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March 19, 2004 - 2:59pm -- hydrarchist
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Independent Media

hydrarchist writes:


Telestreet [Pirate television] Etera 2 in Senigallia

Etera 2 meeting, March the 25th 2004 in Sennigallia, will be the second
meeting of the Telestrade or Telestreet. A national movement of micro-tv
stations (sometimes transmitting to no more than a few blocks) scattered
across Italy. Telestreet operates between the legal and technological
cracks of the Italian mediascape. Literally squatting the shadows or blank
spots where the signals of terrestrial broadcasters cannot reach, leaving
shadows on the spectrum which the Telestreet groups occupy.

March 19, 2004 - 10:57am -- jim
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Mainstream Media

Journalists Walk Out on Powell in Baghdad

Protest Alleged Killing of Arab Correspondents by U.S. Troops

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN), Friday, March 19, 2004 -- Several Iraqi and other international journalists walked out of a coalition news conference with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Friday in Baghdad over the alleged killing of two Arabic-TV network journalists by U.S. soldiers.

March 19, 2004 - 1:24am -- nolympics
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Ecology

British Study Covering Last 40 Years Points to Worldwide Mass Extinction of Wildlife and Plants
Tim Radford, The Guardian, Friday March 19, 2004


  Scientists have produced the first comprehensive evidence that the diversity of butterflies, birds and plants is in decline in the UK. They say their research supports the argument that mass extinction threatens life on Earth.

In the past 20 years, according to a study in the US journal Science today, about 70% of all butterfly species in Britain have shown signs of decline. About 28% of plant species and 54% of bird species also declined in areas studied over long periods. The finding comes from government-funded scientists using data painstakingly amassed over the past 40 years by 20,000 skilled naturalists.

March 18, 2004 - 8:49am -- jim
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Mainstream Media

U.S. Videos, for TV News, Come Under Scrutiny

Robert Pear, The New York Times

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Federal investigators are scrutinizing television segments in which the Bush administration paid people to pose as journalists praising the benefits of the new Medicare law, which would be offered to help elderly Americans with the costs of their prescription medicines.

March 17, 2004 - 11:39am -- jim
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Work

"The New School's Labor War"

Tom Robbins, Village Voice

Union Wins Election Fair And Square, But Prez Kerrey Wants A Do-Over


New School University—founded by left-leaning intellectuals more than 80 years ago—is taking a page from anti-labor corporations in fighting an ongoing union-organizing battle.

March 16, 2004 - 9:57am -- jim
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"Aristide Back in Caribbean Heat:

Before Arriving in Jamaica, Haitian Details 'Coup' by U.S."

Peter Eisner, Washington Post


Tuesday, March 16, 2004; Page A01

KINGSTON, Jamaica, March 15 -- Jean-Bertrand Aristide stepped back into the white glare of a Caribbean afternoon Monday, wearing a broad smile and the same dark suit he had on two weeks ago when he was banished from the presidency of Haiti and deposited into exile half a world away.

March 15, 2004 - 8:40am -- jim
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"Spain's Socialist Party Defeats Popular Party:

Elections Come 72 Hours After Worst Terrorist Attacks in Country's History"

Keith B. Richburg, Washington Post

MADRID, March 14 -- Casting their ballots against the bloody backdrop of
the worst terrorist attacks in this country's history, Spaniards voted
Sunday to oust the ruling Popular Party of outgoing Prime Minister Jose
Maria Aznar, blaming his staunch backing of the American war in Iraq for
the bombings that left 200 people dead.


In a stunning political upset, voters chose to give power to the
opposition Socialist Party, whose leader, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero,
has promised to immediately withdraw Spain's 1,300 troops from Iraq,
orient Spain's foreign policy away from the United States and restore good
relations with anti-war European allies, France and Germany.

March 14, 2004 - 11:15am -- jim
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The State

Easier Internet Wiretaps Sought:

Justice Dept., FBI Want Consumers To Pay the Cost"

Dan Eggen and Jonathan Krim,
Washington Post


The U.S. Justice Department wants to significantly expand the
government's ability to monitor online traffic,
proposing that providers of high-speed Internet service
should be forced to grant easier access for FBI wiretaps
and other electronic surveillance, according to
documents and government officials.

March 13, 2004 - 3:07pm -- nolympics
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Mainstream Media

Briton Accuses American Captors
Freed Guantánamo Prisoner Also Condemns British Government
Tania Branigan, The Guardian

A second Briton released from Guantánamo Bay last night savaged the United States for gross breaches of human rights which he alleged included interrogation at gunpoint.

Tarek Dergoul, 26, from London, also condemned the British government for allowing his continued detention in Bagram and Kandahar in Afghanistan and then the US base in Cuba and called for the release of remaining detainees.

March 11, 2004 - 1:16pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

VenezuelaFOIA.info (by the Venezuela Solidarity Committee/
National
Venezuela Solidarity Network): Venezuela Solidarity Committee writes:


"Chávez Says U.S. Is Fueling His Enemies"

Juan Forero, The New York Times, March 11, 2004

CARACAS, Venezuela, March 10 -- Under United States pressure to allow
a recall referendum against his rule, President Hugo Chávez has in
recent days counterattacked, charging that the Bush administration is
trying to oust him by aiding his adversaries, including those who
briefly overthrew him in a 2002 coup.


Mr. Chávez has seized on the information in reams of United States
government documents, made public by a pro-Chávez group in New York
that show Washington is trying to strengthen political parties and
other antigovernment groups that want to remove the populist
firebrand through a recall.

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