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Healing KPFA: Berkeley Daily Planet What we don’t need is civil war. The police incident was bad enough. What has made it worse is that opportunistic individuals have sensationalized the incident for their own ends....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2008 3:21pm PDT
RNC 2008 documentary needs your help NEEDED: OUTRAGED CITIZENS WANTING TO DO SOMETHING IN RESPONSE TO THE OUTRAGEOUS, EXTRALEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL POLICE CRACKDOWN IN THE TWIN CITIES DURING THE RECENT RNC....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2008 7:17pm PDT
KPFA Responds to Nadra Foster Incident We face war abroad, abuse of civil liberties at home, global planetary collapse and an election that will chart the future of the most powerful empire in the history of the world. The need for a strong KPFA voice is clear. A strong KPFA requires a process of dialogue and conflict resolution. We are committed to that goal and want to share our plan with you for dealing with the August 20th police incident....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 1:22pm PDT
Dozens of journalists arrested at RNC -- Their crime? Covering the story As John McCain spoke inside the Xcel Energy Center about America's obligation to confront "threats to peace and liberty," armed agents were busy cuffing and detaining nearly 400 people, many of them journalists and bystanders....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 12:27am PDT
Quiet Meltdown on Planet Pacifica Pacifica Radio currently faces its most serious organizational and financial crisis in years. Executive Director Nicole Sawaya has resigned effective in early October, and the network is considering budget cuts of more than $900,000. Pacifica is also grappling with the need for multiple bylaw amendments and the high cost of lawsuits. The National Board is split, the Human Resources Director has left, a line of credit has been secured to cover recent expenses, and another loan is being sought....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 3:00pm PDT
Pak army role in terror exposed The American Friends of Baluchistan observed the Patriots Day by educating Americans about the dangers from Pakistan Army....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 11:17pm PDT
MSNBC demotes both Olberman & Mathews for statements against McCain MSNBC said Sunday it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of political night coverage with David Gregory, and will use the two newsmen as commentators only....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2008 2:59pm PDT
KPFA's New Police State Rules; Sept 13 LSB station board meeting KPFA management just threw fuel on the fire with it new police state rules, effective Sept 10, 2008, after its calling of the police to viciously beat up, hot tie and arrest a long time programmer who made a phone call for a ride on 8/20/08. You can hear more on SF Labor Cable on 9/12/08 and protest at the Local Station Board meeting on 9/13/08....
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 8:25pm PDT
New privacy policy, cooperation with law enforcement & your data: An interview with Google Just as Google unveiled a new, "improved" privacy policy, a sworn affidavit entitled "Statement of Probable Cause" was released showing that the cooperation of Google and Sonic.net with UC Police led, in part, to last month's raid on the Long Haul Infoshop. We took this opportunity to ask Google some questions about its privacy policy and how much of its users' data is really anonymized....
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 4:50pm PDT
In support of the Twin Cities RNC Welcoming Committee - Friends of the RNC 8 site created September 4th, 2008: This site is being set up to support the members of the RNC Welcoming Committee who have been falsely charged because of their facilitation of protesters during the 2008 Republican National Convention....
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 10:52am PDT
God bless Larry Bensky and KPFA KPFA, unlike much of the broadcast media, covered the convention by allowing the convention speakers to speak and not doing lots of aimless interviews and adding mostly pithy and relevant comments. God bless Amy Goodman, Larry Bensky, and KPFA. They are a national treasure we can enjoy as a local radio station....
Posted: Tue, Sep 9, 2008 8:37pm PDT
The Psychopathology of the Rightwing Mind Popular rightwing thinking is ego-driven, causally autistic, and thus premised on a series of double standards. Hypocrisy and selective forgetfulness are among the defining features of the rightwing mind. Conservatives are people who talk in quasi-religious tones of enterprise and hard work while rewarding capital gains over wages....
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 4:16am PDT
MSM Coast To Coast AM Denies RNC Media Arrests Ian Punnett, twin cities based host of late night's worldwide radio program Coast To Coast Am (Clear Channel), denied any media arrests at RNC (Sat, Sept 6, 2008)....
Posted: Sun, Sep 7, 2008 10:46am PDT
Massive Takedown of Anti-Scientology Videos on YouTube Saturday, September 6, 2008 : Over a period of twelve hours, between this Thursday night and Friday morning, American Rights Counsel LLC sent out over 4000 DMCA takedown notices to YouTube, all making copyright infringement claims against videos with content critical of the Church of Scientology. Clips included footage of Australian and German news reports about Scientology, A Message to Anonymous/Scientology , and footage from a Clearwater City Commission meeting. Many accounts were suspende...
Posted: Sat, Sep 6, 2008 11:17am PDT
Sat. Sept 6th LIVE BROADCAST ON NO LIES RADIO -- San Francisco 10th Annual POWER TO THE PE LIVE BROADCAST: Saturday, Sept 6th at 12 Noon Pacific - 3pm Eastern - 19:00 GMT-
San Francisco 10th Annual POWER TO THE PEACEFUL FESTIVAL
ON NO LIES RADIO...
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 5:29pm PDT
Rough Arrest at KPFA Stuns Station, Community:Pacifica Counsel Surprised By Police Beating Pacifica Counsel Dan Siegel who is also a supporter of the "Concerned Listeners" grouping now says that he was surprised by the police action. “It seems the police overdid it. It’s not what I expect of the Berkeley Police Department,” he said. “I expect them to act in a reasonable, cautious manner.”...
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 1:26pm PDT
Amy Goodman Questions Ramsey County Prosecutors on Jailing, Charges of Journalists Thursday, September 4, 2008 :Two days after several journalists were arrested covering the RNC protests, including three staffers at Democracy Now!, county and city prosecutors held a press conference in St. Paul. Amy Goodman was there to question them about the crackdown on journalists....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 8:34am PDT
Help setup a secure LAN on Saturday Help the Long Haul set up their computers after the cops removed them last Wednesday...
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 8:30am PDT
New York Times' Roger Cohen on Georgian crisis: A case of deliberate deception Thursday, September 4, 2008 :Since shortly after the August 7 attack by Georgian forces on South Ossetia triggered large-scale fighting between Georgia and Russia, major US media outlets have overwhelmingly presented the crisis as a simple case of Russian aggression....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 7:39am PDT
Keep Wireless Broadband on Track at the FCC Thursday, September 4, 2008 :Since Google's announcement of the Free the Airwaves campaign, there has been renewed interest in wireless broadband, municipal wi-fi, white spaces -- all long-standing efforts to bring more Internet to more people by making the Internet access available in the airwaves, instead of through underground wires....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 7:37am PDT
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