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Bill Threatens Cheap Universal Internet Access Keep your right for having low cost universal internet access. Please send a message to oppose HR 2726....
Posted: Sat, Jun 11, 2005 1:13am PDT
The Allied Media Conference 
The Allied Media Conference is right around the corner: June 17-19.
This is the 7th year that hundreds of zinesters, radio pirates,
copwatchers, podcasters, community journalists, hip hop heads,
librarians and more will be gathering in Bowling Green, Ohio. If
you're building alternative media, you should be there, too....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 11:57am PDT
On Forum Now! - The Role of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Worth listening to and calling in . . . they started off talking about Moyers and his speech . . ....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2005 10:41am PDT
Premier Diamond Dave and the C.A. Insurgency (audio/mpeg 23.7MB) Premier Poetry Politics What Ever, Smoken Word, WORD!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 10:10pm PDT
KPFA News screws up again! KPFA's 4 pm News headlines today, read by Max Pringle, began with another example of how KPFA News is often as bad as, if more subtle than, NPR and other ruling-class media in its reinforcement of government propaganda. Here's the transcript and my brief commentary....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 7:21pm PDT
Sex Discrimination Suit Filed Against Pacifica Station KPFA 
Community radio station KPFA was served on Monday with a lawsuit filed by Noelle Hanrahan, former producer and co-host of Flashpoints, the station’s drive-time public affairs broadcast. Also named in the complaint are Pacifica Foundation, Flashpoints executive producer Dennis Bernstein, and ex-general manager, Jim Bennett.
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> Among the charges in the complaint are sexual harassment and sex discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and intentional infliction of emotional distress...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 8:02am PDT
The Web: What's the appeal of free e-mail? A story about free e-mail....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 4:44pm PDT
More Fake News from Big Pharma 
Pharmaceutical makers have created fake news segments and given them to local TV stations to air as news programming. Such fake stories under their deceptive news-like camouflage are part of a marketing strategy aimed an unsuspecting consumers...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 4:36pm PDT
Watching the Media: Report From Aljazeera Foreign media is quick to identify trends in America....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 2:12pm PDT
A Network at War Since ostensiblly winning a campaign to recapture the small progressive Pacifica network that spanned years, involving at one time three seperate lawsuits, and 10's of thousands of its active listerners, the tiny network is once again at war with itself.....Having, along with senior producer Ryme Kakthouda, joined in filing complaints of discrimination on basis of national origin and ethnicity at the last meeting of our national board in NYC,
(http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/12052...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 3:24am PDT
6 Months of Pirate Tv in SF California's only 24 hour Pirate Tv Station Celebrates 6 months on the air...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 8:59pm PDT
Media Matters Guest Today is Tim Robbins NOW Tim Robbins is Guest on Media program (Live)...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 11:03am PDT
Wireless World: Phone-plan competition hot A story about monthly mobile phone plans....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2005 10:52am PDT
Freedom Of the Press: Wake-Up America! American writers have always held that the Arab World is full of dictatorship. They accuse the Arabs of living in a huge prison where newspapers and magazines publish nothing but propaganda and are always pro-government. They boast about how free the American press is, and how it answers to no one, being a power in its own right in America. And then comes the latest American scandal: The White House pressures Newsweek to retract an article it published about mishandling the Holy Qur’an....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 6:58am PDT
Street Level TV #14 June 2005 Bigger Version (video/quicktime 46.9MB) This is a bigger size than the last post. Total running time: 58:30 Check out: the latest episode of Street Level TV, a monthly activist and (in)justice news program produced Radical Transmission Productions, an all-volunteer collective. We gather segments from local producers (up to seven min. long) and create an hour-long monthly show that airs locally and nationally on Free Speech TV. Check out our website for screenings and how you can get involved....
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2005 12:15am PDT
ECR :: shutdown PG&E; UNWED (audio/mpeg 26.0MB) ECR interviews Marie Harrison (Greenaction) about the campaign to shutdown Pacific Gas & Electric and upcoming events starting June 1st (with a Toxic tour on June 3rd and rally June 4th); and local organizers Alli Starr and Azibuike Akaba who are working on the social equity/environmental justice track for "UN World Environment Day." News headlines by Halima....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 12:43pm PDT
Media quickly drops stories critical of Bush administration Media quickly drops stories critical of Bush administration...
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2005 9:53am PDT
GORE VIDAL to be Guest on Media Matters Gore Vidal will speak about current events and the media on Robert McChesney's Weekly Program about Democracy and the Media...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 11:43pm PDT
The Role Of NGOs: "We are not instruments of US power " In the game of claim and blame that has followed political changes in the Middle East, eastern Europe and central Asia, there have been some silly and even dangerous assertions. The changes have been lauded by Bush supporters as unambiguously democratic, and as direct consequences of the president's determination to spread freedom round the world. Governments that have lost power, those who fear they may do so, and their allies, such as Russia, plus a few critics in the west, see no freedom, ...
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 9:13am PDT
KPFA Manager's report part2 (video/quicktime 40.5MB) Part 2 of the May 21 KPFA board meeting with manager's report and board member feedback and Q&A...
Posted: Fri, May 27, 2005 9:18pm PDT
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