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Millipower Radio Revolt in Minneapolis
Wired News covers the Radio Re-Volt project at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. Right now the Center is conducting workshops where participants build very small transmitters into boxes or other fun objects, like toy trucks or stuffed animals. Even though Wired mistakenly calls them “single-watt” transmitters, these are pretty much legal low-power transmitters, putting out only…
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FBI Seizes Global Indymedia Servers
According to U-C IMC, on Tuesday, Oct. 5, the FBI seized the hard drives from servers hosted by Rackspace which have the websites for several IMCs, including Uruguay, UK and Western Massachussetts. An e-mail from Rackspace says they received no rationale from the FBI, although “the request originated with the Swiss police.” Apparently the situation…
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Freak Radio Santa Cruz Shut Raided and Shut Down
On Wednesday, Sept, 29, Federal Marshals aiding the Federal Communications Commission raided and shut down long-standing free radio station, Freak Radio Santa Cruz. As word of the raid spread around 150 listeners and supporters came to the station to protest the raid and express solidarity. There’s good coverage of the raid in a feature at…
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Media EmergenC in San Diego
Now this is a reason to go to San Diego in early October — The National Association of Broadcasters is holding its annual Radio Show convention in San Diego on Oct. 6 – 9. The San Diego IMC along with Free Radio San Diego and other local organizations is hosting Media EmergenC, an independent media…
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eMusic Relaunching
The relaunch of mp3 download service Emusic would ordinarily be a little outside what I usually cover here, except for the fact that I used to be a happy customer during their unlimited download subscription days. Well, I also think that eMusic has distinguished itself in the typically stupid and corrupt music industry by focusing…
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Feds Raid Knoxville Community Radio
From a KFAR press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 15, 4:00 pm Knoxville First Amendment Radio (KFAR 90.9 FM) Station Raided by the FCC At roughly 10:00 am this morning, three federal agents rom the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Atlanta offices, accompanied by three US Marshalls, broke into the KFAR radio station in South…
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Friday’s Radioshow Now On-Line: Press Conference in Support of Champaign Man Charged with Eavesdropping Police
Yesterday’s radioshow is now on-line for listening and downloading. It features audio from the press conference along with an interview with Nicole Lamers, a volunteer with VEYA, the organization sponsoring the Citizen Watch initiative documenting Champaign police conduct. We also preview Monday’s meeting of the Urbana Public TV commission where they will be discussing community…
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IL ACLU Supports Champaign Man Charged with Eavesdropping for Videotaping Police Conduct in Public
Today the Illinois ACLU released a statement of support for Martel Miller, a local man charged with criminal eavesdropping for videotaping police traffic stops and documenting the disparity between how the police treat black folks in their neighborhoods as compared to how they treat similar conduct of mostly white University of Illinois students in Campustown.…
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Posting will be light
Messed up my left wrist, making it difficult to type very much, so posting will be light or closer to one-liners — the last post left me tired.
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Champaign, IL PD Says It’s a Felony To Videotape Them in Public
Two local Champaign, IL men have recently been arrested for videotaping police performing traffic stops in their predominantly black neighborhoods — the bogus charge is felony eavesdropping. I interviewed one of the men, Martell Miller, on the radio show on Aug. 27, and the archive is on-line for listening. Now that the word is out…