On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> [This piece of idiocy is about to be voted on by the Pacifica National
> Board.]
>
> Pacifica National Board Motion on 911 Programming and Mission Compliance
>
> Proposed 4-25-10 by Pacifica Foundation member Christopher Condon
>
> Except during fund drives, key public affairs programming throughout the
> Pacifica Network has appeared to overwhelmingly accept the Official Story of
> 911, arguing from its assumptions, asserting the theory assigning
> culpability for these tragic attacks to Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida without
> question.
>
> The Official Story of 911 is found by many Pacifica Foundation members to be
> a propaganda fabrication designed to provide a pretext for the unleashing of
> aggressive war in Afghanistan and Iraq, while hiding the activity of a
> private, extra-legal, and anti-constitutional network of officials in the
> United States government, high ranking military officers, and individuals
> within private corporations and political institutions, who actively
> prepared, promoted, organized, assisted, fomented, and/or passively enabled
> the September 11 attacks and the cover-up that followed.
>
> Pacifica Foundation members have made repeated and long standing accusations
> of censorship of 911 Truth issues by programmers who have advanced the
> official propaganda fabrication, and against staff, management, and
> governance who support them. This has created an atmosphere of corrosive
> distrust, profoundly harmful to working together in a democratic and
> collaborative environment. Thousands of former Pacifica Foundation members
> have left over this issue.
>
> An identical motion was passed by the KPFK LSB on February 9, 2008. No
> action by management has been taken to implement this motion, and most
> public affairs programmers are in ongoing defiance of its provisions. The
> Pacifica National Board is requested to intervene in this impasse and
> establish policy in this critical area.
>
> 1. This conflict is not in the interest of the Pacifica Foundation,
> programmers, staff, or governance. Management, staff, and programmers
> throughout the Pacifica network must explore ways of providing redress for
> these grievances of 911 Truth and allegations of censorship, and to initiate
> outreach strategies to reach those former listener/sponsors whom this
> conflict has alienated. This should include increasing support and air time
> for those programs which deal with this issue, and developing new
> programming for the specific purpose.
>
> 2. Programming which consistently and unquestioningly advances the "official
> story" of 911, by commission or omission, is not consistent with the
> Pacifica Mission and may be a breach of both the letter and spirit of the
> Mission.
>
> 3. The radio network of the Pacifica Foundation is an appropriate and
> important media for thorough examination of the 911 controversy. We must
> encourage good radio coverage by exploring comprehensively the many aspects
> of 911 with on-air voices expressing all sides (amendment by the late Don
> White).
>
> Respectfully Submitted,
>
> Christopher Bayard Condon
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