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The Shortwave Report 6/27/08 Listen Globally
Submitted by outfarpress@sab... on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 6:45pm.The latest Shortwave Report (June 27) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59) (NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)
Free the Cuban Five!
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 7:45am.
Attorney Leonard Weinglass:
"There are 40 pages of ideological prejudice in the
new ruling from Atlanta"
ARLEEN RODRIGUEZ DERIVET
A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the United States since 1998. It also vacated the sentences of three of the men, ordering a new sentencing in Miami. The sentences of Rene Gonzalez (15 years) and Gerardo Hernandez (two life terms plus 15 years) were maintained. In the case of Hernandez, the panel voted 2-1. A 16-page [minority] opinion of Judge Phyllis Kravitch states that the government did not present sufficient evidence to prove Gerardo's guilt in the charge of conspiracy to commit murder.
The cases of Ramon Labanino (life sentence plus 18 years), Fernando Gonzalez (19 years) and Antonio Guerrero (life sentence plus 10 years) were sent to the Florida Court for re-sentencing. It will be Judge Joan Lenard who will announce a hearing to issue the new sentencing. Lenard was the presiding judge who, in 2001, issued the harsh sentences to the Cuban Five. The 99-page ruling of the Appeals Court of Atlanta, which explicitly favors the government position, was drafted in a politically charged language unusual for legal texts. It states that the defense arguments in their appeal "are meritless."
The Shortwave Report 5/30/08 Listen Globally
Submitted by outfarpress@sab... on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 6:45pm.The latest Shortwave Report (May 30) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59) (NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
The Shortwave Report 5/23/08 Listen Globally
Submitted by outfarpress@sab... on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 6:45pm.The latest Shortwave Report (May 23) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59) (NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} )
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
BirdBlast to Promote Alternative Media, Say Organizers
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/18/2008 - 3:42pm.ATLANTA – A public celebration commemorating The Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta’s progressive “underground” paper of the 1960’s and 70’s, will take place Saturday, May 24 from 2 to 10 p.m. at the B Complex, 1272 Murphy Avenue SW. But the “BirdBlast” will not be just an exercise in nostalgia, organizers say.
“While we celebrate the work of The Bird, many problems we wrote about 40 years ago are still with us,” said Bob Goodman, a former Bird writer. “The US destruction of Vietnam is now the US destruction of Iraq. The Cold War was replaced by the so-called ‘War on Terror,’ and the military-industrial complex Ike warned us about has grown more powerful than even he could have imagined. Unarmed Afro-American men are still murdered by trigger-happy cops and intolerance against immigrants, Arabs andMuslims is on the rise. We need independent media more than ever to combat government propaganda and the biased corporate media.”
Promoting independent media is a main goal of the Bird Blast, Goodman said. The keynote speaker at 5 p.m. will be Amy Goodman (no relation), host of Democracy Now!, a daily hour-long news and interview program. She will also sign copies of her latest book, Standing Up to the Madness, Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times, which recounts the stories of citizens who have successfully challenged the government.
The Shortwave Report 5/16/08 Listen Globally
Submitted by outfarpress@sab... on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 6:29pm.The latest Shortwave Report (May 16) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
The Shortwave Report 5/9/08 Listen Globally
Submitted by outfarpress@sab... on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 6:47pm.The latest Shortwave Report (May 9) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
This week's show features stories from China Radio International, Radio Netherlands, Radio Havana Cuba, and the Voice of Russia.
Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!" to Speak in Atlanta May 24
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 1:12pm.
ATLANTA-- Award-winning investigative reporter, national news program host and authorAmy Goodman will be the keynote speaker at the Birdblast, a 40-year anniversaryparty for Atlanta’s underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird. The event, which is open to the public, will takeplace on Saturday, May 24 from 2 p.m.-10 p.m., at the B-Complex on 1272 MurphyAvenue, Atlanta 30310. Goodman will speak at 5 p.m.
Goodmanwill celebrate independent media past, present and future, and sign her latestbook: Standing Up to the Madness, Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times. She will also be celebrating the 12thanniversary of Democracy Now! anational daily, independent, award-winning news program, which she helped startin 1996. The program is broadcast at 5 p.m. weekdays in Atlanta on communityradio station WRFG (89.3 FM) and on People TV (Channel 24) at 8 a.m. and 11a.m. The program is also available on the Internet at www.democracynow.org and on more than700 stations nationwide.
BirdBlast: Great Speckled Bird 40th Anniversary Celebration
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 1:05pm.“It Was 40 Years Ago Today” - Great Speckled Bird reunion
Submitted by coyote on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 11:34am.
“It Was 40 Years Ago Today” –
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ATLANTA – Former staff members, sellers, readers and fellow travelers of The Great Speckled Bird, Atlanta’s radical, freaky, “underground” paper of the 1960’s and 70’s, will gather Saturday, May 24, for a 40th anniversary celebration. The “BirdBlast,” which is open to the public, will be from 2 to 10 p.m. at the B Complex, 1272 Murphy Avenue SW.
Hundreds from metro Atlanta and around the country are expected for the event, the first Bird get-together since the paper’s 20th anniversary party in 1988, said Stephanie Coffin of Atlanta, a Bird cofounder. It will include exhibits of Bird graphics and articles, organized by themes; speakers; live music; jugglers; fire sculptures and more. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! will speak at 5 p.m. Bird alumna State Senator Nan Orrock and other former staffers will also speak. (More info: www.greatspeckledbird.org
As an appetizer for the main event, an exhibit of Bird covers, graphics and articles will be on display May 5-18 at the Fulton County Public Library (main branch), fourth floor, 1 Margaret Mitchell Square (intersection of Carnegie Way and Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta).
The Bird grew out of an anti-Vietnam War newsletter published in 1967 by a group of New Left activists at Emory University which included Coffin and her husband Tom. To reach a wider audience, they joined forces with students from other local colleges, political activists from the Southern Student Organizing Committee, VISTA and other organizations. The Bird chirped for the first time in March 1968.
