DHS Attempts to Implement "Secure Communities" Program in DC Downloadable Audio

Chapter four of this series is Peter M's profile of Oakland's Favianna Rodriguez. By any measure she is a successful poster artist, businesswoman and organizer. She organizes other progressive artists into projects, such as the mural that went up last year on the side of the Oakland Museum. She is a role model for up-and-coming Latina artists, proving in her life that sí se puede - yes it can be done.

“I first interviewed Favianna Rodriguez for Indybay in 2004. We met at a conference held in Barrows Hall at the University of California Berkeley that was called ‘Designs on Democracy.’ She was one of a handful of designers and activists who put the conference together, and it was attended by several hundred people from around the U.S. She told me, ‘The conference is not just for designers, it’s for communicators and people who are in the business of doing marketing and selling the image of the left, to take it to a broader audience, and make it more appealing.’ Rodriguez contributed a poster to the event, in which she portrayed herself pasting the poster—a poster within a poster—onto the air in front of a cityscape. ‘It’s being posted on a cityscape to reclaim the right to public space,’ she said recently. ‘I wanted to highlight this, since the conference was around our democratic right to have our voice of dissent.’”

Read Story and See Photo | | | Past Episodes: Chapter 1: Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance | Chapter 2: Bradley of Santa Cruz Indymedia | Chapter 3: Bill Hackwell, Activist and Photographer

Councilman Jack Evans and the Mayor want Northrup Grumman, defense contractor, to move to DC., why we need soil testing on Walter Reed Hospital Land, Center for Economic Policy comments on Hillary's trip to Latin America, "In Search of Providence" author, Indigenous people and the Census. Download Audio (Try different browsers) 89.3 FM WPFW every Wed night at 7pm

Portland Oregon Public Access program sponsored by Veterans for Peace, Chapter 72.
Host Dan Shea interviews Afghanistan War veteran Tobias Shea and singer songwriter David Rovics
The program begins with a YouTube video from David Rovics

Following the video, Dan interviews Tobias and David. Total program is 48 1/2 minutes in length.

VFPForum, February 2010

Veterans for Peace Forum airs on the fourth Saturday of the month at 7:00 on channel 11. It is produced by Kellie La Bonty through the facilities of Metro East Community Media in Gresham Oregon.

On Saturday, March 27th, there will be a birthday party to celebrate 15 years of Free Radio Santa Cruz. The party starts at 6pm at Kuumbwa, 302 Cedar Street, in downtown Santa Cruz. There will be cake, a raffle for pirate's booty, live entertainment including Sweet Jam, DJ Süp127 and Friends, R Duck, speakers and other Free Radio programmers, with more entertainment to be added.

Law enforcement's latest move at the Minnesota State Capitol is to try and slide SF3163 / HF3651 through the noise. Quietly introduced as "law enforcement data from other states classification" just days ago by Sen. Mee Moua (DFL-St. Paul) and Rep. John Lesch (DFL-St.Paul Attys Office), the short bill would allow state law enforcement authorities to release virtually anything without any oversight to other states, and compartmentalize what they receive from other states under their external data classifications!

This is another "tip of the iceberg" for the federal fusion center agenda, along with extending new social control/surveillance measures like nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting platforms, which Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek has been hawking. [Part II: A ton of SAR-related docs]

Barbershop Punk is the true story of an unlikely hero who takes on the system, a classic David and Goliath story that plays out within the internet neutrality debate and larger context of censorship and access. When software engineer Robb Topolski takes on giant telecommunications company Comcast, the Federal Communications gets involved, and the case for internet freedom makes headlines.

Produced in collaboration with the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society especially for tonight's ""Celebration: The Radical Ideas of Howard Zinn" Friday, March 12, 2010 -- 7PM Community Church of Boston -- 565 Boylston St., Boston Anyway, no plain text this time, here's the PDF!

Take steps now to preserve community access television and free speech. At the city of Portland budget hearing yesterday, Commissioner Amanda Fritz said that if people are concerned about public access television (Portland Community Media) and want to prevent more budget cuts and in fact restore funding to PCM, they can make a difference by showing their support for community access by contacting all of the city commissioners. So if you want to protect your first amendment rights of free speech for all, and continue to have a platform to air your concerns about animal rights, the environment, the arts, politics, neighborhood livability, etc, contact all of the city commissioners and tell them to fully fund community media. Right now PCM's budget has been cut so much that the facility is relying on volunteers to keep it open. Please contact the commissioners and use your voice to protect this vital community service.

Translations with Father Charlie: The Making of the Video

The March episode of Chicago Independent Television features tenants from the Kimbark Housing project taking on Chicago City Hall, commemorative events in Chicago around the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton, a trailer from the forthcoming film "Workers Republic" about the famed Republic Windows and Doors sit-in strike, and a short film called "Zombie Apocalypse" about a Chicago perspective of the health care debate of 2009.

Read more about Episode 55 | CIMC TV Podcast | CIMC Video Page | CITV on YouTube

Portland IMC is a multimedia news service with a social justice focus. It is part of the international network, "Independent Media Center", also known as "Indymedia" or "IMC" for short. The mission of Portland Indymedia volunteers is to empower everyone to be the media by providing and maintaining the tools & audience using an anarchist model of organization. Portland Indymedia encourages and PULLS content from local, first-hand experiences through OPEN publishing. Instead of pushing content like traditional media. In other words, we provide direct access to media.

Once upon a time, a few years before the invention of blogs and Twitter and social networking sites, Indymedia revolutionized the way media is made. Back then when corporations & powerful institutions, like the IMF, wanted to black out insurrections and dissenting voices it was relatively easy to do so. They had exclusive influence on the media. Then here came this wild idea. This Open publishing program, written in fancy new code that enabled comments to articles! The news content was USER driven. And...

Click here for the video of this speech and others from the E-law direct action panel

From the open publishing newswire: KPFT was started in about 1968 by a group of people who thought Houston was in dire need of a Pacifica station. Larry Lee, KPFT’s founder, organized other people, raised money, and persuaded Pacifica to apply for a Houston license. After much difficulty, KPFT went on the air on March 1, 1970.

The political climate of Houston in 1970 was repressive. The Vietnam War and the protests it spawned were at their height. There were numerous attacks against alternative or underground groups in Houston as well as against various civil rights organizations. KPFT went on the air with controversial programming and was twice bombed off the air in its first eight months of operation, first on May 12, 1970, and again on October 6, 1970. KPFT received massive publicity after the first bombing. [Read Full Story]

KPFT just completed their winter pledge drive this weekend raising 261,000 dollars, 95% of the goal. This included a pledge of $400 delivered with a brick by a self-described Klansman.

Houston Indymedia began a program on KPFT in 2002 covering local news and social justice struggles in Houston and across the globe. Our show continues to this day, airing every Friday at 7:30pm. Many of the radio shows reports are uploaded to the news wire and on to the Radio Page. Thanks to everyone who pledged to support us this past pledge drive! www.kpft.org

The first edition of Buffalo Class Action's quarterly agitational paper can be found here. This edition contains two articles. The first, is a call for building a movement of tenants and the homeless throughout the city of Buffalo. The second article talks about the goals of an anarchist agitational paper and why we need our own media, as an anarchist organization.

You can find out more about our organization at www.BuffaloClassAction.com

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The February episode of Chicago Indymedia's radio program "From The Trenches" features a report from the Vancouver Media Co-op of Chicago anti-Olympics activist Martin Macias, who was stopped at the U.S. Canada border; Cynthia McKinney, who spoke in Chicago about her involvement in progressive politics and in Middle East activism; and an interview with freelance journalist Jessica Pupovac who spoke about how a story she wrote helped lead to the release of Michael Tillman, a Chicago man unjustly jailed for 23 years.

Download February episode | Chicago Indymedia's radio page | CIMC / FTT Radio podcast feed