50 years.
For the last 20 years, officers have had to show reasonable suspicion
of a crime before ordering surveillance. Police blamed the
restrictions for hampering investigations of street gangs and
terrorists.
The panel agreed the decree had tied the hands of police, making law
enforcement \"helpless to do anything to protect the public against
terrorism.\" The modification permits officers to photograph and
videotape public demonstrations and to share information with other
police departments.
\"If the investigation cannot begin until the group is well on its way
toward the commission of terrorist acts, the investigation may come
too late to prevent the acts or to identify the perpetrators,\"
Appellate Judge Richard Posner wrote in the decision, handed down
Thursday.
\"The decree impedes efforts by the police to cope with the problems
of today because earlier generations of police coped improperly with
the problems of yesterday.\"
City lawyers said the modified decree would still bar police from
gathering intelligence to harass, intimidate or block speech
protected by the First Amendment.
A spokesman for American Civil Liberties Union said the group might
appeal.
Liberals fear the ruling opens the door to a return to the abuses of
1960s and 1970s, when the Red Squad infiltrated legitimate political
and civil rights groups and harassed community leaders and anti-
Vietnam War activists considered political foes by the late Mayor
Richard J. Daley.
\"For all practical purposes, it eliminates any restrictions on
political spying and would permit the city to re-create the Red
Squad,\" Richard Gutman, an attorney for Alliance to End Repression,
told Friday\'s Chicago Tribune.
The alliance was a plaintiff in the original 1974 suit to curtail
police spying.
The special detail was created in 1923 to monitor the activities of
subversives, communists and socialists.
Copyright 2000 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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4. Preserving Our Freedoms


From : Judy Bertelsen <jsb3c [at] flash.net>
Reply-To : voterweststeering [at] yahoogroups.com
Subject : [voterweststeering] Preserving Our Freedoms--
Date : Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:35:11 -0700

I just received the url below, which leads to the column of Arianna
Huffington of 9/24, dicussing the moves to cancel ABC\'s Politically
Incorrect because of remarks made by host Bill Maher. Please read her
column and consider writing to ABC, as you see fit.--JB


ABC wants to cancel Bill Maher

http://www.ariannaonline.com/columns/files/092401.html

Here is an excerpt from Huffington\'s comments:

snip . . .In response to guest Dinesh D\'Souza\'s assertion that people
who are willing to die in service to their cause, whatever else they
may be, are not \"cowards,\" Maher said: \"We have been the cowards
lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That\'s cowardly.\"
I was sitting next to Bill when he said this. And not only did I not
object, I wholeheartedly agreed. . . end snip.

Let\'s email the heck out of ABC and stop this nonsense!!

Send comments to:
netaudr [at] abc.com [no spaces]
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5. Events/Meetings/Mumia Article


From : The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
<alerts [at] freemumia.org>
Subject : !Events/Meetings/Mumia Article!
Date : Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:50:47 -0800


----------------------------
- Tues, 9/25 - Discussion & Beverly Confession Video at Torture
Exhibit
- Tues, 9/25 - Clark Kissinger at Stanford
- Reply Via Email: Volunteers Needed for Oct 6!
- Sat, 9/29 - Mobe Meeting (then walk to rally)
- Wed, 10/3 - Mobe Outreach Committee Meeting
- Mumia\'s new article!
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Dear Mumia Abu-Jamal Supporters,

Please join us for the following important events!

******************
- Tuesday, 9/25, 7pm - The Fight for Mumia\'s Freedom and to End the
Death Penalty, including a speaker from the Leonard Peltier Support
Group - part of the \'Torture Exhibit\' at the International Exhibition
Hall in The Presidio, San Francisco. Parking lot at Lincoln and
Montgomery (carpools will be arranged if needed, 415-695-7745)

Hear an update on the historic cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard
Peltier, and participate in a discussion of how to build the
solidarity movement for Mumia and Leonard within the context of a
broader and growing anti-war/anti-racist movement. We\'ll also show
the video-taped confession by Arnold Beverly!
******************
******************
- Help Needed!

Please reply to this email and include your full name and phone
number if you would like to volunteer on Oct 6 for the Michael
Franti/Spearhead event: Free Mumia/Pro-Peace/Prison Awareness Rally
and Free Concert at Dolores Park in SF! We need many volunteers to
help the Mobe with 3 different fund collections and many other tasks.

Also, please come and pick up Oct. 6 leaflets at our office to
distribute
this week (school, work, church, bulletin boards, radio) 415-695-7745
******************

******************
--Mobe Meeting!-- All welcome!
Saturday, 9/29, 10:00am, sharp
Centro del Pueblo, 474 Valencia St (btwn 15th/16th)
San Francisco, CA

After the one-hour meeting, we\'ll walk over to the pro-peace, anti-
war, anti-hate rally endorsed by the Mobe and many others at Dolores
Park!
(11:00am)
******************

******************
--Mobe Outreach Committee Meeting!--
Wed, 10/3, 6:30pm
3425 Cesar Chavez, SF
415-695-7745

All welcome! Please come and help prepare for Oct 6!
******************

******************
- Mumia\'s new article - see below
******************

Thanks for your support!

In solidarity,

Jeff Mackler, Laura Herrera, Cristina Vasquez Gutierrez
Co-Coordinators
The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
3425 Cesar Chavez, San Francisco, CA 94110
415-695-7745 Fax: 415-821-0166

Article:
---------------------------------------------------------


WHY?\"
[Col. Writ. 9/17/01] Copyright \'01 Mumia Abu-Jamal

The woman\'s voice on the phone was as plaintive as a
tear, as she implored the non-responsive talk show host
to please tell her, \"Why do they hate us so much? Why?\".

Her voice, while not commonly projected in the current
media, resonates in the consciousness of millions of
Americans, who look at the carnage of the World Trade
Center, shiver at the violent audacity of it, and wonder,
\"Why?\".

This is a particularly American response, one made
in a culture that has no yesterdays, and only a tomorrow
of creature comforts, no-fat ice cream, and luxury cars.

History, to millions of Americans, is John Wayne, or
the vaunted Founding Fathers, who have no blemishes,
nor flaws. Much of the outer world are of no import, as
they are subjects of the Empire, and thus expendable.

Their histories, deeply intertwined with the U.S., are
of no serious consequence. Hence, the question, \"Why?\".

This almost willful ignorance of millions of Americans
allows them to look at the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole,
and the veering jet liners of 11 September, 2001, and ask,
\"Why?\".

If you, the reader, don\'t want to hear an answer to this
rhetorical question, feel free to turn the page, for the
writer\'s response will not please you.

The airplane bombing of the WORLD TRADE center
towers and of the Pentagon didn\'t begin on Sept. 11, 2001.
Nor are they, as some politicians glibly suggest, \"A war
against civililization.\" But it ain\'t the job of politicans to
inform you.

It is the job of the media, but their central concern is
to sell you, and therefore they don\'t want to upset you.
Their primary responsibility is not to their readers, but
to the owners, or the stockholders. And it is the interests
of the military-industrial-complex that millions remain
uninformed and misinformed.

The suicide flights over New York, Washington and
Pennsylvania had their beginning in the mountainous
terrain of Afghanistan, in the 10-year guerilla war
against the former Soviet Union. That war was supported
and facilitated by the U.S. CIA, which pumped billions
into the anti-Soviet insurgency. The result? An Algerian
sociologist told an American journalist in Algiers, \"Your
government participated in creating a monster.\" The
sociologist added, \"Now it has turned against you and
the world -- 16,000 Arabs were trained in Afghanistan,
made into a veritable killing machine.\" (Los Angeles Times,
Aug. 4, 1996). A U.S. diplomat in Pakistan echoed
these sentiments when he said, \"This is an insane
instance of the chickens coming home to roost. You
can\'t plug billions of dollars into an anti-Communist
*jihad*, accept participation from all over the world
and ignore the consequences. But we did. Our
objectives weren\'t peace and grooviness in
Afghanistan. Our objective was killing Communists
and getting the Russians out\" (Los Angeles Times,
Aug. 4, 1996, p. 2).

How did the Afghanis pay for the weapons, in such
a poor, war-ravaged country? How many know that
Afghanistan is the world\'s greatest producer of heroin?

Short on hard dough, the Afghan *mujaheddin*
traded heroin for arms with their CIA suppliers, and
the \"Golden Crescent\" heroin ring was born.

When the Soviets were whipped, and the war
ended, the insurgents looked around and saw, not
Soviet, but U.S. dominance in the region. They saw
the U.S. military presence in the Islamic holy places
in Saudi Arabia, its backing of anti-democratic
client states, its ravaging of Iraq, and its one-sided
support of Israel at the expense of the beleaguered
Palestinians, and as they examine the U.S., they
see the imperial similarities to the Soviets.

Afghanistan, one of the poorest, most rugged
places on earth, has a population with a male life
expectancy of 46 (45 for females!). It has a literacy
rate of about 29%. It looks at the swollen opulence
of the Americans, the global reach of the American
empire, and bristles.

This nationalist, cultural, religious and class distance
fuels a deep and abiding hatred of American dominance.

Humiliation, of which the Islamic world has had a
great deal since the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922,
and the colonial era of the early-to-middle Twentieth
Century, is a powerful force. It brought a humbled
German to the brink of world conquest after World
War I. It is not to be taken lightly.

Afghanistan may prove another turning point in
world history, which is why we all should learn about
it.

Copyright \'01 MAJ
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6. Pacifica Campaign Report


From : \"Lyn Gerry\" <redlyn [at] loop.com>

Reply-To : \"Lyn Gerry\" <redlyn [at] loop.com>
Subject : {FP} Pacifica Campaign Report
Date : Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:20:02 -0400
From: Juan Gonzalez
Date: September 25, 2001

Note: This is the only e-mail the Pacifica Campaign has sent out
since the summary of last week\'s Pacifica National Board meeting.
Pacifica Campaign e-mails are sent directly to individuals on our
list with the pacificacampaign [at] yahoo.com e-mail address. If you
have any questions about the origin of an e-mail, please feel free to
contact our office.

Dear Friends:

As you all know, our movement suffered a setback last week. In an
\"election\" that resembled dictator Rafael Trujillo\'s farcical
caricatures of democracy in the Dominican Republic decades ago,
the small corporate clique that seized control of the Pacifica Board
nearly two years ago succeeded in reinforcing its rapidly
diminishing majority by adding five new board members.

First, the \"meeting\" was held by telephone with the public allowed
to \"listen\" but not participate. This was an outrageous maneuver
aimed at getting around the public meeting requirements of both
the F.C.C. and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And while
the board clique used the meeting format to hide an unseen secret
advisor, his whispering voice could be heard queuing vice-chair Ken
Ford throughout the conference call.

Second, the first new board member \"elected,\" former Washington,
D.C., mayor Marion Barry, is an in sult to the Pacifica community.
While he may have once had a good reputation as a civil rights
activist, Barry has been an embarrassment for years. Not only was
he forced from office years ago after being caught on tape buying
and smoking crack-cocaine, but only a few months ago he pleaded
out a second degree assault charge in return for the dropping of an
indecent exposure complaint. The moment Barry was selected
onto the Pacifica Board, he suddenly appeared on the phone
meeting and then v oted on all the other members to be \"elected.\"

Third, we understand that all the new members except one --
George Barnstone of Houston, Texas -- a re from Washington, D.C.
When those four are added to the five board members currently
from Washing ton, it means that 13 of the 16 Pacifica directors are
men and nine of 16 directors (nearly 60%) ar e from the nation\'s
capital -- from the signal area of Pacifica\'s second-smallest station.
Only one board member is from Pacifica\'s largest station in New
York, and only two from its second-largest in Berkeley. At the
same time, three out of the four Board officers -- Vice-Chair Ken
Ford, Treasu rer Wendell Johns, and Secretary John Murdock --
are also from D.C. This represents an enormous and dangerous
concentration of inside-the-beltway power at a network that has
always prided itself on being a grassroots people\'s network.

Some of the new board members such as Barnstone, a member of
the Texas ACLU, and comedian-activist Dick Gregory, do have
credentials as progressives. But their selection in a process that
was oppose d by thousands of listeners has stained their
membership on the Pacifica Board.

We in the Pacifica Campaign urged the board and its lawyer, Greg
Craig, not to escalate the on-goin g conflict by repacking the board.
We urged good-faith negotiations to fashion a solution acceptabl e
to both sides. We understand that the litigants in the three lawsuits
against Pacifica also made a last-ditch attempt to start
negotiations. But Craig, vice-chair Ken Ford, Washington, D.C.,
board member John Murdock, and Executive Director Bessie Wash
were determined to repack the board and in itiate talks later.

It has been extremely difficult for any of us to pay attention to this
crisis during the past two w eeks, given the far greater crisis
confronting our nation and the entire world after the Sept. 11 a
ttacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. But if
anything shows why a strong Pacifica is s o needed, it is this
crisis. And if anything proves that Bessie Wash and the current
crew in charge of Pacifica are not capable of running a progressive
network, it is their blatant refusal to air t he two-hour live
broadcasts of Democracy Now! that Amy Goodman and the
Democracy Now! team are prep aring each day from Ground Zero
in New York.

More than that, it took WBAI interim manager Utrice Leid several
days to figure out a way to begin broadcasting from another
location, and even then it was on a much reduced schedule. This
past week end, Leid banned coverage of the crisis on WBAI,
insisting on \"healing\" music instead. Some of the programs ending
up canceled were the progressive Jewish program \"Beyond the
Pale,\" that had prepare d full coverage of the crisis, and \"Asia
Pacifica Forum,\" a one hour weekly program that was going to deal
with the racist incidents against immigrant groups, particularly
Arab- and Asian Americans. Clearly, Leid, Wash and the Pacifica
Board are determined to eviscerate progressive, hard-hitting
programming in favor of music and soft features. To add insult to
injury, Leid has been promoted to National Program Director, the
No. 2 slot in the network by Bessie Wash.

But enough of the recent past. What do we do now?

I once believed that our movement could win this fight in a few short
months if we mobilized suffic ient force against the Pacifica Board.
We had a window of opportunity to reach a negotiated settlem ent
in early June, after the resignations of David Acosta and Karolyn
van Putten. But that window c losed quickly once Bessie Wash
and her top managers seized control of the situation and hired new
l awyers and a new public relations firm.

We are now headed for a long, difficult and debilitating fight. But
our prospects for victory are s till good. First of all, the listener
boycott campaign we launched in February continues to gain st
rength. From all reports we have, the Pacifica network is in dire
financial straits. Throughout the network, unpaid bills are mounting
up, legal expenses are skyrocketing, and revenues are plummetin
g. At some stations, the health insurance premiums of staff
members have not been paid. So the pres sure remains strong on
the board to negotiate a settlement before the costly process of
legal depos itions and an actual trial begins.

So the first thing we must do is revitalize and expand the listener
boycott beginning in early Octo ber. Now that Democracy Now! has
been driven from Pacifica everywhere except at KPFA, we must
redou ble that boycott effort. And we must keep up the campaign of
individual direct action pressure on t he board, but especially on
those new officers of the board who have been put in charge of the
curr ent situation -- Chair Bob Farrell, Vice-Chair Ken Ford,
Treasurer Wendell Johns, and Secretary Joh n Murdock.

But it is not enough just to picket and protest and boycott. In the
critical political environment we are in, with our nation heading
toward a new war, we must find ways to fulfill Pacifica\'s missio n
even without the original Pacifica stations. That\'s why we in the
Pacifica Campaign are moving fo rward to support the fired,
banned, exiled, and striking Pacifica workers even as we fight to
oust the corporate raiders. Not only will we continue to assist the
growth of Free Speech Radio News (no w heard on more than 40
community radio stations around the country), but we are urging
Democracy N ow! not to return to any Pacifica station (except
KPFA) until the network has been democratized. In stead,
Democracy Now! should expand into other community and public
radio stations, onto public acc ess cable television, onto the
Internet -- anywhere it can be heard or seen, except Pacifica. Final
ly, we hope to announce the formation of one or more local Pacifica
stations-in-exile similar to W!

BIX-in-exile in New York.

At the same time, we need to tackle a suggestion - however
difficult -- that many listeners have ma de to us during the past
year -- the creation of a listener escrow fund. In other words,
money that would be pledged or donated to a special fund and that
would not be released until the current boa rd has been replaced by
a democratically-accountable board.

We must do all these things: the boycott and pressure campaign,
the alternative network-in-exile, a nd the escrow fund. But most
especially, since a new fund drive begins at Pacifica in early
October , we must solidify the boycott.

While we reach out to the public, we must also tackle
contradictions within our ranks. We should se ek to avoid divisions
and fights among us, but we should not shy away from clarifying
and debating our differences in strategy and tactics. At the Pacifica
Campaign, for example, we have not been ha ppy with some of the
uncompromising tendencies within our movement. Some have
demanded the complete surrender of the entire board immediately.
They have been unwilling to recognize that in the real world,
whether it was in Vietnam or South Africa, liberation movements
have always had to engage in negotiations and at times
compromises with their enemies in the hope of preventing even
greater bl oodshed among the people. At the same time, others
have wanted to put all their faith, and the fate of our movement, in
the hands of the courts. This is a leap of faith we should not take.
Court bat tles are important, but this fight will be won by the
listeners and the staff of Pacifica, not by !

lawyers and judges in a courtroom. The request of the litigants for
Pacifica to be put into a limit ed receivership, we believe, was an
example of that erroneous tendency.

Finally, the biggest problem is that our movement has not publicly
tackled or debated the essential aspects of what we would
consider a \"victory\". Since we don\'t know or don\'t agree on what a
victor y would look like, some don\'t know how to end this struggle
or how to begin negotiating an end to i t. Some are afraid of ending
it because they don\'t want to be accused by others of \"selling out.\"
T he litigants, who since early June have been conducting the only
\"exchanges\" with the board\'s lawye rs, have pursued a policy of
telling the broader movement as little as possible about what a
possib le settlement would look like. They have done that
sometimes for good reason -- because of lawyer-c lient
confidentiality or because they fear that they will expose their
tactics to the other side or because they cannot agree among
themselves about the best approach to take. But in doing this, the
y are keeping everyone else in the dark and paralyzing themselves.


While we at the Pacifica Campaign respect the work the litigants
have done, we do not believe the c urrent situation can continue.
We thus encourage the litigants to pursue their own negotiations
ove r their lawsuits. During the past two weeks, members of the
Pacifica Campaign have opened up our ow n direct lines of
communication with several members of the board majority. If the
opportunity aris es to sit down with some members of that majority
to discuss how to restore democratic accountabili ty to Pacifica in
exchange for ending our boycott and pressure campaign, we will
not hesitate do so . However, given the way that majority chose to
escalate this conflict by repacking the board, our current feeling is
that any full-scale negotiations should probably wait.

In the meantime, not one dime to the corporate raiders and failed
politicians who are trying to sei ze control of this great network.
Their fate will be the same as all the Trujillos, Duvaliers, and
Pinochets who have tried to govern without the consent of the
governed.

In solidarity,

Juan Gonzalez


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The Pacifica Campaign is a grass-roots organization representing
listeners and
staff alike, fightin
g to preserve Pacifica\'s
50-year tradition of progressive, community-based radio. For more
info go to:
http://www.pacificaca
mpaign.org

Pacifica Campaign
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7. UPDATE - Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board


From : \"Lyn Gerry\" <redlyn [at] loop.com>
Reply-To : \"Lyn Gerry\" <redlyn [at] loop.com>
Subject : {FP} UPDATE - Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
Date : Mon, 24 Sep 2001 23:21:27 -0400

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From: \"Carol Spooner\" <wildrose [at] pon.net>
Subject: UPDATE - Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
Date sent:Mon, 24 Sep 2001 16:31:54 -0700

September 24, 2001

Dear All --
The past weeks since September 11th have taken a terrible toll on
all of us. The horror and shock of the loss of so many innocents,
mourning the dead, and the dread and revulsion so many of us feel at
the grim gibberings of spreading more war across the Middle East and
Central Asia, racial violence and loss of civil liberties at home ...
the nightmare our country seems about to visit on the rest of the
world, and on ourselves....
Pacifica was founded specifically for the purpose of speaking out
against these things. Now, when we need Pacifica more than ever, it
is almost completely shut down. The Washington beltway takeover that
has been in the works for several years has succeeded in keeping
Democracy Now! off Pacifica\'s airwaves, as well as keeping all the
Pacifica stations except KPFA from doing much, if any, intelligent
anti-war programming now in this hour of great need.
Many of us who have been in this fight for several years have long
believed that the purpose of the Pacifica takeover was to stifle
political dissent in this country. Pacifica was the only national
broadcast medium for such voices and it had to be eliminated, if
possible, by those whose job it is to manufacture consent in
America. Our foes are formidible and have never been in it simply
for the money or for corporate interests, in my view.
On September 19th, the day after the court permitted the Pacifica
Board elections to go forward, five (5) new directors were illegally
elected to the Pacifica Board -- Marion Barry, James Ferguson, Dick
Gregory, George Barnstone & Krishna Roy -- bringing the number of
directors to 16. It may be that one or two of them will actually
take \"our side\" -- perhaps George Barnstone & Dick Gregory -- that
remains to be seen. But the fact is that the controlling Washington
DC cabal of political operatives and propagandists and their
sycophants will continue to destroy what is left of Pacifica unless
we prevail at trial in January and get them thrown off the Pacifica
Board.
It is important for everyone to know that the judge did NOT rule
last week that the election on the 19th was legal. He merely put it
off for the trial judge to decide that. We will be amending our
lawsuit to add the five new directors as defendants, and we will ask
the trial judge to remove
them along with all the other unlawfully elected Pacifica directors.
Although it was very depressing to listen on the internet to the
Pacifica board packing meeting last week -- nothing has changed
essentially.
The controlling board majority is still intent on silencing political
dissent on Pacifica, and we still must defeat them in court -- and
our legal case -- both the facts and the law -- is every bit as good
as it ever was, if not better.
I continue to have great confidence that the trial judge will
correctly apply the law in January and that he will remove all
illegally seated directors from the Pacifica Foundation board of
directors -- and that the Pacifica of the past half century will be
restored with new vigor and purpose to meet the demands of the time
to come.
Many of you are going to peace rallies and demonstrations now.
You can help us to save Pacifica -- as an essential communications
medium needed NOW MORE THAN EVER for the peace movement -- by going
to our web page at http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm and
printing a \"declaration\" form for your local station, then make some
copies on the back of your peace flyers and hand them out at
rallies. Thanks.

Pacifica means Peace,

Carol Spooner
Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
(sponsoring the \"listeners\' lawsuit\")
web page: http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm

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Important -- We can\'t do this without you! Contributions to our legal
fund can be made payable to:

Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
1136 Wild Rose Drive
Santa Rosa, CA 95401.

To contribute on-line through Paypal go to http://www.paypal.com/.
You will need to give them our email address: wildrose [at] pon.net.

Your gift to the Committee is NOT tax deductible, but your support of
the cause of free speech radio is invaluable. Question, details? Call
or email Carol Spooner, (707) 526-2867, wildrose [at] pon.net Thank you!

Tax deductible gifts of $500 or more to support our legal action can
be made payable to our fiscal sponsor:

Marin Health Fund/Public Media Initiative
P.O. Box 5402
Mill Valley, CA 94942.

You will receive tax deduction receipt from them. Also, the
MHF/Public Media Initiative has a special account to receive gifts of
stock in support of our lawsuit. For details contact Linda Remy at
mhf1982 [at] pacbell.net Web Page: http://www.marinhealthfund.org
Thank you!


This bulletin comes from the Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board
web page: http://home.pon.net/wildrose/remove.htm
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8. Free Radio Berkeley Media Event Benefit - Sept. 30th



From : radtimes <resist [at] best.com>
Reply-To : bay_area_activist [at] yahoogroups.com
Subject : !b_a_Act: Free Radio Berkeley Media Event Benefit - Sept.
30th
Date : Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:09:40 -0700
Free Radio Berkeley Media Event Benefit - Sept. 30th

For Immediate Release:

Contact: Stephen Dunifer, 510-549-0732

Acting Globally