Among it's biggest problems and long-term dysfunctions is that Pacifica Foundation is always being claimed and torn into pieces by people who have opposing or, at least, different ideas of what it's supposed to be. In a nutshell, and this has been said hundreds of times over the past 50 years, some people want Pacifica to be an educational radio network of cultural and artistic merit, others want Pacifica to serve as a political movement(s). I published a bunch of PNB documents from 1985 that I think really give a lot of perspective to the issues and the challenges. The organization has suffered as many purges and wars as the Ottoman empire. As a long time peace activist, I just always felt that the wars themselves created new victims, erases the good along with the bad, and never helped the survivors pick up the pieces. For me, Pacifica often operates as a hostile environment, eating up it's own and hundreds have left with a very bad taste. I think of good, decent people (I dare not name them because that will start another barrage) who have left Pacifica and all I see is that it's a terrible waste. We ought to see one another as resources, not as enemies. Check out: _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/800_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/800) _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/812_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/812) _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/1370_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/1370) _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/1366_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PacificaRadiowaves/message/1366) **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001)