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
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
MEDIA ROOTS — Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party, is back in the S.F. Bay Area and will deliver an address to UC Berkeley this evening entitled “Mass Incarceration + Silence = Genocide.” The last time Mr. Dix visited northern California, Media Roots featured his KPFA radio broadcast and UC Berkeley event with Dr. Cornel West. Today, we present a new interview … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — The U.S. Government’s raging paranoia regarding terrorism has now led to a high-octane obsession with perpetual and complete surveillance of its citizens in every manner conceivable. “The thought police would get him just the same. He had committed—would have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood up for the police state in a recent radio interview, where he defended the NYPD’s targeted discriminatory surveillance of Muslim communities in New York and New Jersey. He cites rhetoric from the 9/11 Commission Report as justification to ignore constitutional protections of free speech as outlined in the Handschu agreement of 1985. … Read More
