The courts have ruled on some important issues involving copyrights of recorded music and TV programs. And Internet radio businesses are in danger of shutting down because of high royalty fees.

Berlins innercity had a free radio for a short amount of time this summer. Berlin media activists used this chance and transmitted a 60 minutes program on July 23rd, combining progressive alternative hip hop music and interviews with the political MC Immortal Technique from Harlem on police violence in the US, with Dr. Thomas Klein, a former member of the opposition in the GDR in the late 80s and the photographer and grassroots journalist Santiago Flores from Montevideo, Uruguay, talking about his exhibition in Berlin Kreuzberg.

We start by looking forward to the conventions, including a discussion of the platform they provide for activism. Then onto recent local activism: a protest about inadequate wage increases at the U of Illinois, and a rally on energy policy. We spend an extended period discussing energy policy and public transit. We close by talking about the reputed agreement between the Iraqi and US governments on a timetable for withdrawal.

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (August 22) is up at the website
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To raise healthy, creative, thinking children, we need to allow children to grow in a non-commercialized culture. And as the number of foreign news bureaus decrease, Americans are receiving an increasingly distorted view of the world.

Talking with Brian Anson, author of "i'll fight you for it" about architechture and social change.

Duration: 70min

On this week's show, we spent most of our time talking about Georgia, in light of the recent events there. We wanted to get beyond the headlines and usual frames of coverage, and believe we accomplished this through two approaches. First, we talked with Jodi Blumenfeld. A graduate student at the University of Illinois, she has participated in archaeological excavations in Georgia, and she spoke with us a little about Georgian culture, giving a more three-dimensional portrait of the country than is usually achieved in news coverage.

BOLD journey is an island wide journey of discovery, experimentation and celebration, a near 2 week voyage around the island of ireland to meet groups, projects, communities, places that have had BOLD dreams of building a better world and done something about it.

This audio recording was broadcast live on our BOLD internet radio and is a discussion with David Neavyn and Alan Clayton about the idea of transition towns and eco initiaves in the southern Irish town of Kinsale, half hour talk, nice interview, big shout out to Cathie for assisting so much.

Cápsulas de radio de corte infantil, creada a partir del taller de DDHH y radio inpartido por gafas acústicas, con la colaboración de la fundación Rosa Luxemburg y la UACM.

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (August 15) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfarpress/shortwave.shtml in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)