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Congress Keeps Telecoms on the Hook for Illegal Spying Friday, November 16, 2007 : Washington, D.C. - Both the full House of Representatives and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to keep telecommunications companies on the hook for their role in illegal government spying on millions of ordinary Americans -- at least for now....
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 10:07am PST
Politics of Reporting on IAEA Reports From a Saturday, November 17, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2007 9:35am PST
Second Sarasota Indymedia Print Edition Released! 
Check out Saraota Indymedia's latest Print edition!
http://sarasota.indymedia.org/files/Issue2_4.pdf...
Posted: Fri, Nov 16, 2007 4:39pm PST
Senators Must Reject Blanket Immunity for Telecoms' Role in Illegal Spying Thursday, November 15, 2007 :Washington, D.C. - Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee meet Thursday to discuss letting telecoms off the hook for their role in illegal spying on millions of ordinary Americans -- a blatant attempt to block lawsuits that would determine if the surveillance is legal. The "FISA Amendments Act" includes blanket immunity for telecommunications companies who took part in a massive warrantless domestic surveillance program to wiretap Americans' communications....
Posted: Thu, Nov 15, 2007 7:31am PST
Letter to Editor The following letter was sent to Imperial Valley news and San Diego Union Tribune as a response to Border Patrol aggression....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 6:11pm PST
EFF Supports Consumer Right To Repair, Resell Patented Goods Tuesday, November 13, 2007 : San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to protect consumers' traditional right to use, repair, and resell the products they own, even if those products are patented. At stake is the enforceability of "single use" and "not for resale" labels on patented products....
Posted: Wed, Nov 14, 2007 7:28am PST
Hip Hop Congress & Femmixx.com Bring Women Together in Hip Hop Anthology Sistas Speak Sarah Harris of Hip Hop Congress and Tachelle Wilkes of Femmixx.com are bringing women together in the Hip Hop anthology Sistas Speak. They are accepting letters to Hip Hop from women of all aspects of Hip Hop....
Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2007 7:00pm PST
Americans have proven susceptible to manipulations of the truth Monday, November 12, 2007 : In his novel "1984," George Orwell chillingly described a totalitarian regime in which all communication is controlled by a Ministry of Truth and dissidents are persecuted by political police. The United States remains a democracy governed by a constitution and the rule of law, with pluralistic media, yet there are disturbing signs....
Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2007 8:52am PST
FCC holds Seattle public hearings on deregulation (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) Hear audio from the sixth and final public hearing held on 9/9/07 on the FCC's current process to further deregulate the media. A series of 2-minute speeches are aired from the public comment period. KPFA, 94.1FM in Berkeley, aired the proceedings live....
Posted: Sat, Nov 10, 2007 11:47am PST
FCC holds public hearings on deregulation (audio/mpeg 998.3KB) ...
Posted: Sat, Nov 10, 2007 10:20am PST
An Act of Terrorism? Blackwater Sniper Shot Dead Three Iraqi Guards At Iraqi Media Center in February Friday, November 9, 2007 :
Steve Fainaru of the Washington Post reporter discusses his new account of the February killings. After a brief investigation the U.S. government concluded that the actions of Blackwater fell within approved rules governing the use of force but the Iraqi police described the shootings as an "act of terrorism."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2007 7:51am PST
KPFA/ Pacifica to Broadcast the FCC's "Battle in Seattle" KPFA, with help from Pacifica affiliate KBCS in Seattle, is sending in a team to broadcast the hearing live, in its entirety, and distribute it to Pacifica's 100+ affiliate radio stations. Veteran Pacifica broadcaster and Polk Award winner Larry Bensky will anchor from Seattle's Great Hall. The coverage airs on KPFA from 3:PM PST to 11:PM PST on 94.1 FM in the San Francisco Bay Area, and will stream via kpfa.org....
Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 7:16pm PST
Tune in to live radio from the No Borders Camp in Calexico/Mexicali (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) Three broadcasts have been setup to provide coverage of the No Borders Camp in Calexico and Mexicali....
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 4:36pm PST
No Borders Camp Radio Streams are Live Now! The No Borders Camp is going on now and the indymedia coverage is listenable online!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 11:38am PST
Memo to Media: Supporting Musharraf is NOT Realism From a Wednesday, November 7, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 7:29am PST
Media News: Seattle FCC Hearing, ClearChannel Licenses Renewed Media news from Media Alliance: FCC hearing on Nov. 9th in Seattle, ClearChannel licenses renewed in bay area...
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2007 10:42am PST
AT&T Whistleblower to Urge Senate to Reject Blanket Immunity for Telecoms Tuesday, November 6, 2007 : Washington, D.C. - On Wednesday, November 7, at 10:30am, telecommunications technician and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein will speak out at a press conference on Capitol Hill, explaining why he is asking lawmakers to reject immunity for telecoms who assisted the Bush administration's spying on millions of Americans....
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2007 7:41am PST
New Video Documents Looting in Nahr al-Bared Camp In May 2007 Nahr al Bared Refugee Camp, home to over 40,000 Palestinian refugees, became the site of a 4-month battle between the Lebanese Army and extremist group Fatah al-Islam....
Posted: Sun, Nov 4, 2007 4:18am PST
Shabby McCarthyism from the Weekly Standard From a Saturday, November 3, 2007 entry on Informed Comment Global Affairs, a group blog run by Juan Cole, Manan Ahmed, Farideh Farhi, and Barnett R. Rubin...
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 9:31am PDT
Nahr al-Bared Camp (Lebanon): 2 Short Films The anarchist video collective "a-films" announces the release of two short films dealing with the situation of the Palestinian refugees who where forced out of the meanwhile totally destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in North Lebanon. After the fighting between the Lebanese army and Fatah al-Islam fighters had ended, the refugees still weren't allowed to return to the ruins of the camp, while the Lebanese army as well as civilians looted what was left of Nahr al-Bared....
Posted: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 3:53am PDT
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