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- Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters - Free Speech with a purpose. Adbusters sometimes can not get mainstream television to air their ads for any amount of money. Ads are critical of commercial ads.
www.adbusters.org/information/index.html
- Akin Birdal sentenced - Turkish human rights leader sentenced to one year in jail beginning in July, 1998 for allegations of inciting hostilities in an incredible twisting of words in court.
www.ifex.org/alerts/view.html?id=3461
- Alejandra Matus - Chilean Journalist Alejandra Matus prosecuted by Chilean Government (CPJ Protests)
www.cpj.org/protests/99ltrs/Chile23April99.html
- AP Should Come Clean About Reporter's Conflicts Following Resignation - The Associated Press' long-time Bolivia correspondent, Peter McFarren, will resign amidst revelations of widespread conflicts of interest, an AP spokesperson has told FAIR.
www.fair.org/activism/ap-bolivia.html
- AP's Man in Bolivia Resigns Over Lobbying - Washington Post article about clear conflict of interest by Associated Press reporter.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A690-2000Oct24.html
- College Newspaper Allegedly Sabotaged - New Eagle on-line alternative in Calpella, California. Author believes that Mendicino College has subverted student leadership of their press.
www.geocities.com/walrus95482/eagle2-letters.html
- Colombian Labor Monitor - Praire Net of Urbana, Illinois, hosts this labor monitor site which supports free speech and provides links and information on specific cases in which free speech is subverted in Central America. Cites specific union members killed, fired, arrested in association with union activity in Coca Cola and Nestles Food plants in Columbia.
www.prairienet.org/clm
- Darker Alliances - Web editorial about CIA story and San Jose Mercury News. Jeff Elliott asks, "If the Agency's fundamental credibility is suspect, so is the honor of its most vocal defenders. It's a fair question for the public to ask the Times and Washington Post: Why the hell didn't you investigate this ten years ago? "
www.monitor.net/monitor/editorials/ed-alliance.html
- Is Pacifica Radio for sale? - Incriminating letter, allegedly from its director to head of its board explains how Microsoft or other commercial interests may end up owning this 50 year old (former) progressive station.
www.zmag.org/CrisesCurEvts/Pacifica/pacifica_sale.htm
- Mainstream Press Misdeeds - Judi Bari's refutation of mainstream press distorting information about Earth First and other activist groups is layed out at the bottom of this editorial page by Jeff Elliott.
www.monitor.net/monitor/editorials/ed-bari.html
- New Culture Clubbed in China - On August 3, 2000 the ministry of state security shut down New Culture Forum, China's first pro-democracy website.
www.indexoncensorship.org/news/china080900.html
- Nicaraguan President Subverts Free Speech - Nicaraguan journalists feel that fundamental human rights have been both verbally and physically attacked by President Aleman.
www.ifex.org/alerts/view.html?id=3184
- Pinochet & Kissinger on Chile - Henry Kissinger encouraged Chile's brutal repression, according to newly released documents. This U.S. government memo shows that Kissinger covered up U.S. information about atrocities in Chile and sought to persuade Pinochet that the U.S. government did not consider his behavior a major problem. This subversion of free speech could not be known at the time because of laws protecting certain U.S. functions. Freedom of Information Act lets it out now.
www.monitor.net/monitor/9903a/kissingerchile.html
- Printers pulp Monsanto edition of Ecologist - Fearful of possible litigation by Monsanto, a U.K. publisher destroys 14,000 copies of a periodical in which investigative reporting unearthed corrupt activities of this agri-business.
www.monsantosucks.com/pulpecol.htm
- Rice University Spin Control - Houston Press Online story about the administrative coup d'état that closed down 91.7 FM, K-T-R-U Houston, college radio station.
www.houstonpress.com/issues/2001-01-11/feature.html/page1.html
- Senator Gram's Pro Big Radio Business Bill - Radio Diversity publicizes a senator's rhetoric supporing big business running the complete airwaves.
www.radiodiversity.com/news.shtml
- Suppression of dissent - The general field of "suppression of dissent" includes whistleblowing, free speech, systems of social control and related topics. The purpose of the site is to foster examination of these issues and action against suppression. It is founded on the assumption that openness and dialogue should be fostered to challenge unaccountable power.
www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent
- The Case Against Pacifica Radio - Rafael Renteria in this CounterPunch article, Challenges Pacifica Radio managers and board with duplicity, misleading statements, and a plan to sabotage its progressive quality.
www.counterpunch.org/renteria.html
- The Crucible - Moved by Senator Joe McCarthy's subversion of free speech in the U.S. Senate in the 1950's, intellectual and playwright, Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible about the Salem Witch trials.
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_CRU.HTM
- Turkey's leading rights group under threat of closure - Turkish prosecutor has demanded that Turkey's leading rights group, the Human Rights Association (IHD), be closed for irregular activities. (Feb. 21, 2001)
www.ozgurluk.org/press/msg00074.html
- U.K. Police want keys to decode private e-mail - Article from the March 6, 1999 edition of The Telegraph describes how British police want keys to decode private e-mail.
www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=%2Farchive%2F1999%2F03%2F06%2Fnspy06.html
- U.S. Broadcasters Arrested - Reports that nine alternative media members were arrested during peaceful protests at the National Association of Broadcaster's convention in San Francisco.
www.sf.indymedia.org/news/2000/09/199.php
- What America is Not About - In April 1998, high school sophomore MaryKait Durkee's refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. This editorial compares the repercussions of her refusal with the loyalty oaths of the McCarthy era.
unquietmind.com/loyalty.html
- Which truth will be, when? - Raul Reyes, a member of the seven-member ruling junta of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said that he was not aware of any signs that his organization had any role in the killing of American Indian activists Ingrid Washinawatok and Lahe'na'e Gay, and environmental activist Terence Freitas (March, 1999)
www.webactive.com/webactive/pacifica/demnow
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