We need independent journalists and media. When the people oppose policies of the elite, only the independent media will report the truth.
Case in point: the police riot against citizens peacefully protesting "free trade" deals, Miami, 2003. We'll hear what actually happened in prose (by Jeremy Scahill) and song (by David Rovics).
Plus selections from a funny talk by Scahill on how, during the Bush II years, he managed--if only briefly--to air an anti-Iraq-War perspective on network TV news.
This installment is a replay of New World Notes #59, from April 2009.
KD reads from a Scahill article published by www.counterpunch.org. Scahills recorded talk--which I have condensed--courtesy of unwelcomeguests.net. David Rovics song "Miami" is from his album, Songs for Mahmoud.
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "thumb") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
Introduction and other comments by KD.
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