Monday night round-up

Peace activist confronts Israeli PM
Gaza explored from The New Yorker
Berlin Wall 20 years later from NY Times multimedia
EFF: Government finally turning over some telecom lobbying docs
6 progressive complaints about House health bill from The Nation
Net neutrality red herrings and how to combat them
Editorial: Who’s afraid of the big, bad Fairness Doctrine?
The Podestas turn change [...]

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Tuesday night news wrap-up

John Dean: Why Cheney pushed so hard to get a pardon for Libby
TOP 4
House passes resolution 344-36 calling Gaza war crimes report ‘unworthy’
EDITORIAL: Some sense on defense spending by NY Times
Elizabeth Warren wields plan in fight over credit rules
YIKES: Project Censored round-up of the British police state
POLICY
Pro-net neutrality professors say FCC’s [...]

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Monday night news to read

Media Democracy Coalition’s Hannah Miller rallies against blocked political speech
Supreme Court likely to allow more corporate money in politics
Administration uses ‘State Secrets’ clause to block warrantless wiretap cases
Court rules victim of extraordinary rendition can’t sue from Raw Story
Pirate Cat Radio fined $10,000: East-Bay Express and SF Weekly
Is global warming a corporate [...]

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News from the weekend

Phyllis Bennis on GritTV: Israel discourse has changed
Karzai rival ending Afghan campaign & Clinton says runoff is legit anyway!
Rep. Kucinich: Bill a bailout for insurers & Will we stand for the people?
Mountaintop removal protests going national
Rep. Markey warns about right-wing net neutrality misinformation
New kind of global [...]

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Saturday evening reading

Campaign for Chevron justice in Ecuador
Dems strip single-payer proposal from health care overhaul
Crowdsourcing AT&T’s anti-net neutrality campaign by Art Brodsky
US Chamber shuts off TheYesMen.org and 400 other activist sites
White House, Senate agree on media shield law; Vote likely Nov. 5th
Questions surrounding Dobbs’ gunfire incident cast doubt on CNN credibility
Haitian Prime Minister fired by Senate from [...]

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Friday morning reading

Twitter serves up ideas from users from NY Times
ACLU: Obama signs bill allowing defense dept. to block FOIA requests
Pentagon won’t confirm domestic propaganda program ended from Raw Story
Israel targeting grassroots nonviolent Palestine activists from Antiwar.com
Illustrated view of world without net neutrality rules from WA Post
Climate change effect on North Sea now apparent from Wired
Netanyahu unsure [...]

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Saturday headlines

Goldstone dares US on Gaza report
Presidential power has gone way too far by David Swanson
Shoes fly as Dubya tells Canadian audience ‘I did not sell my soul’
Can the peace movement reach Obama? from Common Dreams
Obama: in favor of lesser coverage? pressuring Reid to drop public option?
What controlling the media really [...]

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Thursday reading

Pentagon used psyops on US public from Raw Story
Musicians demand info on their music used for torture
AT&T staff told to complain about net neutrality to FCC
Oops: Sequoia reveals e-voting code from Tech Dirt
Rep. Polis narrowly avoids net neutrality disaster
Broadband stimulus has failed to date from App Rising
Rachel Maddow challenges Liz Cheney: be on my show
New [...]

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Wednesday updates

US spies buy stake in firm that monitors blogs, Twitter from Wired
Secret Service overwhelmed with unprecedented death threats
‘Blue Bell’ Dems must fix net neutrality mistake from Daily Kos
Obama issues new medical marijuana guidelines from NORML

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Weekend Reading 40+ stories

Bush covered up global warming, hid info from Dems from Raw Story
Carbon emissions must peak by 2015 from Common Dreams
At UN, US votes against Gaza war crimes report endorsement
Code Pink delivers Afghani women’s petition to end war to Obama

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Monday night news

Columbus Day: The myth of ‘America’ by Dahr Jamail
A Columbus Day meditation by Thom Hartmann
Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza from AFP
Honduras: Coup troops raid TV station from Narco News

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Sunday News Catching Up

Interview: Medea Benjamin talks Afghan trip with Scott Horton
Democrats protecting Bush-era criminal activities by Glenn Greenwald
Sibel Edmonds bombshell buried in the blogosphere? from Antiwar Radio
Spending bill would block release of torture photos from Truthout

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Tuesday Morning News

Today: Future of Music policy summit live blog day 3 of 3
Apple quits US Chamber of Commerce from Think Progress
Telecom astroturf leader gives self ethics award from DSL Reports
Sen. Franken: Remarks on net neutrality at Future of Music policy summit

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Tuesday Night Reading

Pentagon spokesman was Bush domestic propaganda official from Raw Story
ACORN legislation could defund top contractors from Project on Govt. Oversight
Drowning out the right-wing noise machine by Megan Tady
Broad new FBI surveillance rules are unconstitutional from ACLU

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News Sunday Morning

ES&S buys Diebold, controls 80% of US electronic voting machines
AT&T donated over $400K to anti-net neutrality senators
Microsoft: White spaces spectrum worth $100 billion over 5 years
Videos: Collected coverage of G20 police response

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In Minneapolis… Days 3 & 4

On the third day, Saturday, I watched Bill Moyers online while waking up, and then hit the convention floor looking for interviews.
The first workshop I checked out was Campus Organizing for Media Reform, which was in fact a simple overview of how to strategize your message when doing outreach. It is amazing to me how [...]

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Free Press Media Reform Conference

Craig Aaron, Communications Director of Free Press, was a guest on my radio show Friday May 30th.
LISTEN HERE to the interview on its own. Or LISTEN HERE to the interview within the context of the entire show, which focused more broadly on international press freedom.
Time flies when two verbose media activists get chattin’… Craig and [...]

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