Panos South Asia (PSA) is a part of a family of Panos Institute worldwide that encourages and facilitates public discourse on a wide range of issues, particularly those that have a direct impact on the least privileged and most marginalized sections of society. Panos works through media to bring neglected subjects to the fore in [...]
THe ever-awesome Rachel Clarke sends this out about tonight’s Houston Indymedia Radio Show. Tune in tonight at 7:30 p.m.
Headlines…
Activists in Portland arrested for engaging in direct action to protest Northwest National’s investment in new Liquified Natural Gas Pipelines
Seattle activists with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action continue to demonstrate against [...]
Hey everyone! The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights conference is all done. I collected tons of audio and had a great time. For those around the country, make sure to let your local affiliates know I’ve posted NNIRR interviews and such on AudioPort, Pacifica’s audio distro service. Here are photos from the Friday [...]
KPFK, 90.7 FM in Los Angeles and 98.7 FM in Santa Barbara, a progressive, listener-sponsored radio station located in North Hollywood, California, and a unit of Pacifica Foundation, a 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation, seeks to fill the position of General Manager.
The General Manager will work under the supervision of the Executive Director (ED) of [...]
Do you have a story to tell about the power of media to create social change? Do you want to share your Outreach Journal? Do you have what it takes to write about distribution?
Send us your pitch! Accepted articles will be published on MediaRights.org, featured on our homepage and will be highlighted in our monthly [...]
Let These Words Be My Weapon: Poets and Writers Against War: An Evening of Anti-War Readings on the Fifth Year of the Iraq Invasion
An artistic and political collaboration by Bárbara Renaud González & Pablo Miguel Martínez and the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
Thursday evening, March 20, 2008
At the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center
922 [...]
Local activist and frequent KPFT guest Kofi Taharka speaks about the recent Hillary Clinton controversy.
Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. & The “Post Racial” Fairy Tale
By: Kofi Taharka
As we move towards the annual Dr. Martin Luther King birthday celebrations, across the country the presidential bid of Barack Obama and reaction to it; has brought discussions [...]
The Chicago Tribune reports the Federal Communications Commission was told by members of Congress to preserve electronic records for legislators investigating decision-making at the agency.
The request came in a letter from the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which last month said it would look into whether FCC procedures are [...]
Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi recently released a new report called Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video. It states many online videos creatively use copyrighted materials in fair-use ways under copyright law. The authors recently discussed their findings at a panel on digital rights management at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show [...]
On Friday, EFF filed an amicus brief in Atlantic v. Howell, an Arizona lawsuit brought as part of the RIAA’s national campaign against individuals for file-sharing. Although the case has received attention recently over the issue of whether CD ripping is legal, the main event in the case is about something different: can the RIAA [...]
Brandworkers International is currently accepting applications from students and recent graduates for Spring 2008.
Based in New York, Brandworkers International is a new organization providing innovative legal, advocacy, and organizing support to retail workers and workers across the retail supply chain. Brandworkers also empowers communities to counter abuse from the big brand corporations.
Media Interns will receive [...]
Colorado Confidential has posted a fascinating article on a recent effort by journalists to serve as gatekeepers for politicians to screen journalists who may be considered ‘activists.’
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The Communications Department of Human Rights Watch is currently seeking two students or graduates with journalism experience to intern in its New York office:
• Media Coverage Intern
This intern will assist staff in closely monitoring coverage of Human Rights Watch in English- and foreign-language media. Drawing on internet research, the intern will collect news clippings and [...]
The World Association of Community Radio broadcasters (AMARC) will actively participate in the January 26th Global Day of Action to promote communications rights as a fundamental human right.
The AMARC network of community radios in more than 110 countries will also cover the decentralized mobilizations and actions of organizations and social movements of Civil Society for [...]
A really inspiring story, spotted at infoshop:
Listening to Democracy Now
by Thomas Boothe and Danielle Follett
A small group of activists in the rural northeastern corner of Tennessee in the United States persuaded their local public radio station, WETS, to start broadcasting the progressive news-hour Democracy Now two years ago.
This pocket of Appalachia would seem to be [...]
Greetings Producers,
In celebration of Black History Month 2008, we are issuing an open invitation for participation in special programming for the PACIFICA Network.
Calling All Producers!! You now have the opportunity to become a positive part of History by participating in “Black HISstory, HERstory, OURstory on Pacifica”.
Here is the mission statement for the project.
“The overall [...]
The National Association of Black Journalists recognizes journalism that best covered the black experience or addressed issues affecting the worldwide black community during 2007.
The Salute to Excellence National Media Awards competition is open to all media organizations and individuals involved in print, broadcast and/or online journalism media. Submissions must cover people or issues of the [...]
Pacifica Radio seeks a creative and talented editor/producer to carry out the day-to-day production of a daily election news module in 2008. The ideal candidate will be committed to Pacifica’s peace and social justice mission, will be a skilled and efficient editor/producer, and will be able to bring a fresh and creative approach to this [...]
Media21 in Geneva (http://www.media21geneva.org) is seeking serious volunteers/interns from early January 2008 onwards (minimum three months) for its Global Journalist Network Initiative. Candidates will be expected to work with the team on setting up a series of media workshops in 2008 forcusing on key “global” issues aimed at experienced editors, journalists and producers from all [...]
Montreal, 31 December 2008. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters activities in 2008 will be marked by the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of AMARC.
It was in August 1983 that a group of community radio fans met spontaneously in Montreal for the first World Conference of community radio broadcasters, only to realise at the [...]
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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