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Issue Two of the "Roadblock Report" Now Out! Issue two of the independent newsletter of the I-69 campaign is now out for your downloading, printing and distributing pleasure.
You can find both the first and the second issue on the website of Roadblock Earth First! (stopi69.wordpress.com/resources) or on the media archive section of the I-69 Media Office's website (i69mediaoffice.wordpress.com/media-archive)....
Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 9:00am PDT
Breaking News: Court Holds That FISA Preempts State Secret Privilege Thursday, July 3, 2008 :New NSA Spying Decision Undermines Arguments for Telecom ImmunityToday, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker of the Northern District of California, issued an opinion in Al Haramain v. Bush, one of the cases challenging the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. The Court found that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) preempted the state secret privilege....
Posted: Thu, Jul 3, 2008 7:31am PDT
Morocco: Drop Criminal Charges Against Rights Defender, Journalist (New York, July 1, 2008) Morocco should drop criminal charges against a human rights defender and a television reporter, both of whom are accused of disseminating false information, Human Rights Watch said today. ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 30, 2008 6:08pm PDT
Lebanon: Cleaning Up Nahr al-Bared Camp (Video) The anarchist film collective 'a-films' announces another short film from Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in North Lebanon....
Posted: Sat, Jun 28, 2008 3:01pm PDT
Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media - Part II Part II of McChesney's tour de force...
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 1:33pm PDT
The Global Report for week of June 21 Watch the latest weekly digest of under-reported news from The Global Report here...
28:30 minutes...
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 10:03am PDT
Senate Delays Vote on Telco Immunity Friday, June 27, 2008 :It's official: Thanks to overwhelming grassroots action, and the heroic efforts of Senators Dodd and Feingold, the Senate's vote on whether to grant phone companies immunity from the law for assisting in the President's illegal wiretapping program has been delayed until after July 4th Recess!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2008 7:49am PDT
More Pacifica Controversy in Los Angeles:Programmer Used Air Time to Promote Board Faction Controversial KPFK Talk Show Host Lila Garrett praised and claimed major KPFK progress by the slate mailer Local Station Board faction. Faction opponents disagree and dispute the propriety of her using air time to promote faction candidates....
Posted: Thu, Jun 26, 2008 2:14pm PDT
Robert McChesney's The Political Economy of Media Another McChesney tour de force....
Posted: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 9:36am PDT
Ninth Circuit Upholds Privacy of Text Messages Thursday, June 19, 2008 :Today the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Quon v. Arch Wireless, holding that "users of text messaging services such as those provided by Arch Wireless have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their text messages." The Court concluded: The search of Appellants’ text messages violated their Fourth Amendment and California constitutional privacy rights because they had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the content of the text messages, and the search was unr...
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 7:55am PDT
EFF Speaks Out Against Telecom Immunity Deal Thursday, June 19, 2008 :Washington, D.C. - Congress is widely reported to have struck a deal on legislation to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that includes immunity for telecommunications companies that helped the government illegally spy on millions of ordinary Americans. Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) held a press conference with the ACLU to emphasize that this much-touted "compromise" is a sham aimed at letting both the government and the telecoms ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 20, 2008 7:54am PDT
July 2008 Indymedia Newsreal (video/x-flv 53.9MB) INDYMEDIA NEWSREAL, a monthly television series, brings progressive grassroots organizing, going on in your backyard, to a national television audience. Newsreal is a longstanding collaboration between the Independent Media Center and Free Speech TV. Newsreal is shown on Free Speech TV every first Thursday at 5 PM PST. In addition, it is sent on disc to community screening groups, who show it during public screenings or include it on public access shows....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 11:05pm PDT
Hillary's Homecoming (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) At the beginning of the primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton was the inevitable candidate, and even her staunchest opponents all but conceded her victory in November, given the Clinton name, the aura of an ex-president, a wealth of funding, and a ready organization at the highest levels of the Democratic Party....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 8:29pm PDT
The Shortwave Report 6/20/08 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, Jun 19, 2008 4:34pm PDT
Scientology founder: "Christ was an alien mind control implant." Secret recording leaked. 
A "classified" Scientology recording has been leaked to Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive corporate and government documents, while taking measures to preserve the anonymity and traceability of its contributors. The recording is of the Scientology cult's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, from Oct 3, 1968. Contrary to official Scientology statements about Scientology and Christianity being compatible, the recording shows that upper-level Scien...
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 11:36am PDT
A Special Message About Indymedia Newsreal 
News. It's not just for corporations anymore....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 11:29am PDT
New York Times covers up for "confused" US military torturers Wednesday, June 18, 2008 :On Monday the US Senate Armed Services Committee released documents revealing that preparations to systematically torture inmates at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba were set in motion by officials high up in Donald Rumsfelds Defense Department in July 2002, half a year after the internment camp commenced operations....
Posted: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 10:17pm PDT
New Monument Honors Slain Journalists Wednesday, June 18, 2008 :A new monument in London pays tribute to the hundreds of journalists killed in the course of their jobs. An estimated two war journalists have died every week over the past ten years. The latest victim is Iraqi journalist Muhieddin Abdul-Hamid. He was killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting soon after he left his home in Mosul. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 10:13pm PDT
18 de junio: Transmisión de Radio por Chiapas 
Ante la intensificación de las incursiones militares a las comunidades zapatistas una coalisión de medios libres hacemos una denuncia radial con el objetivo de hacerle frente al cerco mediático e informar a la población. Esta transmisión será el miércoles 18 de junio a partir de las 12:00 hrs y hasta las 22:00 hrs....
Posted: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 11:34am PDT
Biting the Hand that Feeds (Traffic to) Them Tuesday, June 17, 2008 : Last week, the Associated Press sent the Drudge Retort seven DMCA takedown notices, demanding that the site remove excerpts of AP articles ranging from 33 to 79 words that were linked through to authorized copies of the AP stories....
Posted: Tue, Jun 17, 2008 8:14pm PDT
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