New York Times article on U. Leid the interim Station Manager at WBAI which was imposed by Pacifica trough the "Christmas Coup".

A listeners memo after a meeting with WBAI's Utrice Leid. Points of discussion are the bannings, firings, the boycott and Major Owens among others.

Herb Boyd about the internet broadcasts by the banned, fired and exiled from WBAI's airwaves. WBIX is continuing a tradition of excellency in journalism which has come under attack at WBAI.

WBAI's efforts to fire its audience and bring in replacement listeners appears to have failed. The station's spring fund drive netted less than half of the $850,000 it normally takes in, according to organizers of the Pacifica Campaign. By John Tarleton.

Information on the activism and the efforts to save WBAI as a free speech radio station within the Pacifica Network from the perspective of the International Action Center.

Bernard White fired Program Director provides a personal account of the "Christmas Coup" at WBAI at a meeting of WPFW's Local Advisory Board. DC Indymedia. (RealVideo)

Fired WBAI Program Director, Bernard White on WPKN's Counterpoint program, full-length interview by Scott Harris. (27 minute broadcast, RealAudio format)

Congressman Owens, NY City Council member Freed, and NY Public Advocate candidate Siegel joined ousted WBAI staffers at a press conference. Village Voice article.

"Supporters who favor a politically conscious, activist WBAI continued their protests while more firings and changes take place." From Workers World.

Village Voice article about post "Coup" censorship, bannings and firings at WBAI, a changing Pacifica Board and efforts to restore WBAI to its original mission.

Article by weekly "Haiti Progres" analyzing the removal of station management by Pacifica. Gives Background on installed Station Manager.

World Socialist Web Site on WBAI with an in-depth analysis of political motives behind the take-over.

Nat Hentoff in the Village Voice describes congressman Major Owens' beeing censored by WBAI's U. Leid and compares to censorship in dictatorships.

From Current, a public broadcasting newspaper, about the removal of management at Pacifica's WBAI. Quotes the fired and banned.

Miranda Kennedy in the Gotham Gazette about the current situation at WBAI.

Transcript of a KPFA newscast the day after initial firings and bannings at WBAI provided by Common Dreams.

Workers World on the takeover of radio station WBAI management by the Pacifica Foundation.

Mimi Rosenberg about her banning by management of Pacifica Station WBAI.

Rediff.com article on the banning of WBAI producers Deepa Fernandes and Biju Mathew. "It's a total political purge," says Fernandes, who co-produced "Behind the News" with Mathew.

Members of listeners group Loud Rapp protest rightward political turn of Pacifica's WBAI in programming and attacks on workers' rights. Press Release.

Westchester Co. Weekly on the campaign to withhold donations to WBAI to ensure that bannings, firings and censorship will stop .

Echoing the 1999 KPFA attack, Pacifica told WBAI's General Manager Valerie Van Isler that she is beeing removed. Fair Media Advisory.

NPR reports on the battle over recent changes at Pacifica's WBAI. Activists are protesting the new general manager, as a symptom of Pacifica's rightward drift. (RealAudio)

NYC Indymedia article compares WBAI's Coup to an occupation. "Like all occupation forces, they are illegal, immoral and they are going home."

Demonstration at Pacifica's WBAI the morning after Pacifica coup that fired the Station Manager, the Program Director and Producer Sharon Harper. (RealVideo)

Workers World on WBAI and demonstration shortly before the takeover to protest Pacifica's plan to fire Valerie Van Isler the Station Manager.

WBAI producer Bill Weinberg gives the history of the conflict and an update on the current struggle to save free speech radio at this Pacifica radio station.

Discussing recent developments at WBAI which under U. Leid has used right wing antisemitic propaganda for it's spring 2001 fund raiser. By WBAI host Bill Weinberg.

Bill Weinberg on right-wing premiums in the spring 2000 fund-raising marathon by Pacifica's WBAI Radio.

Article in the Revolutionary Worker on Pacifica's board carrying out a coup at WBAI by taking over the station, changing the locks, firing three people; then banning staff who disagreed with their actions.

Articles about the issues surrounding the takeover of WBAI by Pacifica from the Daily Weekly on-line magazine.

Explains how Democracy Now's host and crew found themselves broadcasting from outside WBAI's studios.

Article on infoshop.org by Edward S. Hermann encouraging people to get involved in the struggle against Pacifica in order to save WBAI.

WBAI host Elombe Brath about the growing resistance against the Pacifica Board 'Coup' at WBAI.

Articles about the issues surrounding the takeover of WBAI by Pacifica from The Village Voice a New York City weekly.

A hostile takeover rocks radio's voice of the left. TIME Magazine article on "Midnight Coup" at Pacifica station WBAI.

"U. Leid and C. Reilly, under the guidance of its current national board, are upholding, by extension a profoundly racist and classist vision for Pacifica's future." Indymedia article.

Village Voice article by Bharati Sadasivam about changes made at WBAI by interim Station Manager Utrice Leid.

NonProfit Times on the WBAI takeover. Giving voice to Pacifica's version of events what has been called the "Christmas Coup".

John Tarleton on listeners in front of WBAI for an impromptu protest in support of award-winning broadcaster Robert Knight. Knight was banned from the station.

The Villager on broadcasts by WBIX, WBAI in Exile, which broadcasts daily, featuring the banned and fired continuing to uphold the pre-coup quality of WBAI programming.

Station managers Pacifica stations and the Executive Staff of the Pacifica Foundation arrived in New York City for a secret meeting. Members of the Pacifica resistance movement organized a spontaneous, disciplined, peaceful protest.

Photographs of protest held in Newark, NJ against the banning and firing of producers by the interim Station Manager U. Leid at Pacifica's WBAI.

WBAI listeners converged in front of the station's studio to protest the firings of WBAI's station manager, program director and a producer of the popular morning show Wake Up Call. Images of the protest.

Column in the Nation Magazine. "Coup" at Pacifica's WBAI as "opening salvo in a pitched battle designed to silence radical dissent".

Article on tenant.net relating the takeover of WBAI and changes in the Pacifica National Board to the struggle for decent and affordable housing.

Haiti Progres article calling WBAI Interim Manager Leid an "agent of a reactionary segment of the Pacifica National Board" and looking back at the post "Coup" time.