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# NameComments
1 Joseph Mutti
2 Rebecca andrews
3 John
4 Biggi
5 Pranjal Tiwari
6 Adam VosFree Speech Radio News is essential to Pacifica's purposes. It's not only an "anchor" program; it is much more. What is Pacifica as a foundation and as a network without this program to proclaim its presence? There may be money in the bank, but not much more. Please fix Pacifica's funding woes with more lasting, effective methods than cutting programs.
7 Humberto Cuevas
8 Elizabeth Samuels
9 AnonymousYou must continue to find ways to support FSRN. In an era of unprecedented media consolidation, FSRN is one of the few remaining beacons of journalistic integrity.
10 Vanessa Huang
11 dave willey
12 AnonymousI have been a part of a radio station that has broadcasted FSRN for several years. This community and our greater world needs it. Please sustain funding to let us continue. Thank you
13 David Wu
14 Robinson BlockI try to listen up every weekday at 5:30 on KPFT, Where I am a member.
15 Nat Smith
16 Puck Lo
17 Lynda CarsonI try to listen to FSRN everyday, and would feel totally in the dark without it! Do not turn out the lights at FSRN!
18 Cynthia HamiltonAs a regular contributor to Pacifica, I am very disappointed with the decision to cut Free Speech Radio News' funding. FSRN is a program that Pacific must fully support. It is a service that listeners around the world find important. I understand that with the current budget crises difficult decisions have to be made, but this one is just wrong.
19 Teresa W
20 Anonymous
21 Gordon Mar
22 Cecilia BrennanDO NOT GET RID OF FSRN! THERE IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR THIS NEWS SOURCE IN ANY OF THE LOCAL PACIFICA STATIONS THAT I HAVE HEARD. FSRN IS LIKE A LIFELINE. THE NEWS AND STORIES ARE IN-DEPTH, WELL-RESEARCHED, AND ALWAYS RELEVANT. WE, AS LISTENERS AND SUPPORTERS OF THE LOCAL PACIFICA STATIONS, DESERVE AND DEMAND FSRN. DO NOT TAKE IT FROM US. THANK YOU.
23 Ari Paul
24 Anonymous
25 Chandra Hauptman
26 Wolfgang CandelaDo not abandon FSRN. We need its voice now more than ever...
27 jacob pavlak
28 Xiu Min Li
29 Bill Michel
30 Anonymous
31 adrian maldonadoi am a long time listen and supporter of pacifica radio. I very much wish to continue to have Free Speech Radio News on Pacifica. I believe it is a vital resource to our community.
32 Anjali Verma
33 ElenaPlease continue to properly fund this invaluable community resource. It is a much needed source of news and information untainted by corporate interests.
34 Sarah Cameron
35 Brian ShiratsukiCut something else less important.
36 Crystalin Montgomery
37 Crystalin Montgomery
38 Susan da SilvaWe need FSRN. How else will those reporters all over the World get their news out? How else will we really know what's going on out there? Please find the money to keep FSRN going.
39 Julie Alexander
40 sally sommerIt seems obvious to me that KPFA/Pacifica needs to support and present independent, alternative news. What is the alternative? Gathering news from the same sources as MSM? FSRN has been successful as an alternative news collective. Isn't that exactly what Pacifica should be encouraging and supporting? I think so.
41 Scott WachenheimHow about a special fund raising day to benefit FSRN? I t provides a dimension of news coverage missing on KPFA. WE depend on it for our news source.
42 Lani Riccobuono
43 Perrine Kelly
44 Matthew GossageFree Speech Radio News is an asset to this country and its independent media. Please continue the funding so I can continue to support Pacifica. Thank you.
45 Samuel O'BrienI love FSRN! It's the only place I feel that I get accurate accounts of what effect global events have on average citizens.
46 mari spira
47 William M. MandelHaving had for 37 years the most popular KPFA show by a single individual, which was canceled not for budgetary reasons (I never got a cent, nor asked for it) but to provide a time slot for a young person), I know something about the global media justice movement. Pacifica has to realize that radio, like all other performance fields, is to a major degree a matter of personality. An individual has to have what it takes to build and hold an audience. That is just as true of voices of marginalized communities as of all other broadcasters. When people wrote in of "Mandel's golden voice" they were dealing with a reality of radio just as when in dealing with writers the author's style is no less important that the content.
48 Molly McClure
49 William M. MandelThe paragraphs above state my position.
50 Gaurav JashnaniI listen to FSRN several times every week, and think that it is by far one of the best programs that Pacifica stations broadcast. Losing it would mean losing some of the best coverage that Pacifica does, as well as losing many loyal listeners (including myself).

 

Signatures | Total: 726