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Magical Mystery Tour: WBAI Takeover
Oct 30, 2019: 7pm - 8pm
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Tracy Rosenberg is the executive director of Media Alliance and coordinator of Oakland Privacy, a San Francisco bay area coalition which won the 2019 Pioneer Award for protecting digital freedom. Tracy is a former KPFA volunteer programming coordinator, Pacifica National Board member and treasurer, and she's the creator of pacificain exile.org a project to create transparency and provide information about Pacifica's ongoing crises and internal political conflicts.
In this interview Tracy Rosenberg takes us step by step through the hostile takeover of WBAI in NYC, by Pacifica's new interim executive director and rogue group of Pacifica National Board members, including the unfolding court battle, as New Yorkers seek to stop the shutdown and hostile takeover. A very similar thing happened in 1999 at KFPA.
This is both breaking news and a historical perspective of Pacifica's challenges, internal political conflicts and bizarre crises.