This week on Sprouts... Just six companies own and control most of what we see and hear on television and radio. How does consolidation of media outlets impact our lives? To what extent are media moguls setting the agenda at the FCC? How can ordinary citizens act to reclaim their systems of communiication? This week, Sprouts looks at localism and media.
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AUDIO OF THE CIRCUS CONFRONTING THE FREE SPEECH ZONE

-from a handout

the official protest zone, where people are being "permitted" their constitutionally guarentted rights to assemble and speak, is avirtual prison. we intent to "flip it" by creating a performance that uses the prison-like nature of the space to reveal the repression of deomocratic patticipation that is occurring in this covention center and under the bush administration

David Holmgren co-originator of the permaculture concept talks about Peak Oil and an permaculture's role in finding solutions.

STREAM: via m3u | via Flash
DOWNLOAD: mp3 (23.9MB - 48kbps 66:27min)

West Mass resident Tom Neilson sings about Florida voting. Don't know if this is the actual title to the song, so if it isn't, please correct me.

West Mass resident Tom Neilson pays homage to John Ashcroft and the statue of Lady Justice.

West Mass resident Tom Neilson singing a song about "country club" prisons with golf courses and corporate crime.

Medley of big band swing, minor swing.

Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Sheild, Down by the Riverside

Some Mp3s of music in the University of Massechussetts Plaza at the Boston Social Forum. 3 are from a marching brass band and the other 3 are from Tom Neilson, a west mass resident singing songs of political satire.

First Mp3 is of the brass band doing a "Texas" medley.

I don't know the name of the Brass Band, (lost the flyer with contact info) so if anyone knows who they are and can post their contact info, that would be great!

Civil rights activist Charlotte Mitchell talks about the original Committees of Correspondence and the Boston Tea Party. She talks about the protection of private property and the attack on the living standards of the global south. Talks about defending the American "way of life" and the PATRIOT Act and a new way of struggle, not seperately for each demand, but collectively for all.