Dear Free Speech Radio News sustainer, donor or friend, 

This is our monthly communique about what's happening with the strike
against Pacifica Network News and the strikers' newscast, Free Speech Radio
News.

We have some interesting news to report: Pacifica Network News has been
cancelled as of tomorrow, Feb. 15. The reason given by Pacifica management
is financial -- the network is some $5 million in the hole and cuts have to
be made.  However, it's no secret that PNN has long been grossly inadequate
as a Pacifica program, and has been aired on only a handful of the stations
affiliated with Pacifica.

New Pacifica management has reached out to Free Speech Radio News in several
ways. We're now uploaded onto Pacifica's "KU" satellite system each day,
which makes it easier for Pacifica stations and affiliates to receive our
program. FSRN was used heavily during New York station WBAI's fund drive
this month and will now be regularly aired on that station. Berkeley's KPFA
has long supported the program too, as has Pacifica affiliate WMNF in Tampa.
New station managers at the other Pacifica stations (WPFW in Washington,
KPFT in Houston and KPFK in Los Angeles) say they support the program.

We are very pleased by these developments and hope you are too. However,
much of this support within Pacifica does not come with any funding. FSRN is
still very much "own its own" with regard to paying for reporting, phone
bills, production, etc. We produce this quality daily news show on a shoe
string, but we are still relying on you to help keep us going.

So we need your donations now as much as ever. For those of you receiving
this who are sustainers, please consider this your REMINDER TO SEND IN YOUR
PLEDGE. Please make checks out to, and mail to: Pacifica Reporters Against
Censorship, c/o Kevin Brower, 2210 Curtis Street, Apt. A, Berkeley, CA
94702.

As always, thank you for your continuing support.

In solidarity,
The PNN strikers