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Effective August 1, this blog is returning to its roots, so to speak.
By popular demand, urbanunrest.org will fold into the old blog site (kpft.wordpress.com). In the coming days, pages here will be mirrored at kpft.wordpress.com, and urbanunrest.org will soon point to kpft.wordpress.com, where it all began.
There are a variety of reasons for returning to wordpress.com… [...]
Originally published in Current, July 14, 2008
By Jeremy Egner
The Gulf Coast city of Port Arthur, Texas, is giving a nonprofit low-power FM station four months to get its studio and offices out of City Hall after the station refused to eliminate political topics from its programs.
The city is trampling on the free-speech rights [...]
The Film and Video Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian seeks submissions for the 14th annual Native American Film + Video Festival, which will be held in NYC in March 2009.
It showcases productions by Native media makers, as well as other works reflecting Native perspectives, and brings together participants from the [...]
Check out the KTRK story on Wednesday’s incident.
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90.1 FM KPFT management needs to inform the volunteer community and supporters about a disturbance on station premises in the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 16, involving a knife-wielding individual police termed mentally unstable.
The individual in question arrived on station property and demanded access to the building. After being rebuffed, he became agitated and [...]
Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee will hear from former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith and other guests Tuesday morning on the role that Bush Administration lawyers played in creating, developing, and implementing interrogation & torture policies at Guantanamo.
Feith was one of the architects of the Bush Administration’s legal and policy framework for interrogations. He was [...]
From Radio Online:
The probe sought by the FCC Advisory Committee on Diversity for Communications in the Digital Age on Arbitron’s PPM is dead before it started. The FCC set it aside after discovering that Arbitron had no opportunity to participate or respond in the July 2 conference call that ultimately led to the ”diversity issues” [...]
Free Speech Radio News, a half-hour daily news show, is searching for a qualified candidate to fill the Technical Producer position. This position is 25 hours per week and is located at KPFA 94.1 FM in Berkeley, California. The Tech Producer is responsible for assembling the final newscast. This is a key role in the [...]
The Denver Fundraising Coordinator works under the general supervision of the Station Manager. This is a full-time position based at KGNU’s Denver studio with one day per week spent at KGNU’s Boulder studio. We seek a Fundraising Coordinator who can strengthen our existing donor relationships in the Denver area, develop new relationships and lead our [...]
Sean Heitkemper has been announced as the new general manager of KPFK in Los Angeles. Sonali Kolhatkar notes:
At only 36 years of age, Sean has more than 13 years of experience managing public radio stations. He is a native of Southern California, majored in political science at Cal State Long Beach, and worked at KKJZ, [...]
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