The Pacifica Foundation and its unusually powerful broadcast assets (KPFA-FM 94.1 is licensed for 50kW, IIRC) have amplified the antiwar movement and many other dissident interests within their broadcast areas over the latter half of the 20th century. It is, or in an emergency could become, an important coordination good for dissidents, and therefore important for the state to capture.
It wasn't like that before Mary Frances Berry brought her neoliberal ass to town uninvited.
I don't use words like "left". They have been so Orwellized as to be useless. Instead I discuss specific issues.
https://science1arts2and3politics.substack.com/p/the-orwellization-of-words
"You must be a genius". -- The DI in Forest Gump
The Pacifica Foundation and its unusually powerful broadcast assets (KPFA-FM 94.1 is licensed for 50kW, IIRC) have amplified the antiwar movement and many other dissident interests within their broadcast areas over the latter half of the 20th century. It is, or in an emergency could become, an important coordination good for dissidents, and therefore important for the state to capture.