Hundreds of press releases are going out across the country to print and radio reporters, web sites, community groups, academics, free-speech institutions, progressive writers, unions, etc. We are asking for support at every level, and we are asking those who give interviews to Pacifica to consider boycotting the network news as well. There you'll find our press release, our letter to management, a Chronology of Censorship, several salient articles including an outstanding Salon piece on Mary Frances Berry, artwork, etc. Most recently Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post described Pacifica sister-station WPFW in Washington as the most censorious in the network, and his comments could not have come at a better time. We are trying desperately to save Pacifica.
Opinions vary about the fate, and the state, of the network.
Others feel Pacifica management is, despite its bravado, vulnerable, and that this strike action comes at an excellent time, and will give activists and journalists who are fighting for the network a place to focus their energies. The public needs to know that the fight for this network is historic, especially within the context of gargantuan corporate media mergers which result in the strangulation of free, unimpeded access to news and information. We hope to build a tidal wave of support for this action, while renaming this crisis. Management says labor struggle. Management says internal matters.