MEDIA ROOTS- There are some things that are justifiably kept secret within the state bureaucracy, like personal data and information about residents. However, the expansion of secrecy in every avenue of California’s government has made it increasingly difficult to gauge its efficiency and affect change at the legislative level. Surprisingly, lawmakers’ schedules are withheld from public record, widening the divide … Read More
Interview With Josh Wolf by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS – Josh Wolf is an American journalist and filmmaker who served 226 days in prison for refusing to turn over a collection of video tapes he recorded during a 2005 demonstration. Wolf recently graduated from Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he made the film Police Tape for his thesis project. … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Sometimes I forget that I am living in a police state, and then I hear about stories like this: last Thursday, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut off cellphone service at several stations in an attempt to stop a planned protest over another fatal shooting by BART police. It was spun as a preventative safety measure by BART … Read More
Media Roots Radio- US Imperialism, Spying, Self-Censorship, Building Communities by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS – In this discussion, Abby & Robbie Martin cover US imperialism: wars, costs, media and government propaganda; the culture of self-censorship and the erosion of privacy in the US; information as power and how communication is an important tool to strengthen and build communities. The above … Read More
BBC– Developed by US computer scientists the software, called Telex, hides data from banned websites inside traffic from sites deemed safe. The software draws on well-known encryption techniques to conceal data making it hard to decipher. So far, Telex is only a prototype but in tests it has been able to defeat Chinese web filters. Outside in Telex was developed to … Read More
