Patriots for Peace and Justice
Pacifica Commemorates the One Year Anniversary
of September 11
News Release
September 5, 2002
Pacifica Radio features "Patriots for Peace and Global
Justice," a day-long, national broadcast to commemorate
the one year anniversary of September 11th.
WASHINGTON, DC (September 5) The Pacifica Radio Network
will broadcast a special, thirteen hour program on September
11, 2002, entitled "Patriots for Peace and Global Justice."
The program will run from 7AM to 8PM (EDT), and is a collaborative
venture between the five Pacifica stations and its affiliates
around the country. It is available for broadcast in whole
or in part by any noncommercial or community radio station.
In the aftermath of last September’s terrorist attacks,
the image in much of the mainstream media was a nation in
lockstep behind the President and supportive of a military
response. But amidst the flag-waving and patriotic chanting,
there existed another sort of patriotism. Around the nation,
thousands of people began to question government actions,
take part in peace vigils and state emphatically that their
grief was not a cry for war. This broadcast will take a look
at these "Patriots for Peace and Global Justice."
It will start out at Pacifica’s national headquarters
in Washington, DC and then move to Ground Zero in New York,
where it will be co-hosted by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
and station WBAI. Throughout the rest of the day, programming
from Washington, DC (WPFW), Berkeley (KPFA), Houston (KPFT)
and Los Angeles (KPFK) will feature discussion of the events
of 9/11 from the perspectives of Arabs, Palestinians, African
Americans and family members of victims of the attacks. Scheduled
guests include author Noam Chomsky, environmental activist
Vandana Shiva, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Harvard professor
Cornell West and comedian/ activist Dick Gregory. Also scheduled
are historian Howard Zinn, veteran peace activist Fr. Daniel
Berrigan, civil rights leader Martin Luther King III and former
U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, as well as grassroots
activists around the country working for change. The broadcast
will feature Muslim-Americans whose civil liberties have been
violated in the aftermath of September 11th and women who
have traveled from Ground Zero in New York to Afghanistan’s
"Ground Zero" site of U.S.-led bombing.
Pacifica is the nation's oldest listener-supported, non-commercial
radio network. Founded in 1949 in Berkeley, California, Pacifica
is devoted to the exercise of free speech, creative expression
and the showcase of dissenting viewpoints.
For immediate release
Contact:
Verna Avery-Brown
(202) 588-0999 x349
verna@pacifica.org
STATIONS CARRYING THE BROADCAST:
PACIFICA STATIONS
Berkeley CA, KPFA, 94.1FM (will carry Democracy Now! portion)
Houston, KPFT, 90.1FM (will carry the full 13 hours)
Los Angeles, KPFK, 90.7FM (will carry the full 13 hours)
New York, WBAI, 99.5FM (will carry the full 13 hours)
Washington DC, WPFW, 89.3FM (will carry the full 13 hours)
AFFILIATES
CALIFORNIA
Mendocino County,
KZYX/KZYZ, 88.3FM, 90.7FM, 91.5FM (parts throughout the day)
http://www.kzyx.org/
FLORIDA
Tampa, WMNF, 88.5FM
http://www.wmnf.org
NEW YORK
Jeffersonville (Catskills),
90.5FM, 94.5FM (parts throughout the day)
http://www.wjffradio.org/
Troy,
WRPI, 91.5FM (parts throughout the day)
http://www.wrpi.org/
VERMONT
Plainfield, WGDR, 91.1FM (6 hours)
http://www.wgdr.org/
VIRGINIA
Harrisonburg,
WEMC 91.7 (will carry the full 13 hours)
http://www.emu.edu/wemc/
WASHINGTON
Bellingham,
KUGS, 89.3FM (7AM-5PM PDT)
http://www.kugs.org/
WISCONSIN
Madison,
WORT, 89.9FM (parts throughout the day)
http://www.wort-fm.org
CANADA
Montreal PQ,
CKUT, 90.3FM (7AM-1PM EDT)
http://www.ckut.ca
COSTA RICA
Radio for Peace International,
Costa Rica
http://www.rfpi.org (broadcast
worldwide)
15040 (19 meters) and 7445 (40 meters) shortwave
(will carry the full 13 hours)
times: 1100 - through 0000 UTC on 9/11. A rebroadcast of the
first 8 hours
will be heard from 0000 - 0800 UTC on 9/12.
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