A Network at War
Since ostensiblly winning a campaign to recapture the small progressive Pacifica network that spanned years, involving at one time three seperate lawsuits, and 10's of thousands of its active listerners, the tiny network is once again at war with itself.....Having, along with senior producer Ryme Kakthouda, joined in filing complaints of discrimination on basis of national origin and ethnicity at the last meeting of our national board in NYC,
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and with women angry about sexism, and the networks failure to do anything more than deny its existence, planning an actual march on Berkley to file similar complaints next month, all matters likely to head into litigation within a matter of weeks now, this seemed like a good time to carve up all the sacred cows.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Media Criticism
Rally and Vigil at the Sentinel - June 17th
12 Jun 2005
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by
REC
Protest the biased war coverage from the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper Friday June 17th, 12-2pm. Call for the TRUTH!
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Snowed: US (Corporate) Media Ignore climate change
author: Ross Gelbspan / Mother Jones
Jun 11, 2005 12:05
Though global climate change is breaking out all around us, the U.S. news media has remained silent. Not because climate change is a bad story-to the contrary: Conflict is the lifeblood of journalism, and the climate issue is riven with conflict.
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News :: Media Criticism
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 6/10/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
09 Jun 2005
by
Dan Roberts
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. Netherlands, Cuba, Spain, China, and Russia.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Alternative Media : Arts & Culture : Media Criticism
DEAD MAN at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In
07 Jun 2005
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Santa Cruz Guerila Drive-In
A Jim Jarmusch Western in which a poetry-loving American Indian mistakes accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) for the English writer of the same name, while bounty hunters take him for a murderer. Quirky and dreamy, with the music of Neil Young.
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