Right! "K" PFA...! West coast... ah well, they'll have to 'grease' them all too!
FWIW, and I am NOT A LAWYER, there should be no reason why the event could not be announced on the community bulletin board...uncommented by the announcer, unless the the announcement itself provokes or insinuates violence or any sort of lawbreaking, or promotes 'terrorist organizations' like 'Reclaim the Streets' (Block party anyone?) or the ELF. In all honesty, I wrote Pacifica off in the 60 when they still broadcast a musical diet of jazz and classical more to suit my mommy than a generation of hippies, black/brown/white Panthers and radical students/workers (and radical greasers) fighting the police on the streets of NY, Boston, Detroit and Berkeley to the tunes of Phil Ochs, Gil Scott-Heron... the MC5. They weren't announcing activist events then either. Pacifica is still in a time warp, and it will never change. It's comfortable with it's social station. I wouldn't bang my head against any media walls about it, just listen to FRSC instead. <http://www.freakradio.org/listen.html>, unless listening to classical music from the comfort of your easy chair while the world explodes around you is your preferred style of radio listening. If that's the case, then just be quiet about the lack of risk taking activism, tune in KPFA, and listen intently to the 'Limbaugh of the left' Amy Goodman discuss what happened last week, and then see how a smart left investor makes money in the US financial markets without seeming to be a war pig like the rest of the investors in the market. I mean... This is Pacifica, who told you that it was on the cutting edge of ANYTHING? FWIW, commercial radio stations won't even broadcast the word "FUCK" in songs anymore... (I've seen MTV censor the word 'Joint' in a Tom Petty song) no matter how subtlety inserted (sic) out of fear of the FCC's arbitrary... is it a million dollar fine? Larger? Even KPIG, the last bastion of gonzo commercial radio in the US 'oinks' over the 'obscenities' now, and they had DJs who had worked for the station (and KFAT, it's progenitor) for 30 years or more, quit over that policy too! The Spanish language stations around here, ALL mainstream, DID NOT publicize the immigration protests last year, or any demo in any year that comes to mind. I don't know where you got the information about it, but if it did happen, it was most likely no more than an announcement that something was happening and a location. Maybe that's because the chill is STILL on from when the LAPD blew KMEX reporter Ruben Salazar's head off with a tear gas canister while sitting at a local Chicano watering hole in the early 70s in the aftermath of a riot. The message was quite simple, and unstated... create publicity problems for us and die spic. Strange Rumblings In Aztlan, The Great Shark Hunt, Hunter S. Thompson's non-gonzo story about his friend's death at the hands of the LAPD was a scary cold piece of journalism that that everyone should read anytime they think of the law and the police as 'protectors'. Journalists in this country aren't 'safe'... just 'safer' than an AFP stringer in Mogadishu. No no no... surely you are thinking of pirate radio stations as announcers of local political information, not anyone possessing an FCC broadcast license. Calling folks out to a demo where something goes haywire... especially if ANYONE, and I do mean anyone, at the station had ANY involvement in it is a potential criminal legal disaster, uninsured... and an FCC fine disaster... again most likely uninsured. Leigh On 4/7/07, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings Economists, On Apr 6, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Leigh Meyers wrote: > Well it's true... not only are they liable, but if the city of New > York or the feds wanted to, they could claim KPFA was violating some > homeland security 'anti-riot act' and call in air support... Doyle; Berkeley not New York. It seems to me a peculiar way of addressing Flashpoints. Since when do Insurance companies dictate to the left what is said about going to events? Well your point about Homeland Security has some validity. There are a plethora of laws restricting events and activities because we are at an undeclared war. Still what strikes me here is that Sasha Lilley who used to write into Pen-L occasionally is using Insurance as a beard. The Spanish language stations across the country aroused their community to the many marches. Go they said support your community. Whereas KPFA says no don't say anything, because insurance tells us not to. Then what exactly do we do? Do people genuinely feel the Insurance companies can shut down the radio stations for this? Suppose the Insurance companies told Martin Luther King not to march to the Selma bridge because surely there would be injuries that they would be liable for. Then Martin must stop? Doyle
