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News :: Environment |
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National Coal takes Katuah Earth First! to Court |
by Katuah Earth First!
Email: nationalcoalcowards (nospam) stopmountaintopremoval.com |
08 Oct 2004
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 Friends,
Y'all might remember the little Hell Month project we have going against National Coal Co. - the new firm that is buying and continuing the Zeb Mountain mountain top removal project.
Well, this morning (friday, oct 8th), a bunch of us got served with a temporary restraining order from the Chancery Court of Knox County.
It seems that National Coal has been getting quite a few emails, faxes and phone calls and they claim it is disrupting their business. In their affidavit, they lie about our one little protest, claiming we blocked traffic and threatened people with "bludgeons". |
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News :: Media |
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FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK |
by Ryan Kaldari
Email: kaldari (nospam) tnimc.org |
07 Oct 2004
Modified: 02:32:19 PM |
 Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over information hosted on Indymedia web servers to the FBI. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied by turning over two Indymedia servers to federal authorities, effectively removing those sites from the internet. The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille, Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, and Germany. |
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News :: Media |
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Free Radio News is Born |
by Chirper
Email: chirper(at!!!)freeradionews.org |
05 Oct 2004
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![frn01[2].jpg](http://web.archive.org./web/20041012084546im_/http://www.tnimc.org/usermedia/image/13/thumb/2997_frn01[2].jpg) After KFAR (Knoxville First Amendment Radio) was shut down by the FCC, listeners had to tune into the web for their news. Now we have a 24-hour progressive radio news stream online!
All the news that was playing on Knoxville's pirate radio station KFAR (Knoxville First Amendment Radio - http://www.kfar.org) is now available 24 hours a day online via FREE RADIO NEWS.
http://www.freeradionews.org/
The website was launched this past weekend, as a legal way for listeners and supporters of independent alternative radio to get their daily fix of progressive news online. |
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News :: Right Wing |
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Members of Community Radio in Oaxaca, Mexico Beaten and Jailed |
by Kevin
Email: kev arroba riseup.net |
29 Sep 2004
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At 6:13 in the morning of the 14th of september, several police units, including forces of the UPOE (Special Operations Police), policia preventiva, turism police, police of the state of Oaxaca, the Federa Agency of Investigations (AFI), and plain clothed officers numbering a sum of 200 violently evicted members of Guetza Radio and the Popular Indigenous Counsel of Oaxaca - Ricardo Flores Magon (CIPO - RFM) with tear gas, cuncusion grenades and water hoses. To this date seven people remain in jail.
en español |
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News :: Environment |
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Earth First! Sabotages Coal Mining Office |
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by Katuah Earth First! |
27 Sep 2004
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 At 12:15 AM on Monday, September 27th, a handful of men and women from Earth First! shut down an A & G Coal Mining Company office in Wise County, Virginia. Locks were placed on all gates to the premises and front doors were chained and glued shut, with a sign reading, “We won’t stop until you do. See you in the mountains… Earth First!” This was done in order to prevent all trucks and operators from departing for a nearby mining site. |
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Whose kids? OUR Kids! |
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by prole cat |
25 Sep 2004
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 Our family had just finished a group medical examination. The doctor paused before leaving and asked, “Does the child need an excused absence for school?” My first thought was, why does everyone automatically assume that a three-year-old “goes to school”? And my second thought was, since when does a parent have to justify himself to the school authorities, anyway?... |
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Google News Stonewalling Independent Media |
by Ryan Kaldari
Email: kaldari (nospam) monsterlabs.com |
24 Sep 2004
Modified: 08:24:21 PM |
 In the world of online news publishing, syndication is one of the most important ways of reaching a large audience, and of all the news syndication services on the internet, perhaps none are more prominent than Google News. Launched in September of 2002, Google News promised to be an impartial provider of diverse news stories from across the globe. By compiling news stories "solely by computer algorithms" and "without human intervention", Google News was touted as an inclusive and unbiased source of news. The only catch is that Google News only syndicates news stories from certain websites and which websites make the cut are determined by human choice. Over the years it has become evident that this choice is not impartial, but rather subject to politics and the whims of public opinion. By offering a revolving door of tenuous and inconsistent excuses, Google News has effectively worked to stonewall left-leaning independent media sources from syndication. |
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News :: Labor |
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Precedent Setting Agreement Reached, Mt. Olive Pickle Boycott Over |
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by FLOC |
17 Sep 2004
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 After five years of a public action boycott by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), it has reached a precedent setting agreement with the North Carolina Grower’s Association (NCGA) and the Mount Olive Pickle Company... |
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