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>From: "Lyn Gerry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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>Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 20:39:16 -0400
>Subject: {FP} Letter to AFTRA Steward Don Rush from DN! staff
>
>Dear All,
>
>The following letter was sent to Pacfica Network News reporter Don
>Rush by the Democracy Now! staff. Rush, an AFTRA steward, has
>supported Pacifica management at every juncture - from the purges
>at the stations to the removal of Dan Coughlin as New Director for
>airing a story on the Pacifica crisis. On several occasions, he has
>assisted the management in presenting various groups within the
>free pacifica movement as engaging in anti-labor activities - for
>example, denying that the striking stringers of Free Speech Radio
>News are engaged in a strike because they are not under union
>contract, and also working to undermine a teach in held in Los
>Angeles a few months ago where the Pacifica crisis was
>discussed. The AFTRA unit under Rush's stewardship at that time,
>issued a statement which was crafted in collaboration with
>management, as well as distributed by the Pacifica management,
>which was designed to pressure participants with labor affiliations
>to withdraw support.
>
>Lyn
>
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>
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>TO: DON RUSH, AFTRA UNION STEWARD
>FROM: DEMOCRACY NOW! STAFF
>
>
>September 14, 2001
>
>Don:
>
>We are outraged and disgusted that you, as an AFTRA union
>steward, have decided to broadcast in the place of Democracy
>Now! while we are suspended without pay and blocked from the
>airwaves by Pacifica national management.
>
>Pacifica station KPFA and affiliates around the country have been
>broadcasting Democracy Now!, expanded to two hours every day.
>We are just blocks from ground zero here in downtown Manhattan,
>the only radio program in the country broadcasting from inside the
>evacuation zone. On the day of the terrible attacks on the World
>Trade Center and Pentagon we were on the airwaves for eight
>straight hours. We continued to broadcast while WBAI and other
>radio stations were empty and off the airwaves. Democracy Now!
>staff slept in our studio so we could stay here and continue to
>reach our listeners at this vital time.
>
>Listeners have been clamoring for the alternative perspective that
>Democracy Now! is bringing forward, when the US government and
>the media are relentlessly beating the drums of war. Given the
>enormity of what�s happened we are reluctant to even take the time
>from our reporting to write you on this matter.
>
>We left the studios of WBAI a month ago because they are unsafe.
>AFTRA has said it is "no longer satisfied that the WBAI studios are
>a safe and appropriate working environment for the Democracy
>Now! staff." The majority of the Pacifica National Board has
>demanded that Pacifica management return us to the airwaves and
>restore our pay while we broadcast from an offsite location. AFTRA
>President John Connolly stated publicly, "�they should not have to
>return to the unsafe WBAI workplace, and it is our feeling that the
>broadcast currently originating in downtown Manhattan should be
>permitted to continue from the remote location�."
>
>Only one person, Pacifica Executive Director Bessie Wash, has
>defied the board and union and blocked our broadcast from the
>airwaves. Now there are two. Why did you turn your back on us,
>defy the will of your own union and take the side of management?
>Does the notion of worker solidarity mean anything to you? What
>about supporting your essentially locked out union brothers and
>sisters? How could you scab on other members of your own union
>by taking their place when they are under attack by management?
>
>We demand that you, as the AFTRA steward, join us and your
>union in calling on Pacifica management to immediately return
>Democracy Now! to the airwaves.
>
>Do your job. Don�t take ours.
>
>The Staff of Democracy Now!
>
>Amy Goodman, Host
>Kris Abrams, Producer
>Brad Simpson, Producer
>Anthony Sloan, Engineer
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