tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74467726734986188762023-03-21T13:12:31.785-04:00Progressive News NetworkCommunity-produced independent media for peace and social justice in Westchester County, NYUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-51619596516449344922012-09-07T11:30:00.001-04:002012-09-07T11:33:47.847-04:00Westchester Leaders Speak Out Against Islamophobia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-49161381108034925592011-03-15T06:42:00.000-04:002011-03-15T06:42:10.965-04:00The Treatment Trap, with author Rosemary Gibson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="295" src="http://blip.tv/play/AYKiggwC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="360"></embed><br />
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Chuck Bell of Progressive News Network interviews Rosemary Gibson, author of "The Treatment Trap: How the Overuse of Medical Care is Destroying Your Health, and What You Can Do to Prevent It"<br />
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Chuck Bell of Progressive News Network interviews Marc Sophos, executive director and founder of WDFH-FM about the station's recent signal expansion and acquisition of studio space, and future funding needs and program plans. <br />
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WDFH-FM needs your help and support!! Financial contributions, large and small, are needed to help the station pay for basic operations and expand its community-oriented music and public affairs programming over the next year and beyond.<br />
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Q Do you know a major donor or funder who could help support the station at this critical time? Can you help us make introductions to people who could provide a significant gift of $5,000, $10,000 or more? <br />
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For more information, contact: www.WDFH.org <br />
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www.ProgressiveNewsNetwork.orgUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-42592641997609759262010-11-11T09:22:00.003-05:002010-11-11T11:17:15.304-05:00WDFH 90.3 FM Community Radio -- Interview with Marc Sophos, founder and executive director<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="285" src="http://blip.tv/play/AYKL4k8C" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="360"></embed><br />
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Chuck Bell of Progressive News Network interviews Marc Sophos, executive director and founder of WDFH-FM about the station's recent signal expansion and acquisition of studio space, and future funding needs and program plans. <br />
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This interview will air tonight, Thursday, November 11, on White Plains Cable Access TV (Cablevision channel 76) and on Verizon Fios Channel 45 at 8:00 PM <br />
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WDFH-FM needs your help and support!! Financial contributions, large and small, are needed to help the station pay for basic operations and expand its community-oriented music and public affairs programming over the next year and beyond.<br />
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Q Do you know a major donor or funder who could help support the station at this critical time? Can you help us make introductions to people who could provide a significant gift of $5,000, $10,000 or more? <br />
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For more information on WDFH-FM, visit: <a href="http://www.wdfh.org/">http://www.wdfh.org/</a> <br />
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<div> </div><a href="http://www.wdfh.org/"><strong>Special Community Meeting to Support WDFH-FM</strong></a><br />
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<div><strong> </strong></div><strong>Date: Monday evening, April 12, 2010</strong><br />
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<div><strong>Time: 7:30 pm</strong></div><strong></strong><br />
<div><strong>Location: The theater at the Chappaqua Public Library, 195 South Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, N.Y. Please enter the double doors facing the parking lot. </strong><a href="http://directions.../"><strong>Directions...</strong></a></div><br />
From the <a href="htttp://www.wdfh.org/">WDFH web site:</a><br />
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This is a critical time for WDFH-FM, your local community radio station. We've completed our long-awaited signal expansion and can now reach about 400,000 people in central and northern Westchester and eastern Rockland. WDFH can also be heard online worldwide. But we lost our studio space in 2006 and need to raise funding to rebuild and operate our studios at a new location. This will enable a vast expansion of our programming and our service to the community.<br />
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<div> </div>If we are unable to raise the necessary funding, the station's survival will be at stake. Community support is an essential part of community radio, and your involvement is needed if we are to maintain and rebuild WDFH as a local, volunteer-powered, noncommercial radio station. WDFH is the only such station in the lower Hudson valley.<br />
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<div> </div>If we are unable to meet our financial responsibilities, the station's irreplaceable broadcast license will be sold. The likely buyer would be a public or religious broadcaster from outside our area that would transform WDFH into a mere repeater for programming from far away. Any chance for local community programming and engagement would be lost.<br />
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<div>So the time is now. If you believe in participatory, grassroots, nonprofit media and want to find out how you can help keep it alive and healthy in our area, please join us for our public meeting.</div><br />
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<div>More information: (914) 674-0900 after 3:00 pm or e-mail <a href="mailto:meeting@wdfh.org">meeting@wdfh.org</a></div><br />
<div> </div><div><a href="http://wdfh.org/press_releases/wdfh_community_radio_public_meeting_2010-04-12.pdf">Press release</a></div><div> </div><br />
<div>Video: WDFH's Marc Sophos and Maxine Margo Rubin discuss the station and the upcoming meeting on <a href="http://www.ncctv.org/index.php?option=com_expose&Itemid=64&album=72">Night Vision with Robin Zablow</a> on NCCTV — New Castle Community Television.</div><br />
<div> </div>Without your support, independent community radio is simply not possible.<br />
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<div> </div>WDFH FM 90.3, in Ossining, New York, the lower Hudson valley's community radio alternative and Pacifica affiliate, needs to raise funding to rebuild and operate our studios at a new location. WDFH is independent, nonprofit, and entirely commercial-free. We don't receive government or institutional funding, so community support — your support — is an essential part of the equation.<br />
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<div> </div>We've built what many communities would give their eyeteeth for: a volunteer-powered local radio station committed to:<br />
<ul><li>supporting local musicians </li>
<li>informing the electorate </li>
<li>training community volunteers to become active media participants </li>
<li>helping build a stronger community </li>
<li>reporting in depth on local news </li>
<li>promoting arts and cultural events </li>
<li>giving voice to underrepresented constituencies and viewpoints </li>
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<div>With our newly expanded signal, the stage is now set for us to be able to do these important things on a much larger scale than before. We don't want to lose WDFH as a local resource, and we hope you don't either.</div><br />
Please join us at our public meeting on April 12. We have one chance to maintain WDFH as a local station. This is it.<br />
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This meeting is open to the general public. The Chappaqua Public Library is generously providing space for this meeting, but as with other non-library meetings, our meeting is not sponsored by the Library; nor does the Library have any relationship to the meeting or to WDFH. WDFH and its parent organization, Hudson Valley Community Radio, Inc., are a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.<br />
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Airing in February/March: <br />
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Westchester Health Reform Task Force</b>: Chuck Bell of PNN interviews Rachel Estroff of the Westchester Health Reform Task Force on why health reform is needed, and what's happening with current federal legislation. <br />
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This episode's permalink: http://www.blip.tv/file/3243928<br />
www.ProgressiveNewsNetwork.orgUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-61699195319321409012010-02-21T07:59:00.000-05:002010-02-21T07:59:02.317-05:00Stimlus Package UpdateAiring in February/March on Progressive News Network:<br />
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<strong>NEDAP On the Money: Stimulus Package</strong><br />
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NEDAP (Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project) is a resource and advocacy center for community groups in New York City. Our mission is to promote community economic justice and to eliminate discriminatory economic practices that harm communities and perpetuate inequality and poverty. <br />
We envision a just and sustainable world, in which all people live in safe, thriving, healthy communities. We believe that fundamental change is necessary to attain that world.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-76723947838658791002009-11-19T21:14:00.000-05:002009-11-19T21:14:16.916-05:00Home Ownership 101<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="295" src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGupAYC" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="360"></embed> <br />
<span id="EpisodeDescription">Chuck Bell interviews Frengiz Surty of Housing Action Council about how to qualify for a mortgage, purchase a home, and avoid financial problems such as foreclosure.<br />
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Housing Action Council<br />
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www.HousingActionCouncil.org</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-64607499831976471462009-09-18T17:38:00.002-04:002009-09-21T16:46:41.537-04:00Affordable Housing: Source of Income Legislation<strong><a href="http://www.blip.tv/file/2618315">Affordable Housing: Source of Income Legislation </a><br /></strong><br /><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGhhBEC" width="360" height="285" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br />Watch on <a href="http://www.progressivenewsnetwork.blip.tv/file/2618315">ProgressiveNewsNet.Blip.TV<br /></a><br />Dennis Hanratty interviews Karen Tenenbaum of Westchester Residents Against Income Discrimination and Meaghan Schoeffling of Westchester Disabled of the Move about proposed Westchester County legislation to prohibit discrimination against tenants and homeowners based on source of payment, such as the Federal Section 8 housing assistance program.<br /><br />Contact:<br /><br />Karen Tenenbaum<br />Westchester Residents Against Income Discrimination<br />(857) 928-9111<br /><br />Meghan Schoeffling<br />Westchester Disabled on the Move<br /><a href="http://www.wdom.org/" mce_href="http://www.wdom.org/">http://www.wdom.org/</a><br />914. 968.4717 ext. 13<br /><br />Dennis Hanratty<br />Mount Vernon United Tenants<br />(914) 699-1114Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-63794340121552182742009-09-18T17:28:00.002-04:002009-09-18T17:32:04.643-04:00Foreclosure Prevention<a href="http://www.blip.tv/file/2618238"><strong>Foreclosure Prevention</strong><br /></a><br /><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGhg0QC" width="360" height="285" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br />Watch on <a href="http://www.blip.tv/file/2618238">ProgressiveNewsNetwork.Blip.TV</a><br /><br />Chuck Bell interviews Frengiz Surty, Homeownership and Preservation Counselor with Housing Action Council, in Westchester County, NY about her work to help financially distressed homeowners avoid mortgage default and foreclosure.<br /><br />Contact:<br /><br />Frengiz Surty<br />Housing Action Council<br />www.HousingActionCouncil.org<br />(914) 332-4144Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-46421640087802143722009-09-09T11:34:00.000-04:002009-09-09T11:44:53.377-04:00Free Yourself from Debt!airing on PNN this month:<br /><br /><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AYGZqywC" width="360" height="295" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br /><strong>Free Yourself from Debt, from <a href="http://financialfuture.blip.tv/">Building Your Financial Future</a><br /></strong><br />A series of short videos regarding personal financial management skills on banking, credit, debt management, and money management.<br /><br />Produced by: <a href="http://www.cchrv.org/">Community Capital Resources</a>, 7 West Cross Street, Suite D, Hawthorne, NY 10532 Phone: 914.747.8020 Web: <a href="http://www.cchrv.org/">http://www.cchrv.org/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-56672006885476704352009-09-09T10:02:00.001-04:002009-09-18T20:39:20.583-04:00Opening Access<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4708457008927095699&ei=QtKnSsCFEYjwlQfKhYmkAw&q=denver+open+media&hl=en#"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382971464210747426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 343px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 236px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RPzn7iWRyqI/SrQoBshYkCI/AAAAAAAAAX4/MxfrqE6T2aU/s400/opening+access.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><div><a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4708457008927095699&ei=QtKnSsCFEYjwlQfKhYmkAw&q=denver+open+media&hl=en#"><strong>Opening Access: Denver Open Media</strong></a><br /><br />A half-hour special presentation of a bold new vision for community media. Combining archival footage with interviews and b-roll, Opening Access presents a compelling picture of an emerging model for alternative media that will engage new communities and new voices. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>From: <a href="http://www.denveropenmedia.org/">Denver Open Media</a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-28290559789394007862009-09-09T08:33:00.000-04:002009-09-09T12:35:57.412-04:00Faces of ForeclosurePrevious aired on PNN<br /><br /><a href="http://www.defendyourdollars.org/video.html">Faces of Foreclosure<br /></a><br /><embed name="flashObj" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/1418520436" width="366" height="306" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=9459252001&playerId=1418520436&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" seamlesstabbing="false" swliveconnect="true"></embed><br /><br /><br />At the end of 2008, Consumers Union embarked on a special project to record the video stories of individuals in the United States experiencing a crisis as a result of the mortgage meltdown. These are <a href="http://www.defendyourdollars.org/content_type/document/story/#mortgages-stories">the personal stories</a> of several individuals whose experiences reflect the many ways in which abusive mortgages are taking a huge toll on individuals, communities and our economy.<br />In 2008, 2.3 million properties received a foreclosure filing in the United States. That's an 81 percent increase from 2007 and a 225 percent increase from 2006. (Source: RealtyTrac)<br />Beyond the statistics, these are real people, real families fighting to keep the most precious thing they own. Under pressure to make ends meet to pay their mortgages and feed their children, these are the stories of people targeted by predatory lending practices and forced to make difficult decisions.<br />To learn more about this issue, please read Consumers Union's platform: <a href="http://www.defendyourdollars.org/topic/mortgages/">No More Mortgage Meltdowns!</a><br />Do you have a personal story you'd like to share? If you are afraid of losing your home or you already have, <a href="http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=DYD_ShareyourMortgageStory">we want to hear from you</a>.<br />If you are having mortgage difficulties, please see our <a href="http://www.defendyourdollars.org/2009/02/what_to_do_if_you_are_having_m.html">tips section</a>. There are many foreclosure counseling options and other resources available to you.<br />If you'd like to receive a copy of these videos to share with you friends and family, neighborhood association or community group please email <a href="mailto:marvti@consumer.org">Tim Marvin</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-20105958291283152122009-03-29T17:45:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:12:41.775-04:00Iraqi Student Project: One Small Thing We Can Do<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AwGJ_0k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="412" height="340" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br />This video introduces you to the Iraqi Student Project (ISP), formed by two Americans to bring Iraqi refugees of college age to study at American universities without cost, as a small effort toward reconciliation and restitution. The ISP aims to help these refugee students achieve their educational dreams and contribute to Iraq's future on their return. This video shows ISP students meeting in Damascus for a Writer's Workshop, where the founders of ISP lead them in English language exercises to improve their writing skills and prepare them to enter American colleges. Six individual ISP students tell their personal stories. <br /><br />From <a href="http://www.RedHillFilms.com/">Red Hill Films</a><br /><br /><a href="http://andrewcourtney.blip.tv/">http://andrewcourtney.blip.tv/</a><br /><br />In February, Manhattanville College graciously agreed to provide a tuition refugee for an Iraqi refugee student, to enter in fall 2009. There are at least three other local colleges in the area-- Bard College, Mercy College and Sarah Lawrence College -- that may also be willing to admit an Iraqi student for study in the fall. To facilitate their entry, on February 3, volunteers formed a Westchester Support Group for the Iraqi Student Project, to help with fundraising and other support needs.<br /><br />You can help! For more information, visit: <a href="http://www.WestchesterSupport.org/">www.WestchesterSupport.org</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-76603028248211921012009-03-29T16:28:00.000-04:002009-03-29T16:26:52.993-04:00More Troops + Afghanistan = Catastrophe (Part 1)New documentary on Afghanistan, from Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPUwQGmMSm0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gPUwQGmMSm0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /> <a href="http://rethinkafghanistan.com/share.php?v=http://rethinkafghanistan.com/troop_full.php">Share the video</a><br /><br />More info: <a href="http://rethinkafghanistan.com/">http://rethinkafghanistan.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-71541683334977180712009-03-29T16:24:00.000-04:002009-03-29T16:26:33.785-04:00Pakistan: "The Most Dangerous Country" (Part 2)Part 2 of a documentary from Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C3I6SxMpivo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C3I6SxMpivo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://rethinkafghanistan.com/share.php?v=http://rethinkafghanistan.com/part2_full.php">Share the video</a><br /><br />More info: <a href="http://rethinkafghanistan.com/">http://rethinkafghanistan.com/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-13133108219287852102009-03-29T16:00:00.000-04:002009-03-29T16:45:47.198-04:00US Withdrawing as Media Retreat from Iraq<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AfDiEwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="402" height="300" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br />From <a href="http://www.Aliveinbaghdad.org/">Alive in Baghdad</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/1837978">http://blip.tv/file/1837978</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-20099416625373274332009-03-29T15:55:00.000-04:002009-03-29T16:51:26.824-04:00Journalists in Danger Despite Drop in Censorship<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/Ae7VRQA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="402" height="300" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br />From: <a href="http://www.AliveinBaghdad.org/">Alive in Baghdad</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blip.tv/file/1803639">http://blip.tv/file/1803639</a><br /><br />Journalism in Iraq is a deadly business. The Committee to Protect Journalism, an international NGO focusing on dangers for journalists worldwide, has repeatedly ranked Iraq as one of the deadliest countries for journalists to work in. Rayat al-Arab, an Iraqi newspaper associated with the Movement of Arab Nationalists, is no exception to these dangerous conditions. <br /><br />In October 2006, Saed Mahdi Shlash, a journalist and administrator working for Rayat al-Arab, was murdered along with his wife. Gunmen entered his home in Baghdad's western neighborhood of al-Aamariyeh and executed Shlash along with his wife. The CPJ has previously highlighted the neighborhood al-Aamariyeh as a focal point of insurgent activity targeting journalists. In addition to militants and criminal gangs, journalists in Iraq are also alleged to have been targeted by the US military as well as their own government. <br /><br />On April 8, 2003, indepedent journalists reporting from Baghdad's Palestine Hotel were attacked by US military units, killing cameraman Jose Couso of Telecinco and another photographer for Reuters, Taras Protsyuk. Though the US Department of Defense claimed they acted in "self-defense," a report issued by Reporters Without Borders states that their investigations concluded "exactly the opposite" of the Pentagon's statement. <br /><br />All of these dangers combine to form a type of censorship for Iraqi journalists. While there haven't been specific laws infringing on Iraqi freedom of speech since the fall of Saddam Hussein, journalists are often intimidated by the steady stream of kidnappings, bombings and assassinations. Satellite news channels, the most popular media source in Iraq, are also monitored unofficially by the government and political parties trolling for criticism and unfriendly reporting. Newspapers and print media, for their part, are targeting much less by the government due to their low readership and distribution. <br /><br />In this week's episode of Alive in Baghdad, we bring you an interview with Hassan Fadhel Allah al-Hussaini, the editor of Rayat al-Arab newspaper in Baghdad. He offers us a personal perspective on the wide variety of dangers facing journalists in Iraq. At the same time he reminds us of these dangers, Hassan remains faithful. "All Iraqis now are working by way of a miracle," he tells us. "Everyone who walks in the street, every student who goes to school or university...all of them are working by a miracle, because death is pursuing them in every moment and place."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-62584743772704741832009-03-29T14:30:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:24:00.007-04:00Mosaic: World News from the Middle East, via Link TV<object width="400" height="370"><param name="movie" value="http://www.linktv.org/embed/mosaic"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.linktv.org/embed/mosaic" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="370"></embed></object>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-14492013949846288292009-03-29T13:30:00.000-04:002009-03-29T17:55:33.389-04:00Wall Street Watch Conference<a href="http://www.wallstreetwatch.org/conference.htm">Wall Street Watch Conference</a> - some great info on the current financial crisis, from Demos and Essential Information -- videos are available for the entire conference from their siteUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-56436172919241786132009-03-29T13:25:00.000-04:002009-03-29T19:05:04.981-04:00The Raging Grannies, Captured Live on PNN<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AciudgA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="416" height="330" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br /><br /><a href="http://www.westchester.raginggrannies.org/">http://www.westchester.raginggrannies.org/</a><br /><br />The Raging Grannies . . . and their friends of Westchester, NY, are part of the International Raging Grannies. We sing new words to familiar tunes about the issues of peace, the environment and social justice. Satirical and serious, we are politically conscious but non-partisan. Rehearsals/Meetings take place on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month, 7 - 9 p.m., in the town of Ossining.<br /><br />Blip TV link: <a href="http://blip.tv/file/1179393">http://blip.tv/file/1179393</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7446772673498618876.post-48311450999959058292009-01-01T09:06:00.000-05:002009-09-09T09:28:11.909-04:00Where to Find PNN: Stations and Air Times<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RPzn7iWRyqI/SqetXG22aWI/AAAAAAAAAXo/2Bl-Ci2nFdA/s1600-h/Cable+One.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379458892406614370" style="WIDTH: 243px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RPzn7iWRyqI/SqetXG22aWI/AAAAAAAAAXo/2Bl-Ci2nFdA/s400/Cable+One.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RPzn7iWRyqI/SqetSXyqm6I/AAAAAAAAAXg/4DZqjcSaTCQ/s1600-h/Cable+Two.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379458811053120418" style="WIDTH: 269px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RPzn7iWRyqI/SqetSXyqm6I/AAAAAAAAAXg/4DZqjcSaTCQ/s400/Cable+Two.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0