News :: Civil & Human Rights : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Media : Political-Economy : Regime |
Action Alert: Newsweek, the Quran and the "Green Mushroom" Following the real rules of modern journalism |
by FAIR (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 19 May 2005
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Please contact Newsweek editors and ask them to review the magazine's WMD coverage, and urge them to hold it to the same standards they applied to the Quran story. |
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News :: International Relations |
outFarpress presents: The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/20/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! |
by Dan Roberts outfarpress (nospam) saber.net (verified) |
Current rating: 0 19 May 2005
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A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia. |
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LOCAL Announcement :: Media : UCIMC |
WRFU Training and Program Proposal Meeting Saturday! |
by ML (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 19 May 2005
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Radio Free Urbana will hold a training and program proposal meeting on Saturday, May 21 from 2-4pm at the current IMC at 218 West Main St. in Urbana. If you have always wanted to do radio programming, this is your opportunity to to find out how to apply for a program slot on WRFU as well as participate in part of the basic training to qualify to go on the air. We will begin broadcasting this summer from the old downtown Urbana post office building, which will soon be the new IMC! |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation : Labor : Political-Economy |
Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2005 |
by Campaign for a Fair Minimum Wage (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 19 May 2005
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In the eight years since the last minimum wage increase, members of the Congress have voted to give themselves salary increases of almost $30,000; but they refuse to give the working poor an increase in the federal minimum wage. |
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Social Security: Another Media Failure |
by Mark Weisbrot (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 19 May 2005
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"We hope you will forgive our sloppy, careless reporting on Social Security. At least this time, nobody was killed as a result." |
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News :: Globalization |
BIG NEWS ON MICROSOFT: Slavery to It Is Ending |
by Clayton Hallmark (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 18 May 2005
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Mass-produced computers can KILL Microsoft. They'll be too cheap to accommodate MS Windows -- MS's bread and butter. Computers will go the way of TVs and VCRs -- cheap offshore production. They'll be cheap, simple, general-purpose (free software), all-electronic (no disk drive) -- in other words, real electronic computers, finally. The opening shot was fired in Bangalore India on May 16, 2005. |
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Gender and Sexuality : Globalization : International Relations |
Tuesday 17th May: International Day Against Homophobia. |
by via global IMC Newswire (No verified email address) |
Current rating: 0 16 May 2005
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The International Day Against Homophobia "will articulate action and
reflection in order to struggle against all physical, moral, or symbolic
violence related to sexual orientation or to gender identity. It intends
to inspire, support, and coordinate all initiatives contributing to the
equality among citizens in right, as well as in fact, and to achieve
this in all countries where action is possible." |
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