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News: Labor |
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Police Arrest 40-Plus At Supermarket-Strike Rallies |
Submitted by: TK / 21 Feb 2004
Publisher: NBC SanDiego
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The granddaughter of late farmworker union leader Cesar Chavez, state Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, D-Los Angeles, and an 86-year-old member of the Gray Panthers activist group were among those arrested during civil disobedience rallies involving clerks and about two dozen labor unions and community groups, organizers said. |
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News: Right Wing |
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Prosecutor at center of controversy in terror case sues Ashcroft |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 17 Feb 2004
Publisher: Detroit Free Press - AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal prosecutor in a major terrorism case in Detroit has taken the rare step of suing Attorney General John Ashcroft, alleging the Justice Department interfered with the case, compromised a confidential informant and exaggerated results in the war on terrorism.
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Local Radio, Community Development and Democracy |
Submitted by: tk / 15 Feb 2004
Publisher: http://www.developingradio.org/
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Local Radio, Community Development and Democracy
“A skilled and viable independent media sector is society’s most promising tool for providing citizens the information they need to bring about and sustain government reform and poverty reduction.”
Dr. Ann Hudock, SeniorAdvisor for Democracy and Governance at the NGO World Learning
Globalization, the drive to alleviate ethnic conflict and reduce poverty, and growing research on social capital all of these factors are converging to bring about a growing focus on media and local community as key to healthy democracies and sustainable development.
Up until the last decade or so, when many countries particularly in Africa and Asia began to open up their airwaves, development radio usually meant using state-controlled radios to deliver pre-packaged messages with little audience participation. Now NGOs are asking how radio can be integrated into their work around a whole new set of challenges for peace-building, with refugee issues, and with women’s and health issues, to name a few.
The difference is vividly illustrated in a recent Washington Post article about the first community radio station in India:
The ministry runs the All India Radio service that covers the country and has more than 200 stations… But activists say that the central principle of community radio is to own and run a station freely. “Community radio in India is not about playing alternative rock music,” said Seema Nair, who helps the villagers run the station at Boodikote. “It is a new source of strength for poor people because it addresses their most basic development needs.”
“This radio station is ours because it speaks about us in our language and in our accent. When I turn it on, I hear the voices of people I know,” said Triveni Narayanswamy, 28, as she twirled the dial of her tiny transistor radio.
Among developing countries, radio is by far the most accessible and participatory medium for sharing information within communities and regions. Far more households in the developing world have access to radios than to newspapers, telephones or televisions.
A radio station with a well-crafted mission can help create a vibrant community by providing good-quality local news, working to identify problems and solutions among different groups, and holding government accountable. It can serve as a voice for people in planning their future, help heal conflict by giving people an opportunity to share their stories, and spur discussion of sensitive health and social issues. Radio overcomes barriers of literacy, is cost-effective and easy to use, is a natural medium for music and storytelling and helps preserve local culture.
Following are examples of how radio stations around the world have contributed to the health of their communities, both bonding community members together and providing a bridge between communities to address common problems.
A radio campaign in Niger helped eradicate guinea worm which affected 70% of the population; a subsequent campaign helped increase the frequency of clinic visits by pregnant women.
A radio station in the Kayelitsha Township in Cape Town, South Africa brought citizens and warring taxi owners together to alleviate local violence; the station also helped resolve a dispute with teachers preventing a threatened strike.
In the south Gobi of Mongolia, listeners call problems to public attention, talk with the local governor in a twice-weekly call-in program, listen to meetings among parliamentarians and pose questions to government officials.
In Sierra Leone, reporting by one station on bribes and misdeeds by the police helped prompt the creation of a community complaint division.
In Albania, more than 50% of all Albanians tune into a soap opera called Rruga me Pisha (“Pine Street”) that addresses ethnic discrimination, domestic violence, illegal weapons, environmental conservation, volunteerism and community participation.
In South Africa, independent monitoring groups determined that community radio stations were the most effective media form in promoting voter education.
Unfortunately many stations, whether commercial or community-operated, are in a daily struggle to remain on the air, often depending on a handful of young volunteers. Radio journalists and station managers frequently operate in volatile political environments that would challenge the most experienced journalist. Managing a local station responsibly in an often volatile political and economically depressed community is complex. All stations need to improve skills to develop programming for the expanding role of community engagement.
In the U.S. local public radio has long enjoyed recognition as a valuable community asset; now it’s beginning to attract similar status around the world. Never before has there been such a compelling need for good-quality local news and information around the world, and to helping stations understand and fulfill community mission while balancing the need for sustainability. All of this activity suggests that the time is ripe for a new organization that would focus on the role of local radio in developing democracies.
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Economy Sails Away From Workers |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 15 Feb 2004
Publisher: Newsday
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The American economy and its tax system have been punishing the American worker for years and there's no end in sight.
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The result is a disaster for the middle and working classes. The lack of tax revenues means record national debt, states unable to pay their bills, impoverished public education, high unemployment, entrenched poverty, collapsing medical systems, a threatened Social Security system. The rich have multimillion-dollar rebates to buy private versions of all of these. As the poor get poorer, you don't have to pay them as much for personal services, the one sector of the working-class economy where there are still jobs.
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Bench the Blonde |
Submitted by: TK / 13 Feb 2004
Publisher: Alternet
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How low will Ann Coulter go? Here she is sinking to new, previously unthinkable depths. Ann "C"-word, I mean Coulter, in piece linked in the Alternet piece, trys to trash Max Cleland in her sad attempt to put Dubya on a pedestal. This twit who has the looks (and nearly the brains) of a Barbie Doll even has a little talking Ann Coulter Barbie doll look alike for sale beneath her article. Amazing!! |
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Veterans as Pawns |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 13 Feb 2004
Publisher: East Texas Review
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Veteran benefits cut, but death benefit raised.
Vets worth more to Bush dead than alive? |
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News: Right Wing |
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Justice Scalia Defends Trip With Cheney |
Submitted by: Tom Klammer / 11 Feb 2004
Publisher: AP story linked on Findlaw.com
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Here's a direct quote from the esteemed Justice Scalia: "quack quack" |
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News: Civil & Human Rights |
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Feds Drop All Subpoenas Against Peace Protesters, University |
Submitted by: EmilyB / 10 Feb 2004
Publisher: theiowachannel.com
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"After almost a week of controversy, the U.S. attorney in Des Moines dropped four subpoenas against local peace protesters and one subpoena against Drake University Tuesday."
While I know this has been posted, I thought I'd pass along a quick report about the protest/rally. Over 150 people showed up to the court house and about the only thing I can say is "wow". I was overwhelmed in terms of the number of people that came, as well as the sense of community that was present among the group.
Thanks for all that you have all done.
Emily |
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