Join the monthly event by WBAI’s John Kane This month, a forum on: Disappearing Voices: Gentrification of the Media The points of view you’re not allowed to hear Thurs., Jan. 31 from 6:30-9:30 PM The Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave. (bet. Hoyt & Bond), Brooklyn Subways: 2/3/4/5 to Nevins; A/C/G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; F to Bergen; B/M/Q/R […]
PACIFICA NATIONAL BOARD: Open negotiations for a multi-media partnership with Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) via a time-limited Public Service Operating Agreement for WBAI. Such a negotiated agreement should encompass the needs of WBAI listener-subscribers, producers, and paid staff. A partnership would secure WBAI financially and bring it into the 21st century technologically. For background, and […]
Progressive Community Media show on Left Forum Event: “The Media is the Movement: Grassroots Collaborations in the Age of Corporate Consolidation” Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s executive director Dan Coughlin, has at various times offered partnership possibilities with WBAI/NY, a Pacifica radio station. Dan Coughlin had a long history at Pacifica, working at Democracy Now in […]
Video featuring Gerald Horne. Prof. Gerald Horne, Radical historian and author of numerous books (P1 features Horne at 3:13 and Mimi Rosenberg) (Part 2 features Bernard White, former Program Director of WBAI and host of CommunityPublicRadio.org Mimi Rosenberg, co-host, “Building Bridges” on WBAI Dan Coughlin, Exec. Dir., Manhattan Neighborhood Network (cable TV) John Kane of […]
Part 2 Panelists: Bernard White, former Program Director of WBAI and host of CommunityPublicRadio.org Mimi Rosenberg, co-host, “Building Bridges” on WBAI (moderator and panelist) Carlito Rovira, Puerto Rican Indepentance Activist (Part 2) Part 1: Panelists: Prof. Gerald Horne, Radical historian and author of numerous books (P1 features Horne) John Kane of Talk Back (Thursday mornings […]
At the beginning of the December 20th, 2018 all paid and unpaid staff meeting many staff criticized the disrespectful and non-collaborative way local WBAI management has made program changes at the station. Management gave the “ad hoc Producers and Friends” committee 10 minutes to express our views. New Pacifica Executive Director Maxie Jackson presided over […]
Activists from WBAI Rising join Bernard White at the International African Arts Festival to inform festival goers about the proposed partnership with Manhattan Neighborhood Network. The partnership would include a Public Service Operating Agreement (PSOA) which would allow WBAI to be fully rebuilt, dramatically reduce fundraising days (from 135 days/yr to 30 days/year) and simulcast […]
In speaking to the Pacifica National Board (PNB) and members of the public at a PNB meeting in February 2014, one of Pacifica’s FCC attorneys, Melody Virtue, said, in part: The programming rights relate to — the Licensee has to approve any major programming change. So if there’s a format change, the licensee had better […]
1. Share the information on the proposed partnership with listeners, producers, and community activists. Direct folks to wbairising.org . 2. Take petitions in support of the WBAI/MNN partnership and get them signed. Or encourage people in your network to sign it online. (For a link, go to wbairising.org ) 3. Arrange for time on the […]
Friday, March 30 from 5-8 PM. Theater at 80 St. Mark’s Place bet. 1st & 2nd Aves. in Manhattan. Join the Lynne Stewart Organization and WBAI Rising: Transforming Community Media for this event honoring the memory of People’s Lawyer Lynne Stewart, who transitioned one year ago on March 7th. MEET WBAI PRODUCERS! GUEST ARTISTS MUSIC! […]