[lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again

[Joseph Wanzala]

Hey Doug, I see you are as smug as usual about this which is too bad. One 
might be excused for thinking you have no connection the network. Why 
bother? So we can continue to hear shows such as yours no? - don't you care 
about your own program at least? Don't you care about having access to 
Pacifica to be interviewed on this and that? I don't know, maybe you have 
stoically accepted that WBAI may not be there tomorrow. Or perhaps you have 
made a deal with Bernard White and his JUC Jacobins that you will be part of 
the new dispensation after they have eviscerated the network - I 'm being 
factious here but I really don't grock your perspective on Pacifica, I find 
it bewildering. What I am saying is that if we don't bother then the only 
option is to stand by and watch as these people destroy the network - with 
WBAI, currently on life-support - first. I would presume that this is of 
some concern to you.

I'm not sure what you consider to be 'an interesting life' but Pacifica 
continues to draw and be important to many interesting people in terms of 
how I define the term. Pacifica politics is not that different from the 
politics of any other organization, it has its peculiarities to be sure, but 
all kinds of member-ship based non-profits - including famously the Sierra 
Club face major governance problems.

Staying involved with or at least caring about Pacifica is as important as 
staying involved in progressive politics. If Pacifica evaporated tomorrow a 
huge void would be created in progresive discourse.

I don't see it as a 'collective action problem' it is a problem of too many 
good people doing nothing or capitulating to the sort of devious politically 
correct policing of the kind reported about here.

Joe W.


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again
>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:24:09 -0500
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>>The only way to mitigate this ruinous trend is to get more listeners in 
>>all the station areas involved - including running for seats on the LSB or 
>>volunteering for committees etc. If you care, get involved, otherwise 
>>don't be surprised if you hear only more of these reports.
>
>Joe, the problem is that the whole process is like walking into a meat 
>grinder - it drives sane people with interesting lives away. There's a real 
>collective action problem here that boils down to...why bother?
>
>Doug
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