--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> To: savewbai at lists.tao.ca, freepac at recordist.com Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:34:52 -0500 Subject: NYC Labor and Community Demo - Update Message-ID: <3A8E8C0C.5394.2180ED39 at localhost>
WBAI LABOR AND COMMUNITY PROTEST by UE LOCAL 404 AND CONCERNED FRIENDS OF WBAI phone: 212-533-6515 knash at igc.org
WBAI Demonstration at the law offices of Epstein Becker and Green on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20th from 4:30-7PM. 250 Park Ave. (bet. E 46th and 47th Streets) Demonstrate to Defend Free Speech Radio - WBAI - 99.5FM
Fight the firings, the bannings of Staff and Listeners from WBAI Radio, the Censorship of On-Air Discussion. At the law offices of Epstein Becker and Green, 250 Park Ave. from 4:30-7pm This is a union busting law firm defending Pacifica against the lawsuits seeking to reverse the corporatization of its National Board and whose Senior Associate John Murdock has drafted new Pacifica By-Laws further insulating the Board from the Listeners and making it easy to sell WBAI Radio.
Featured speakers will include :
Roger Toussaint- President Transport Workers Union Local 100 Juan Gonzalez- Daily News journalist and founder of the Pacifica Campaign Sharan Louise Harper - fired and banned WBAI Production Assistant and Union Shop Steward Vincente "Panama" Alba- Field Representative Laborers Local 108 and Member WBAI Local Advisory Board Mimi Rosenberg- fired and banned WBAI co-producer of “Building Bridges: Your Community and Labor Report” and Unpaid Staff Representative to the WBAI Local Advisory Board Representative Major Owens Stanley Aronowitz- Author, City University of New York Professor and Executive Board Member Professional Staff Congress, AFT New York City Councilwoman Margarita Lopez Michael Letwin, President of the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, UAW Christine Karatnytsky, Executive Board Member, N. Y. Public Library Guild, DC 37, AFSCME .
Sponsored by WBAI's Local 404 and Concerned Friends of WBAI.
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