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SF Chron excludes progressive views on prison issues The SF Chronicle ran a decent editorial Friday 7-7-06 "What they aren't saying," slamming Angelides and Schwarzenegger for failing to address sentencing reform in their proposals for dealing with the prison overcrowding crisis. Typically, they excluded the views of 'third party' candidates who have more progressive positions....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 12:41pm PDT
The Web: Net neutrality discriminatory? Chimpy W. Bushitler's friends make money again by cheating Internet customers....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 12:04pm PDT
PR Flack for War to Speak in SF, Friday July 14 at Herbst Theatre for more background see the SourceWatch article on the Rendon Group:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rendon_Group
DemNow! segment on Rendon:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1516257&mode=thread&tid=25...
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 10:13am PDT
Widow of Al Jazeera Correspondent Tareq Ayoub Filing Lawsuit Against Bush Dima Tahboub, the widow of Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Ayoub is bringing a lawsuit against the Bush administration for her husband's death. He was killed in April 2003 when the US military bombed the Al Jazeera offices in Baghdad. We speak with Dima Tahboub and her attorney....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 7:14am PDT
Sri Lankan military personnel questioned over murder of journalist The detention and interrogation last week of a Sri Lankan military intelligence officer and a soldier over the murder of a free lance journalist, Sampath Lakmal de Silva, raises further questions about the intrigues of the armed forces in provoking a return to war on the island....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:29am PDT
The Media and the World Cup It is amazing how quickly the US Mass Media can develop a common perspective. It's as if they spend too much time listening to each other and not enough time looking about; when one major outlet develops an anglethat sounds good all others rush to follow in similar vein....
Posted: Wed, Jul 12, 2006 6:24am PDT
SFSDF Open House & Screening of Student Films 2331 Third Street (at 20th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 12:13pm PDT
SF Cutters Meeting at The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
2565 Third Street, Suite 337 (at 20th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 12:08pm PDT
Acclaimed Journalist Tells Africa Correspondents to 'Come in Right' Charlayne Hunter-Gault, an African American Emmy Award winning journalist, is calling for better news out of Africa. Because coverage of Africa tends to be riddled with racist stereotypes and misguided generalizations of the people, customs, and contexts on the continent, she said it is no wonder that the average reader thinks Africa is one country that is disease ridden, poverty stricken, and hopeless....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:11am PDT
Networking: Consumers eying home networks Chimpy W. Bushitler's friends buy home networking features to live in the lap of luxury while the rest of us comrades live in our poorly furnished moderate income housing....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 11:18am PDT
Journalist Robert Scheer on Playing President: They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush We speak with veteran journalist and author Robert Scheer about his new book, "Playing President: My Close Encounters with Nixon, Carter, Bush I, Reagan and Clinton- and How They Did Not Prepare Me for George W. Bush."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:35am PDT
Venezuelan community video exhibit closes Sunday Berkeley Art Museum Theater
2626 Bancroft Way or 2621 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph Avenues
Served by AC Transit routes 51, 52L, 7 and 40...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 2:29am PDT
KPFA Election for Local Board of Directors 2006 KPFA ELECTIONS COMMITTEE MEETING - 7-12-06 : LOOKING FOR BAY AREA VOLUNTEERS TO ASSIST...
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 12:15am PDT
Act Now To Protect Internet Freedom Here is a reprint of an e-mail that I received concerning big telco companies attempts to provide two tier access to the Internet....
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 6:29pm PDT
Robert Jensen on McChesney's Media Matters 11am Pacific 
Robert Jensen is the author of The Heart of Whiteness and Citizens of the Empire....
Posted: Sun, Jul 9, 2006 10:57am PDT
Rejoice Rejoice lives in Nigeria and has little to rejoice about. This is her story, and the story of the tank....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 7:57pm PDT
Community Radio station set aflame in the Philippines: staff injured, military blamed 
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 peopl...
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 2:05am PDT
Berkeley: Free today only - Venezuelan community video exhibit Berkeley Art Museum Theater
2626 Bancroft Way or 2621 Durant Avenue
Between College and Telegraph Avenues
Served by AC Transit routes 51, 52L, 7 and 40...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 1:34am PDT
StoryCorps: National Social History Project Records Ordinary People Telling Their Stories We hear the voices of people, citizen and non-citizen, old and young telling their stories to each other. A grandmother tells her grandson about her own childhood. A young man proposes to his girlfriend. A soldier talks about his experience in war. A father remembers a loved one who passed away....All of these are stories told by ordinary Americans. Now, thousands of them are preserved forever - in sound....
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 6:33am PDT
The Starving Millions and “Kylie Minogue’s Ordeal” It’s called distraction, shifting focus, drawing attention away from the real issues that beset the majority of humans on the planet. We are all anticipating another round of distracting emotive images on our televisions; things are not going well for the powers, it’s time for another ‘circuit’ of abuse awareness commercials, always topical and a guaranteed mind-shifter. The public consciousness is a well-managed resource – never doubt it!...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 6:28am PDT
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