At a forum to celebrate Malcolm X's birthday, Bernard White speaks out about his firing that day from his position as program director of Pacifica station WBAI. Video of the event is available on Youtube, in 8 parts:

Part 1- Bernard White details financial interests in WBAI, including Gary Null, the move to Wall Street and programming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIrbeRgvxqw

Part 2- WBAi host Bashir Mchawi discusses the situation at WBAI in the context of white supremacy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj9m_qxiShA

Part 3- Bernard White discusses the gentrification of WBAI and the city of New York; the failure of the Local Station Board to announce meeting locations; his treatment by Pacifica staff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AurNNOJdXos

Part 4- WBAi host Bashir Mchawi explains the importance of becoming a member of WBAI by June 15, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAlCw5-gWoc

Part 5- Bernard White talks about the Pacifica National Board, the firing of Pacifica CFO Lonnie Hicks and threat to other stations

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwS9SojnUqI

Part 6:Suzanne Ross of the Free Mumia coalition denounces the opportunistic use of claims of anti-semitism in the campaign against WBAI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BlQenUNPVE

Part 7: Bernard White and Bashir Mchawi explain the inaccuracies of the arbitron ratings system used to count audience in a discussion moderated by Kazembe Balagun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wknAMcGkS_I

Part 8: Bernard White talks abou the road ahead for WBAI, its listeners and the Pacifica network.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7EKLyaZ62M



Also available on YouTube:

Bernard White and Rosa Clemente comment on WBAI May 17, 2009 at Salem Church in Harlem


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6yzrMM5aXo



For background information, read:

Lynn Stewart, Rosa Clemente: TAKE BACK WBAI 99.5FM

Save WBAI 99.5FM from the business/corporate takeover!

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/05/105317.html

ABC Ch.7 "Like It Is" on WBAI "Corporate/Professional Activist Takeover" Issue.

http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/05/105365.html

This is national. Pacifica stations in NY and Houston are done. Leave KPFK alone, please.

......KPFT here in Houston has been on life support for a long time....believe it or not,I was once the 'token conservative' talk show host here...and years ago I tried to make suggestions to improve their business model...such as it was....that would have resulted in a healthier long term financial picture....fat lot of good it did......for my trouble...and for daring to support Reagan's election live on the air, I became the first of many programmers to be 'permanently banished' for being a 'threat to the station's license'....and now the ideological chickens are coming home to roost.....and all I can do is just shake my head and say "tsk,tsk...I don't want to say 'I told you so'....but I did tell ya"....mark me down as decidedly unsympathetic.

The idea that WBAI should be left to die is insane. KPFK is needed as is WBAI, KPFT, KPFA and WPFW, and more stations need to be added. There needs to be a national movement for liberation in this country and that movement needs a cheap and available means of mass communication. Radio is the tool of choice in South America and it WORKS. What is needed is a retaking of Pacifica by the real left and development of a people's radio network.

The sounds of this demise of a station that could not get enough money or business accumen to sustain itself is contaminating other Pacifica stations.

Is this true? Any information besides the fears, rumors, hopes and accusations.

What do you know that you can tell us as facts or actual heard words that KPFK is in danger or how it will be affected if NY drops out ?

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