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Welcome to the Penn Folklore sponsored
Graduate Student Videoconference Series 2000-1
Event #3:
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"Roles of listener-sponsors in the Pacifica radio network."
symposium
agenda.
one
person's minutes.
Founded in 1949, Pacifica Radio is the USA's first listener-supported,
community-based radio network -- KPFA (Berkeley), KPFK (Los Angeles), WBAI
(New York), KPFT (Houston), WPFW (Washington, D.C.), and 60 affiliates
in 27 states. Recently some listener-sponsors have felt that Pacifica's
board of directors has grown increasingly conservative and that it has
attempted to censor the local stations. Three lawsuits aimed to protect
the rights of listener-sponsors, local advisory boards, and others have
been filed against Pacifica. This symposium will serve as a forum for discussion
of past, present, and possible future roles of listener-sponsors in the
Pacifica radio network. General topics also to be addressed: uses
of communication in community-building, and micro-radio (webcast and aircast). |
Date:
Thursday, April 19.
Time:
3-5pm eastern USA,
2-4pm central USA,
1-3pm mountain USA,
Noon-2pm pacific USA.
Videoconference partners:
San Francisco City College, and
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Folklore graduate students,
etc.).
This videoconference was webcast live, so that people at up to 60 computers
were able to watch-listen and participate via e-mail.
Participants included (very incomplete list):
Philadelphia
Edward
S. Herman (Emeritus professor, Wharton Business School, U. of Penn.).
Rafael
Renteria (Pacifica
Listeners Union).
Berthold Reimers (Elections Committee member, Concerned Friends
of WBAI).
San Francisco
Deepa
Fernandez (WBAI producer).
Bill
Mandel (37 years on KPFA).
Kellia Ramares <RadioKellia@aol.com> (Former KPFA news reporter;
coordinator, R.I.S.E., Radio Internet Story Exchange). photograph.
Les Radke (Coalition for a Democratic
Pacifica, Berkeley).
"Present" via e-mail listserv:
Maine
Cathy
Melio (Grassroots Radio Coalition).
New York
Denis Moynihan (The
Pacifica
Campaign).
Houston
Edwin
Johnston (Accused of assaulting KPFT manager Garland Ganter outside
KPFT on March 23, 2001. He claims that he was the was who was assaulted.).
Riverside, CA
Matthew
Lasar (Author of Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network).
Los Angeles
Bernie Eisenberg (Pacifica
Listeners Union).
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Comments
and questions to be read and/or responded to during the symposium.
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Note to people on the listserv: if you would like to be listed here,
with a link, etc, please e-mail the info to me (Eric). Note to everyone:
if you would like to contact anyone involved with this event, or if you
have any comments or questions, please contact --
Philadelphia:
Eric Miller <emiller@sas.upenn.edu>,
Penn Folklore Ph.D. student.
San Francisco area:
Adrienne Lauby <adrienne@monitor.net>,
North Bay for KPFA.
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This videoconference-webcast-email symposium was held in conjunction
with the "Subversions" conference (at Penn, April 20-21). The "Subversions"
conference was a collaboration, being both the First Annual Penn Folklore
Graduate Student Colloquium and the Annual Meeting of the Middle
Atlantic Folklife Association. For further info, please see http://www.sas.upenn.edu/folklore/mafa2001.html
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