Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 16:30:55 -0700
From: *STRIDER* <strider-AT-fornits.com>
Subject: Special Email Alert on KPFA Demo Today, July 14


Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 09:08:03 -0700
From: Progressive Calendar <smcneil-AT-afsc.org>
Subject: Special Email Alert on KPFA Demo Today, July 14


URGENT: DOZENS ARRESTED AS PACIFICA TAKES OVER KPFA AIR...
Date:	7/14/99  1:39 AM

RE:	URGENT: DOZENS ARRESTED AS PACIFICA TAKES OVER KPFA AIR...

 
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)

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