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Good Wishes and Prayers to Bill DiFazio
WBAI Radio host of City Watch, author, long time activist and Professor of Sociology at St John's University, Bill DiFazio, is fighting for his life in New York University Hospital. He is in the ICU; his wife SUSANNA HELLER says she and Bill welcome prayers and cards at this challenging time. Address cards to: 233 North Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222.
 
Sunday March 14th, 9-11pm Everything Old is NEW Again
We're celebrating MARCH IS CABARET MONTH!
This Sunday we feature the music of LIZA MINNELLI.
Also, four renditions of "Danny Boy" by FREDERICK WEATHERLY, an in-studio interview with HOWARD Mc GILLIN, songs from the score of FINIAN'S RAINBOW, the CD pick of the week, give-aways and more.
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Monday March 15, 2-3pm Cat Radio Cafe
Performance artist Karen Finley on channeling an iconic widow and national trauma in "The Jackie Look"; Robert Lyons, Paul Bargetto and Maris Stria on the closing of the Ohio Theater on Wooster Street after a 29 year run on the block; and composer Beth Anderson and violinist Ari Yashioka on "Dreams," the final Greenwich House Concert of Women's Work 2010. Hosted by Janet Coleman and David Dozer.
 
Monday March 15, 7-8pm Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
African Spirit, The Soul & Sound of Pharoah Sanders with Pharoah Sanders, jazz titan
and Jitu Weusi, Director of the Board, The Brooklyn Jazz Consortium, and

- On Breaking the Blockade Against Gaza: Viva Palestina with George Galloway, long-term member of the British Parliament, and outspoken and well-recognized defender of human rights and supporter of Palestine.

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Tuesday March 16, 2am-4am Suga' In My Bowl
This month's Women's Herstory Month special will focus on Mary Lou Williams, who has been called the greatest female Jazz musician. Guests will include Carol Bash, who is filming a documentary about Ms. Williams titled The Lady Who Swings the Band, and Peter O’Brien, who was a friend and former manager to Ms. Williams. Hosted by Arts Producer Joyce Jones.
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Tuesday March 16, 2-3PM The Arts Magazine
Screening Room. Cinderella In Chinatown: The roots of class consciousness in female folklore, and neighborhood sweatshops in confrontation with divisive step-sisterhood. Director Fay Ann Lee talks the politics and economics of identity in Falling For Grace. 
Also...Capitalism, fascism and the masculinization of the damaged female psyche in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
And...Stephen Wolf, sitting in for Mary Ann Miller, reads from The Poems Of NY, the poets of New York City.
 
Wednesday March 17, 9am-3pm St. Patrick's Day Special
Radio Free Eireann will host a St. Patrick's Day Special on March 17th from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM.
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Friday March 19, 6-9PM Live From the Left Forum
WBAI will broadcast live the OPENING PLENARY of the Left Forum conference THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: Rekindling the Radical Imagination. Hosted by Earl Caldwell.
 
Sunday March 21, 5:30-9PM Live From the Left Forum
WBAI will broadcast live the CLOSING PLENARY of the Left Forum conference THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: Rekindling the Radical Imagination.
 
Membership Drive
The WBAI Winter Fund Drive ended Monday March 1st.
We still accept online donations at any time
Donations pledged as of Noon, Monday, March 1st, $843,699 

The phone number to pledge is (212) 209-2950
To donate online: click here (no premium)
 To donate to your favorite show: click here (no premium)
To mail WBAI a check: click here
Thank you for supporting WBAI

 
Saturday March 27, Noon Hold the Date: The Aliens series
WBAI 99.5 FM-NYC is proud to present The Aliens, a new radio play 6-part series. Produced by Barika Edwards, The Aliens looks at the intertwining lives of six twenty to thirty-somethings in today’s global society. As their stories unfold, and worlds collide, each character is forced to examine the various boundaries that exist between them (both geographic and psychological).
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R.I.P Dave Nolan
Dave Nolan passed away recently of a major coronary failure. Dave was a long time volunteer radio producer and engineer for WBAI. He was one of the host/producers of Morning Dew. Wednesday night/Thursday morning March 4th on Earthwatch, Robert Knight did a tribute to Dave Nolan that you can listen to in the archives, or download here (right click on the link). Pictures from the funeral are available (click the Read More... button).
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WBAI is looking for a General Manager
The Pacifica Foundation is looking to hire a General Manager for WBAI.
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Conflict Resolution Fund
The WBAI Conflict Resolution Committee is soliciting donations for a fund dedicated to resolving the ongoing conflicts at the station. Our goals are to facilitate new methods of communication and foster new types of relationships between groups so that station staff, volunteers, LSB members and listener members can focus on keeping WBAI solvent, improving our radio quality, meeting the needs of listeners, and expanding listener membership.
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New Shows and Programming Changes
EARTHWATCH: Transterrestrial Radio with Robert Knight airs on Wednesdays from Midnight to 2AM and premiered December 2009.

...ANDYOUDONTSTOP!, hosted by Chuck D, premiered November 23, 2009.

Green Street: Conversations on Healthy and Sustainable Living replaced Create Your Healthy Home in September 2009.

Joy of Resistance (multicultural feminist radio) has been expanded from the first Thursday of every month at 11AM to the first and third Thursday of every month (still at 11AM). They share the timeslot with The Largest Minority (people with disabilities) which has also expanded and now airs on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.
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WBAI Local Station Board Election Results
December 14, 2009: With the ballots counted and scanned, the results of 41 rounds of electronic single-transfer vote counting are ... [continued]
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