As one former (ousted) WBAI program director has put it succinctly, "We feel it is an important institution. It has the capacity to do something very unique in media, which is to tell the truth."
The Pacifica network has an irreplaceable and truly pre-eminent mission to America: because it accepts no money from corporations or groups, only from its listeners, it has the ability to connect us to vital and crucial news and culture that is available nowhere else on the airwaves.
And due to the medium of voice and radio, it carries that message from their lips to our ears, from heart to hearts.
As they are unabashedly unbound by special interests, there are those who thus tag them "anarchists."
But they are in plain fact political and cultural performance artists for things we need to know to thrive.
Abraham Lincoln summoned "the better angels of our nature," and those who listened were the wiser.
In an age of the homogenization of the American individual, Pacifica Radio has called out, loud and clear ~ and for 67 years, now ~ a certain something that is perhaps even more essential for our needs, while we face an increasingly clandestine and crushing tyranny from USA Inc.
And as with artists and activists alike we may call that precious commodity "the better anarchists of our nature."
So please let the National Board hear from you. No sale, no liquidation, no millionaires, and no operation mockingbird.
For more information: visit www.pacificainexile.org , a publication documenting and recording the activities of the Pacifica Foundation and sign up for their weekly e-mail newsletter.
-- John Ervin
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Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director of Media-Alliance, contributed to this story.
Her work can be found at www.media-alliance.org , http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracy-rosenberg/
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