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SUPPORT WBAI DURING THE CURRENT PLEDGE DRIVE 

(Feb. 12-28) Call 212-209-2950 For details, click here

 

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 KUDOS TO THE WBAI FAMILY ON THE PEACE RALLY 

A Message from WBAI General Manager Don Rojas

 Saturday, February 15, 2003 was a great day for the peace and justice movement around the world. It was also a great day for the WBAI family, hundreds of whom played various critical roles in the success of the day's rally and coverage. 

WBAI gained many new friends and supporters with our comprehensive coverage of the rally on Saturday. We were able to prove once again the power and potential of alternative, independent media and the relevance of Pacifica at this ominous moment in US history. 

Special kudos to our engineers who made the feeds possible from the rally site, to the teams of anchors at the site and in the studio, to our reporters in the field, to the outreach coordinators, to the scores of listeners who assembled under the Friends of WBAI contingent and to the dozens of volunteers who worked so diligently on our banners, on the distribution of fliers, and on various and sundry tasks. 

A people united can never be defeated. Let us continue to build our station and our movement on the successes of Saturday. 

Forward Ever, 
Don Rojas, 
General Manager

 

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TUNE IN FOR THESE EXCITING WBAI MEMBERSHIP DRIVE SPECIALS 

Give Generously to WBAI -- Your Community Peace and Justice Station Call 212-209-2950 

 

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Monday, February 17 
7:00 PM - midnight 

SPECIAL EDITION OF BUILDING BRIDGES:
YOUR COMMUNITY & LABOR REPORT

 Produced & hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash 

Documentary: "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times" 

Building Bridges presents a special airing of the acclaimed documentary film "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times," with commentary by film director John Junkerman. 

Whether Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist and political philosopher, is "the most important intellectual alive," as the New York Times famously called him, is perhaps for each individual reader and viewer to decide. But without a doubt, Chomsky is one of the most straight-talking, committed, and hard-working dissidents of our time. U2's Bono has called him "the rebel without a pause." A quiet but steadfast critic of United States foreign policy for decades, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, his profile took a quantum leap as he provided much-demanded analysis and historical perspective to concerned citizens throughout the world. In the months that followed, he gave dozens of talks on four continents, conducted scores of interviews, and published a book 9-11 that was published in 22 countries and became a surprise bestseller in many of them, including Japan, where Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times was produced. Power and Terror was directed by John Junkerman. 

Despite his nearly complete marginalization by the mainstream American media, Chomsky, now 74, draws standing-room-only crowds wherever he goes. He has achieved a kind of celebrity that is rare for intellectuals, but he is surprisingly, perhaps pointedly, uncharismatic. Shy, soft-spoken, sometimes halting in his delivery as he works his way through carefully constructed and far-reaching analyses of the way the world works, his impact is that of a slow, steady burn. A consummate teacher, he draws lessons from the historical record that lead the audience to draw their own, often startling and unsettling conclusions about the American exercise of power and its consequences. 

Power and Terror chronicles a series of talks that Chomsky gave in California and New York in the spring of 2002, combined with a long interview at his office in Cambridge. As he has done countless times since 9.11, he places the terrorist attacks in the context of American foreign intervention throughout the postwar decades, in Vietnam, Central America, the Middle East, and elsewhere. Beginning with the fundamental principle that the exercise of violence against civilian populations is terror, regardless of whether the perpetrator is a well-organized band of Muslim extremists or the most powerful state in the world, Chomsky, in stark and uncompromising terms, challenges the United States to apply to its own actions the moral standards it demands of others. 

Chomsky reviews the history of war crimes and delivers his now-famous analysis of the double-standards and hypocrisy of Western media and intellectuals, but he arrives at a surprisingly optimistic conclusion. Seen from the perspective of his four decades of political activism, the world is a far more civilized place than it was in the past, largely through the dedicated, painstaking, often unacknowledged but brave participation of ordinary citizens. It is perhaps this optimism that sustains his life-long mission: to bring the facts to the public, in the faith that, armed with knowledge, they will not fail to act. 

For more information visit www.buildingbridgesonline.org 
Send e-mail to mimi@buildingbridgesonline.org

 

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SUPPORT WBAI DURING THE CURRENT PLEDGE DRIVE (Feb. 12-28)

Our goal is an unprecedented $1.2 million for this listener-sponsored, corporate-free station. At a time of impending catastrophic war and escalating repression, WBAI and the Pacifica Network -- peace and justice radio -- are more vital than ever. More than 85% of our funds come from you, the listeners. Only with your continued support can we continue the cutting-edge, fiercely independent coverage of local, national and global crises that threaten the livelihoods and the very lives of people here and around the world. Please give as generously as you can.

To make your pledge by phone and learn more about our many exciting premiums, call (212) 209-2950. To make a secure on-line pledge at the basic membership rate, or to get a generic station premium, click on "PLEDGE" in the left column.

We also need volunteers to answer phones - for details, click on "VOLUNTEERS" in the left column.

 

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COMING SOON: THE NEW, REVITALIZED WBAI WEB SITE!

Starting Saturday, February 22, this Web site will be completely renovated to add these new features:

* upcoming radio program announcements 
* the latest local, national & global news updated daily 
* a special PEACE PAGE with news and activist updates 
* a community events calendar for the Tri-state area 
* a directory of progressive organizations and links
* information on each radio program 
* and much, much more progressive information and culture

So mark your calendar for Feb. 22 and then start checking here for DAILY UPDATES. And tell your friends far and wide to set their bookmarks to www.wbai.org