Here are the 2 Resolutions which IMC-LA (Independent Media Center) has

passed re Pacifica:

RESOLUTION

IMC -- Independent Media Center

Relationship with KPFK



Whereas KPFK Los Angeles is a community radio station whose mission

commits

it to community involvement, free speech and an airing of a broad spectrum

of opinion

And

Whereas the station, along with management of the Pacifica network has

strayed far from that mission by:

O Practicing Censorship

O Exercising Autocratic Managerial Control

O Demonstrating a lack of accountability to the community

O Attempting to coerce programmers to sign the "Y2k Compliant" Agreement

that makes all volunteer work the property of the station

O Dismantling its training program that provided access to radio skills

for

women and people of color.

O Practicing union busting.

Therefore, be it resolved that we, of the IMC LA, condemn the above

regressive policies and practices that are antithetical to Pacifica's own

mission statement. We demand that KPFK recommit itself to its own mission

statement to become a truly independent, alternative media outlet

accessible to all communities in Los Angeles.

Be it further resolved that the IMC-LA will not share space, equipment,

programming, analysts or recorded sound unless and until KPFK

A. Renounces the gag rule.

B. The station establishes mechanisms for meaningful participation of

stakeholders (subscribers, volunteers, etc.) in decision-making

processes.

C. Agrees to cease retaliation against staff and volunteer who speak out

on

aspects of the current crisis

D. Withdraw its demand that all volunteer work produced at the station

become the sole property of KPFK, as specified in the Y2K Compliant

Agreement.

This is not to be interpreted to mean that KPFK volunteers cannot

participate in the IMC.



RESOLUTION

IMC (Independent Media Center)

Denies Press Credentials To

Pacifica Network News (PNN) Reporters and Staff



The consensus of IMC members is that the IMC will not credential PNN

reporters nor freelance reporters nor any person who attempts to file for

PNN, nor give interviews to PNN, nor allow PNN to use material created by

the IMC.

The "reassignment" of PNN News Director Dan Coughlin has caused much

controversy. PNN has compromised its journalistic integrity by acts of

censorship. There is an ongoing strike by Pacifica stringers and

freelancers, and we need to be in solidarity with them.

Since the crisis last spring, when armed guards were called in to lock out

staff at KPFA, Pacifica reporters say management has subjected

journalists,

contributors and independent producers to repeated acts of alteration,

suppression and censorship of news stories and public-affairs programming,

which they say are of vital interest to the listeners of Pacifica and the

broader communities it serves.

Furthermore, since the IMC strives to combat censorship and corporate

control of the media, and Pacifica management has failed to address our

concerns regarding these issues, there are some who consider contributing

to Pacifica Network News in any way to be incompatible with their

journalistic ethos.

The Pacifica stringers strike has received endorsements from the

"Democracy

Now" AFTRA Bargaining Unit (David Love), Aileen Alfandary (KPFA News

Co-Director), WBAI/UE Local 404, Pacifica Affiliates KCSB (which has

suspended PNN broadcasts) and KFCF, L.A. County Federation of Labor, Noam

Chomsky, Ben Bagdikian, Medea Benjamin, Michael Parenti, Alice Walker,

Mike

Davis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Norm Solomon, Daniel Ellsberg, and over 100

other scholars, academics and organizations.

the board should disolve itself (years ago)

Hi IMC,

I have to applaud the resolution critiquing KPFK. However, I think that it might be worthwhile for IMC to explain the events that lead to this resolution, because I would bet y'all that most folks who are reading it have no idea why it was issued. Without such explanations, resolutions like this come across as "we know the score," without taking the time to educate your audience, regardless of how many respected leftists and journalists have signed off on it.

The illness which besieges the Pacifica network has a lot to teach progressives about how not to let their own media apparatus turn into a bad facsimsile of that which it was set up to be an alternative to. While the IMC is doing a great service in helping network the new left, that doesn't mean it shouldn't have to take the time to back up its criticisms of other organizations, irrespective of how patently screwed up they are to those in the know.

Best, Joel

Joel Schalit

Associate Editor

Punk Planet Magazine

www.punkplanet.com

Strong. Powerful. Direct. Resolution.

Excellent!

I am a news programmer @ 91.7 KOOP Austin, Tx & am part of the News & Public Affairs Collective. We have covered the painful exorcism of grassroots news coverage by Pacifica & equate it with the corporate expulsion of peoples issues from the national corporate networks. We are expecting more from IMC-LA; PNN format is one of the reasons why IMC is necessary.

Why is the L.A.IMC providing space, resources, promotion to Democracy Now, which is Pacifica? This is the type of hypocrisy which is going to get attention from the media, most especially from truly independent local progressive journalists that the mission statement on the front page of this site claims as part of this project.

http://www.pacifica.org/

"Democracy NOW! was launched by Pacifica Radio in 1996 to open the airwaves on a daily

basis to alternative voices traditionally excluded from the political process"

And this is the press release L.A.IMC sent out, isn't it?

>From: Krpomer@aol.com

>Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 00:35:17 EDT

>Subject: YES, THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED!

>To: info@la.indymedia.org

>MIME-Version: 1.0

>

>For Immediate Release: Contact: Karen Pomer (310) 463-7025

>July 18, 2000

>

>YES, THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED!

>

>BREAKING WITH CONVENTION: Power, Protest and the Presidency

Community Radio

>and TV Join Together for Groundbreaking Convention Coverage Live

Broadcasts

>to Focus on Protests, Grassroots Voices.

>

>In an exciting milestone for the growing independent media

movement, Pacifica

>Radio's Democracy Now! will be filmed and carried live on

satellite and cable

>television during this summer's political conventions, opening a

vast new

>national audience for grassroots voices and community radio. The

daily

>two-hour broadcasts direct from the Independent Media Centers in

Philadelphia

>and Los Angeles will also be live audio and video streamed over

the World

>Wide Web.

>

>Hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan

Gonzalez, Democracy

>Now! will be distributed by Deep Dish TV and Free Speech TV

(FSTV), a

>non-commercial network. The Dish Network carries FSTV, reaching

some two

>million-subscriber homes nationwide, many in rural areas not

served by public

>radio. FSTV will also distribute Democracy Now! To public access

and

>educational cable channels nationwide, reaching a potential total

audience of

>20 million households.

>

>In four short years, Democracy Now! has established itself as the

premier

>independent radio voice in the country. The one-hour daily

program has

>regularly broken key national and international stories, won top

journalism

>awards, built a strong and growing audience, and generated

critical acclaim

>and national press attention. The reason is simple. Democracy

Now! Stays

>ahead of the news, providing in-depth coverage of the crucial

issues of the

>day before they hit the media radar screen.

>

>>From the student sweatshop movement to the streets of Seattle,

from East

>Timor to the Niger Delta, Democracy Now! has become an important

crucible for

>new ideas and grassroots voices struggling for a just and

equitable world.

>"Welcome relief from the right-wing diatribes so common on the

airwaves,"

>said The Philadelphia Daily News. Newt Gingrich told Democracy

Now! Anchor Amy

> Goodman, "I have advised my mother to talk to no reporters

because of people

>like you." The Indonesian military banned her from entering the

country. The

>Washington Post says simply: "The mainstream media listen."

>

>The national television broadcast marks a historic collaboration

between the

>50-year-old community radio movement and the 25-year-old

community TV

>movement. It will dramatically expand the audience for grassroots

voices and

>allow independent media to amplify its national presence.

>

>Program Coverage

>Philadelphia/Republican, July 31 – Aug. 4

>Los Angeles/Democratic, Aug. 14 - Aug. 18

>8-10 AM EST

>

>http://democracynow.org/

BTW - any chance that one of you could manage to correct the spelling of 'organization' on your front page? It isn't embedded in the logo, I looked at the page source.

How can Amy Goodman cover the Democratic convention in L.A. when KPFK denied her a press pass? Pacifica's henchman in this was the same person responsible for shutting down KPFA.

BATHURST, New Brunswick. - September 8, 2001 -

On May 5, 1999, New Brunswick Social Services entered a home and apprehended a child from the care of it's father because he had apparently refused to follow an anger management program. The views of the father were that he should not have been obligated to follow any such programs without any reasonable and probable grounds that he had abused anyone mentally, physically or psychologically.

The Court of the Queen's Bench - The child's father then represented himself in Court for the purpose of regaining custody of his child but the Courts placed the child in a foster home for a period of four month with conditions that he follow anger management. Notwithstanding that there are no laws that give jurisdiction to the Courts on imposing conditions to a custody order of a child, the Courts imposed the conditions on the custody order regardless that there was no laws that allowed it.

The Court of Appeal - January 18, 2000. The father continued to represent himself in Court because the lawyers he would seek advise from would only inform him that he was "obligated" to follow an anger management program. On January 18, 2000, the Court of Appeal set aside the custody order and a new hearing was ordered.



Still no Custody of Child - Even though the custody order was set aside and a new hearing was ordered by the Court of Appeal, the father of the child was not granted custody of his child pending the new trial.

The New Trial at the Court of Queen's Bench - October 2, 2000. At the hearing of the new trial ordered by the Court of Appeal on October 2, 2000, a decision was made by the Court of Queen's Bench that the father have no more contact whatsoever with his child because he did not want to follow an anger management program.

Case Update - The father is currently at the Supreme Court level with his case and has made a Communication to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for the purposes of regaining custody of his child and being awarded compensation for the emotional suffering and psychological damages to his child as well as himself which resulted from the apprehension and detention of his child.

The father has made a detailed website in his own words explaining the events which unfolded and led to the apprehension and detention of his child, emotional suffering, psychological damages and cruel inhuman degrading treatment and punishment. For more details, see the website.

The website is open to the public @ http://www.nbinjustice.com.

This article has been published for the public support needed for the reinstatement of the Rights of the Child as well as the reinstatement of Fathers Parental Rights in Canada.

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