A Declaration of Guerilla Media War

Please choose a question to address and resolve as quickly (about 45 minutes 
of fantastically-concentrated focus) as possible, in a small group of five to seven 
others, and then choose someone among you to present your findings in four or 
five minutes to us all for discussion.       Thanks.

- What prevents the Free Pacifica Movement from cohering and achieving its goals?

- In community radio, what role will listeners have?

- How will digitalization affect Pacifica?

- Why do we need Pacifica, if we now have internet webcast?

How can a mobilization of listeners (and non-listeners... ) be catalyzed to save 
this first and last freedom - our freedom to speak?

- How should airtime be apportioned and who should make deceisions about it?

- How do we preserve Pacifica's radical vision?

-   Why weren't the warnings heeded five years ago, that Pacifica was at a point of 
imminent takeover?

- Could the station be set up, impervious to market and government incursion?

Is Pacifica compromised by accepting funding from the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting?

-   If Pacifica's major difficulty is the environment of unbounded media concentration 
in which it must operate, how can we effect change at the FCC (which has expanded the 
number of stations that may be owned by a single entity and issued regulations which 
limit the interaction between broadcast media and the internet broadcast media through 
the Digital Millenium Copyright Act)?

-   How might the power interests use a leftist-appearing Pacifica to satisfy its 
propaganda needs ?

-   To what extent might government intervention be responsible for the takedown of 
Pacifica?

-   Is there a value in a centralized nati~mal radio network akin to Pacifica, or 
should it be reconstituted relatively autonomously?

- Is a democratically-controlled media possible in the middle of capitalism's dominance?

How might the structure insuring community control manifest itself both locally and 
nationally?

As the only media outlet for community voices, Pacifica is analagous to a straw relieving 
an ocean under pressure. Would it not be better to firewall Pacifica, preserving only 
part of the community's voice, as a gated park to be re-opened later?

If the takedown of WBAI and Pacifica are galvanizing events, initiating an allout 
offensive to reclaim the airwaves, should we, like the Zapatistas, issue a formal 
declaration of war?

What's the best way to reclaim the public's voice - artistic subversion over the air 
or guerilla war on the ground?

Shotgun station design: use the time to design a progressive community radio station, 
resolving the possibly mutually-exclusive oppositions, which follow, concretely.

Is the station an instrument for

- leftist-advocacy for thoroughgoing social change or for community access?

- fair and"objective" presentation or advocacy?

-   the creation (and integration) of a community or for differentiating and representing 
various communities?

-   the freedom to speak all ideas or only those ideas which do not prohibit others' 
freedom to speak?

- individualism or community?