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Legislation in Washington Attacks Public Access TV Three Bills now in the House and Senate could end public access TV in America....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 1:18pm PDT
Digital City or Divided City? -- Live broadcast tonight (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) Live broadcast this evening from a Media Alliance event at 111 Minna in SF -- Digital City or Divided City? Lawrence Lessig will be speaking....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 7:09pm PDT
Oct 13 - "Uncommon Knowledge" with Filmmaker Eliza Hemenway THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30 pm - Film Event: UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE: CLOSING THE BOOKS AT UC BERKELEY EXTENSION. There will be a screening of footage from the film, Q & A with the filmmaker, followed by reception. "Uncommon Knowledge" chronicles the final months leading up to the closure of UC Berkeley's San Francisco campus as plans unfold to transform this historic campus into a profitable housing development. New College Theater, 777 Valencia St., San Francisco....
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 4:24pm PDT
Cockburn's Slow Burn KPFA hard-hitting program Against the Grain features Counterpunch co-publisher and Nation essayist Alexander Cockburn on today's program. (Downloadable mp3.)...
Posted: Mon, Oct 10, 2005 2:58pm PDT
News From Neptune Political Commentary 
News from Neptune is a radio program about the news of the week and its coverage by the media. News from Neptune is hosted by C. G. Estabrook and P. Mueth and produced by J. B. Nicholson-Owens at the studios of WEFT, 90.1 FM, in Champaign, Illinois USA....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 4:07pm PDT
ONLINE Councious Underground HIP HOP in Spanish RADIO Opens in San Freancisco. 
Independent On line Hip Hop Radio Station (Underground Hip Hop in Spanish) Opens in San Francisco with the Goal of Reaching out Latinos and any spanish Speakin audience. www.SomosHipHop.com...
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2005 1:14pm PDT
New York Times reporter Judith Miller testifies on exposure of CIA agent After spending 85 days in jail, New York Times senior correspondent Judith Miller was released last week in exchange for testimony she gave to a federal grand jury investigating the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity as a covert CIA agent....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2005 6:50am PDT
The Web: Anti-phishing 'posses' hunt criminals Technology capitalists take the law into their own hadns - imprison criminals themselves....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 6:39pm PDT
Labor in Public Broadcasting This show on the struggles of workers in public broadcasting in the UK and Canada aired on KPFA. Makes you wonder about the parallels with workers at Pacifica and KPFA who have been threatened with job cuts and downsizing....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 3:00pm PDT
Another Enemy Vanquished: The Chronicle's Ken Garcia Quits Enemies were in abundance in the first two years of our struggle at Trinity Plaza, but last week another one bit the dust. As reported in last week's Bay Guardian, Ken Garcia is leaving the San Francisco Chronicle. A quick sidetrack here: the Chronicle posted a $67-million loss last year, and the Hearst family brought in hit man Frank Vega to bust up the unions (see Steve Zeltzer, "The Coming War At the San Francisco Chronicle," Beyond Chron, January 3, 2005 for an in-depth analysis...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:16am PDT
Networking: Home-networking boom coming Fraudsters try to dupe consumers with "home networks."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 3:41pm PDT
The History of Low Power radio (video/x-pn-realvideo-meta 0.1KB) This piece describes the history of Low Power radio, with its roots in the pirate radio movement. It was produced for Sprouts Radio on 12/17/2003....
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2005 8:23pm PDT
Judith Miller: No heroine's welcome for reporter who spent her summer in jail Confusion and murk yesterday continued to surround the affair of Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who emerged from her prison cell on Friday to testify in a two-year-old investigation into the alleged leaking by the White House of the name of an undercover CIA operative to her and other journalists....
Posted: Sun, Oct 2, 2005 11:14am PDT
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
Local Public Access TV Under Attack From Trio of Congressional Bills Local public access television across the United States is being threatened by legislation introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Critics say the bills could eliminate the only source of funding public access providers receive and would take away control from local governments. We speak with Anthony Riddle of the Alliance for Community Media and George Stoney, who many consider the father of public access....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:28am 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
Guns & Butter Time Change to 1 p.m. Wed KPFA 94.1 FM Guns & Butter, the outstanding muckraking program which brings you the latest on the 9/11 Inside Job and much more is now broadcast at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays on KPFA, 94.1 FM....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:13am PDT
San Francisco Ski Jump (video/quicktime 29.9MB) On September 29th, San Francisco hosted a ski jump that was erected in Pacific Heights on Fillmore St....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 1:19am PDT
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