After 30 years as the voice of progressive San Francisco, new Bay Guardian owners have sacked the editor of the publication. Continue reading Tim Redmond Sacked from Bay Guardian After 30 Years
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The Constitution? Fuggedaboutit. Guardian Breaks Multiple Stories on Widespread Warrantless Surveillance
Glenn Greenwald and Ewan Mcaskill break huge stories about NSA surveillance of American phone calls and virtually unlimited access by NSA to every major computer server in the US.
There are no words for this. Months of hints from some Democratic legislators on various intelligence committees that unprecedented levels of surveillance were being implemented cracked wide open with this week’s scoops by Greenwald and Mcaskill in the London Guardian newspaper of NSA paperwork revealing agreements with Verizon to turn over wireless meta data and every major computer company including Google, Apple, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft to permit National Security Agency access to their data servers. Continue reading The Constitution? Fuggedaboutit. Guardian Breaks Multiple Stories on Widespread Warrantless Surveillance
62 Public Interest Groups Demand Answers on AP Seizures
More than 60 civil liberties, digital rights, press freedom and public interest groups (including Media Alliance) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding a full, transparent account of the Justice Department’s targeting of journalists and whistleblowers. Continue reading 62 Public Interest Groups Demand Answers on AP Seizures
Urban Habitat Suspends Publication of Race Poverty and the Environment
Urban Habitat has announced the suspension of Race Poverty and the Environment, their journal of 20+ years which chronicled movements for social justice across the Bay and across the United States.
Here is Media Alliance’s statement on the closure: Continue reading Urban Habitat Suspends Publication of Race Poverty and the Environment
30-Year New Mexico Public Access Center Evicted by Police
From a press release issued by The Media Literacy Project in Albuquerque, NM
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BREAKING NEWS: PUBLIC ACCESS STATION DENIED ACCESS TO BUILDING BY ARMED GUARD
Albuquerque public media nonprofit Quote Unquote made unable to fulfill contract with City by force.
Albuquerque citizens along with the staff and board of Quote Unquote Inc. showed up to the station at 519 Central NW to find their access revoked by an armed officer placed there by the City of Albuquerque. Preliminary reports by community members and would-be “movers” gathered on the street outside the station suggest that sometime over the course of last night the City Attorney ordered the locks changed on the building and used taxpayers’ money to station an armed guard there to prevent access. Apparently, the City of Albuquerque became aware of Quote Unquote’s very public and transparent appeal to its 30 year-long base of community supporters for help with moving all real property owned by the nonprofit for use at the new location of the public access television provider. Continue reading 30-Year New Mexico Public Access Center Evicted by Police
Al-Jazeera – Under Fire for Distorted Coverage
Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-funded international news bureau, has been accused by its own editors and reporters of intentionally distorting coverage of conflict in Syria and Libya.
Canada’s Real News Network did a 3-part interview with Ali Hashem, a Beirut-based reporter for Al-Jazeera who recently quit his job. An editor at the same bureau later supported Hashem’s allegation and left his position as well. Continue reading Al-Jazeera – Under Fire for Distorted Coverage
Hikers Freed from Evin Prison
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were freed from Tehran’s Evin Prison after serving more than two years on allegations of spying.
The two were arrested – with Sarah Shourd, now Bauer’s fiancee – in 2009 while hiking in Kurdistan. Shourd was released last year.
Media Alliance, which served as the fiscal sponsor for the support project, Free the Hikers welcomes them home after too long a time.
A Left Mayoral Forum
MA joined with a dozen Oakland community groups to sponsor an October 11th forum hosted by Wilson Riles Jr. Watch the video!