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When GI Bryan Currie was seriously wounded in Afghanistan, we was treated in-country and sent back to combat. Five months later, he returned with his unit to the U.S., where he sought help from the Army for PTSD. He was classified as undeployable, but the only help the Army offered was to push pills at him. His chain of command had him re-classified as deployable, and two days before his unit was sent to Iraq, he went AWOL. He talked with Courage to Resist from South Carolina. 17:47

The defense utilized the "bad company" argument: that Bell was shot and killed because he was among "the wrong crowd." That such an argument swayed Supreme Court justice Arthur Cooperman (in New York state, unlike most other states, the trial court is termed the Supreme Court, and the state's highest court is their Court of Appeals.) is a measure of how devalued Black life is, and how easy Black men are to demonize and disparage.

Mixteca Region Coordinator and Legal Advocacy Program Director

On April 24th and 25th, Centolia Maldonado Vasquez and Bernardo Ramirez Bautista, Oaxaca-based members of the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations, gave presentations in Greenfield and at UC Santa Cruz on indigenous Mexican migration to the U.S. and its impact in the communities of origin, the current political situation in Oaxaca, the role of women in the movement for social justice in Oaxaca, and current challenges of indigenous governing community institutions in Oaxaca. Audio recordings of the presentations by Centolia and Bernardo are available for download at the links below. Each recording is approximately 40 minutes (81 minutes total) and the language is Spanish.

Radio Venezuela En Vivo: We are coming back on Sunday 4th May for a special "Bolivia" broadcast. Nous revenons pour une émission spéciale "Bolivie" le dimanche 4 mai prochain.

Here's another for the annals of vote suppression. Calls have gone out to an untold number of North Carolina voters telling them that they need to fill out a registration form before they vote. Democracy North Carolina, a government watchdog that has posted audio (wav) of the call, says that the calls went out to "black neighborhoods." It seems not to be a scheme limited to North Carolina. As Facing South reports, the same call evidently went out to some voters in Columbus, Ohio two days before municipal elections there last November, and also in Virginia the week before the Democratic primary there this February.

55:15 minute Audio of Democracy Now Amy Goodman booksigning at Changing Hands Book Store in Tempe Arizona

AUDIO RECORDING: Palestinian Sami Awad of Holy Land Trust and Jewish American Bekah Wolf of Palestine Solidarity Project discuss their personal stories and nonviolent resistance in Palestine.

This news show airs weekly on Freak Radio, Friday mornings 10-12 noon, broadcasting news and opinion from independent media worldwide, focused on indymedia sites but also drawing from other websites.

23:30 minute of Speeches in front of State Capitol Phoenix Az sponsored by local Move On chapter explaining the "Iraq and Recession Report"

Audio mixes about Net Neutrality featuring samples from FCC Hearing on Internet Practices 04-17-08 Stanford Ca. music and media on the subject. Expect more to follow.

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Jeffrey Smedberg, one of the organizers of the 7th Annual ReelWork 2008 May Day Labor Film Festival.

On April 15, 2008, George Cadman interviewed Rebecca Aldworth, the Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues for the Humane Society International-Canada about the 2008 Canadian Seal "Hunt". For the past nine years, she has been a firsthand observer of Canada's commercial seal hunt, escorting over one hundred scientists, parliamentarians and journalists to the ice floes to witness the slaughter.

Audio of Lawrence Lessig presentation to the FCC on the future of the open Internet in America. "Preserve what has worked in driving this economy -- and what has worked is a neutral network."

The recent assassination of two community radio reporters in Oaxaca's Triqui region has triggered widespread international condemnation. Mexico has ranked as the deadliest country for journalists in this hemisphere for years. The two young reporters were from a self-declared "autonomous municipality" in an area characterized by decades of bitter violence. Community activists and the Mexican government's National Human Rights Commission visited the area earlier this week on a fact-finding mission. Vladimir Flores has the Latest from Oaxaca.

21:08 minute Audio of Arizona Interfaith group at State Capitol lobbying to keep the programs in government that help people,even in recession times.

Jill Friedberg discusses her most recent film, Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (a little bit of so much truth), recent events in Oaxaca including the murder of two indigenous radio activists on their way to an independent media conference: MP3 audio, mono, ~30 min.

31 min audio of opposing Press Conferences at State Capitol concerning Immigration issue.Rep Mirana vs Rep Pearce.

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