15,000 hits! Watch post-Dead Prez show riot video

Wow. Thanks to everyone who has taken an interest in press freedom, community radio, music outside the mainstream and everything else I’ve posted here in the past couple years. I’ve never been motivated by trying to drive traffic here, thus it took me years to get to 15,000 hits. Been more focused on keeping an [...]

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Obama attorneys push to weaken computer privacy

Even though a Bush-era request to conduct blanket searches of computer files was rebuked by judges, the Obama administration is now pushing to have the decision reversed, according to court documents filed the week of Thanksgiving.
U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, and twenty other government attorneys submitted a brief to the Ninth US [...]

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Secret report: Blair misled public throughout 2002

Tony Blair covered up British military plans for a full Iraq invasion throughout 2002, claiming at the time that Britain’s objective was “disarmament, not regime change.”
This and many other damning details are revealed in hundreds of pages of secret government reports obtained by The Sunday Telegraph.
Full transcripts include classified interviews with frustrated British Army [...]

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New York City trip!

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Playlist- Touch the Sky

Touch the Sky with Radioactive Gavin now airs Sundays only, from 10am-Noon MST on Boise Community Radio. Our new program schedule will be posted on the Radio Boise website soon. Here’s the playlist for the 2/15 show.
Always On A Sunday – Frank Anderson, Tommy McCook    1964
Ranglin On Bond Street – Tommy McCook    1969
Cold Weather – [...]

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DTV updates on Digital Crossroads

On Monday February 9, Digital Crossroads featured an interview with Reclaim the Media executive director Jonathan Lawson.
Listen to the entire 30-minute show, hosted by Radio Active Gavin, by clicking HERE. The show airs live at 9pm MST on Boise Community Radio, which is streaming at RadioBoise.org 24 hours a day.
Reclaim the Media has started a [...]

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Smooth Old-Fashioned High on air

All five guys from Smooth Old-Fashioned High played live on Boise Community Radio Sunday January 11th. They were guest DJs and performed a few acoustic songs for us. From the left: Eric Ingersol, singer Pat Crozier, back side of Nick McDowell, part of Evan Reed’s shaved head, and Russ Lodge spacing out on the [...]

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Digital Crossroads- Wake Up America

In an unusual live Wednesday morning broadcast, I finally produced the 2nd episode of Digital Crossroads of the year. I’ve been reading and highlighting and writing about Gaza. This show is about thinking critically before you trust what you read in the news.
Below you can click to listen to the 30-minute show as it aired [...]

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Digital Crossroads returns for 2009

The first Digital Crossroads of the year premiered Monday evening on Boise Community Radio. Listen to host and producer Radioactive Gavin focus on Fake News and Propaganda.
Download or stream the entire 30-minute program by clicking here… Digital Crossroads Fake News and Propaganda.

To view the spoof New York Times, go HERE.
If you want to hear the [...]

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One of my heroes

Bruce Wirth is General Manager at KSER community radio in Everett, Washington. He has been working in media advocating progressive change in the northwest for more than a decade. He helped create Voices of Diversity and One World Report when he worked at KBCS community radio in Bellevue and dedicated countless hours honing the vision [...]

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The future of relevant cable access

Download or stream HERE the Digital Crossroads originally airing 11/14/08.
The Alliance for Community Media West held its annual conference in Denver, Colorado in late October. Denver Open Media hosted the festivities. Digital Crossroads takes you there, with clips recorded on site. Today’s show is an examination of the relevance of community media and the value [...]

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Broadcast Censorship, Obama Tech Policy

Digital Crossroads is a weekly radio show, now in its 3rd year, new every Friday.
Today, a look back at election day from a unique perspective. Marge Heins is a great writer and veteran attorney with real experience at the Supreme Court. Her book Not in Front of the Children is required reading if you want [...]

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Toki Wright Interview

Twin Cities hip hop artist and community organizer Toki Wright joined me on the phone Saturday November 1st to talk about his new record A Different Mirror, the election and the track he’s giving away free on his website, State of Emergency. Toki works with youth doing grassroots hip hop movement building as central figure [...]

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Digital Crossroads Election Special

Crossroads October 31 LISTEN or DOWNLOAD HERE
Digital Crossroads is a weekly program covering media democracy, press freedom, technology policy, radio and the record business, privacy & surveillance and voting. I’m producer and host Radioactive Gavin. Each week I bring you headlines, clips and original interviews trying to help you understand the connections between your life, [...]

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One of my Heroes

I first met David Barsamian, the founder of Alternative Radio, at the Boston Social Forum 2004. Since then I’ve been a frequent listener to his program, which airs on over 200 radio stations in North America and beyond. He is invited to speak at Evergreen State College every so often, so I caught up with [...]

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Digital Crossroads- Radio and Records

Download or listen to today’s 30-minute Digital Crossroads HERE. If you are short on time, but want to know what’s happening , you can also listen to a shorter segment (7:30) highlighting the Local Community Radio Act and ongoing webcasting royalty disputes HERE.
Today’s Digital Crossroads includes headlines covering: minority representation lawsuits against Arbitron, a study [...]

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Digital Crossroads Remembering Anna

LISTEN RIGHT NOW to Digital Crossroads from October 17th.

The 30-minute show is dedicated to the memory of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was murdered two years ago on then-President Vladimir Putin’s birthday. A closed-door military trial for three suspects will begin in November. To learn more read two of her books available in English, Putin’s [...]

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World Premier: Digital Crossroads in Boise

LISTEN RIGHT NOW to the first Digital Crossroads recorded in the downtown Boise studio at Boise Community Radio. The show is now 29 minutes, and available here and on Pacifica’s Audioport every Friday after airing at 11 AM in the mountain time zone.
Digital Crossroads is a radio program all about media literacy and media justice. [...]

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Touch the Sky October

I had so much fun touching the sky this week, I’m going to let it air for a while. Touch the Sky airs on Boise Community Radio Sundays 10am-Noon MST and Wednesday 9-11am. I played around with some different effects on the mic breaks. Let me know if you like it.

You can download or listen [...]

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Digital Crossroads is back!

Digital Crossroads is back. Hosted by Radioactive Gavin with headlines, clips and original interviews focusing on community media, grassroots activists and government officials.
LISTEN to or DOWNLOAD the pilot.
Pilot features interviews from the 2008 Free Press Conference on media reform. Dennis Moynihan of Democracy Now! and Free Speech TV. Joe Torres of Free Press. Sam Husseini [...]

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