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CRITICAL MOMENT Calls for Submissions
CRTICAL MOMENT is an Ann Arbor, MI-based radical politics journal. CM is released every other month and distributed for free throughout the Southeast Michigan area. Each issue deals with a specific theme. The content of the paper is based on submissions received through our open submissions process. CM invites you to submit your writing for possible publication in upcoming issues of CM. Read below our Calls for Submissions for our next two issues: the Environment (May/June) and Religion & Sp...
Posted: Sun, Mar 6, 2005 10:05am PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/4/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, Spain, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Mar 3, 2005 4:09pm PST
Reproductive Rights Conference
A FREE conference that addresses reprodctive freedom as it relates to a broad range of social justice initiatives including economic justice, healthcare reform, racial equality, peace, freedom from violence, youth liberation, civil liberties, and LGBTQ rights....
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 11:35am PST
BTL:Phony Journalist Exposed in Latest Scandal Involving...
...White House Taxpayer-Funded Propaganda Machine ~ Interview with Steve Rendall, senior analyst with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, conducted by Scott Harris...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2005 6:53am PST
Breaking News: Homeless Camp in Brasil Raided, Two Killed, NYC IMC Volunteer Arrested
Update: According to a comment posted to the Global Indymedia feature from CMI Brasil, "The two IMC volunters ... were taken to the Federal Police where their equipement was taken by the police. They have a lawyer there with them and they seemed to be ok."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:10pm PST
Santiago de Cuba to Host Documentary Film Festival
Over 80 works will compete in this event, which for the first
time will have an international presence, with moviemakers from
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Germany, Canada, Puerto Rico,
United States, France, Argentina, Peru, Spain, Chile, Uruguay
and Morocco, among other nations presenting their screenplays
and documentaries....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 3:00pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 2/18/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Spain, Russia, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2005 3:59pm PST
Autonomy from Tijuana to Buenos Aires!
help our brothers and sisters out south of the rio grande...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 11:10am PST
FEC May Tighten Restrictions On Internet Political Activity
The Federal Election Commission next month will begin looking at tightening restrictions on political activities on the Internet, ROLL CALL reports Monday...
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 9:22am PST
What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Part of the reason why I write about the media is because I am interested in the whole intellectual culture, and the part of it that is easiest to study is the media. It comes out every day. You can do a systematic investigation. You can compare yesterday’s version to today’s version. There is a lot of evidence about what’s played up and what isn’t and the way things are structured....
Posted: Sun, Feb 13, 2005 7:45pm PST
Austin: IndyConference !!!!!!!!
When: Friday, February 18 2005 @ 08:00 AM PST - Sunday, February 20 2005 @ 04:00 AM PST
Event Type: Conference
Where: Austin, Texas
The Austin Independent Media Center
300 Allen Street
Austin, TX 78702...
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 10:27pm PST
The Right has a License to Write Anything: Ward Churchill and the Mad Dogs
When it comes to left and right, meaning the respective voices of sanity and dementia, we're meant to keep two sets of books....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 12:09pm PST
Wireless World: Powell's legacy at the FCC
Great story about the FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his career there....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 9:58am PST
The Global Media Democracy Movement
World Social Forum participants discuss how to hold corporate media accountable and how to build the alternative/independent media network....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 2:39am PST
White House Won't Contest Media Ownership Rules in Major Victory for Media Activists
Grassroots media activists won a major victory Thursday when the Bush administration announced it would not seek to overturn a court ruling that has blocked the Federal Communications Commission from implementing sweepings regulations that would allow for greater media consolidation....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 8:42am PST
BTL:Rightwing Talk Show Host Armstrong Williams Implicated in...
...Taxpayer-Funded Government Propaganda Campaign ~ Interview with Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jan 21, 2005 7:56am PST
Public Editor: Why the NY Times Doesn't Cover Environmental and Social Justice Issues!
I just received the following e-mail from the NY Times Public Editor, Daniel Okrent. My request: The NY Times should start an environmental and social justice section...
Posted: Thu, Jan 13, 2005 9:52am PST
Ukraine Democratic Action multimedia (audio/ogg 1.9MB)
Video/audio montage of the Ukraine Democratic Action following the realization the official vote count did not agree with exit polls....
Posted: Wed, Jan 12, 2005 1:23pm PST
FAIR on Bush Admin Funding of Armstrong Williams
Conservative pundit Armstrong Williams admits to taking almost a quarter of a million dollars from the U.S. government to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind legislation and the GAO scolds the Bush administration for the second time for using prepackaged video news releases the media runs as news....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2005 9:38am PST