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Media Alliance Talks About Corporate Control (video/x-pn-realvideo 792.4KB) Media Alliance addresses corporate control of public airwaves....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 12:38pm PDT
Zapatista Women Seize Radio Station Zapatista women peacefully seized a radio station to demonstrate for the rights of women and indigenous Indians, on International Women's Day, March 2000....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 10:07am PDT
WTO Music MP3 (audio/mpeg 2.0KB) WTO music inspired by being on the welcoming committee in Seattle. Share this with a friend. Dana...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 8:15am PDT
NAB: Airwaves Belong to the People Drafted by FAIR and signed by media activists including Noam Chomsky, Bob McChesney & Ben Bagdikian, this letter reminds the NAB that the airwaves belong to the people....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 6:38am PDT
NOW Press Conference at NAB Protests (audio/mpeg 491.7KB) Audio newscast in mp3 , pass it around!
National Organization for Women held a press
conference/protest outside the NAB Convention today......
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 2:11am PDT
NAB Hate Radio Olympics It’s no accident that the Marconi Radio Award nominees include Don Imus, Howard Stern, and Rush Limbaugh, while past winners include Limbaugh, Stern, and Dr. Laura. Their styles of hate radio, carefully blended with plausible deniability, are anything but an abberation from the norm that America’s corporate broadcast media have sunk to....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:33am PDT
The NAB and Dr. Laura “Dr.” Laura isn’t really a doctor--her degree is in physiology, not psychiatry or psychology. Nothing else about her is exactly what it seems, either. Thanks to the highly effective grassroots group StopDrLaura.com, people are fimally starting to get the picture....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:29am PDT
The NAB and Don Imus Don Imus is so well connected to elite media and politicians, he couldn’t possibly be doing hate radio, could he? Not unless hate radio is integral to America’s corporate media system!...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:24am PDT
The NAB and Howard Stern Howard Stern is far cruder than the other NAB Hate Radio Olympians, but he’s still too slick for the corporate media to catch on to. Could it be they’re not really trying?...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:19am PDT
The NAB and Rush Limbaugh Limbaugh’s style of hate radio, embedded in a wildly distorted view of reality, is perhaps the most deeply embedded in the basic assumptions of America’s corporate media. In fact, he’s got more in common with PBS’s Newshour than you’d ever imagine....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 1:15am PDT
Prague authorities revoke permits for demos Prague authorities have revoked permits for all street demonstrations on September 26th.
This obvious abuse of power probably won't stop the thousands of activists gearing up to disrupt the IMF/World Bank meetings next week.
Activists from around the globe can also help out by signing the open protest letter to Czech President Vaclav Havel (once political prisoner himself), and by faxing it to his office and/or sending email.
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Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 12:40am PDT
FCC bans cellfone service in San Francisco 
Notice of service-cut in pdf format...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 12:17am PDT
FCC Upload Messup FCC Notice of Service cut-off and broadcasting ban seen in downtown San Francisco today....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 12:08am PDT
Medea Benjamin interviews Patricia Ireland (video/x-pn-realvideo 7.0MB) Meda Benjamin talks with Patricia Ireland at the NOW demonstration. Concludes with interview w/Medea re press exploiting the issue....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 11:36pm PDT
NAB Song (video/x-pn-realvideo 3.4MB) A song reflecting on the sad state of commercial radio in the US, thanks to the NAB and the 1996 Telecommunications Act....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 11:31pm PDT
NAB Propaganda Against LPFM Fearful that the FCC would respond favorably to grassroots demands for LPFM, the NAB launched an aggressive
PR offensive to sway public opinion. The attached PDF file, a facsimile NAB "Anti-LPFM Kit" shows the extent that the NAB has gone to prevent media from created at the community level....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 11:15pm PDT
Seattle, Cancel the Debt Now! Show your support and tell the IMF/WB to
CANCEL THE DEBT NOW !!!
Seattle, WA 9/24/00 1:30PM...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 10:28pm PDT
LPFM Legislation and NPR Involvement LPFM activist Peter Franck of the National Lawyers Guild on Democratic Communications issues a superb assessment of anti-LPFM legislation and NPR's role in it all....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 10:18pm PDT
Toxic Fire at Hunters Point Shipyard Toxic Fire at Hunter's Point Shipyard in San Francisco - - Fire down below!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 7:18pm PDT
Protest Against Presidential Debate Exclusion Call For A Nationwide Protest Against The Presidential Debate Exclusion...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 5:40pm PDT
diamond dave calls u to dinner time advance for community dinner...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 4:47pm PDT
NOW Protest Against NAB Report NOW confronts the bigoted programing and corporate bullying by the NAB....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 1:20pm PDT
Updates on NAB Protest (audio/mpeg 154.2KB) Reporting from San Francisco
Updates on the NAB-2000 PROTEST at the
Moscone Center, 700 Howard Street (corner of 4th)
San Francisco, CA ....
TODAY 12noon to 1pm ,,Call some friends now !...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 9:23am PDT
Interview with Stephen Dunifer Stephen Dunifer launched Radio Free Berkeley in 1993 with a transmitter the size of a brick. In this interview, he reflects on efforts to build a grassroots movement to free the media from corporate control....
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2000 7:42am PDT
The Transistor Triangle: NAB, Congress and FCC Attacks on micro radio, million to buy congress, monotonous white dominated TV. Welcome to the world of the NAB....
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2000 9:05pm PDT
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