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The Shortwave Report 8/8/08 Listen Globally

outfarpress@saber.net — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:36:15 -0700

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (August 8) is up at the website

The Destruction of America

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:50:26 -0700

This is the second of a seven part series. This part deals with Society within the United States.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/906287/the_destruction_of_america.html?cat=9

The Shortwave Report 7/25/08 Listen Globally

outfarpress@saber.net — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:23:30 -0700

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (July 25) is up at the website

The Shortwave Report 7/18/08 Listen Globally

outfarpress@saber.net — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:58:27 -0700

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (July 18) is up at the website

the Visionary Report (inaugural post)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:36:44 -0700

Over and over we are so-called "educated" to believe in and trust a Certain Way Of Doing Things. Chomsky sheds light on this "good education" a little, and decolonizing indigenous folks shed much more light.

You read things like "Just Leave Us Alone!" by a Papua New Guinea tribesman, and you begin to see that there is more to the picture than what has been systematically presented to all of us living uncritically within colonial societies.

That is a first step. A little Chomsky (whatever incites you), then a good dose of pre-and de-colonizing indigenous folks' ways of seeing. The next step is to see how these truths affect you on a personal, day-to-day basis. How are you colonized (i.e. kept reduced from your original intent to truly live)? In what ways are you and yours affected by this reducing of who we are?

The next step after beginning to basically see these truths is to perhaps play more; that is, create yourself and your life (including at work) how you would LIKE to live. And to go through and beyond the belief that such things are "impossible".
This is *the* innaugaration of "the visionary report", a report whose author(s) wish to inspire people, in a regularly appearing way, beyond the same old again and towards evolutionary meaning and living in this world.

The Shortwave Report 6/27/08 Listen Globally

outfarpress@saber.net — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:45:41 -0700

Dear Radio Friend,
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!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:45:20 -0700

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."

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The Shortwave Report 5/30/08 Listen Globally

outfarpress@saber.net — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:45:14 -0700
Dear Radio Friend,
            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.
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The Shortwave Report 5/23/08 Listen Globally

outfarpress@saber.net — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:45:06 -0700
Dear Radio Friend,
            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.
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BirdBlast to Promote Alternative Media, Say Organizers

Sun, 18 May 2008 13:42:20 -0700

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.

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