Dan Kennedy, Premier Media Critic of the Blog
Alex King,

Dan Kennedy of the Boston Phoenix, in his Friday, Jan. 7 column, reports on the story about President Bush wearing a device for a heart problem in an article titled: Cardiac kids - Internet speculation about Bush’s and Cheney’s health poses a media dilemma."
 http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/dont_quote_me/multi-page/documents/04383304.asp
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Direct Action Training, Sunday, Jan 16th
The ORGANIC Collective,

Sunday, January 16th
2:00pm - 5:00pm
@ Foundation 4 Change
3758 30th St. , San Diego 92104

This is a follow up to our last Direct Action training.

Topics to include:
Legal Issues around Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
Snake Handling, aka. Working with the Corporate Media
Being the Media
Non-Violence
What is Direct Action?
Creative Urban Interactions
Dealing With Police
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SUPPORT PIRATE RADIO Letter Campaign
106.9FM,

Do you listen to pirate radio in San Diego? Do you appreciate commercial free, honest, real radio from real people like you? Do you like hearing anti-war voices on the FM dial?
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The Web: 'Tidal wave of generosity' online
Gene Koprowski,

Great piece about how online contributions play an integral part for the tsunami relief effort.
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audio - the wrench in the gears
lotus,

45 seconds of audio madness against empire.
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Desert Indymedia Borderhack 2002
Luther Blisset c/o lotus,

At the round-up of the Melbourne Woomera2002 network the great fundraising collective had managed to get so much cash together there was some left over. A proposal was agreed upon that some money be put aside to fund a publication of reflections and analysis of the protests. Seven long, disorganised months later that publication is finally completed.
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The Misconception of Time and the Holy Books
Reinarto Hadipriono,

The concept of time originally derived from the constantly changing conditions, which man later divides into the "past," the "present," and the "future," has, as it turns out, been giving rise to a number of questions. Isn't it an irony that while all we have the whole of our life is but the "present," the fact that we possess memory has yet led us to assume that we have a "yesterday" and a "tomorrow"? This admittedly is an issue that contradicts the various ideas associated with the word "time" as it is popularly used in our daily life, in the various scientific literatures, and in the different Holy Books, which consequently makes it real difficult for us to have it brought to the surface. What seems to further complicate matters is perhaps the very fact that even scientists have so far tended to look upon the issue as one that is strictly a matter of our misconception of time, thereby ignoring the fact that man is destined to have memory.

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Critical Mass Radio Network Today - Year in Review
radioActive sanDiego, c/o lotus,

Welcome to the Critical Mass Radio Network! December 31st, 2004 will mark our fifth coordinated broadcast with many more to come. Tune in for commentary and analysis from your peers and neighbors, outside of the corporate stenographers to power, the filters, and the sellers of decaying ideas. Call into any of the stations as they broadcast from this decentralized network.

The broadcast is taking place this month in San Diego, Santa Cruz, Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco and we've just added Radio Volta in Philly!

Please join our mailing list to keep up on future broadcasts.
 http://www.criticalmassradio.net/mailman/listinfo/cmrn-listeners/

Listen online at  http://radioActiveradio.org or at  http://criticalMassRadio.net


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san diego indymedia flyer!
lotus,

Print and distribute this flyer! Or make your own!
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Votergate is in full effect, nationally and at home
lotus,

RALLY FOR COUNTING ALL THE VOTES Thursday Dec. 23, 2004 2:00PM 202 'C' Street San Diego Downtown Civic Center Plaza. Come out and support the 5,000+ voters that have been disinfranchised by a bubble. More than 5,000 voters can't be ignored! From the Voters for Donna Frye and the Supporters of Democracy

Union-Tribune gloating in deceit
Fan Club Five,

Oh how matter of fact the Union Tribune Greg Moran reports Sunday “front” page Mayoral fight echoes a case in Bay Area. Here we are to believe that the Union Tribune is merely reporting the “facts.” In calculated pretense of objectivity the analysis states Sally McPherson pointing to state law Elections Code Section 15232(a) that says … ”the bubble has to colored in for the vote to be considered lawful and to count.”
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TVNL’S 2004 PERSON OF THE YEAR:
Jimmy James and TvNewsLIES.org ,

If nothing else, Bev Harris represents the great divide that is America. In most of cyberspace, she’s a household word. In much of the real world, she’s largely unknown. In the blue states, Bev Harris is a standard bearer, a pioneer, and a patriot. In the red states, many who know her believe that Bev Harris is a conspiracy nut, a rabble rouser, and an agitator.
In fact, Bev Harris is far more than the poster woman for a polarized nation. Rather, she is a symbol of perseverance and commitment to democracy in a time of doubt and suspicion.
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Wireless World: Local taxes at issue
Gene Koprowski,

Great story about how local taxes drive up the cost of wireless phone usage.

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ANC accuses US of using Africans to promote n
Paul King,

More drugs company crimes against humanity
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The NIH Two-Step
Liam Scheff,

The major media is finally covering the toxicity of what pharmaceutical companies mislabel 'AIDS Drugs,' but they're four years and hundreds of deaths too late.

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Tonight on KPBS: Bill Moyers Blasts the Corpo
democracy now c/o lotus,

Bill Moyers is retiring tonight from his show Now on PBS. Upon his retirement from Now, Moyers told the Associated Press, "I'm going out telling the story that I think is the biggest story of our time: how the right-wing media has become a partisan propaganda arm of the Republican National Committee."
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GARY WEBB: THE STORY YOU WON'T READ
Shallow Gullet via Undernews.com ,

From the major media we learn sublimally that the drug industry - aside from selling illegal drugs - is the most honest business in the country. After all, according to the press, it never tries to buy elections, bribe politicians, lobby or influence policy, or infiltrate high positions of influence. Were that Enron and Haliburton so clean.

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Read Your Newspaper While You Still Can
Fred Reed ,

Whither the competition between the mainstream media and the Internet? It sharpens. The big papers still rule the roost, but they hemorrhage readers and credibility, perhaps more than they know or understand. People move to the web, spend more time online, hold the usual media in decreasing regard. The bright and the young switch effortlessly.

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Media in the Winter of Our "Disremorse"
Sensy Jones,

Early in the coldest season, optimists think of the day after solstice. It's predictable: the hemisphere will start tilting toward more light and warmth. But in the politics of human societies, there's no reliable way to tell how long a bone-rattling chill will last -- or how far it might go. A government's harsher policies could provoke kinetic revulsion and progressive resurgence. Or the dominant political atmosphere might have an overall effect of strengthening and perpetuating itself.


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Dear Donna Frye:
Linda Smithsonian,

You can appreciate the appeals for a recount filed by third parties of the city wide vote (in this still American city) because the current system is morally corrupt (that is the judicial, political and corporate media influences). They are currently contriving to steal democracy (at every level of government). They (the projectionists) are the ones legally “maneuvering” to do so. Truly this is not (abstractly) about you—this is about the “majority” of people, as voters, of this city and what they wanted and who they “did” choose.

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 12/17 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY
Dan Roberts,

A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, Spain, and Russia.
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In Memoriam: Gary Webb
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine ,

Investigative reporter and author Gary Webb was found dead in his home in the Sacramento area on December 10, 2004, of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The obituaries in the Los Angeles Times and other mainstream papers largely continued the character assassination that had plagued him during the last eight years of his life. In this article, based on Webb's appearance in San Diego in September 1998, he talked about what he said — and didn't say — about the CIA/contras/crack cocaine connections.
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The Web: Transforming online shopping
Gene Koprowski,

Great story on holiday online shopping.
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RFID News ( Zombie Wire )
James Mata,

RFID World News "The Zombie Wire"

Zombie Wire RFID World News' main objective is to reach out to the consumer and educate them on RFID and how it will infringe in their private lives.
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A Re-Invitation to the San Diego Community
San Diego Indymedia,

The San Diego Independent Media Center (SDIMC) is a grassroots organization committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social and economic justice in San Diego County. It is our goal to give voice to those people under-represented in the mainstream media. We intend to illuminate and analyze local and global issues that are affected by the increasing corporate domination of American society and the subsequent erosion of democracy. We seek to generate alternatives to the current biases in the corporate media and to contribute to the development of an equitable and sustainable society.

We fully recognize that to achieve these goals, it is essential to work closely with the San Diego activist community. Because the corporate media operates under a veneer of objectivity, subjects and persons, if covered at all, are actually presented in an "as told by the media" manner. We will work with and within movements for social justice in San Diego to support them in the telling of their own stories, which will further the goals of those movements.

Further, we fully recognize that the goal of representing people who are under-represented can only be accomplished in a just way by having members of under-represented communities in our organization, creating media and participating in our decision making process.


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Temporary Down Time, Now Fixed
sdimc,

We were experiencing some unscheduled down time due to a hardware failure since Wednesday, Dec 8th. The problem was caused by an old hard drive in our web server that stopped functioning. We are back online now and fully functional. If you would like to help us avoid this sort of down time in the future, please donate computer hardware or funds for new hardware!

You can donate funds by clicking the "Make a Donation" button in the left hand corner. You can donate hardware by contacting us at  info@sdimc.org .
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Sat Dec 11 Radical Conference/Encuentro
brenda-n behan johnson,

STOP THE CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION!
ALTO A LA REVOLUCION CONSERVADORA!

Encuentro Radical/Radical Conference
Sábado/Saturday, 11 DIC/DEC 2004
City College, San Diego

Resistencia Estudiantil's "Resistence Movements" will be hosting a forum open to the public regarding issues confronting progressive and Leftist movements in their struggle against right-wing, neo-conservative incursions against rights and freedoms in both the domestic and international arenas. Attendants will be able to meet fellow activists concerned about US foreign and domestic policy and to help develop a more informed and politically active Leftist movement in San Diego.

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Miya, arrested
Darek,

Miya, arrested
Miya, the japanesse member of 32811, has been arrested. The notice, unconfirmed for the 32811, is about the suspicion of writing computer's viriis.
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Big Media Censors Queer-Accepting Church
posted by Mark Gabrish Conlan,

The United Church of Christ (UCC) attempted to put an ad on the major TV networks advertising their church as Queer-friendly and were censored because the ads were allegedly "advocacy" and "controversial." As Carlsbad UCC pastor Rev. Madison Shockley argues below, this not only denies his church the right to advertise its believe but leaves the anti-Queer radical religious Right as the ONLY "Christian" voice permitted or tolerated by corporate media.
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ERR Communique from the Cultural Front
ERR Worker Collective,

The Ever Reviled Records Worker Collective is proud to announce the launching of our new website: another step in on our on going efforts to undermine capitalism and the state while building the counter-culture. We got our cyberspace guns loaded and ready to storm the internet front!
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