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_5.jpg) | Your Privacy On-Line: Why Should You Care? by Active Voice/NAMAC, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pS_nyybkP0&feature=youtu.be August 12th, 2013 What's the cost of the so-called "free" services we use online every day? What do you gain and what do you give up when you accept the Terms and Conditions of your favorite app? And why should you care? |
_6.jpg) | Channel Guides: How Alternative Options Get Hidden From TV Viewers by Democracy Now, http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/8/7/cable_companies_urged_to_make_public_access_television_shows_more_accessible August 12th, 2013 A discussion on Democracy Now of channel guides in TV cable systems and how they can make alternative TV programs really, really hard to find. And what media activists are trying to do about it. |
 | Community Broadband All Over The Place Open Technology Institute August 5th, 2013 This short video from the Open Technology Institute features community broadband projects: Brooklyn, Detroit, and Dharmasala. |
 | Helen Thomas Speaking at Media Alliance's 30th Anniversary July 27th, 2013 The recently-deceased maverick reporter was a questioner of presidents for generations. |
 | Emil Guillermo: Racism, the old fashioned kind vs the new kind by Emil Gullermo, AALDEF Blog July 19th, 2013 Emil Guillermo writes in the Asian-American Legal Defense and Education Fund on a Kazakh kid in Kentucky and the Asiana plane crash. |
 | 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. |
 | The Machine That Eats Freedom by Oliver Stone, ACLU/UK Guardian July 10th, 2013 A video statement by filmmaker Oliver Stone on the surveillance state, sponsored by the ACLU. |
 | 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. |
 | Scandalous Privatization of Noncommercial TV Spectrum by Ellen Goodman, Rutgers Univ Institute for Imformation Policy and Law Ellen Goodman writes about KCSM-TV for the Rutgers University Institute for Information Policy and Law |
.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. |
.jpg) | Media Literacy: Girls,Video Games and the Damsel in Distress Feminist Frequency A 20-minute video identifying the use of damsel in distress imagery in video games. Great for schools or the young girl in your life. |
 | 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? |
_4.jpg) | Civil Right's Group FCC Positions Reflect Industry Funding by Jason McClure (with John Dunbar), Center for Public Integrity June 15th, 2013 A Center for Public Integrity look at how industry funding impacts the telecom policy positions presented in DC by a prominent minority media access organization: The MMTC (Minority Media Telecommunications Council) |
 | 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. |
 | 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. |
_1.jpg) | Sharp Critique of Wheeler Appt by Former FCC Commissioner by Paul Jay, Real News Network May 15th, 2013 A sharp critique of President Obama's appointment of former telecom lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chair by former FCC commissioner Nicholas Johnson, who served from 1966-1973 and was appointed by Lyndon Johnson. From Canada's Real News Network. |
 | 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. |
 | Keeping It Real: An LPFM Pioneer by Bruce Rushton, Illinois Times Enjoy this fun article on a pioneer in low-power formerly "pirate" radio from the Illinois Times. |