Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged Antiwar Radio, Democracy Now, Helen Thomas, Ralph Nader, Scott Horton, SNL, Will Ferrell, Young Turks on March 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Antiwar Radio interviews white house correspondent Helen Thomas
Proof the US government ‘is owned by’ corporations from The Young Turks
Ralph Nader on filibusters, credit reform & economic fixes from Democracy Now
Plus: SNL all-stars reunite to support new consumer financial protections
And: Michael Moore tells Sahil Kapur ‘Democrats are a bunch of wusses’
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Acorn, Alec Baldwin, Amy Goodman, Andrew Breitbart, Barack Obama, Clarence Thomas, COBRA, CPAC, Daily Kos, Darcy Burner, Democracy Now, Dick Cheney, EPA, FireDogLake, George W Bush, Glenn Greenwald, Henry Waxman, Hullabaloo, jobs bill, John Kerry, Leonard Pitts Jr., Malcolm X, Max Blumenthal, Mother Jones, nuclear power, NY Times, Okanagan Indians, Phyllis Bennis, Scott Brown, The Hill, torture, Toyota, TPM Muckraker, unemployment, Vernon Hunter, war crimes, War in Afghanistan on February 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Republicans help US Senate pass jobs bill from The Hill
TOP STORIES
Docs show Congress knew more about CIA rendition, secret detention & torture
Will someone please arrest Bush, Cheney as they meet for 1st time on Friday?
The flailing falsehoods of America’s war criminals by Glenn Greenwald
Why so little attention to Vernon Hunter, the man killed by Austin terrorist?
POINT COUNTERPOINT
Estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic by Leonard Pitts Jr.
ACORN: We’re still here, it is not true that we’re ‘closed for business’
Does Justice Clarence Thomas’ silence thwart advocacy?
The NYT on its ‘kill more civilians’ op-ed writer by Glenn Greenwald
ECOLOGICAL HEADLINES
The truth would kill a return of nuclear power … by Alec Baldwin?
Cracking down on fracking by Amy Goodman
Okanagan Indians fight for watershed providing an alternate image of BC
Sen. Kerry says climate bill is not dead yet from Mother Jones
FROM DEMOCRACY NOW
Anti-nuclear activists mobilize to oppose Obama’s new nuke plants
Malcolm X: ‘By any means necessary’
Phyllis Bennis on ending the US war in Afghanistan
Welfare recipients forced to sell food stamps to buy basic necessities
FROM DAILY KOS
Senate takes up Unemployment Insurance and COBRA extensions this week
Litmus test: The people, or insurance companies? by Darcy Burner
Republicans furious over Sen. Scott Brown’s jobs vote
Shenanigans to come? Live at Senate EPA budget hearing
CHECKING IN WITH OTHER LIBERAL BLOGS
Lies, politicians and those damned bloggers from Hullabaloo
Comedy gold: Breitbart shouts ‘innuendo’ at Blumenthal during CPAC
Rep. Waxman’s letter: Toyota study is horrible whitewash from FDL
The torture memo author you’ve never heard of from TPM Muckraker
Posted in News, WWW, tagged AIG, campaign finance reform, Democracy Now, Dennis Kucinich, Elizabeth Warren, Glenn Greenwald, Goldman Sachs, In These Times, Jim Hightower, Supreme Court, US national debt, White House on February 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Economic collapse not over
Corporate welfare roulette by Jim Hightower
Chomsky on corporate takeover of US democracy from In These Times
Kucinich vs. Greenwald on campaign finance from Democracy Now
Time for Wall St to earn back America’s trust by Elizabeth Warren
Goldman Sachs made billions by pushing AIG to bankruptcy
Reid’s updated jobs bill tosses ‘pathetic’ corporate tax giveaways
Obama defends CEO bonuses he once called ‘shameful’
White House responds, aims to set record straight on bonus issue
Dems cracking down on corporate political spending ahead of midterms
Supreme Court cabal has unleashed a corporate Frankenstein
It is now mathematically impossible to pay off US national debt
Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged Alternet, AminoSweet, anti-whaling, Aspartame, Bernie Sanders, Bill Gates, Bill Nye the Science Guy, clean energy, Climate Change, Common Dreams, Democracy Now, EPA, ethanol, global warming, Greenpeace, Grist, Henry David Thoreau, Matthew Berger, mountaintop removal, Nobel Prize, nuclear power, Scorpions, Sno-Cone, Treehugger.com, USDA, Walden Pond, William Shatner, Wired on February 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Day After Tomorrow might have been yesterday by Matthew Berger
Coal miners join historic rallies to end mountaintop removal from Alternet
Aspartame renamed ‘AminoSweet’ and now marketed as ‘natural sweetener’
No way, Bill Gates totally wants to nuke climate change
EPA hearts clean coal, capitulates on ethanol from Grist
Invasive species, global warming taking toll on Thoreau’s Walden Pond
Extreme weather is part of global warming, says climate scientist from DN!
Candidate wants to suspend regulations on greenhouse gases from Wired
USDA makes the right call on school meat safety from Grist
New USDA rules establish strong organic standards for pasture & livestock
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climate change deniers are ‘unpatriotic’
Sen. Bernie Sanders on his new 10 million solar roofs bill from Grist
Tritium hot zone expands around Vermont nuclear plant
Is Chicago earthquake a wake-up call for clean coal? from Alternet
From the annals of Sno-Cone science from Common Dreams
War at home: Local eco-warriors making a big noise in UK
What have Scorpions, Nobel Prize winners & William Shatner got in common?
Australia’s invading camels will soon be crocodile food from Treehugger.com
Greenpeace: Japanese anti-whaling activists face up to 10 years in prison
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Acorn, Andrew Cuomo, Bank of America, Comcast, Dave Zirin, Demand Media, Democracy Now, FCC, Grist, Iraq War, media consolidation, Meghan McCain, Mike Lupica, NBC, net neutrality, Netflix, Paul Krugman, Raw Story, Sahil Kapur, Sarah Palin, Stop Big Media, Tea Party, Thom Hartmann on February 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »
CEOs Roberts & Zucker: Nothing but the truth, huh?
MEDIA CONSOLIDATION & THE PUBLIC INTEREST
House effort urges DOJ & FCC to block Comcast acquisition of NBC-U
Netflix warns Comcast-NBC merger could hurt open Internet
Public interest groups warn Comcast takeover is anticompetitive
Comcast-NBC merger no sure thing from Stop Big Media
TOP STORIES
Will George W Bush be next to appear before UK’s Iraq Inquiry?
Dave Zirin talks Super Bowl politics from Democracy Now
Paul Krugman covers the ‘hold’ strategy employed by US Senators
Demand Media: The future of content, cheap and plentiful
GREEN ACTIVISM & LOCAL ECONOMIES
No oil company will know peace in the creeks of Nigeria
Globalization kills, return to local economies by Thom Hartmann
Incentives to going ‘off grid’ bring power to the people
4 stories that should have changed the media narrative, but didn’t
FOLLOW THE MONEY
In a message to Dems, Wall St. sends cash to GOP
Wealthy CEOs conspire to influence elections for GOP
NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo takes on Bank of America fraud
ACORN smear conspirator wants tax-deductible donations to her legal fund
SARAH PALIN & THE TEA PARTY
Tea Party represents ‘innate racism’ says Meghan McCain
Speech was all boilerplate non-sequiturs & cognitive disconnections
Raw Story debunks Palin’s claims in speech by Sahil Kapur
Last Word: Palin has delusions of grandeur by Mike Lupica
Posted in News, WWW, tagged Antiwar.com, ASCAP, Barack Obama, Bill Moyers, Bruce Springsteen, CJR, CNET, Daily Beast, Daily Show, Daniel Ellsberg, Democracy Now, Dial Up Rocks, Ellliot Spitzer, Extraordinary Edition, FAIR, Focus on the Family, GigaOm, Glenn Greenwald, Howard Zinn, Huffington Post, Jon Stewart, Lawrence Lessig, National Journal, NORML, NPR, Raw Story, Ron Paul, rural broadband, Student Press Law Center, Sue Wilson, TARP, Truthout, William Rivers Pitt on February 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Jon Stewart skewers headlines of lefty blogs
Posted in News, Video, tagged Democracy Now on January 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
See more at DemocracyNow.org
Posted in News, Video, WWW, tagged Ansel Herz, CNN, Common Dreams, Counterpunch, Democracy Now, Eric Boehlert, George Clooney, Huffington Post, JG, Max Blumenthal, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Raw Story, Samuel Dalembert, The Guardian, The Nation, The Smoking Gun, Think Progress, Truthout, Wolf Blitzer, Wyclef Jean, Yele Haiti Foundation on January 15, 2010| 1 Comment »
Ansel Herz, US journalist on the ground in Haiti, interviewed by Wolf Blitzer
As aid efforts flounder, Haitians rely on each other by Ansel Herz
Exiled in S. Africa, former president Aristide wants to return from Democracy Now
IMF leverages crisis, offering loans with neoliberal conditions from The Nation
Naomi Klein: Stop disaster capitalists before they strike again
How Washington’s plot worsened the earthquake disaster by Max Blumenthal
Control & exploitation: Our role in Haiti’s plight from The Guardian UK
What you’re not hearing about Haiti but should be from Common Dreams
Bush is responsible for destroying Haitian democracy from Democracy Now
George W Bush joins relief effort, despite ordering coup! from Think Progress
UPS not shipping for free, American Airlines not flying for free from CNN
As wallets open for Haiti, credit card companies take a big cut from Huff Po
Truth about Wyclef Jean’s shady Yele Haiti Foundation from The Smoking Gun
NBA’s only Haitian player Sam Dalembert gives $100,000 from Democracy Now
Fox News has no idea how to cover the Haiti crisis by Eric Boehlert
Haiti ambassador shames ‘utterly stupid’ Pat Robertson from Raw Story
George Clooney and MTV Networks working on Haiti telethon for Jan. 22
Max Blumenthal on Dubya’s role in Haitian coup from Democracy Now (2004)
JG on The Haiti boomerang from Counterpunch (2004)
Noam Chomsky on The tragedy of Haiti from Truthout (1993)
Posted in News, Radio, WWW, tagged Democracy Now, FireDogLake, Glenn Greenwald, Mashable, StoryCorps on December 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
StoryCorps: National Day of Listening
Social history project records ordinary people’s stories from Democracy Now
Senator Specter looks to revive 9/11 suits against Saudis
The joys of airstrikes and anonymity by Glenn Greenwald
Why did Obama kill Johnsen nomination? from FireDogLake
10 news media content trends to watch in 2010 from Mashable
Posted in Video, tagged Amy Goodman, Anna Politkovskaya, Bill Moyers, Democracy Now, Marcy Kaptur, PBS, Simon Johnson on October 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Bill Moyers Journal Oct 9, 2009
Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy.
Democracy Now Feb 3, 2009
Amy Goodman interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, who urges homeowners to stay in foreclosed homes.
Posted in News, WWW, tagged censorship, Climate Change, Daily Yonder, David Sirota, Democracy Now, EFF, Facebook, FOIA, Free Press, free speech, Glenn Greenwald, Grist, IPS, Matt Taibbi, Media Shift, Mediahacker, Michael Moore, Newseum, Patriot Act, PBS, Rethink Afganistan, Robert Fisk, Robert Greenwald, shield law, Slate, Stop Big Media, telecom immunity, The Nation, Twitter, Videocracy, Wikileaks, Wired on October 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Secret plan to undermine US dollar by Robert Fisk
Roundup: Kerry-Boxer climate bill reactions from Grist
Roundup: Patriot Act vote reactions from EFF
Obama stalls telecom immunity lobbying records FOIA, “inter-agency” says DOJ (more…)
Posted in Radio, tagged Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Listen Up NW, Reclaim the Media, Yuko Kodama on September 12, 2009| 1 Comment »
Executive Producer Yuko Kodama included a few questions from my extended Amy Goodman interview on the latest Listen Up NW show, distributed by Reclaim the Media.
Amy Goodman in Utah
Amy Goodman is a host and producer of the daily news program Democracy Now. You can download or listen to my full interview with her by clicking HERE.
Posted in News, Radio, WWW, tagged Alliance for Community Media West, Ann Theis, Beth McConnell, Boise Community Radio, Center for Digital Storytelling, Daniel Weinshenker, Democracy Now, Denver Open Media, Digital Crossroads, Free Speech TV, Gabriel Teodros, Glam Camp, J Robertson, KRFP Moscow, Media & Democracy Coalition, Ooah, Radioactive Gavin, The Tasteful Nudes, Tony Shawcross on November 14, 2008| Leave a Comment »
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 of youth media literacy.
Denver Open Media is unique. According to Executive Director Tony Shawcross, featured toward the end of the show, on their main channel content might air ten times, but at Denver Open Media viewers can vote as they watch and on the website. The material that is most popular airs on the highlights channel, Channel 57.
Much of the discussion at this year’s conference drove home the point that Public, Educational & Government access or PEG channels must be thinking of ways to modernize. The idea of Cable Access 2.0 is a serious attempt by community television to stay relevant.
Free Speech TV CEO Dennis Moynihan makes a lunch time presentation, highlighting many programs carried by cable access stations, including his former employer Democracy Now. ACM Western Region Board Chair J Robertson watches the clip.
Today’s show features audio clips from Daniel Weinshenker, who hosted a 90-minute presentation called Digital Storytelling. You can download or stream my audio recording of his entire presentation by clicking HERE. He is director of the Denver office of the non-profit Center for Digital Storytelling.
You will also hear from youth working in access media production. Plus, staff members from Denver Open Media discuss youth media literacy and Glam Camp, the teen girl multimedia production camp.
Beth McConnell explained how policy advocacy can shape community media’s future. The Media & Democracy Coalition is made up of more than two dozen non-profits who are networking to change the media.
Music on this week’s show by Ooah, The Tasteful Nudes & Gabriel Teodros.
Special thanks to Ann Theis, who brings joy and dedication to Denver Open Media. Great people, great materials, great conference! My radio show is produced for Boise Community Radio, KRFP Moscow and other great non-commercial broadcasters. Contact me if you would like to hear the show on your local radio station.
Posted in News, Radio, WWW, tagged Boise Community Radio, Center for Media Justice, Democracy Now, Dennis Moynihan, Digital Crossroads, Free Press, Free Speech TV, Institute for Public Accuracy, Joe Torres, Malkia Cyril, media justice, Ooah, radio journalism, Radioactive Gavin, Sam Husseini, Washington Stakeout on October 3, 2008| 1 Comment »
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 of Institute for Public Accuracy and Washington Stakeout. Malkia Cyril of Center for Media Justice.
Series topics: Media literacy & media justice… How technology politics affect journalism, free speech and your everyday life… Nationwide blackout of analog TV and transition to digital… The Supreme Court takes on the FCC and broadcast indecency… Privacy and surveillance under Republicrats… The record industry, local radio and the future of music… Plus, network neutrality and the latest news about the news…
Remember, change starts with you! Let me know if you’re listening…
Posted in Dance Parties, News, Radio, WWW, tagged Amy Goodman, Change Congress, Dead Prez, Democracy Now, Erin Gentry, FAIR, Free Press, Free Speech TV, Future of Music Coalition, Hip Hop Congress, Josh Silver, Josh Wolf, Lawrence Lessig, Media & Democracy Coalition, Michael Bracy, Reclaim the Media, Robert McChesney, Rosa Clemente, Ruckus Society, Sam Husseini, Thirsty Ear Records, Toki Wright on June 7, 2008| 1 Comment »
The second day, Friday, I was up pretty early helping out with Free Speech TV. I ran sound in their amazing and fancy satellite truck. The opening speakers represented a solid mix of viewpoints, with Yolanda Hippensteele, Josh Silver and Robert McChesney (all of Free Press) introducing Adriene Maree Brown from Ruckus Society (who was on Democracy Now! on Friday LISTEN HERE), Lawrence Lessig of Change Congress and Rep. Keith Ellison from here in Minnesota.
In the Free Speech TV lunch room, I had the opportunity to speak with Denis Moynihan and his mom. Last month, he was featured on DN! announcing he was leaving the organization to run FSTV. I spoke with him on mic, and will feature the interview on Digital Crossroads June 13th. I didn’t ask Amy Goodman to do an interview, but she is really excited about Boise Community Radio.
After lunch I kicked it with Erin Gentry at the panel on hip hop community organizing. I hope to play audio from this event on the show, featuring Julie C from 206Zulu and Reclaim the Media, Rosa Clemente from R.E.A.C.HipHop, Shamako Noble (past guest on Crossroads) of Hip Hop Congress, JR Fleming of Coalition to Protect Housing, and Toki Wright of Yo! the Movement from here in Minneapolis.
The next panel I saw was organized by the Future of Music Coalition, looking at new music services and the music industry bottom line. It was hosted by Ann Chaitovitz, the chief at Future of Music, and featured Peter Gordon of Thirsty Ear Records. They both said they would do interviews on an upcoming show. I’m curious to follow up with Peter because he said Sound Exchange, the royalty collection agency, is not as bad as I think.
Bryan Calhoun, who does A&R and new media development for Kanye West and Ludacris talked about widgets and other tools for artist promotion. Plus, Stic.Man of DeadPrez was a surprise guest on the panel and said he was there to learn too, describing his goal as “seeing how to pimp the system even more harder.” He talked about “putting the power in your hands, and no middle man.”
The consensus on the panel is that America needs to preserve network neutrality, because e-commerce shouldn’t be controlled like the physical market. Speaking from the audience, Future of Music’s Michael Bracy said Time Warner’s proposed pay-as-you-use plan could be okay, but the key is protecting the “nondiscriminatory nature” of the web in terms of content.
At this point I went to the packed 24th floor of the Hyatt for a Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting and Institute for Public Accuracy party with free beer. Nobody seemed to have a problem drinking Coors-produced brew as long as somebody else was paying. I talked to Alexandra Peterson from Media Education Foundation and Sam Husseini from Institute for Public Accuracy.
There was an awesome party at a place called The News Room, thrown by Media & Democracy Coalition and others. The free drinks flowed and I met a lot of cool people including Nan Rubin, who is kind of a queen of grassroots radio organizing and Stan Lyles from SEIU United Health Workers West.
After catching some grub at Pancho Villa on Eat Street, I caught up with blogger and video activist Josh Wolf. He talked to me off the record about his thoughts on shield laws and his run for mayor in San Francisco. I’m hoping to interview him this weekend or very soon.
So many business cards to follow up on. Thanks Free Press! This is great!
Radioactive Gavin
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