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ASCAP Declares War On Free Culture, EFF

Syndicated from Slashdot on Fri, 2010-06-25

Andorin writes "According to Drew Wilson at ZeroPaid and Cory Doctorow, the ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), a US organization that aims to collect royalties for its members for the use of their copyrighted works, has began soliciting donations to fight key organizations of the free culture movement, such as Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Pu

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Open Thread: Arrests and protest developments

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-06-25

Post your accounts from protest in the comments

Here's an interview with Submedia at Allan Gardens.

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The CSIS Affair: What Were They Thinking? (in Mediacheck)

Syndicated from The Tyee on Fri, 2010-06-25

Fadden evoked questions the CBC failed to ask.

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BP Accused of Killing Endangered Sea Turtles in Cleanup Operation

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-25

by Suzanne Goldenberg

Conservationists and wildlife experts have accused » Read more | 99 reads «
UN Rights Chief says Torturers Will Face Justice

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-25

GENEVA – UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Friday warned
torturers that they could not escape justice even if they might benefit
from short term impunity.

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Santa Cruz Anarchists Seek to "Demystify Anarchy"

Syndicated from Infoshop News on Fri, 2010-06-25

SANTA CRUZ -- Feeling misunderstood after police blamed anarchists for the May 1 riot downtown, a group of anti-establishment thinkers hosted a fre...

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Media Missing the McChrystal Point

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-25

by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

NEW YORK - The media firestorm over the Rolling Stone profile (6/22/10) of Gen

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How Many Americans are Targeted for Assassination?

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-25

by Glenn Greenwald

When The
Washington Post's Dana Priest first revealed (in passing) back in
January that the Obama administratio

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The Spoke: TMC Broadsheet Issue 8

Syndicated from Media Co-op

Promoted by blackandred on Fri, 2010/06/25 - 12:09pm

By Toronto Media Co-op - June 25, 2010

This issue of The Spoke features:

* The Indigenous rights march
* Fence-side no-democracy zone
* Toronto's homeless told to leave Allan Gardens
* Striking Novatel workers and their vuvuzelas

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Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings: I'm a Journalist, "Not a Stenographer"

Syndicated from Common Dreams on Fri, 2010-06-25

by Marcus Baram

The Rolling Stone correspondent whose profile of Gen.

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Experts Say Wiretap Law Needs Digital Era Update

Syndicated from Slashdot on Fri, 2010-06-25

GovTechGuy writes "Experts at a Congressional hearing Thursday said the government needs to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act to reflect changes in technology, notably location-based services. On one hand, legal experts argue tracking a mobile user's location should require a higher burden of proof than simply intercepting their communications.

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Less is more

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-06-25

Within the body of Transition movement literature, I don't often see references to the Simple Living or Voluntary Simplicity movement. Perhaps the Voluntary Simplicit

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Gord Hill - 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-06-25

The 5th speaking event of the Kitchener-Waterloo Peoples Summit (KWPS) is highlighted by a presentation by author and agent of social change Gord Hill and focuses in the topic of Hill’s book, and new comic book – 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance.

Here is Gords description:

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People's Assembly Keeps Climate Justice Debate Public

Syndicated from Media Co-op on Fri, 2010-06-25

While the power elites gather in their walled-off security cordons, the Peoples Assembly for Climate Justice offers another model of decision-making. Subtitled “Moving Forward for Cochabamba” the meeting seeks to build on the successful summit in Bolivia, a people’s alternative to the failure to reach any kind of meaningful climate agreement at Copenhagen.

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BP's deadline to give facts on Gulf oil spill

Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Fri, 2010-06-25

BP has been given until Friday, July 2 to provide documentary evidence establishing exactly what is happening behind the scenes at their ongoing Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

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