February 23, 2007 – 3:11 pm
About 6 of us stood outside with signs and flags, while 5 went inside. Read about it below.
Vancouver was busting its image today for the Iraq War as Gen. Peter Pace came to speak at Hudson’s Bay High School. Under sunny skies about 6 of us stood below the school at the corner of Mill [...]
February 15, 2007 – 4:13 pm
Here is a good example of how a news story can leave out critical information leading the viewers/readers to form erroneous conclusions. If you watched the PBS Newshour on Feb. 13, they did a story on Chavez. If you didn’t watch this, you can listen to it below:
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January 29, 2007 – 11:47 am
Durbin of the Columbian reports on last Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Committee on Public Finance of Judicial Elections. According to my sources, there were about 40-45 people that showed up for the meeting and only 3 or so were allowed to speak.
Change is difficult. People who were elected with private money are [...]
January 28, 2007 – 9:53 am
Campaigners for freedom of speech on the internet have hailed a major breakthrough after Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! agreed to join a working group to draw up a code of conduct for protecting human rights
online.
Leading IT companies have been criticised for colluding with governments, such as China, Iran and Vietnam, that censor websites and persecute [...]
January 25, 2007 – 8:18 am
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 24 (OneWorld) - At least 186 antiwar protests in the United States have been monitored by the Pentagon’s domestic surveillance program, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which also found that the Defense Department collected more than 2,800 reports involving Americans in a single anti-terrorism database.
The documents [...]
January 15, 2007 – 9:19 am
Audio:
Martin Luther King Jr. :
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Speeches are below:
I Have a Dream Speech —-Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
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January 4, 2007 – 12:43 pm
Despite the arrival of a Democratic majority in the 110th Congress, we obviously still have an uphill battle:
WASHINGTON - President Bush has quietly claimed sweeping new powers to open Americans’ mail without a judge’s warrant, the Daily News has learned.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on [...]
December 29, 2006 – 12:39 am
I normally tire of generic, year-end wrap-ups of the year, but Ken Friedman at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog has a post that is right up my alley. He’s got my picks right up top:
1) Fox News airs an infomercial for torture. On the November 3rd Greta Van Susteren show, reporter Steve Harrigan submitted himself [...]
December 19, 2006 – 9:17 am
Nice, informative video update from SavetheInternet.com
Dear Media Reformer,
Congratulations! Earlier this month, the gavel fell on the 109th Congress, marking the demise of efforts to legislate away Net Neutrality — and a stunning victory for real people who fought to retain control of the Internet.
The fate of Net Neutrality has now been passed to more Web-friendly [...]
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