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
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 — 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 — Has the U.S. two-party dictatorship completely saturated Election 2012 media coverage? Can you recall when you last heard news coverage of any alternative party candidates? At least one third-party candidate is resisting this year’s media blockade against alternative Presidential candidates who are not partisans of the Wall Street Democrats and Republicans. (No, it’s not Ralph Nader, who … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS — Judi Bari was an activist, a person of conscience, who exercised her First Amendment rights toward socioeconomic justice for much of her life. She was one of the leading organisers to popularise environmental activism with Earth First!, which influenced the environmental activism contributing to the historic 1999 WTO resistance in Seattle, as well as the more recent … Read More
