{"id":32490,"date":"2012-11-15T12:13:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32490"},"modified":"2012-11-15T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:13:52","slug":"pacifica-network-pulls-together-for-wbai-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/15\/pacifica-network-pulls-together-for-wbai-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacifica Network Pulls Together for WBAI, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest111512\/2012_11_15_kolhatkar_tiekert.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest111512\/2012_11_15_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/save_wbai.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>When Superstorm Sandy hit WBAI, it trapped seven of the station&#8217;s staff in studios on the 10th story of a building with seawater up to the second floor. <\/p>\n<p>Today, the building&#8217;s wiring is still unusable, and the station&#8217;s facing a second disaster: because the storm knocked WBAI off the air in the middle of a fund drive, and the station has no way to resume fundraising, it faces the prospect of laying off its entire staff.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why Pacifica, the non-commercial network that owns WBAI, is combining the signals of all its radio stations to broadcast a &#8220;nationwide emergency fundraiser&#8221; to save WBAI on Thursday, November 15th.  <\/p>\n<p>The network hopes to raise $150,000 to move WBAI into a temporary studio that the station can use to resume regular coverage and resume doing its own fundraising. <\/p>\n<p>The national emergency fundraiser will include contributions from across the network including Uprising with Sonali Kolhatkar, and a special broadcast highlighting Superstorm Sandy coverage by Democracy Now!<\/p>\n<p>Part of the Pacifica Network since 1960, WBAI pioneered the freeform radio format, served as a cornerstone of the counterculture, took precedent-setting free speech fights with the FCC all the way to the Supreme Court, has delivered cutting-edge coverage of generations of social and cultural movements, and helped launch the careers of some of America&#8217;s best-known broadcasters, from NPR&#8217;s Neal Conan, to RadioLab&#8217;s Jad Abumrad, to Democracy Now!&#8217;s Amy Goodman. <\/p>\n<p>For the Eton FR160 solar-powered radio thank you gift make a $150 pledge by calling 1-877-435-4386 ONLY on Thursday November 15, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>You can also make donations of any amount online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.give2wbai.org\">www.give2wbai.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Superstorm Sandy hit WBAI, it trapped seven of the station&#8217;s staff in studios on the 10th story of a building with seawater up to the second floor. Today, the building&#8217;s wiring is still unusable, and the station&#8217;s facing a second disaster: because the storm knocked WBAI off the air in the middle of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32497,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32490\/revisions\/32497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}