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In the latest attack over free media in the Philippines, Radyo Cagayano, a community radio station run by farmers and supported by the left-wing Bayan Muna party, was burned down and its staff member injured and robbed at gun-point.
The radio station employees suspect the Philippine Army. Since Gloria Macapagal became President in Feburary 2001, 42 journalists have been murdered. AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Stations, is organizing a campaign to demand justice for the people of Radyo Cagayano.

Dina Boyer is a photographer and videographer who frequently posts media to Indybay, and covers LGBT and police brutality-related issues. Ms. Boyer reports, "For the last 8 years I have been covering the Pride celebration in San Francisco... every year I obtained media passes." After having applied months in advance for her official press passes, she was denied her passes on Saturday. She feels that she was discriminated against, and that her First Amendment rights as a journalist were violated. She feels that her presence as a transgendered woman and a journalist will not be missed when she does not cover Pride events next year. The press credentials of Allen White, who wrote a story critical of the corporate nature of SF Pride for Beyond Chron, were also lifted.

On June 10, protesters gathered on Market St. in San Francisco to protest Apple's use of Digital Rights Management, the restrictions placed by Apple on music purchased at iTunes. Photos & Video

Skidmark Bob of Free Radio Santa Cruz speaks with Ron Anicich, producer of Bad Cop, No Donut!. Ron talks about the Toronto Police raid of CKLN on May 25th during the airing of the Bad Cop, No Donut! - May 25/2006 radio program. Luckily Ron was not in the studio at the time of the raid. The police say they were responding to a 9-1-1 call after somebody listening to the show believed that someone at CKLN was being attacked.... Read more

audio (mp3): Interview with Ron Anicich (55:18 minutes / 38 MB)

see also: 5/25 Interview on RadioActive SanDiego || Previous BCND! Interviews on FRSC

Long-time Indymedia volunteer, reporter and activist rabble writes: It's easy to talk about how indymedia and the visible anti-neoliberal globalization movement appeared out of nowhere in 1999. As if it sprung magically out of the tear gas as a fully developed living breathing movement. It's a romantic myth which has been useful in the spread of indymedia. But it's not true. The Seattle WTO protests grew out of years of struggle and a coalition building effort and a lot of luck. Many social movements grew and converged at the same time as having a tremendous tactical victory in the streets.

So first i will explain a bit of how the social movements made the seattle wto protests a success. There were many years of very reformist and conservative unions who have declining membership who took on the free trade fight. They had fought and lost against free trade agreements with Canada and Mexico. So they understood the importance. Then there were social justice groups and the normal leftists. These groups were aware of the WTO through organizing against APEC and NAFTA. Folks had been inspired by protests against the G8 and many other groups. There was an idea, that elsewhere anti-globalization protests had been successful and how it was 'our turn'. So this broad spectrum of leftist groups included many media activists who created indymedia.

Read More | Indymedia and Indybay History

A "National Day of Out(r)age Against the Telcos" was held on Wednesday, May 24th. In San Francisco, there were two protests. The first was held at noon outside of AT&T Park for street theater to point out that people won't play ball with telephone companies that do business with the NSA. There was also a rally outside of AT&T headquarters, (600 Folsom Street, between 2nd and 3rd Streets) from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Photos The AT&T building is where the National Security Agency (NSA) set up a secret spy room to collect phone calls. Read more

On May 24th, protests will be held across the country against the telephone companies AT&T and Verizon. People are outraged by the tactics of the major telephone companies, or Telcos (AT&T, Verizon and Quest), to pass National Video Franchising legislation in Congress. The Telcos are spending one million dollars a week to buy the votes of Congresspeople for their legislation, House Bill 5252 and Senate Bill 2686 and on advertising to influence public opinion. The proposed legislation will curb local control over video franchises, negatively impact thousands of local Public, Educational and Governmental Access channels, allow red-lining in low-income and rural communities and jeopardize the openness of the internet by removing 'net neutrality' provisions designed to promote competition.

Recent news also has exposed the privacy violation of millions of telephone users-- thatAT&T and Verizon willingly handed over call records to the National Security Agency without proper legal warrants. Read more AT&T has also been in the news about its collusion with the NSA to install computers to track the internet traffic on their Worldnet backbone. Now these same corporations want even more access to homes throughout the country with their fiber networks. Protest organizers demand accountability and better protections.

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The Project is a monthly radical newpaper for the UCSC campus and Santa Cruz Community. It is run in a non-hierarchical fashion mainly by UCSC students, with an emphasis in anti-capitalism and local activism aimed at democratizing the university system.

The purpose of this newspaper collective is to document and inspire strategic radical actions that are relevant to local, regional, and global socioeconomic justice. The Project Newspaper Collective believe independent media plays a crucial role in facilitating dialogue, organizing mass mobilizations, and encouraging daily acts of resistance.

In This Issue: The Naked Truth: UC Sweatshops || An Open Letter of Solidarity... || Support the Troops? Support Troop Resistance! || SAW Call to Action || Shout Out to May Day: Unidos Estamos, Nos Quedamos || HR4437 & SR2454: The Deal With the Bills || May Day- Made in America, Forgotten and Remembered || How to Keep it Up (Momentum, That is) || Disarming the War Machine || Sustainable Farming