The WBAI Winter Fund Drive started on February 3rd and runs until February 28th. Volunteers are needed to answer the phones (more on this below).

As always, membership drives entail some changes to our regular programming schedule. This is the (tentative) revised schedule.

Tuesday February 9 12:00 AM - 02:00 AM Niteshift
02:00 AM - 04:00 AM Jazz Special
04:00 AM - 06:00 AM Mass Backwards
06:00 AM - 08:00 AM Wake Up Call
08:00 AM - 10:00 AM Democracy Now
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Ecologic with Ken Gale
12:00 PM - 02:00 PM Science Health & Healing
02:00 PM - 05:00 PM Art's Magazine
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM Taking Aim
06:00 PM - 07:00 PM News/FSRN
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM Asia Pacific Forum
09:00 PM - 11:00 PM Shocking Blue
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM NEWS rebroadcast

WBAI's Winter Pledge Drive begins Wednesday, February 3, 2010 at 6am, and continues (tentatively) through Sunday, February 28, 2010 midnight, with overnight fund raising throughout the drive. WBAI needs YOU, to ensure that every call pledging support gets answered!

If you want to establish or reinstate membership with WBAI, this is a good time to do so by donating at least three hours during the fund drive. If you are able to volunteer for 15 hours or more, a gift from a selection of Premiums will be offered.

WBAI thanks the following for providing food for our volunteers during the membership drive.
-- Red Jacket Orchards
-- Alfanoose Middle Eastern Cuisine
-- Local Station Board Chair Mitchel Cohen
-- Business Manager Indra Hardat
-- Station Member and volunteer Matt Mazzer

Exploding toilets. Exploding wells. Contaminated drinking water. This is what has happened in other states that have allowed Halliburton's hydraulic fracturing process to reach natural gas deposits in shale. Chesapeake Energy Corporation put out a press release on Oct. 28 stating they won't drill in New York City's watershed. What does that really mean? What about the other companies that are taking out drilling leases? What about the rest of the state? Why is the governor allowing these leases? What does the NYC City Council pronouncement on the subject really mean? What about other dangers to the water supplies? Why isn't all drinking water protected from any and all pollution? What about the already-contaminated water in Pennsylvania and other states? We already do without the gas. We cannot do without the water. Hosted by Ken Gale.

In honor of Black History Month, Joy of Resistance: Multicultural Feminist Radio will present a three-part premium honoring the history of Black Women:

1) A Black Feminist History Collection (4 CD's)
2) Pacifica Radio Archives' Angela Davis Collection
3) Angela Davis' latest book: "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition

These premiums will be available separately or together as a package -- as a Thank You! for supporting WBAI!

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.

*The Aliens*
*We are all aliens in our own world*

Radio Plays are rarely produced in New York, let alone the United States these days. WBAI is proud to announce, THE ALIENS a new hip radio series to air in 2010. The Aliens explores the lives 6 people of 6 different nationalities living in 5 different countries. We are searching for Actors, Musicians, Bands and Sound Designers.

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

The WBAI Winter Fund Drive is underway

Call (212) 209-2950 to make a pledge
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