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2007
PoP
dEFECT Radio: What is a Mashup?
Skidmark Bob provides a short audio tour of this remix genre. (1/16/07)
2005
Redeye
- Co-op Radio: Autonomous Media
Editor of book by the same name speaks about "reclaiming the media
for the non-profit realm and returning it to the public domain."
(6/4/05)
KPFT
- Pirate Radio
Norton Scooter spends time with Bob & George of Freak Radio and Tracy
James of Berkeley Liberation Radio. (2/8/05)
Pacifica
National Board: Editorial on Pirate Radio
A reading of the pro-microradio resolution approved by the PNB in 2004
mixed with clips from the raid of Free Radio Santa Cruz. (February 2005)
2004
Critical
Mass Radio Network: FRSC live music benefit with Utah Phillips
A recording of the show, which raised thousands of dollars for Freak Radio's
rebound. (12/10/04)
Steppin'
Out of Babylon: Prometheus Radio Project - Sue Supriano interviews
Pete triDish and another Prometheus staffer about the organization and
renewed push for LPFM in D.C. (6/1/04)
The
History of Free Radio Santa Cruz - A two-hour retrospective featuring
several station staffers on the 9 years of license-free broadcasting;
available in MP3 format. (2/18/04)
2003
Free
Radio Santa Cruz: City council emergency resolution supports FRSC
Skidmark Bob-produced audio featuring the council meeting itself. (9/4/03)
Radio
for Peace Lock Out: Interview with James Lathem Station Manager - Hour-long
interview from the studios presents the station's side in the crisis.
(8/10/03)
Rockin'
the Boat: Interview with Radio Free Brattleboro's David Long - Recorded
two days after FCC agents intimidated the station off the air; good background
on the station and discussion on how microradio stations should handle
FCC visits. The RFB segment of the show can be downloaded as a stand-alone MP3
file  here
(16:16, 3.8 MB).
Rockin'
the Boat: McChesney on Media Reform - Half-hour interview by V-Man
with media scholar Bob McChesney on the FCC's media ownership
rule relaxations and the potential for
a meaningful congressional remedy. (6/18/03)
Rockin'
the Boat: Pirate Radio Update - Freak
Radio Santa Cruz's V-Man is back in the saddle, interviewing folks from Free
Radio Olympia and Free Radio San Diego, who had a visit from the FCC recently.
(5/17/03)
From the Grassy Knoll: Free Radio, A Documentary, Part 4 - Audio-only
of the last segment from Kevin Keyser's video documentary on microradio.
(1/10/03)
From
the Grassy Knoll: Free Radio, A Documentary - Part 3 - More audio
from Kevin Keyser's excellent documentary, as broadcast on Dade City Community
Radio. (1/3/03)
2002
Freak
Radio Santa Cruz Raid Alert PSA - In response to the recent raid
on Berkeley Liberation Radio, FRSC steels itself for a similar visit and
cooked up this advisory to its listeners asking for their assistance if
the FCC comes calling. (12/19/02)
Frank
Moore's Shaman's Den: Joe Monday, Berkeley Liberation Radio -
Berkeley Liberation Radio broadcaster talks about the recent station raid
and puts it in a historical context of suppression of alternative/independent
media during times of social crisis. (12/15/02)
Rockin'
the Boat: FCC Raids Berkeley Liberation Radio - V-Man from Freak
Radio Santa Cruz interviews Cap'n Fred for details of and reaction to
the raid. (12/11/02)
From
the Grassy Knoll: Free Radio-A Documentary
- Listen to the audio from part of Kevin Keyser's excellent
documentary. (11/22/02)
Keynote
addresses from Reclaim the Media: a Community Media Convergence
- The "main event"
for conference attendees, featuring speeches from Amy Goodman, David Barsamian
and many other notables. (10/3/02)
Reclaim
the Media: Two More Conversations on Media and Democracy - More
panel discussion recordings from the anti-NAB/pro-community media conference
held in Seattle. (10/2/02)
Reclaim
the Media: Ron Sakolsky - Surrealist Subversions - The well-learned
Ron Sakolsky kicks off the Reclaim the Media! conference in Seattle. (10/1/02)
Reclaim
the Media: Three
Speakers on Media and Democracy
- Comments from people
at the Reclaim the Media conference reception. (10/1/02)
From
the Grassy Knoll: Yes I Am a Pirate - Monk, founder of Boulder
Free Radio, explains why he's involved in the free radio movement. (9/29/02)
Macaroni
Awards 2002 - Audio recording of the complete Reclaim the Media!
ceremony in Seattle. (9/29/02)
Reclaim the
Media: Four Conversations on Media and Democracy - Full recordings
of four panel sessions held during the Reclaim the Media conference that
took place in Seattle during the NAB radio convention. (9/25/02)
Micro Radio
and Free Speech vs. Corporate Media - Blast Furnace Radio records
a call-in featuring various participants in the Reclaim the Media conference.
(9/15/02)
DJ
Rubble and Sandy from Partytown at Studio X - Sandy interviews
this San Francisco Liberation Radio DJ about the microradio movement and
protesting the corporate media; recorded during the Reclaim the Media
actions in Seattle. (9/11/02)
Reclaim
the Media PSA - Promoting the convergence taking place at the
NAB's radio convention in Seattle next month. (8/26/02)
Stealing
Air - Short preview of what you'll hear in an upcoming documentary
on the west coast microradio scene. (7/20/02)
PoP
dEFECT RADIO: 7yrs A PIRATES LIFE FOR ALL
- Skidmark Bob produces a tribute to pirate radio for Freak Radio Santa
Cruz's seventh birthday. (4/6/02)
2001
Frank
Moore's Shaman's Den: Richard Edmonson
- Long conversation with San Francisco Liberation Radio founder Richard
Edmonson on the history behind his station and the microradio movement.
(10/28/01)
Weekly
Freak Show - 9/29/01 - Yours truly talks with the legendary V-Man
from Freak Radio Santa Cruz about the current state of pirate radio in
America, and what we can look forward to under the "new" FCC.
Weekly Freak
Show - 9/15/01 - V-Man comes through with an excellent double-length
special on the attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Features much
info, ranging from immediate reaction to thoughts on the future. Free
radio journalism at its finest.
IBOC = Digital
Disaster PSAs - Turning the tables on a forced conversion to digital
radio. Broadcast these PSAs - they are valuable information nuggets. (7/15/01)
WBAI: Clayton
Riley Argues with Callers 6/16/01 - Clayton Riley, participant
in the corporate coup at WBAI, feels some heat from listener call-ins
and responds with charges of facism.
The Weekly
Freak Show - 6/7/01 - Long-form interview with Peter Franck of
the National Lawyer's Guild Center on Democratic Communications, talking
about the FCC's rollout of LPFM.
Listeners Enter
WBAI - The Audio - Two hours of action caught on tape, as protester-listners
to the corporate takeover of Pacifica stage their most direct action yet.
(6/4/01)
LPFM Hearings
in Congress
5/15/01 - Second Half - Chris Maxwell from the Virginia Center
for the Public Press got the second half of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus' forum on Pacifica and LPFM on tape. These files present the testimony
the Caucus heard on the "progress" of the FCC's new LPFM plan.
Pacifica Congressional
Hearing - 5/15/01 - Recorded from the WBAI in Exile webfeed of
the event, these recordings contain almost all the testimony from the
panel of Pacifica dissidents that spoke before the Congressional Progressive
Caucus.
Nepotism and
Family Ties in Media and Politics - Report from Partytown Radio
dissects the interesting geneaology that can be found between the current
Presidential administration and the largest radio group in the country.
(4/26/01)
The Weekly
Freak Show - 3/23/01 - The last 10 minutes or so of the V-Man's
show contains updates on the Radio Free Cascadia raid and Mbanna Kantako's
return to the air.
Partytown LPFM
News - 3/15/01 - Updates on what's happening in Washington, including
information on the new pro-LPFM bill introduced by Senator John McCain
and the waffling going on at the FCC.
Major Owens
Address to Congress - WBAI and Microradio - The complete speech
made by the New York Democrat representative on the House floor after
he was censored while appearing on a WBAI labor news program. (3/8/01)
The Weekly
Freak Show - 3/8/01 - V-Man has an interview with Reckless, a
former programmer with the now-defunct Free Radio Austin, on the station's
demise and aftermath.
2000
Partytown
Radio LPFM News Update - 12/7/00 - A short two-minute mp3 on the
anti-LPFM push on Capitol Hill and the radio industry's drive to kill
low power radio.
The Weekly Freak
Show - 11/30/00 - Interview with Mbanna Kantako of Human Rights
Radio on his latest raid by the radio police. Also a very cool pro-pirate
track from Spearhead's upcoming album.
The Weekly Freak
Show - 11/9/00 - Interviews with Free Radio Austin collective
members on the second bust of their station in less than a month.
The Federal Raid
on Free Radio Austin - "Eerie" is a good word to explain
what you hear - the mic was on when the thugs came knocking... (11/7/00)
Don't Let Them
NAB our Airwaves: Microradio Fights Back - The Unwelcome Guests
Collective have a great two-hour wrap-up of the anti-NAB events in San
Francisco as they went down in September of 2000. (10/15/00)
Raid on Free Radio
Austin - An interview with FRA 'transmitter host' and DJ Reckless
done with Freak Radio Santa Cruz's Skidmark Bob, done while the fed thugs
were still stealing the gear. (10/11/00)
Weekly Freak Show:
NAB Convention Special - Just a small sampling of the audio collage
Freak Radio Santa Cruz's V-Man collected at the San Francisco festivities!
(10/5/00)
Human Rights Radio
Raided - V-Man from Freak Radio Santa Cruz comes thru again, getting
Mbanna Kantako on the air to tell the story about getting shut down after
more than 4,000 straight days on the air. (10/1/00)
The Federal Raid
on Human Rights Radio: The Audio - This is an mp3 of the entire
bust - Mbanna Kantako had a hand-held tape recorder rolling through the
entire event. (9/29/00)
Current Issues
Within the LPFM Movement - The troika of microradio's top legal
team - the National Lawyers Guild's Peter Frank, Luke Hiken and Alan Korn
- talk about what the microradio movement's done to date, and what there's
yet to do. (9/24/00)
NAB Civil Disobedience
- A seven-minute wrapup of the high points of direct action at the radio
industry's convention center. (9/22/00)
Interview
with Pete Tridish - The founder of the Prometheus Radio Project
is interviewed by Sue Supriano while attending the San Francisco demonstrations.
(9/21/00)
Unwelcome
Guests: Free Radio - "The main body
of the program is a radio adaptation of Kevin
Keyser's video documentary 'Free Radio.'" (9/13/00)
Nevada
Test Site - Free Radio Newe Sogobia - This Western Shoshone Indians
set up their own micropower station during the 2000 Peace Camp at the
federal government's Nevada atomic testing grounds - this is a mini-documentary
about the station, its major members, and its accomplishments. (5/13/00)
Low
Power Community Radio - Pete triDish of the Prometheus Radio Project
gives his talk on setting up an LPFM station - recorded at his visit to
advocates in Willimantic, CT. (5/3/00)
Attempted
Shutdown of Mobilization Radio - This was the call that came to
Freak Radio Santa Cruz just after protesters fended off a raid in progress.
(4/19/00)
$eth
- Radio Is My Bomb (Live & Remixed) - First it was recorded live,
then came Skidmark Bob and the FCC.Ã Updated for the new milennium? (2/5/00)
1999
An
Interview with Kiilu N'yasha and Don Schellhardt - Full Logic
Reverse does a show with a member of San Franscisco Liberation Radio and
the co-founder of the Amherst Alliance.Ã Part Two of the show is available
here. (5/15/99)
BigZ
93 Raid - Doc John of South Florida's BigZ 93 explains the vandalism
done to his home and station by government agents! (3/8/99)
The
FCC on Low Power FM Radio - An Interview Full Logic Reverse
conducted with David Fiske, FCC public affairs lackey. (2/9/99)
1998
Pirates
in a Tree - A listener of Tree Radio Berkeley interviews the station
operator from the tree itself, after a week on the air! (12/1/98)
Free
Radio Picnic - Free Radio returns for an afternoon to the airwaves
of Berkeley. (7/4/98)
Free
Radio Hilltop - Tape of a live broadcast by two anonymous DJs
- reclaiming Free Radio Berkeley's old spot on the dial for a night -
until they get visited, live! (6/21/98)
Free
Radio Berkeley Press Release - What Stephen Dunifer said as his
court case began to take a turn for the worse. (6/21/98)
Procedure
Be Damned - Free Speech Is the Issue - Dunifer's "official"
reaction to the injunction handed down that took Free Radio Berkeley off
the air. (6/21/98)
Free
Radio Berkeley, unfavorable court decision - Audio interviews
with the station's legal team the day after a federal injunction took
it off the air. (6/17/98)
Free
Radio Gainesville vs. FCC - The station explains what its plans
are following its raid by the FCC. (6/6/98)
Sue
Supriano Interviews Stephen Dunifer and Radio X - Dunifer gears
up for the '98 NAB conference, and Radio X details its FCC run-in. (6/1/98)
(F)_cking
(C)orporate (C)ops/(S)neaky (W)retched (A)nd (T)re - Full Logic
Reverse covers Kelly Benjamin's bust - with SWAT Team in tow! (5/6/98)
Mutiny
All-Stars: "What Do We Do With a Broadcast License?" - Recorded
live in front of the Liberty Bell when Radio Mutiny returned to the air
in defiance of the FCC - the song is still quite relevant, though.Ã (4/22/98)
Luke
Hiken: A workshop on the legal issues in micropower bro - Stephen
Dunifer's attorney explains the history and strategy at the 'Fear and
Transmitters' conference. (4/10/98)
Ode to the NAB
'98 - The Jolly Roger Comedy Troupe only needs three minutes to
turn Big Broadcasters into gut-busters.
Jolly
Roger Comedy Troupe: FCC Skit - Originally broadcast on San Francisco
Liberation Radio in March of 1998, this little ditty still rings true
today.
Profile
- Iowa City Free Radio - Sarah from Iowa City Radio explains her
station's crusade at the 1998 Micropower Broadcasting Conference in Philadelphia.
(4/4/98)
The
April Fools - Poking fun at the NAB through the ears of San Francisco
Liberation Radio. (3/28/98)
Micro
Radio Forum In Berkeley - A three-part audio program chronicling
a strategy session among microbroadcasters.Ã Includes comments on the
publication of Stephen Dunifer's book, Seizing the Airwaves - A Culture
Jammer's Handbook. (2/20/98)
1997
Free
Radio Berkeley vs. the FCC - Full Logic Reverse profiles
the Dunifer case. (11/15/97)
Black
Liberation Radio - Decatur, IL inspiration Napoleon Williams sounds
off against the harassment of his family because of his stand for free
speech. (9/22/97)
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