Fw: NYC Labor and Community Demo - Update

Brad Mayer bradley.mayer at ebay.sun.com
Tue Feb 20 14:16:01 PST 2001


If it works for hip-hop, it might work for us: Let's get a little Eastside/Westside competition going here! We expect to see at least 10,000 New Yawk eastsiders show for this demo. In fact we should expect to see twice that number, since NYC has twice the metor population of the Bay Area.

-Brad Mayer Oakland, CA


>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 ?uilding
>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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