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Saving Our Access TV Shows
Summary: FCC enters the debate on “local franchising” and could play role in shaping the future of Public, Educational and Governmental TV. Around the country Community Access TV advocates are vocal in opposition to legislation that would harm Access TV....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 6:12pm PST
SF Ch 29 CEO Bans Video Cameras At His Private "Lotteries"-More Privatization Of Commu
SF community access CEO Zane Blaney has banned video cameras from recording the "private"
lotteries that he and his rubber stamp board have instituted. It seems a large number of local
community access producers are fed up with the privatization and commericalization of
the San Francisco city supported community access station. It might get on TV....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 5:00pm PST
Klamath River film night in Arcata, this Friday night
Films to Highlight Struggle to Bring the Klamath Salmon Home
Locals and Tribal leaders to present films, discuss dam removal efforts
Arcata, CA - Klamath River residents are coming to Arcata this Friday as the first stop in a string of multi-media events in California and Oregon to build support for efforts to remove dams and bring the Klamath salmon home....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 2:34pm PST
Left's Silence About Google Is Extraordinary
There is a curious and deafening silence about Google's deal with the repressive Chinese government in the Left Alternative media.
Where are the anti-corporate, anti-globalist voices?
What follows is a hurried hypothesis about why this is so. Hopefully some more talented analysts and writers will explore this idea....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:32pm PST
Boycott the Santa Cruz Sentinel: Over 500 Anti-Alito Voices Silenced
Over 500 letters to the editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel have been sent, describing opposition to right-wing extremist judge, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. How many letters or articles expressing dissenting opinions about Alito have been published? Zero....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 1:23am PST
The Web: Working hard or hardly working?
Capitalists force workers to work harder online....
Posted: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 1:53pm PST
Santa Cruz Indymedia se ha Integrado con Indybay.org
Tenemos el placer de anunciar, que el sitio web del centro de medios independientes de Santa Cruz, ahora forma parte de Indybay.org, que es el sitio web de el centro de medios independientes de la bahia de San Francisco. El nuevo sitio web de Santa Cruz Indymedia es http://indybay.org/santacruz....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 1:20pm PST
Santa Cruz Indymedia's Regional Integration with Indybay.org
We are very pleased to announce that the Santa Cruz Independent Media Center's website will now be regionally integrated with Indybay.org, the website of the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center. The new website address for Santa Cruz Indymedia is http://indybay.org/santacruz....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 1:14pm PST
Latest News From Neptune
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. The show is named in honor of Noam Chomsky, who said, "Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 12:53pm PST
Diebold allows memory cards with visual basic script to alter votecount
Can you tell us about some of your e-voting machine hacking activities? On Tuesday, Dec. 13, we conducted a hack of the Diebold AccuVote optical scan device. I wrote a five-line script in Visual Basic that would allow you to go into the central tabulator and change any vote total you wanted, leaving no logs. It requires physical access to a machine, which in many counties isn’t very difficult to get -- you have elections offices full of volunteers....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 7:19pm PST
Somos Hip Hop R@DiO Hip Hop Latino Real NO Comercial !
Lo Mejor del Hip Hop Subterraneo ! Str8 Up Underground en Espanol ! Raperos de Todas Partes Del Mundo Representando el Verdadero Hip Hop ....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 1:29pm PST
Google subpoena roils the Web
The US government's demand for millions of Internet search records from Google Inc. and other prominent search firms has raised new questions about the vast amounts of personal information collected by companies....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:26am PST
TODAY - SUN - 1/22 - KPFA TOWN HALL MEETING! - 1-4PM - Women's Bldg - S.F.
KPFA is hosting a very important Town Hall Meeting, Sunday, January 22, from 1:00-4:00 pm at the Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street, in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 9:37am PST
SUN 1/22 - KPFA TOWN HALL MEETING! - 1-4PM - Women's Bldg - S.F.
KPFA is hosting a very important Town Hall Meeting on Sunday, January 22, from 1:00-4:00 pm at the Women’s Building, 3543 18th Street, in San Francisco....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 12:12pm PST
US government demands Google hand over Internet search data
The US Department of Justice has asked a federal judge in San Jose, California, to compel Internet search giant Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year to turn over records that detail millions of Internet searches....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:26am PST
Google Defies US Over Search Requests
Internet search giant Google is vowing to "vigorously" fight a legal challenge by the Bush administration to reveal details about online searches, a request privacy advocates warn underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 5:59pm PST
Google Defies Bush Data Demand; Yahoo and Microsoft Have Already Sold You Out
Companies often boast of the data they collect, which they call particularly useful in providing customized search results for users and targeted advertising. Now the Justice Department also wants to have that information and is getting it from compliant corporations....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 10:45am PST
Google defies US over search data
The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:49am PST
Bill Mandel Struck by Car
The terrible news is that Bill Mandel was hit by a car. Amelia Gonzalez and Tracy Rosenberg came up with a plan to have him have a 10 minute weekly commentary on KPFA. More on this when Bill recovers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 10:01pm PST