https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-891OTNmA_A

#DefundThePolizei #RPM #RevolutionsPerMinute #WBAI 2020 (?)

#DefundThePolice #ACAB #NYC #DSA

TODAY IN QUEER BROADCASTING HISTORY

LIVE AND LET LIVE - 7/15/1962, WBAI radio, NYC (and later other stations)

In 1962, New York gay activist Randy Wicker was tired of radio's third-person discussions of homosexuality, with mental-health professionals yammering sickness-theory nonsense about us and saying things that had no connection with gay life as Randy had seen it.

So he approached a radio station that had aired such shows and convinced them to broadcast a panel of eight gay or bisexual men, talking for themselves about their own lives for several hours - a radical idea for 1962. LIVE AND LET LIVE aired on WBAI, and was later heard on other Pacifica stations and other nonprofit and educational radio outlets. You can now listen to it online. Here's part 1:

https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-526-r49g44jz5j

#radio #MediaStudies #gay #LGBTQ #queer #QueerHistory #GayHistory #LGBTQHistory #WBAI #PacificaRadio

“I’m glad you mentioned the porn” #wbai 😏

FYI @HackerRadioShow on #WBAI 99.5 FM #offthehook is on tonight RN!

#headsup #hostiletakeover #kpfk #kpfa #wbai #wpfw #kpft https://knock-la.com/save-kpfk-pacifica-radio/

So glad to hear @HackerRadioShow back on the air on #WBAI (even though I'm listening to it time-shifted 😊). ☎️ 👍 #2600oth

RT @aurbelis@twitter.com, re: @HackerRadioShow :

#WBAI Update --Things are very much unsettled-- The portions of the TRO that are vacated mean that Pacifica is no longer prohibited from seizing property, preventing broadcasting, and interfering with WBAI's affairs.

But questions remain...

https://twitter.com/aurbelis/status/1182347526143393793

The portion of the TRO that remains means that Pacifica cannot terminate #WBAI employees, like the General Manager. If the General Manager's duties are to direct programming, how can the GM do that if Pacifica controls the property and the transmitter?

The decision seems legally backward: TROs prevent irreparable injuries. Irreparable injuries are harms that money cannot compensate. #WBAI employees are paid with money. Therefore, if employees could be made whole with money, they are not irreparably harmed if fired in error.

On the other hand, forcing #WBAI off the air, eradicating local programming, seizing critical station property, disrupting fundraising, and the listener confusion that results from Pacifica using WBAI as repeater -- that is all irreparable harm!

There is another court conference about Pacifica's contempt happening right now, but that seems mostly moot because #WBAI's TRO was mostly vacated.

However, the hearing on the underlying Petition remains: that by shuttering #WBAI, Pacifica violated its bylaws and violated rights to free expression. Given today's ruling, that date is likely to be sooner than 18 October.

The fight is not over by any means. Stay tuned.