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When Spin hurts innocent victims, by people in positions of power, 
Racism has expanded to incorporate people who thought they were imune, to the suffering of people of color only to be incorporated into the big picture. The question is with unlimited amount of money and a Earth that can not survive will the money save them? And if you are not rich and your expendable income is becoming less do you feel more secure?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 3:57pm PDT
Longtime GOP Fundraiser and NPR Critic Elected to Head CPB Longtime Republican fundraiser Cheryl Halpern was elected the new chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting earlier this week. Halpern has overseen such government-funded media projects as Voice of America, Radio Marti in Cuba and Radio Free Iraq. She has alos accused National Public Radio of being biased against Israel. We speak with Celia Wexler of Common Cause....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:25am PDT
Pacifica Station KPFT Weathers Hurricane Rita As hurricane Rita bears down on the Gulf Coast, we go to Houston to speak with the staff of Pacifica Radio station KPFT - one of the few radio stations still broadcasting in the city....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:08am PDT
Popular, Alternative and independent Communication in the in the "Other Campaign". Independent Media proposal for the Other Campaign, Mexico....
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2005 10:47pm PDT
The New York Times and Bush’s New Orleans speech The debased and servile state of the US media was on display in its response to President Bush’s Thursday night speech in New Orleans. Press reports and commentaries were largely favorable, depicting Bush’s words as a serious effort to grapple with issues of poverty and inequality that have never before been on the radar screen of this administration, and his proposals as a significant pledge of federal aid to the victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2005 11:47am PDT
9/16 - 9/18 :: live stream from Chiapas :: "The Other Campaign" (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) This weekend, Indymedia Chiapas is producing a radio stream from the last meeting in the series that the EZLN has been holding with civil society over the past month....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 5:00pm PDT
New Orleans Police Harass Independent Journalist As President Bush says he'll rebuild New Orleans, we speak with Hip Hop activist and independent journalist Rosa Clemente about the crackdown in the shelters. She describes being harassed by a New Orleans police officer while doing interviews at a Red Cross shelter....
Posted: Fri, Sep 16, 2005 6:46am PDT
Hip-Hop journalist Rosa Clemente arrrested in Baton Rouge, LA. for reporting the truth! 
ROSA CLEMENTE WAS ARRESTED LAST NIGHT FOR REPORTING ON CONDITIONS OF THE SHELTERS HOUSING KATRINA VICTIMS....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2005 6:57pm PDT
US media hails martial law general in New Orleans The abject failure of American capitalist society in face of the human tragedy in New Orleans, and the disaster’s exposure of the stark social polarization in the US, have proven deeply unsettling for the ruling elite and the more comfortable sections of the upper middle class....
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2005 8:11am PDT
Fox touts misleading Red Cross account to blame Blanco Fox News and other conservative media, including nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh and popular weblogs, have loudly and repeatedly touted statements made this week by American Red Cross president and CEO Marsha J. "Marty" Evans that Louisiana state homeland security officials blocked Red Cross efforts to enter New Orleans to deliver food, water, and other critical provisions to victims of Hurricane Katrina because the state officials did not want to provide an incentive...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 10:18pm PDT
News from Neptune Topics in this week's program:
Setting aside the Constitution
New Orleans and the end of the New Deal
Death squads in Iraq...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2005 3:16am PDT
Government Trying to Stem the Tide of Images From New Orleans by Threatening Journalists? Journalists covering New Orleans in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina report that militarization in and around the city has hindered their work and threatened their physical safety. We hear from two journalists who were reporting in New Orleans recently....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 7:22am PDT
Radio Astrodome: Independent Media to Provide Critical Info for Displaced New Orleans Resi Independent media activists are setting up a low-power radio station at the Houston Astrodome to provide critical information to hurricane Katrina evacuees. We speak with those working on launching the station and the challenges involved....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 7:27am PDT
Memo to the Media: Stop Enabling the White House Blame Game When it comes to managing political crises (as opposed to national ones), the Bush White House has earned a reputation as masters of damage control. And rightly so -- let’s see you get reelected after Abu Ghraib, the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” memo, no WMD, no bin Laden (dead or alive), and “Mission (Most Definitely Not) Accomplished”....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:45am PDT
An open letter to NBC news, 9/2/05, on Katrina reporting Watching NBC's "Dateline" for Friday 9/2, I realized what subtle racism means, and saw that the 1950s still aren't over....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:04am PDT
Lockout at the CBC—“Canada’s public broadcaster” The lockout of 5,500 journalists and technicians at the federal government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) threatens to be prolonged. Taking its cue from the corporate media giants and Canada’s Liberal government, CBC management is seeking to impose a new business model in which an ever-larger proportion of its employees will be contract workers with little or no job security....
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 11:35pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/19/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Aug 18, 2005 4:31pm PDT
IMC super rural access problem Urgent help needed to deliver indymedia via wireless service to isolated rural users. The FCC is considering reopening docket #04-151 which would likely result in corporate take-over of the remaining public wireless frequencies needed to bring wireless services to isolated rural users. Comments are still being accepted....
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 12:15pm PDT
Growing Grassroots in Beirut Stefan Christoff writing from Beirut, Lebanon, The Electronic Intifada, 8 August 2005...
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 11:39pm PDT
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