By Miranda Kennedy  I was with a friend as 1,200 people marched
across the Brooklyn Bridge a couple of months ago for the local
radio station, WBAI, which is at 99.5 FM. The marchers were
chanting "Whose station? Our station!" and above them, the words
"SAVE WBAI" curled into the sky from the back of a plane. As we
were swept through the crowd, my friend looked around her, a
little baffled. "Is everyone here because a radio station has
changed hands?" she asked. "Aren't there bigger battles to
fight?"  Some New Yorkers continue to ask that question some
seven months after the so-called "Christmas Coup" at the
progressive radio station. That is when the executive director
of WBAI's parent organization, Pacifica Foundation, changed the
locks, fired the station's general manager, its program
director, and its union steward, then appointed a new 'interim
general manager,' Utrice Leid. Leid dismissed 21 producers and
hosts, and banned a long list of former WBAIers from even
entering the building. Why this has prov