Berkeley-After a slow motion buildup for several months, The Pacifica Foundation, the Berkeley-based 501(c)-3 not-for-profit organization that holds the licenses for five educational radio stations across the country and provides content for 150 affiliated stations, has finally moved to stanch financial bleeding at the network's Berkeley unit KPFA-FM by laying off 7-8 employees after posting a million dollar loss over the past two years.

Anita Johnson, co-founder of HardKnock Radio, and Adrienne Lauby, host of PushingLimits, are on Part 2.

Based upon comments delivered on June 24, 2010 at the U.S. Social Forum workshop, “Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue: Lessons from the U.S. and Latin America”. (Published at http://www.media-ocracy.org)

(Published in Conterpunch November 9, 2009 as a rebuttal to a piece by Iain Boal).

Of "Envenoned Nutballs" and "Camel-Albatross Hybrids"

Pacifica and the Barbarians Who Pay the Bills

By TRACY ROSENBERG

By James E. Owens

(Original Posted on July 15, 2010 by James Owens at: http://www.media-ocracy.com/?p=912 )

Based upon comments delivered on June 24, 2010 at the U.S. Social Forum workshop, “Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue: Lessons from the U.S. and Latin America.”

Who produces media systems? Answering that question is the only way to understand the culture and politics that such systems will reproduce. If communities in struggle seek to survive and build movements for justice we must win two essential communicative capacities: the capacity to communicate with each other and the capacity to communicate our perspectives across society. No community can effectively reproduce culture or defend its material conditions if it lacks the abilities to communicate internally as well as to project their perspectives externally.