Don't miss the only opportunity to weigh in on an issue which is critical to our democracy. Please join Congressman Maurice Hinchey and FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on November 21, 2006, 6:00 PM at the FDR Library in Hyde Park for a Public Hearing on the effects of media concentration on our communities.

While the crowd came to hear from Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, many were worried about the growing tensions at WRPI. Changes in the student governing body of WRPI indicate that its legacy of “Communiversity” radio cannot be taken for granted. As a student controlled station, what happens when the students in charge decide that they want to steer the station away from the progressive talk and news favored by the older community members, and to good-old youthful, angry, commercialized rock & roll instead?

The government offensive against Muslims in America met fresh opposition yesterday in Albany, New York when dozens of leaders of the anti-war movement and other progressive causes joined with Muslims to protest the recent guilty verdicts in the trial of Imam Yassin Aref and Mohammed Musharraf Hossain.

The League of Women Voters has withdrawn its sponsorship from a planned US Senate debate on October 22nd because Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins is not being allowed to participate. Democrats Hillary Clinton and Republican John Spencer are the only candidates invited by WABC.

The Working Families Party in Rensselaer County fends off take over attempt by Republicans