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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Radio Free Eireann will host a St. Patrick's Day Special on March 17th from 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM.

WBAI will broadcast live the OPENING PLENARY of the Left Forum conference THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: Rekindling the Radical Imagination. Hosted by Earl Caldwell.

WBAI will broadcast live the CLOSING PLENARY of the Left Forum conference THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD: Rekindling the Radical Imagination.

The WBAI Winter Fund Drive ended Monday March 1st.
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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).

The Pacifica Foundation is looking to hire a General Manager for WBAI.

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.

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.

December 14, 2009: With the ballots counted and scanned, the results of 41 rounds of electronic single-transfer vote counting are ... [continued]