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 | FCC Hearing on Prison Phone Rates
by FCC Hearing on Interstate Calling Rates, FCC Live
July 17th, 2013
It's definitely on the long side, but we wanted to archive the historic FCC hearing on interstate calls from prisons - 11 years after Martha Wright filed her petition seeking relief from unmanageable calling rates. |
 | Verizon. Overcharging. Again.
by Harry Cole, Communications Law Blog
July 1st, 2013
Even when we win, we don't win. A DC law firm is claiming the 2010 Verizon consent decree, much celebrated as a sterling example of the FCC's dedication to consumer protection, collected barely a 5th of customer overcharges. |
.jpg) | A Light Moment: Unfairness is Universal
by Frans De Waals, Ted Talks
This delightful video shows Capuchin monkeys reacting to unfairness and inequity when one gets compensated with cucumber bits for doing a task and another with the much better pay rate of a grape. We can all relate. |
 | Glen Greenwald at Socialism 2013
by Glenn Greenwald, Socialism 2013
An important speech by the Guardian reporter and columnist on the Snowden leaks, the ongoing surveillance stories in the Guardian and what the past few weeks have revealed about journalism. |
 | Behind The Prism
by Alfredo Lopez, May First/Peoplelink
June 20th, 2013
Recent coverage and public discussion of the government's Internet and telephone spying leaves a major question unanswered: How, given what we know, does this trashing of privacy affect activists, particularly women and people of color? |
 | Somas Una Americas: The SOA Protests
by Somas Una Americas, SOA Watch
June 15th, 2013
A short documentary film on the years of protests against military-training academy that has seeded a half a century of militaristic imperialism in Central and South America.
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 | Big Media, Big Bullying
by Emily Long, The Lamp NYC
May 27th, 2013
A blog on the distance between mainstream media anti-bullying campaigns and the "hatertainment" broadcast all too regularly from Emily Long at The Lamp in NYC. |
.jpg) | Shame on Verizon: 186 Days After Sandy and Nothing
New Networks
I'm sitting in a high ceiling parlor in an aged brownstone at the E.9th Street Block Association meeting. People are telling me, somewhat muting their anger, that some have had no phone service since Sandy, October 28th 2012 ---- over 6 months, over half a year. Some had their service restored over the last month, only being out for about 5 months. |
 | KFOG radio – Then and Now
by Lincoln Cushing, Kaiser Permanente Archives
May 15th, 2013
Kaiser archivist Lincoln Cushing sends this story about KFOG and Kaiser: once an owner and now a sponsor. A little Bay Area radio history on the album rock station of many people's youths. |
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