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I’m proud & thrilled to announce that starting Monday May 4th,
we are expanding our Boston Progressive Talk Radio 
Programming on WWZN 1510AM from 6 am through 7 pm daily,
Monday through Friday.
The new lineup will include Jeff Santos, Stephanie Miller,
Ed Schultz. Thom Hartmann.
Look for more details at http://www.revolutionboston.com.
It’s been a long road to get here, but vision, hard work and
committment [...]

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c/p Seeing the Forest blog
“Beauty is truth,
truth, beauty,
that is all Ye know on Earth,
And all ye need to know.”
                                   -Keats
 

 

I’m looking forward to a new reign of truth, a renewed age of transparency,
reason and reasonableness in [...]

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Today we lost a legend, Studs Terkel, a true inspiration and activist.  I first read “Working” in college.  He never stopped working, never lost his curiosity and zest for living and his interest in other people. RIP. ”Take it easy, but take it.”
“It’s history from the bottom up rather than history written by generals,”
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[9/19/08 UPDATE: Saint Paul has dropped all charges against journalists arrested during the RNC after receiving a freepress.net letter signed by more than 60,000 people]
 
Amy Goodman, and two of her producers/videographers were illegally arrested while covering police brutality and preemptive crackdowns on demonstrators and journalists at the Republican National Convention this week. Other journalists and [...]

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LISTEN: Thom Hartmann July 1, 2008
 

 
 

No Paine, No Gain: A July 4th Special

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Petition to nominate Pete Seeger for the Nobel Peace Prize
 

 
 

Why a Nobel Peace Prize for Pete?
Eleanor Walden, 2007

Pete Seeger is an ambassador for Peace and Social Justice and has been over the course of his 88-year lifetime. Using his prowess as a musician he worked to engage other people, from all walks of [...]

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Senator John Kerry speaking at the Third Annual Three Towns & Two Cities Breakfast, 4/12/08.
Image: Nancy Weinberg.

Today, the Senate conducted a Commerce Committee hearing about the future of the Internet. It’s important for the committee to hear from us! Kerry has asked for our input. I saw my Senator at the “Third Annual Three Towns [...]

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Excerpts below from 4/11 post by Jill http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com  about Air America, entitled: Why I miss Air America, and why this week just makes it worse. I really could not say this any better myself. Check out the entire post at her blog!
I miss the original Air America. Creative, smart, enthusiastic, experimental, funny, edgy, real…
Again, support the idea of [...]

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“If we don’t believe in freedom of speech for people we despise,
we don’t believe in free speech at all” - Noam Chomsky

Randi Rhodes calls in to Marc Maron subbing for Mike Malloy, 4/10/08
 
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Randi Rhodes on Larry King Live, CNN, 4/10/08
  
 
BREAKING NEWS: Randi Rhodes will appear on CNN’s “Larry [...]

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STATEMENT OF CHARLIE KIREKER, CHAIR & MARK GREEN, PRESIDENT, FOR AIR AMERICA MEDIA
By Tim Einenkel
Last week Air America suspended Randi Rhodes for abusive, obscene language at a recent public appearance in San Francisco which was sponsored by an Air America affiliate station. 
Air America Media was informed last night by Ms. Rhodes that she has chosen to terminate [...]

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