This January, local attorney Franklin J. Lunding and Planning 2020 Inc., a group he founded, sued Monterey County, the supervisors, and Carmel Valley Forum over the "revenue neutrality agreement" between Monterey County and the proposed town of Carmel Valley. (This agreement would require the new town to share new income it generates with the county so that the incorporation is "revenue neutral.") Lunding has his own questionable ties to a southern California campaign contribution scandal, and incorporation supporters worry Lunding and his group are allegedly on the take from developers who don't want to see Carmel Valley incorporate. (In an earlier Weekly interview, Lunding said the group had received money from Monterey County contributors, but he wouldn't name them.) The community h...
[Willie Nelson] and his band summoned, his typical fare and his compositions-"Crazy," "You Are Always on my Mind" and "On the Road Again." But it was his version of Kris Kristofferson's "For a Moment of Forever," with lines so memorable that the actor Danny Glover was quoting them after the show. The gala is history-and quite an impressive one-but there is still an opportunity to help "Democracy Now" complete its mission. As [Amy Goodman] might intone, "Go to our website and see how you can help us transform the raw space we've acquired into a state of the art studio and training center for journalists. 'Democracy Now!' gives us the news and stories that we can't get anywhere else," [Susan Sarandon] said toward the close of the program. The need for "Democracy Now!", she added, is gre...
David Sirota Without a bailout, newspapers will lay off staff, fewer journalists will report important stories, there will be no Fourth- Estate check on state and corporate power, and the country will suffer. So goes the pro-democracy case for government and/or altruistic investors to save the newspaper industry with an infusion of cash.
Today's Wal-Mart is a species of corporation never seen before. It is the world's largest company, with annual sales of more than $250 billion, "a sum greater than the economies of all but 30 of the world's nations," reports The New York Times. In the United States, Wal-Mart is the number-one seller of clothing, toys, home furnishings, home textiles, housewares, tableware, DVDs, vacuum cleaners, televisions and video game consoles, and it has the nation's largest private trucking fleet, reports the Denver Post. Wal-Mart, meanwhile, defends its tactics. "Legislative bodies are unfairly targeting Wal-Mart. That's why we do referendums or lawsuits," says Wal-Mart spokesman Peter Kanelos. "It's about governments treating everyone equal and fair. Wal-Mart's CEO, Lee Scott, even sat down for...
In December 2002 the Syracuse Peace Council focused on Oswego's WRVO-FM (89.9, 90.3, 91.9) and promoted a letter-writing campaign requesting the station to pick up [Amy Goodman]'s show. "We got a rush of matching post cards then," station manager John Krauss remembers, "and we get about a letter a month. I wish there was a place for her in the Syracuse market, but WRVO is not that place. It's a combination of reasons, but time is the key. We could put her on at 2 a.m., maybe bump an hour of BBC News, but that wouldn't do anybody any good. The other reason is that we are still concerned that she is perceived as having a predisposition in her coverage, something in a news program host that we work not to have. With the door closed at WRVO, the council shifted focus to Syracuse University...
Amy Goodman, radio host of Democracy Now!, is on a tour of more than 70 cities in the United States to celebrate independent media and present her first book, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers and the Media that Love Them, which she co-authored with her brother, journalist David Goodman. They will give a lecture, present the film Independent Media in a Time of War and will sign copies of their book in Santa Fe on Saturday.
Unless you attend the monthly art open house at the Kingsbury Castle (affectionately named by WVTF staffers), then you're probably unaware of the growing contention between station management and members of the Plowshare Peace and Justice Center. The organization has been protesting outside WVTF's South Roanoke studios for three years, valiantly trying to get the program "Democracy Now!" on the air for a trial run on either WVTF or Radio IQ. The group claims "Democracy Now!" offers a different point of view, promotes free speech and provides coverage of topics that are not normally given a platform.
By Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer | The Virginian-Pilot HAMPTON
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