Community Media Review is making a “last call” for reports about media programs or projects which involve international connections for our issue on global media policy (Winter Issue). This is a great opportunity to tell local success stories (or bring light to the limiting factors of brave efforts) about the use of community media.
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After a month or so off, I wanted to rechristen my Re-Mix recommendations. The Pacifica election filing period is over and you will soon be receiving ballots. Educate yourself about the candidates by checking our LSB Meeting Archives. Well worth your time.
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Tomorrow begins this quarter’s Pacifica National Board meeting. Agenda is as follows:
Pacifica National Board Meeting
September 29 – October 1, 2006
Walnut Creek Holiday Inn
Walnut Creek, CA
Friday, September 29, 2006
10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Executive session, with counsel present, to consider:
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I am in Northern California for the upcoming national board meeting and will keep you posted. In the meantime, this piece appeared in the September 26 Chronicle of Higher Education.
Advocacy Group Challenges Program for Minority Journalists as Discriminatory
By PETER SCHMIDT / Chronicle of Higher Education
An advocacy group plans to file a federal lawsuit today challenging [...]
Syndicate Says ‘Boondocks’ May Not Return
Cartoonist Hasn’t Answered Pleas to Resume Comic Strip
By Laura Sessions Stepp
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 26, 2006; Page C01
It’s over for “The Boondocks” comic strip, at least for now. After six years — a remarkably short run for a strip that found its way into 300-plus newspapers, including The Washington [...]
Country’s Hot, but Big Cities Offer Cold Shoulder
By Marc Fisher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 24, 2006; Page N02
On the same night that country stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw opened a set of three sold-out shows at Los Angeles’s Staples Center, the city’s only country-music radio station dropped the format entirely. Keith Urban’s “Tonight I [...]
Tonight will mark the launch of Informed Dissent and Informativo Pacifica on KPFT. You can catch Informed Dissent at 11 tonight and Informativo Pacifica at 11:30.
Informed Dissent is the Pacifica Foundation’s first major foray into programming in many years. In the tradition of Democracy Now, which was launched as an election-year program ten years ago, [...]
Today is the deadline to submit your candidate statement and petition for the 2006 Local Station Board elections. If you have wanted to apply, but hadn’t collected signatures and the like, come by KPFT (419 Lovett, 77006) between noon and 5 p.m. to meet others, to get signatures and more.
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Address to the United Nations
By HUGO CHAVEZ
Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it.
Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this [...]
The Associated Press / LOS ANGELES
Published: Saturday, September 23, 2006 06:21 PDT
Police arrested a man suspected of assaulting a reporter from a radio station that has criticized an El Sereno charter school for allegedly promoting racial separatism for Latinos.
Ramon Flores, 31, of Boyle Heights was taken into custody Thursday near the Academia Semillas del Pueblo [...]
Confronting Corruption in Labor Unions: Rank and file insurgency? Government intervention? Internal reform? Assessing a half-century of effort.
Union activists at all levels and government agencies have worked for decades to drive out the mob and rid unions of corruption. Where are we? What have been the results, the successes and failures over the last 50 [...]
Strident views welcome at Americana Awards
Ryman show’s politics as diverse as musical styles
By PETER COOPER
Staff Writer / tennessean.com
Friday night’s 5th Annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Ryman Auditorium opened with funk and moved through folk, soul, bluegrass, jazz and country and lots of places in between.
British rock icon Elvis Costello, New Orleans soulster [...]
by Robert W. McChesney
Published on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0919-27.htm
Last week, Sen. Barbara Boxer rocked the re- confirmation hearings for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin when she released a suppressed FCC study from 2004 - leaked to her by an FCC whistleblower - that indicated locally owned television stations did far more local [...]
Tohono O’odham communities have gathered together in southern Arizona along with Derechos Humanos Coalition, American Indian Movement, International Indian Treaty Council and others to call for an urgent Border Summit of the Americas.The summit will be held at the San Xavier District Cultural Center, Tucson, Arizona from September 29 through October 1, 2006. Campsite [...]
Next Monday is your last day to declare your candidacy for KPFT elections. Please visit KPFT’s Elections page!
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Journalist Oriana Fallaci has passed away. Today was her funeral.
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This year’s Public Radio Program Directors conference was held in Philadelphia. For me, this was a very educational conference. Some regard PRPD as the more ‘corporate’ conference, since the focus is on National Public Radio-carrying stations. However, there were some very intriguing findings about radio. If you are a KPFT programmer or are just [...]
Emma’s Revolution in Houston.
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Greetings from beautiful Philadelphia!
I am here for the Public Radio Program Directors’ conference, a series of some of the most intriguing radio discussions in which I’ve been fortunate enough to participate. This conference has prompted me to think about our radio station in different ways, our programming as a fresh canvas, and our mission as [...]
I’m out in Philadelphia for the Public Radio Program Directors conference. I’ll be posting regularly about the event. I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on elections.
Elections are coming quickly. It is absolutely critical that you ensure your right to vote and run.
Essentials:
* Anyone who has worked 30 hours in the last 3 [...]
Urban Unrest is a blog on new and old media, media justice, race, culture, politics and society and is hosted by Ernesto Aguilar, currently program director at Pacifica Radio KPFT in Houston.
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