Edwin Johnston Legal Fund Official Announcement

The National Pacifica Listeners Union has set up a legal fund (details below) to defray the legal costs related to the incident at KPFT on March 23, 2001, where I was assaulted by station manager Garland Ganter and others. I was then arrested and jailed for assault based on false reports given to police by Ganter and his wife, KPFT employee Molly O'Brien. Ms. O'Brien also assaulted my fellow demonstrator Sheila Harris. Then three days later, Pacifica executive director Bessie Wash and Pacifica national board chair David Acosta interrupted programming on Pacifica stations and affiliates to libel me and my fellow Houston demonstrators, many others in the movement and the movement on the whole.

These funds will be used initially to pay my attorney to defend me against two false charges of assault. They will also be used to fund expenses for civil lawsuits against many people connected to this case, including Ganter, O'Brien, the Pacifica Foundation, Wash, Acosta and others as warranted. The funds for civil litigation will be for myself, Sheila Harris, Shannon Smith, and Wendy Breunig; each of us being present during the incident and each of us having cause to sue for damages.

The immediate expenses for this case are $1,000, but we will soon need many more thousands of dollars for such expenses as depositions and filing fees. I am completely unable to afford any of this myself as I am basically indigent and have been so for over a decade. Please consider contributing to this fund to support your fellow Pacifica dissenters, for the cause of freedom and the democratization of Pacifica Radio.

For more information on this case, see my:

"Violence from KPFT" webpage

http://www.hal-pc.org/~edi/kpft.html

Sincerely,

Edwin Johnston



Edwin Johnston Legal Fund

How to contribute

Make checks payable to:

Pacifica Listeners Union

and then mail to

P.O. Box 661876

Los Angeles, CA 90066

The check should be made out to "Pacifica Listeners Union" or "PLU."

*NOTE: MAKE SURE that you note "Edwin Johnston Legal Fund" in the memo area of your check.

Funds will be deposited in the PLU bank account in Los Angeles and disbursed to Edwin Johnston or his designees, as he requests.



Email Edwin Johnston - edi@hal-pc.org

Email Pacifica Listeners Union - listenersunion@hotmail.com Phone: 323-960-7655

Visit The Pacifica Listeners Union homepage - http://www.pacificalistenersunion.org