-----Original Message----- From: Eileen Sutton [mailto:efsutton@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 10:16 PM Subject: {FP} AMY GOODMAN BULLETIN PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY ASAP Friends, Pacifica Radio, now in its 50th year, was an essential voice of the 60s protest movement. Now, forces at work that closely resemble the days of COINTELPRO have seized control of the network, thanks to the assistance of folks once connected to the CPUSA (which was heavily infiltrated by the FBI), the latest and most prominent culprit being the undistinguished chair of the US Civil Rights Commission, Mary Frances Berry, who as chair of Pacifica, has been a prime architecht of its destruction. The action against Democracy Now, conducted by its new program director, obviously a devious jerk named Steve Yasko, is about to destroy the only good thing produced by Pacifica, Democracy Now!, as indicated in the following post sent by a co-worker at WBAI in NY. >From Eileen Sutton: It's been reported to me that Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman has received a letter from a Pacifica attorney informing her that if she doesn't prerecord Democracy Now! at least three times a week she will be fired. The reasoning behind this is murky at best. Apparently they're claiming that DN is NOT a news program and so doesn't need to be live everyday--which is patently false. But there may be more to it than that. Some believe (1) they intend to review the programs for content and order her to remove anything they don't like, or just remove it themselves or (2) it is the next move to pressure Amy out of her job either by making it impossible for her to do it or by laying yet another sheaf in the paper trial of alleged infractions. efs
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