To answer the last question first, yes. But Pacifica's management has taken the approach that unless the event is approved by management it doesn't get promoted. At KPFA program hosts have been told not to announce demonstrations before hand becasue it would look like the station is telling people to go. Gregory --- In NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, evan davis <evan@...> wrote: > > CNN International is broadcasting speeches and interviews and areal > footage right now, live, from a march and rally organized by various > African American civil rights leaders and groups. Black media icons > Steve Harvey and Tom Joiner are there and Al Sharpton is keynoting. It > looks fairly sizeable ( Sharpton is claiming they have more than they > had in Jeena, so that would be more than 50,000). > The rally was organized in just 3 weeks. It is demanding that the > Justice dept. do more to address hate crimes. > Why haven't we heard a peep about this on these e-mail lists, or > through Pacifica? Why isn't WPFW covering this live instead of playing > Blues music as they do every week day at this hour? I can't imagine that > Ryme isn't among the marchers with her recording gear in hand right this > moment. > > Sharpton said that the "White media" had "totally ignored" the > march and had failed to publicize it in any way. Aren't we at Pacifica > supposed to distinguish ourselves from the status quo and rise above it > here? > Evan >