Crashing the Gates: How a Handful of Progressive Activists Brought Liberal Talk-Radio Back to the Nation’s Capitol By Joshua Holland February 4, 2012 AlterNet DC is the most liberal region of the country, but until now all the talk on the radio dial skewed right. The District of Columbia, Gallup tells us, is the most progressive region More
The Occupy Effect Katrina vanden Heuvel on January 26, 2012 The Nation I don’t know how Occupy Wall Street will impact the 2012 election, but one thing seems pretty clear: it’s changed the national conversation. A few short months ago, the corporate media and inside-the-Beltway chatter was all debt and deficits, all the time. More
Ed Rampell’s Top 10 Films of 2011 January 15, 2012 By Ed Rampell Hollywood Progressive Scene from “Hugo” The criteria for my favorite films are progressive political and cultural content plus artistic excellence in terms of using the uniquely cinematic attributes of the movie medium. Astute readers may observe that half of the motion pictures on More
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 28,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 10 sold-out performances for that many More
Busted for tweeting Police escalation in New York as my brother and 17 other people are arrested for observing an occupation. MOLLY KNEFEL DEC 13, 2011 8:02 AM Salon.com Police outside New York’s Winter Garden (Credit: Molly Knefel) Monday morning marked yet another Day of Action for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Eight cities More
The Occupied Wall Street Journal,”a four-page, full-color broadsheet newspaper, has gained surprising traction as a tool of protest at the Occupy Wall Street rallies in Manhattan. The newspaper has flourished even though many of the demonstrators, here at Washington Square Park in Manhattan, are preoccupied with digital media. THE MEDIA EQUATION A Protest’s Ink-Stained Fingers More
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Press Passes John Grant Published: Sunday 9 October 2011 Nation of Change The First Amendment right to gather news is, as the Court has often noted, not one that inures solely to the benefit of the news media; rather, the public’s right of access to information is coextensive More
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buKR5FHCyCE&w=560&h=315] Occupy Wall Street Protest Enters Second Week Uploaded by democracynow on Sep 26, 2011 www. DemocracyNow.org - It is day 10 of the "Occupy Wall Street" campaign. On Saturday, more than 80 protesters were arrested as hundreds took part in yet another march to Wall Street. Many of them were committing civil disobedience by walking in More
Global – Guardian journalist negligently disclosed Cablegate passwords 1 September 2011 WIKILEAKS EDITORIAL A Guardian journalist has negligently disclosed top secret WikiLeaks’ decryption passwords to hundreds of thousands of unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables. Knowledge of the Guardian disclosure has spread privately over several months but reached critical mass last week. The unpublished WikiLeaks’ material More
What Have We Wrought: thoughts on freedom, taxes, capitalism and democracy Part IV: Media and Propaganda With a mainstream corporate media that is bought and sold by the likes of Rupert Murdoch, with Clear Channel's and other right-wing owners control of local radio around the country, how do we reach these relatives and neighbors? Every More
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Dealing with the Corporate Media By Kevin Zeese - Posted on 25 July 2011 October2011.org October2011.org believes that along with an independent political movement we need independent media. The Neiman Watchdog column below explains our doubts about corporate media coverage generally as well as for October2011.org. In the media critique column by John Hanrahan, a former reporter More
