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Media Blackout? Not If We Can Help It!
Posted on January 6, 2007 by iwilder
Big Media doesn’t want you to know what they’re up to at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Right before the holidays, they convinced the FCC to give them extra time to make their case for more media consolidation. Bet you didn’t hear about that on the nightly news. The new deadline for getting input into […]
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Tonite: Long Island Offshore Windmills
Posted on January 3, 2007 by iwilder
At 7pm on Wednesday, January 3, 2007, the Babylon Green Party will host Beth Fiteni of the WindWorks Long Island, also known as the Long Island Offshore Wind Initiative (LIOWI), to speak about the windmills being placed off the Babylon shore. Representatives from local, state and national environmental groups have unanimously supported a 140 megawatt […]
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Richmond mayor-elect held up as Green success
Posted on December 30, 2006 by iwilder
from the Contra Costa Times By John Geluardi Green Party members welcomed Richmond Mayor-elect Gayle McLaughlin with thunderous applause Thursday night at San Francisco’s Roxie Cinema. McLaughlin — a featured speaker at a forum titled “Greening A Hopeful Moment: Progressive Politics After the Democrats Election Victory” — took a seat on the stage next to […]
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Big Win for Net Neutrality… For Now
Posted on December 30, 2006 by iwilder
Last night, we scored a significant victory in the fight to protect Net Neutrality. After intense public pressure, AT&T executives agreed to adhere to Network Neutrality conditions in order to secure FCC approval for their mega-merger with BellSouth. While the merger itself raises serious concerns, this agreement sets a crucial precedent for Internet freedom. It’s […]
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Are you an InfraGard member?
Posted on December 27, 2006 by iwilder
InfraGard is a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) program that began in the Cleveland Field Office in 1996. It was a local effort to gain support from the information technology industry and academia for the FBI’s investigative efforts in the cyber arena. The program expanded to other FBI Field Offices, and in 1998 the FBI […]
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Fake News in NY, Again
Posted on December 21, 2006 by iwilder
WCBS Delivers News Placebo On February 22, WCBS anchor Jim Rosenfield praised two over-the-counter nutritional supplements as delivering “a one-two punch to ease the pain.” What Rosenfield didn’t tell viewers is that the footage and story were lifted from Leiner Health Products, the company that markets the supplements. Stop Fake News Earlier this year, […]
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Emergency Message from Clamor Magazine
Posted on December 20, 2006 by iwilder
First, we’d like to thank everyone for the well-wishes and concern you’ve shared with us following the announcement that Clamor would be ceasing publication. Today we are writing to ask you to help us protect and sustain Clamor’s closest allies: Just Seeds, Left Turn Magazine, Spread Magazine, Critical Moment, Alternative Press Review, Infoshop.org , Faesthetic, […]
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Save the Internet
Posted on December 19, 2006 by iwilder
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Corporate Organics; Live Xmas Trees; Faux Guacamole & more
Posted on December 14, 2006 by iwilder
ALERT OF THE WEEK: NATIONAL ORGANIC STANDARDS BOARD STACKED WITH INDUSTRY REPS The USDA, behind closed doors, recently announced several highly questionable appointees to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). Despite calls from the organic community to let the public know ahead of time who the nominees were, the USDA kept the names of […]
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Tom Morello Rages Against Radio Slavery
Posted on December 11, 2006 by iwilder
Radio Consolidation Hurts Public, New Data Shows; Future of Music Coalition and Audioslave’s Tom Morello Release Major New Report The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) will release a new report, “False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry,” Data in the report shows that radio ownership consolidation at the […]
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Blow the Whistle on FCC Ethics Scandal
Posted on December 7, 2006 by iwilder
FCC Chairman Martin (right) in bed with corporate lobbyists (photo: Details) Blow the Whistle on Martin The FCC is at it again, ignoring the public interest to give handouts to massive corporations. This time, Chairman Kevin Martin has thrown the FCC’s ethics out the window to rush through the mega-merger of AT&T […]
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Help Fight AIDS
Posted on December 3, 2006 by iwilder
As we mark World AIDS Day, recent news reports have stated that AIDS will soon be the third leading cause of death around the world. In poor countries, nearly 7 million people living with HIV and AIDS urgently need medicines. Half of those rely on less expensive generic medicines made in India. Now, drug company […]
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