Now that Henry Louis Gates’ Jr. has gotten a tiny taste of what “the underclass” undergo each day, do you think that he will go easier on them? Lighten up on the tough love lectures? Even during his encounter with the police, he was given some slack. If a black man in an inner city neighborhood had hesitated to identify himself, or given the police some lip, the police would have called SWAT. When Oscar Grant, an apprentice butcher, talked back to a BART policeman in Oakland, he was shot…! UPDATE via Lady Liberty's Lamp: Boston Cop Bigotry Continues; Racist Officer Sends Email Screed to Boston Globe Reporter, Wraps Self in US Military Uniform, Repeatedly Calls Gates "Jungle Monkey" ORIGINAL HARDCOPY SCAN of Barrett email, via Fox 25 News, Boston.

The 11th annual Allied Media Conference (AMC) was held in Detroit Michigan, July 16-19. The goal of the AMC was to "advance our visions for a just and creative world" by helping people "share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through media-based organizing."

Four members of the Rochester IMC collective took the trip to Detroit to participate in the conference. In true AMC-style, I created this audio reportback while in the Using Radio to Document the Allied Media Conference 2009 workshop. In the workshop, we learned how to use the Zoom recorder, how to conduct good interviews and edit audio. During lunch the next day I interviewed my Rochester IMC travel-mates: Dawn Zuppelli, Andy Dillon and Ted Forsyth. We talked about workshops, inspirational feelings and what we plan to take back to Rochester.

• Allied Media Conference Reportback (mp3 version)
• Allied Media Conference Reportback (ogg version)

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As Obama tries to get health care reform passed, the national debate about rights to health care are heating up again. According to Dr. Ted Brown, our guest this week, about 22,000 people every year die as a direct result of not being able to afford health care. The number of uninsured people in this country is up to fifty million. What are the solutions being proposed? Why is single payer, or medicare for all, so steadfastly avoided by the political elite, including Obama? What are the forces shaping the public debate? Dr. Ted Brown, a professor of History and Community and Preventative Medicine and Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester helps us begin to answer some of these question on Indy TV this week.

A report from the Mystic Garden Party at Jackson Wellsprings.

Common Action Seattle invites you to a screening of "Terrorizing Dissent," a film documenting the criminalization of dissent at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul during September 2008. Following the film, stay for a Q & A session with RNC 8 member Luce Guillen-Givins on anarchist organizing, arrestee and prisoner support work and much more.

Monday, August 3 @ 7:30pm
Cascade People's Center
309 Pontius Ave. North
Seattle, WA 98109

After a bit of a hiatus, Indy TV returns for our 27th episode. In this weeks show, Local Filmaker Davy V talks about his work using video to document police brutality in the Rochester Police Department. His award winning "RPD Exposed" came out in 2001 and was followed by "RPD: Badges of Dishonor, Corruption, and Murder" in 2003. The themes he discusses are just as relevant now, in 2009, and point to the need for people effected by Police Brutality to break the silence, come together, and use tools such as video to hold the Police Accountable for abuse.

The Stimulator has produced his latest report, on the present insurrection.

Hello Low Power Radio Fans!

The Prometheus Radio Project is collaborating with dozens of economic, social, and media justice groups to take action to all summer long to pass the Local Community Radio Act (HR 1147/S592). Here is an overview of how you can take action:

1) Join people from across the country on MONDAY JULY 20, 2009 to tell Congress to open up the airwaves by passing the Local Community Radio Act.

In the recent year, in Greece, a period of State widespread repression and brutality followed after December 2008 Rebellion. During and after the rebellion, the political party of extreme right wing LAOS (Popular Orthodox Party Alert) and the Greek state decided to press the IMC of Athens and Patras, on the grounds that they were used as centers for the coordination of Rebellion (no rebellions may, of course, be conducted via the Internet), deliberately ignoring the contribution of CMI to the counter-information.

There's never been much question that Sotomayor would succeed in the end, so any drama in the hearings has been "ginned up."

On June 26, 2009, while under arrest for threatening Federal jurors and judges, right-wing talk-radio host Hal Turner made activist history when he transmitted his famous Letter From A Newark Jail. This filmic tribute is in honor of that historic call. Streaming out of YouTube, 04mins 53secs MPEG4 download, 16.7mb

Max Blumenthal writes:"On May 27, journalist Jesse Rosenfeld and I set out on the streets of Tel Aviv to probe the political opinions of young local residents. We started the day filming Jewish and Palestinian Israeli students protested a proposed law that would criminalize public observance of the Nakba, or the mass expulsion and killing of Palestinians by Zionist militias in 1948. There, we interviewed Palestinian Israeli students about the rising climate of repression, then spoke to another group of students who gathered nearby to heckle their Arab classmates and demand their deportation."

On July 6th, Ellen Newberry, a Lecturer & Merrill College Writing Coordinator at UC Santa Cruz, was a guest on Teachers 4 Class War. Newberry is an out faculty member at UCSC. In the interview, Newberry addresses ways to support GLTB folks at work and at school.