This week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media center IMEMC.Org for the week Friday June 3rd to Thursday June 9th ,2005

Weekly Audio Report
June3-June 9, 2005

This week in Palestine – a service of the International Middle East Media center IMEMC.Org for the week Friday June 3rd to Thursday June 9th ,2005

Host Marinieves Alba speaks live with artists from Fulana, a Latina video and performance collective. Using parody and satire, the ladies of Fulana create mock tv commercials and other artworks to explore themes relevant to Latino culture in America.

While you listen to the interview, check out their work on fulana.org. Start with the Quicktime video of their hilarious commercial for "Amnezac" -- the most powerful anti-historiamine on the market.

Students from Homewood Flossmoor High School in Chicago speak with Rise Up's Leanne Stahnke about the tension generated during their school's second annual gay awareness day, held this past Tuesday, April 19. While LGBT affirmative students wore shirts that read "Gay? Fine by me!", Christian students countered with shirts provided by the Family Harvest Church that read "crimes committed against God!"

Later in the conversation, Leanne brings on one of the Christian demonstrators, who tries to explain the "conflict in values."

April 22, 2005 -- It's National Poetry Month, and in that spirit -- over 300 slam poets from across the U.S. and Europe are converging on San Francisco this week. For three days youth poets will compete in the 8th annual Brave New Voices, international youth poetry slam festival.

Representing New York, will be the Urban Word NYC 2005 Poetry Slam Team -- six poets who competed in a series of slams and made it to the top.

Rise Up Radio producers Q and Doug spoke with the Urban Word poets.

After the opening music ("Calling Out" by Lyrics Born), and a show rundown, Leanne and Mari cover some of the latest in youth news (news starts at 2:14).

YOUTH NEWS

aymara tackles breaking down the recent events in bolivia for both herself and rasd listeners. she also highlights the current strike by workers in san diego and works to unite their struggles, and those of people around the world, through the music of victor jara, inti-illimani and la plataforma
runs roughly an hour and a half. (mainly in english - solo un poco en espanol) only on radioActive sanDiego!

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A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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In this week's program: Inside the cable franchise agreement: what it means to local communities, how it can be used to strengthen community media, and how to get involved in the negotiation process.

15:21 minute audio of PBS NewsHour-Clarence Page speaking of Who Is A Journalist plus Ombuds men of N.Y.Times & Washington Post speaks of State Of Journalism.

June 8, 2005

* OMBUDSMEN REFLECT ON THE STATE OF THE NEWS MEDIA

From the Jayson Blair fabrication incident that shook The New York Times in 2003 to the retraction by Newsweek magazine of an item about the desecration of the Quran last month, major news organizations have come under fire for their reporting in recent years.

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