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I hope people will help us fight this CENSORSHIP by University of Michigan radio!!

If enough people phone the station, this controversy will become sufficiently newsworthy to generate news stories!! People could phone the pledge line and very POLITELY say why they are NOT pledging – 888.258.9866

And also phone the station and ask them to stop the censorship! 734.764.9210

http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2009/10/michigan-public-radio-censoring.html

Thank you for helping us end censorship on Palestine!

Best,
Alison

If Americans Knew
October 16, 2009

Michigan Radio (WUOM 91.7), an affiliate of National Public Radio (NPR), is censoring a program announcement.

The local chapter of the nonprofit organization If Americans Knew, whose mission is to inform Americans on topics of importance that are under reported or misreported in the American media, is attempting to place the following paid announcement on the radio station:

“’If Americans knew dot org,’ a non-profit organization focused on media coverage of the Palestine-Israel conflict: Executive Director Alison Weir will visit southeast Michigan the week of Oct 12th. Details on the web at “If Americans Knew dot org”.”

Michigan Radio has refused to air the announcement, violating its ethical obligation as a publicly funded station not to censor information. While the station eventually agreed to run an amended announcement (cost: $1,000), it still refuses to include the organization’s name, If Americans Knew.

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Jon – ZACF, Anarkismo.net, 13 October 2009

Around 120 people, from seasoned anarchist militants and trade unionists to students and professors came together at Wits University in Johannesburg on Wednesday 7 October 2009 for the launch of “Black Flame: The revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism”, the first of a two volume series on anarchist history and theory by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt. The room was filled up so fast and so quickly that latecomers had to find space on the stairs – one of the biggest launches at the university in years.

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AK Press: Still fanning the flames: An interview with Michael Schmidt and Lucien van der Walt

stopexecutions
3 October 2009

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Sign the petition to Governor Rick Perry and the State of Texas to acknowledge that the fire in the Cameron Todd Willingham case was not arson, therefore no crime was committed and on February 17, 2004, Texas executed an innocent man.

By Ashley Blum

Eight years following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the human rights situation has not improved, Zoya, a representative of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, said in a lecture in Carpenter hall on Tuesday. Zoya, who does not disclose her full name for security purposes, described how her organization seeks to promote peace, democracy and human rights in her lecture, “War and Reconstruction from the Perspective of Afghanistan’s Revolutionary Women.”

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