Ron wishes to thank his partner-in-crime, Sheila Nopper, for her myriad labors which helped bring this project to fruition. To Ramsey and Bill for a place to hang his raincoat during the course of the research. To Freddie Baer for that first pot of designer tea. To Stephen Perkins, the man with the suitcase. To Sue Gardner, for bringing the noise to Canada. To Michael Townsend, who knows that a working class hero is something to be. To Jason Arnold, transcriber par excellance of the University of Illinois at Springfield, which provided some of the technical support for this project. To Lizzie Borden's flaming birth. And to DJ Elijah, wherever he may be...
Stephen wishes to thank his attorneys of record, Luke Hiken and Allen Hopper, and Peter Franck and Alan Korn of the National Lawyers GuildÕs Committee on Democratic Communications for their incredible legal support and dedication to the defense of First Amendment rights.
Special recognition goes to FCC agent David Doon, former agent, Phillip Kane, FCC attorney, David Silberman, and the rest of the FCC bureaucracy whose unique response to micropower radio has contributed to the overall success of this movement. And thanks to the entire crew of Free Radio Berkeley who have made it possible to be where we are today, especially Radman, Captain Fred, Tom Schreiner, and technical support volunteers, Matt Dott, Doug Forbes and Govinda Dalton.
We would both like to acknowledge Laura Hermann of the Loyola Radio Conference for providing the radio-active setting wherein your co-editors struck up the conversation which eventually became this book. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the hydra-headed micropowered free radio movement without which this book would not be possible, and most particularly, the man who started it all, Mbanna Kantako.
The following magazine articles appear in reworked, updated and expanded form in these pages:
Ricardo Omar Elizalde. "Pirate Radio: Voices of Discontent," Frontera #4, 1996 (PO Box 30529, Los Angeles, CA 90030-0529).
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin. "Attack on Black Liberation Radio," Slingshot (Spring, 1997) (3124 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94705).
Ron Sakolsky. "Radio-Activity: Community Animation You Can Dance To," Cultural Democracy (Spring 1990).
_______ ."Anarchy on the Airwaves: A Brief History of the Micro-Radio Movement," Social Anarchism (#17, 1992).
_______ . "Black Liberation Radio," Index on Censorship (Vol 22, #2, February, 1993) (Writers and Scholars International Ltd, 32 Queen Victoria St, London, EC4N 4SS UK).
_______ . "Radio Resistor: An Interview With Stephen Dunifer, Oakland, CA, December, 1995," The Bleeding Edge (#1, 1996) (PO Box 1233, Springfield, IL 62705).
_______ . "Frequencies of Resistance: The Micropower Radio Movement Goes Global," Social Anarchism (#23, 1997) (2743 Maryland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21218).
Peter Spagnuolo. "Steal This Radio," The Shadow (#38, May-June, 1996) (PO Box 20298, NY, NY 10009).
