We paid small tribute to Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on this the 43 anniversary of their assassinations at the hands of the state. We then turned to Tom Porter and Ben Woods who were with us in studio to discuss further the latest struggle over our WPFW airwaves. And later we were joined by Lori Sasai Robinson and Dr. Ollie Johnson about their 30+ year engaged study and involvement in Brazilian politics and culture.
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Tom Porter speaks outside WPFW studios today at another rally to save the the station:

This is the future of programming on WPFW if you support the direction their going in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHsDgCSm11g
I am especially grateful for the posting of this audio on voxunion.com, because I was unable to access the live WPFW program on Friday Dec 14, due to a dead webstream. I have found the webstream to be down frequently recently, since the angry responses to the coup have increased.
I require the webstream, because I reside and work in Massachusetts (not Vermont, as Tom Porter mistakenly recalled on the program and during the rally immediately afterward). I am that contributor who pledged the $1000 (pointedly for Tom’s Midday Jazz and Justice program)from the New England hinterlands.
The subsequent pledge acknowledgement letter that I received from WPFW oddyl referred only to supporting DemocracyNow! I was uneasy about it even before I learned of the coup. With my ballot yet in-house, I learned of the termination of Midday Jazz and Justice and other of my favorite programs, such as Africa Now, Voices with Vision, In the Margins, What’s At Stake, and more.
I am declaring that, without doubt, I refuse to allow such a rip-off to go unchallenged, and I will be making it clear to those concerned, especially the guilty. However, the issue is a greater one, just as Tom Porter has expressed it. Within such a context, I am pleased that you, Jared, remain on the air and are unbowed in the process. (I had feared that you, too, had gotten the axe.) The struggle continues for decolonizing the minds of the people by pursuing a pan-African, anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist agenda.
–Mel Smith (aka Melmanjaro)