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Practical Midwest Anarchism
Chuck0 took a trip up to last weekend’s Anarchist Bookfair in Madison, WI and posted a nice reportback on his blog. Chuck was there to table with the new issue of Practical Anarchy. I’m looking foward to getting myself a copy. I would’ve like to have gone to the Bookfair and really have no good…
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San Francisco Liberation Radio Interview On-Line
Last Friday’s radioshow featuring an interview with Caroline Hatch of San Francisco Liberation Radio is now on-line at the radioshow page, in glorious mp3 and ogg vorbis.
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New Hi-MD Delayed ’til July
I got an e-mail late last week from minidisco telling me that the new Hi-MD unit I preordered won’t arrive until July now. A post today at the Minidisc Community Portal gives similar data, except noting that the lower-end model, the MZNH600D has just started shipping and the next higher model ships soon. Of course,…
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Free Radio Berkeley’s Radio Summer Camp — It’s Not About Reforming the FCC
Wired News reports on FRB and Stephen Dunifer’s Radio Summer Camp, which gives intensive training in building a station, putting it on air, and dealing with the authorities. I’m a little surprised that one alum of the camp went on record with an apparently real name and a geographically identifying station name, talking about her…
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San Francisco Liberation Radio On This Evening’s Mediageek Radio Show
Provided all goes as planned, we will be talking live with San Francisco Liberation Radio on tonight’s mediageek radio show, 5:30 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign, IL. For the rest of you more than 30 miles away, it’ll be archived on the radioshow page this weekend.
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Calvary Chapel Responds
Last month I posted about the Calvary Chapel of Twin Falls, ID, and its CSN radio broadcasting division. According to REC Networks, the FCC dimissed a whole slew of LPFM applications filed under various Calvary Chapel organizational names. Today I received a polite e-mail from Don Mills, who is the station manager of KAWZ, the…
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Free Press Announces Sinclair Investigation
Following closely on the heels of Sinclair Broadcast Group pulling last Friday’s edition of Nightline from their ABC stations, Josh Silver of the media reform group Free Press announced an investigation into the company’s practices, vis a vis FCC policy and the law: We intend to investigate your actions to ensure that your stations are…
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San Francisco Liberation Radio Update
The folks at Liberation Radio have sent out an update giving their version of their day in court last Friday: FCC vs. SFLR: Round One ends Inconclusively! On Friday April 30th San Francisco Liberation Radio had our first day in court. The matter we were debating was very specific and only touched on all the…
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San Francisco Liberation Radio To Challenge the FCC in Court
This coming Friday, April 30, San Francisco Liberation Radio will meet the FCC in court to challenge the Commission’s raid on the station last October. The foundation for SFLR’s challenge is that the station was denied due process, based upon the fact that the FCC never contacted the station or its legal counsel when it…
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Champaign-Urbana’s Community Wireless In the News
The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network project got a big boost this year when it won a $200,000 grant from the Open Society Institute. The project is working to build a decentralized wireless mesh network that leverages lean Unix bootable CD-ROMS that drive nodes made out of otherwise obsolete hardware, like 486 PCs. The guys behind…