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Local Community Radio Act Clears House of Representatives Without Opposition from Commercial Broadcasters

December 16, 2009

Washington,
DC – The Local Community Radio Act passed the House of Representatives
Wednesday evening with a resounding voice vote and now moves to the
Senate. The bill will open the airwaves for hundreds of new
non-commercial stations across the country, bringing low power radio to
urban areas for the first time.

Following the recommendations of the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC), the House of Representatives voted to remove
technical restrictions Congress placed on low power radio in 2000 at
the request of commercial broadcasters. These restrictions have kept
low power radio out of the top 50 radio markets, which reach over 160
million Americans.  read more »

"Honduran Elections": A Parody on Democracy - Laura Carlsen | December 7, 2009

Please Check the Americas Program website for urgent fundraising appeal. -Rick

Available in translation: "Elecciones en Honduras", una parodia de democracia

Americas Program, Center for International Policy (CIP)  read more »

Media Matters: With "Climategate" and Jennings smears, the right goes guerilla

The conservative reaction to President Obama's election is turning downright Faustian.

As the rhetoric on the right has grown increasingly shrill, a few conservatives have raised their voices in alarm, counseling their ideological kin to step back from the abyss. Former Bush speechwriter David Frum wrote in August that "the increasingly angry tone of incitement being heard from right-of-center broadcasters" is likely to lead to politically motivated violence. Not two weeks ago, conservative blogger Charles Johnson articulated the reasons behind his departure from the right, citing conservative support for "anti-science bad craziness" and "[h]atred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies."  read more »

Indonesia 'bans' film on journalists' deaths in East Timor


Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters, Tony Stewart,

The Balibo five were Malcolm Rennie, Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Tony Stewart


Indonesia has banned the film Balibo,
which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor, the  read more »

A Hard Look at the Numbers What Actually Happened in the Iranian Presidential Election?

June 22, 2009 Check out: http://www.counterpunch.org/  -Rick

By ESAM AL-AMIN

Since the June 12 Iranian presidential elections, Iran "experts” have mushroomed like bacteria in a Petri dish. So here is a quiz for all those instant experts. Which major country has elected more presidents than any in the world since 1980? Further, which nation is the only one that held ten presidential elections within thirty years of its revolution?

The answer to both questions, of course, is Iran. Since 1980, it has elected six presidents, while the U.S. is a close second with five, and France at three. In addition, the U.S. held four presidential elections within three decades of its revolution to Iran’s ten.  read more »

Somali journalists protest threats

Tue Jun 9, 2009

MOGADISHU (AFP) – Somali journalists on Tuesday went on strike to protest the recent assassination of a colleague and demanded protection from the international community.

Around 15 Mogadishu-based journalists held a press conference, two days after the director of private radio Shabelle, Mokhtar Mohamed Hirabe, was assassinated in broad daylight in the capital.  read more »

Indymedia Newsreal -- May 09

May 16, 2009 Seattle Indymedia

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Radio station "Imagine" occupied in Salonica in the run-up to the cross-country marches in solidarity to anarchist squats.

Infoshop News April 27, 2009

As the right-wing government in Athens has revealed its proposed
anti-anarchist legislation amidst procedures of impeachment that may
lead to immediate elections, anarchists, antiauthoritarians,
libertarians and the entire spectrum of the social antagonistic
movement is stepping up its response to State repression by holding a
series of cross-country protest marches in solidarity to political and
residential squats that have come under fire by the general persecutor
of the country, Mr. Sanidas, who, besides being notorious for having
built his career through right-wing support for his services at  read more »

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