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Standing with Julian Assange<\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Pacifica Radio stations are known as havens for leftwing thought and action, but the Berkeley station board and the national Pacifica Network board have yet to come to the defense of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.<\/p>\n

The resolution below has been submitted for a vote to the national board of directors of Pacifica\u00a0 a non-commercial radio network of five high-power metropolitan stations\u2014in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, New York City, and Washington, DC. Pacifica has over 200 affiliate stations in other cities, towns, and college and university campuses across the US. The resolution has also been submitted to Pacifica station KPFA\u2019s local station board in Berkeley.<\/p>\n

The US National Press Club, Overseas Press Club of America, Reuters, and Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press all deserted Assange in 2011<\/a><\/u>, two years into Obama\u2019s presidency. After more than six years of political asylum inside London\u2019s Ecuadorian Embassy, he is in poor health and in danger of extradition to stand trial in the US for publishing leaked confidential documents, many of which were also published by the New York Times, the London Guardian, and other prominent media outlets. He could even be tried and sentenced \u201cin camera,\u201d with neither press nor human rights observers present.<\/p>\n

Pacifica was founded by pacifist Lew Hill in the 1940s after World War II. It has a long, proud history as a radical, edgy alternative to corporate and state media that has opposed most US wars and austerity measures since. So one might think that passing this resolution would be a slam dunk, but it hasn\u2019t been. As I wrote in \u201cWe Love the CIA!\u2014<\/a>O<\/a>r How the Left Lost its Mind<\/a><\/u>,\u201d Pacifica has incrementally moved to the right, along with the rest of the country, ever since Ronald Reagan\u2019s presidency, and during the neoliberal, hawkish presidencies of Democrats Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

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Standing with Julian Assange Pacifica Radio stations are known as havens for leftwing thought and action, but the Berkeley station board and the national Pacifica Network board have yet to come to the defense of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The resolution below has been submitted for a vote to the national board of directors of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21961,135,5493,2001,21962,880],"class_list":["post-38398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ann-garrison","tag-cia","tag-counterpunch","tag-julian-assange","tag-pacifica-radio","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38399,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38398\/revisions\/38399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}