I have a link of Gary Null’s analysis of Pacifica:

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/5244

Null criticized Goodman for sneaking in Nader into the Republican convention in 2004, and thus endangering the Pacifica’s press credentials for future conventions of the Dems and Repubs. I must admit I have no dog in this fight as I think the whole thing is an irrelevant circus. But Null does provide an interesting history of Pacifica. I welcome any other sources of Pacifica history.

I think it was DeRienzo that engaged in red baiting, not Null.

http://www.justiceandunity.org/browns-karlrove-style.html

The politics underlying these actions can be seen in DeRienzo’s statements shortly after the victory of the “take-back” movement. In a June 27, 2002 public letter to Leslie Cagan, then chair of the Interim Pacifica National Board, DeRienzo engaged in red-baiting against those who had rescued WBAI and Pacifica from the mainstream, purging elements:

  Lew Hill [the co-founder of Pacifica] was not an advocate of a radical, leftist, communalist, Socialist, anarchistic or messianic philosophy for broadcasting. People feel that this kind of frequently violent rhetoric from un-professional, non-accountable individuals who engage in personality bashing has led the stations to offering the worst type of anti-Semitism, vilification of Israel and Zionism and racism that’s ever been broadcast on WBAI. This type of violent rhetoric with non-accountability offers only half-truths and substitutes for accuracy, objectivity and fairness.

  Also, has there been an overt emphasis on supporting a radical leftist agenda? If so please explain how this reconciles with Lew Hill and the founders who believed that no political ideology should supersede another? Hill firmly stood for the view that both moderate and conservative voices should also be represented and that Pacifica was the foundation upon which all ideological decisions should begin.

Last year, DeRienzo was suspended by the Local Station Board for engaging in numerous abusive and discriminatory statements about his political opponents. These included gross attacks on the integrity of Black men on the board (such as calling Father Lawrence Lucas a “lame ass and a loser”), taunts of “Nazi! When are you going to open BAI’s ovens?” and “Sieg Heil” against member Sara Flounders, and “F—- you!” screamed five times at board chair Vajra Kilgour. The ACE endorsement flyer dismisses all this by jokingly calling DeRienzo “surely the board’s ‘bad boy’!” and stating that “he enraged the Justice & Unity faction with his flamboyant speech (often naughty-to-obscene).” It must also be noted that the ACE-endorsed board members fiercely opposed the board’s suspension of DeRienzo for this conduct.

After listening to Null, I found out that WBIA had been a battleground of various minority and identity groups. This is very interesting as the “liberal” foundations since the ‘60’s had been granting various causes with the condition that money would be used to promote the various causes of blacks, Latinos, gays, lesbians, Indians, Asians and the disabled. The problem was that all these groups were at eachother’s throats in competing for resources. Pacifica was a prime example of this infighting. The question is: did this advance the cause of the poor and working classes? Does the suffering of a white textile worker have such a different flavor from that of a Latino fruit picker?
I don’t think so, but to listen to these identity groups you would think we were talking about different species of hominids. The foundations were able to play classic divide and conquer strategy with the new left/liberal movement.

http://tinyurl.com/d6kgq4

“This past Tuesday night Roy of Hollywood asked Gary Null for his opinions about the trouble KPFK, and Pacifica in general, is having raising funds. Gary has lots of opinions about that, having been kicked off the New York Pacifica station WBAI, despite being their top fund-raiser. One fact Gary revealed that I didn’t know, one of the network’s biggest expenses is paying off sexual harassment judgments and the associated legal fees! He said Pacifica has been trying to sweep this under the carpet, denying everything, promoting instead of firing the perpetrators! I did a little research and found this press release published at Indymedia from July this year. If you think Pacifica deserves its billing as free speech radio, you might want to read the whole thing, and weep.”

Could it be Gary Null knew of too many skeletons in the closet?

@enoughspin

How is Pacifica independent and anti-establishment if they are being funded by the establishment. Check it out: grants from the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Has Pacifica done any reporting of the stockpiling of coffins in Conyers, Georgia or the excavations of massive burial plots in Arizona and Colorado? Where were they on the homeless who died in Poland from bird flu vaccinations?

“The media should be a sanctuary for dissent. It is our job to go to where the silence is.”-Amy Goodman

One of last year’s recipients for the Right Livelihood Award was Amy Goodman, whose infamous interview with Mordechai Vanunu in 2004 was used as major testimony against him in his historic freedom of speech trial in Israel that began in January 2006.

I had lunch with Amy in April 2007 and filled her in, but not until after the July 2007 sentence of six more months in jail, did Amy Goodman make a follow up phone call.

Vanunu wouldn’t talk to her.

When I saw Vanunu in Jerusalem a few weeks later, he told me he refused to speak to Amy because “the media has never helped me.”

Since his release from 18 year in prison for telling the world Israel had upwards of 200 nuclear warheads in 1986, on April 21, 2004, Vanunu has been denied the RIGHT to leave Israel and denied the RIGHT to speak to non-Israelis.

The 5th year of these restrictions expire April 21, 2009.

Vanunu faces Supreme Court appeal fighting 3 months in jail for talking to Amy and other reporters in 2004, but they all have neglected to follow up thus far.

The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights is binding on “all countries of the world”.

The statehood of Israel was contingent upon upholding it.

EQUAL human rights are declared as UNDERSTOOD at the outset of the document as “inalienable” and therefore can not be denied by any government.

“Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”-Article 13:2

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” -Article 19.

Eileen Fleming, Founder http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author “Keep Hope Alive” and “Memoirs of a Nice Irish American ‘Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory”

I produced “30 Minutes With Vanunu” and “13 Minutes with Vanunu” because corporate media has been MIA all during a Freedom of Speech Trial in Israel.

I am a WBAI listener/supporter.  WBAI is one of the Pacifica Network’s 5 stations.  Amy Goodman’s “DemocracyNow” began at WBAI studio (and is played on the air, 99.5FM NYC every weekday morning).  Amy was News Director at WBAI and also cohosted “WakeUpCall”(the morning show, which is still ongoing) with Bernard White, who, alas, is not there. Errol Maitland is there, with others.

When “DemocracyNow” was about to begin, I sent notes to all my friends because I knew it would be a good show. That was about 13 years ago. I was right.  “You are what your record says you are.” says Earl Caldwell, journalist, who has a show on WBAI, “Caldwell Chronicle”.

There have been battles for control of Pacifica (as indicated in the documentary played on DemocracyNow today.  I listen on the radio, WBAI, then often read the transcript later and sometimes watch the video of a show.  I need to “take in” what Noam Chomsky says at least twice to “fix it”/understand/remember some. 

WBAI is a choice spot on the commercial FM dial and many would like to seize it, to possibly sell it off.  Someone, in a comment below, asked where is Gary Null?  He who I call “Null and Void” was on the “wrong side” of the last WBAI station battle.  I heard him “red bait” Leslie Cagan, in an on-air debate.  He is not with WBAI at this time. 

Community radio, and WBAI in particular, rouses passion in the listeners, not just because we send money, as can.  I don’t agree with everything on WBAI and Pacifica (nor the mess of leadership right now), but
WBAI has the ONLY news I trust on radio.  WBAI Evening News is good as is FSRN Free Speech Radio News.  http://www.wbai.org 
and http://www.fsrn.org FSRN is a journalist-run news group.

If you don’t know Pacifica’s history, which is inspiring, (or even if you do, there’s fun in review), listen/read/watch “DemocracyNow” today’s show.  http://www.democracynow.org

BTW, whatever happened to Gary Null?

I would like to retract my statement on CIA support of Mao. I need to do more research on that

Pacifica Radio, A Channel of Safe and Nonthreatening Dissent

Since the 1950’s Pacifica Radio has served as a controlled parallel left organization. I do not want to seem unfair as the establishment has also a controlled right wing patriot movement since that time as well. I could go into a tangent on that, but since Ms. Goodman and Mr. Moynihan brought it up I thought I would give a reply on left media.

The Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Pew Foundation have all given grants to Pacifica Radio. Thus I don’t expect Pacifica to look very closely at many controversial events that would expose agenda setting of the elites that uses false flag terrorism, the two party system, or the artificial nature of many social movements to engineer a brave new world way of governance. This especially came into focus with the CFR pushing its agenda for a North American Community with the Security Prosperity Partnership, otherwise known as the North American Union. Any Pacifica station during the 60’s could have reported on the technology and infrastructure transfers to the Soviet Union, which were in turn being used as weapons on American soldiers in the Vietnam War “police action”. Any Pacifica station could have reported Dean Acheson professing that the United States had no strategic interests in Korea. He was that era’s version of April Gillespie. But Pacifica was part of the establishment, and the establishment was into the senseless Cold War that was subsidized by our wheat exports to the USSR and our secret CIA support of Mao.

http://video.google.com
/videoplay?docid=4954282565997157307

Pacifica is a sideshow.