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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 8/19/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Aug 18, 2005 4:31pm PDT
The Web: Home-sales rules changing
Thuggish bureacrats cheat homeowners by keeping real estate commissions artificially high....
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 5:14pm PDT
The Velvet Revolution Dissented
The sordid tale of how Peter Gabriel and Vaclav Havel, not satisfied with character assassination through contract prostution, unleashed the rape of a mentally retarded deaf girl, and left their calling card at the scene, by a victim who they brutally, brutally tortured....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 3:15pm PDT
Networking: GM, GE embracing Java
Companies are using Java to needlessly spy on employees....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2005 6:15am PDT
Book Release Party for: A Popular Guide To Building a Community FM Broadcast Station
Book Release Party for: A Popular Guide To Building a Community FM Broadcast Station...
Posted: Mon, Aug 15, 2005 7:11pm PDT
Bush, Saudis, and Oil Companies Raising Gas Prices
The cozy special relationship between Bush, the Saudis, and the big
oil companies have led to record oil prices that are hurting consumers
at the pumps....
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 3:21pm PDT
Wireless World: Chips track license plates
Big brother spying on Muslims in mosques with RFID....
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 2:57pm PDT
KPFA Workers Statement of No Confidence in GM Roy Campanella
Eighty paid and unpaid KPFA workers show their lack of confidence in General Manager Roy Campanella...
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 12:52pm PDT
KPFA Staff File Charges Against General Manager
According to a press release by the plaintiffs, women at KPFA who turned down Campanella’s advances were retaliated against through “public belittlement, threats to cut funding, criticism of their work to supervisors, slander and threats of termination.”...
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 12:19pm PDT
IMC super rural access problem
Urgent help needed to deliver indymedia via wireless service to isolated rural users. The FCC is considering reopening docket #04-151 which would likely result in corporate take-over of the remaining public wireless frequencies needed to bring wireless services to isolated rural users. Comments are still being accepted....
Posted: Sat, Aug 13, 2005 12:15pm PDT
KPFA Staff File Charges Against General Manager
According to a press release by the plaintiffs, women at KPFA who turned down Campanella’s advances were retaliated against through “public belittlement, threats to cut funding, criticism of their work to supervisors, slander and threats of termination.”...
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2005 10:36pm PDT
PRESS RELEASE from some KPFA LSB members regarding harrassment case
Some of the listener representatives of KPFA'S Local Station Board make a statement about the charges against General Manager Roy CampanellaII to be decided upon this Sunday...
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2005 7:10pm PDT
KPFA Workers File Complaints of Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Threats, Retaliation
Today workers at KPFA are contacting the Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the National Labor Relations Board to file complaints against the station's General Manager, Roy Campanella II, for sexual harassment, gender-based discrimination, threatened violence, repeated violation of workers' right to organize, and retaliation....
Posted: Thu, Aug 11, 2005 10:33pm PDT
The Web: Founder sales flourishing
Capitalist profiteers are raping companies and sucking the life out of employees....
Posted: Wed, Aug 10, 2005 6:53pm PDT
Extra! Extra! Fault Lines Party
EXTRA! EXTRA!
SF Bay Area Independent Media Center’s newspaper, Fault Lines, Shakes the Bay!
Celebrate one year of making independent media with the Bay Area’s best radical community newspaper- Fault Lines!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 9:52am PDT
The Crisis of the Media and the Fifth Estate
"In many countries, the media long regarded as a characteristic element of democracy have become the main problem for democracy. Media's association with information has become a problem.. The quality of democracy depends on the quality of democratic debate.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2005 6:20am PDT
Growing Grassroots in Beirut
Stefan Christoff writing from Beirut, Lebanon, The Electronic Intifada, 8 August 2005...
Posted: Mon, Aug 8, 2005 11:39pm PDT
KPFA/Pacifica up for sale - again?
Are plans to sell KPFA/Pacifica public listener-supported radio resurfacing, after listener efforts saved it from the corporate raiders just a few years ago?...
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2005 4:44pm PDT
Wireless World: No E9-1-1 for now
Capitalists burden the working man with needless technology....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 1:57pm PDT
StreetLevel TV Screens Episode Sweet 16
Sunday, August 7th at 8pm
Artist's Television Access
992 Valencia Street @ 21st
San Francisco
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Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2005 9:54am PDT