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You can now listen to this program on the official WBAI Archive.
The next regular WBAI LSB meeting will be held on Wednesday July 9, 2025, at 7:00 PM. That meeting will be held on ZOOM, even though ZOOM compromises privacy and security. We had an LSB meeting this past week and one of the main things was a determination to deal with some issues around bylaws that are in dispute. I got to give an oral report that included information about a non-meeting meeting of a committee of the Pacifica National Board. I sent out a written Treasurer's Report before the meeting.
Some years ago the WBAI LSB voted to hold its regular meetings on the second Wednesday night of every month, subject to change by the LSB, so we have the following schedule:
These meetings are set to begin at 7:00 PM.
WBAI has a program schedule up on its Web site. The site has gotten many of the individual program pages together to provide links and such, so check it out.
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Here is WBAI's current Internet stream. We can no longer tell if the stream is working without testing every possible stream. Good luck.
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WBAI is archiving the programs! WBAI has permanently switched to yet another new archive Web page! This one is more baffling than the previous one. For some time I was unable to post archive blurbs, then I could, and then I couldn't again. Now I can again and there are a whole bunch of archive blurbs up there now.
This is a link to the latest version of the official WBAI archive. The archiving software appears to have been at least partially fixed. To get to the archive of this program you can use the usual method: you'll have to click on the drop-down menu, which says Display,
and find Back of the Book on that menu. We're pretty early in the list, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Once you find the program name click GO
and you'll see only this Back of the Book program. Management has fixed some problems that we'd been having with the archives.
For programs before March 23, 2019, we're all out of luck. The changes that took place once WBAI Management took control of the WBAI archives seems to have wiped out all access to anything before that date in March. You'll have to click on the same drop-down menu as above, which says Display,
and find Specify Date
, it's the second choice from the top. You are then given a little pop-up calendar and you can choose the date of the program there. Then click GO
and you'll see a list of programs that aired on that date. For those previous programs you can get the audio, but nothing else, since I can't post anything to those pages anymore. Good luck.
Since the former General Manager banned Sidney Smith from WBAI he's not alternating with us on the air. As of November 2020, Back of the Book airs weekly.
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Israel has attacked Iran and Iran has retaliated. This is the sort of thing that a competent President of the United States would be trying to prevent. Instead Donnie Bonespur
Trump said that he'd warned Tehran to make a deal before there is nothing left.
Nice.
According to the The New York Times the Israeli military says 200 warplanes participated in the attack, dropping hundreds of bombs across Iran and striking over 100 targets. Iran has reportedly launched hundreds of drones and some missiles into Israel.
This one may not blow over so fast.
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Right before we began to record we heard that Mahmoud Khalil would be staying in the ICE jail in Louisiana for now, but bail may be possible. Friday was full of this case going back and forth. The federal judge in New Jersey, Judge Michael Farbiarz, denied a request from Khalil's lawyers that he be set free immediately.
The judge had ruled that the Trump administration's primary reason for Putting Khalil in jail and trying to deport him, that he endangered national security by opposing Israel's attacks on Gaza, was unconstitutional. The government had until 9:30 AM on Friday to try to oppose that ruling. The government didn't do that and that's when Khalil's lawyers tried to get him sprung. But the government then changed their reason for detaining and deporting him. They said that he was now, detained based on that other charge of removability,
that they had lodged. This charge says that Khalil did not disclose on his application forms for permanent resident status that he had been a member of certain organizations. Khalil denies the government's allegations. Judge Farbiarz has said that Khalil can request bail from the judge handling the case in Louisiana.
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There are a lot of issues that are considered hazardous to talk about on the air at WBAI, even though the gag rule was lifted in 2002. However, there is the Internet! There are mailing lists which you can subscribe to and Web based message boards devoted to WBAI and Pacifica issues. Many controversial WBAI/Pacifica issues are discussed on these lists.
One open list that no longer exists was the WBAI-specific Goodlight
Web based message board. It was sometimes referred to on Back of the Book as the bleepin' blue board,
owing to the blue background that was used on its Web pages. This one had many people posting anonymously and there was also an ancillary WBAI people
board that was just totally out of hand.
In June 2012, I ended up having to salvage the bleepin' blue board, and so I was the moderator on it for its last seven years, until it got too expensive.
Sometimes we used to have live interaction with people posting on the Goodlight Board
during the program.
Our very own Uncle Sidney Smith, whose program Saturday Morning With the Radio On used to alternate with us, has a blog these days. You can reach his blog here.
There used to be a number of mailing lists related to Pacifica and WBAI. Unfortunately, they were all located on Yahoo! Groups. When Yahoo! Groups was totally shut down in December 2020, all of those mailing lists ceased to exist. One year earlier their file sections and archives of E-mails, had been excised leaving only the ability to send E-mails back and forth among the members. Now it's all gone. Older Back of the Book program Web pages tell a little more about those lists.
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