MEDIA ROOTS – Big Brother surveillance cameras that bark orders at you are already in full effect in London and could be coming soon to the US. Luke Rudkowski, Abby Martin and Mark Dice made an entertaining video highlighting the issue so San Diego residents can be aware of the scary and very likely possibility of Big Brother barking the … Read More
civil liberties
HR 347: The Federal Buildings Act vs. First Amendment
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MEDIA ROOTS — The shameless political minions of insidious U.S. plutocrats and oligarchs continue to push civil rights down the memory hole. The latest power grab by Washington elites is H.R. 347, also known as the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011.” Furtively tucked away in this ordinary legislation lies a new tool for the ruling-class to … Read More
MR Transcript: Flashpoints: Occupy Education
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MEDIA ROOTS — Pacifica Radio’s Flashpoints broadcast sharp analyses of the Occupy Education ‘Fund Our Future’ rally in Sacramento on Monday, March 5, 2012. Although the events included another impressive showing of nearly ten thousand protesters demanding socioeconomic justice in fine U.S. tradition, the messaging from the leaders on stage amounted to PR for the Wall Street Democrat Party (DP). … Read More
MR Transcript: Who Bombed Judi Bari? Interview
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MEDIA ROOTS — Recently, Flashpoints interviewed the filmmakers of the new film, “Who Bombed Judi Bari?” which premiered at the SF Green Film Festival last Friday. Mary Liz Thomson (Director) and Darryl Cherney (Producer) join Karen Pickett, a long-time friend of Judi Bari, to discuss with Flashpoints’ Dennis Bernstein, their shared experiences as friends and activists over the years … Read More
Enacting the NDAA: Limiting Protesters’ Rights
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MEDIA ROOTS — The U.S. blindly took another giant step further into tyranny last week—no, really. In most corporate and, even, many independent news outlets, the public was kept up-to-date with the deaths of singer Davy Jones and conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart. However, relatively little attention was given to the annihilation of Constitutionally-protected civil liberties executed by the National Defense … Read More