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Asheville Free Media is ready to take the next steps in becoming a model for community-based Internet radio that focuses locally but has worldly appeal. We want to program even more high-quality, curated music shows, more simulcasts, more local and hyperlocal news, and in general better serve both our local and world-wide audiences. And to do all of this, we really need your help. Kickstarter link
Who Wants To Be a Hero?
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s really quite simple. All you have to do is kick in a little cash to Asheville Free Media’s Kickstarter campaign
Contribute here: Kickstarter link
A little about AFM:
Asheville Free Media Is Ready to Take the Next Steps…
in becoming a model for community-based Internet radio that focuses locally but has worldly appeal. We want to program even more high-quality, curated music shows, more simulcasts, more local and hyperlocal news, and in general better serve both our local and world-wide audiences. And to do all of this, we really need your help.
Serving Our Community and Enhancing Our Capabilities
Asheville FM, a 501(c)(3) organization, was founded a little over two years ago by a dedicated group of volunteers, with equipment donated by Tufts University and private donors. Funded completely by underwriting, fundraising efforts, and volunteer contributions, we are now seeking to upgrade our existing studio and remote broadcast equipment, and generate funds to pay for an engineering consultant and associated expenses of applying for a low-power FM (LPFM) license in 2012. And, we would also love to be in a situation where paying our fees to the royalty organizations (BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, and SoundExchange) doesn’t completely wipe out the checking account.
Unique Content Curated By An All Volunteer Staff
Many of our shows such as “The AFM News Hour”, free-form music show “Tenor to Tabla”, poetry/spoken word show “Word Play”, and formless/new classical show “From Melody to Mayhem” have no parallels on local commercial radio nor NPR-affiliates here in Western North Carolina. All of our shows are curated by people who care about the content.
Watch this inspirational video to learn more!:
Thank you Asheville (and beyond)!
Lessons From The Komen Affair
Posted by: | Comments“No sane board has put an avowed Communist on its board since McCarthy. Everybody knows … someone who’s an open Communist would likely have an ideological bent that was hostile to the long-term health of the enterprise, and might be inclined to put their political agenda over the health of the corporation.”
Ask the Susan G. Komen Foundation how putting a right-wing ideologue on their board worked out.
Sara Robinson (Orcinus, Campaign for America’s Future) is a bona fide futurist and AlterNet’s new Visions page editor. Her introductory piece, “New Rules for Radicals: 10 Ways To Spark Change in a Post-Occupy World” is here. But with the Susan G. Komen blow-up still fresh, she offers longer-term lessons we should drive home to win the aftermath. So often, once some outfit like this backs off some controversial position, it is back to business as usual both for the business and for liberal critics. Fox News and conservative talkers, on the other hand, would be harping on the story for weeks.
The important lesson here is not to keep focusing on Komen’s behavior, but to drive home the larger lesson to more and more mainstream businesses. For too long, the fringe right has worked the refs with impunity, gaining position and power, advancing the center-right nation meme while marginalizing us and branding the left as communists or worse. It’s about time we turned the tables. This is a teaching moment our adversaries would not miss.
The problem with hiring wingnuts, Robinson observes, is
… they also come with a built-in ideological agenda that they won’t hesitate to put before the best interests of the firm. You never know when they’ll try to grab hold of the enterprise and drive it off into the weeds for their own causes, without a moment’s concern about the potential damage to your company’s assets.
It’s not about their religious beliefs. It’s about how fundamentalists of any stripe are more interested in their causes than than your company’s profit margins. That’s the takeaway we need to help business take away.
The amazing Spocko has more.
We Act Radio now on the air
Posted by: | CommentsInaugural show with David Shuster on now, bringing progressive radio to Washington, DC.
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We Act Radio is bloggers Cliff Schecter and Alex Lawson. Give ‘em a listen.
Tweet of the Day
Posted by: | Comments@rationalists: The luckiest man in America might be the 3rd person Rick Perry has to execute today.
Fox News Launches Proxy War Against Occupy Wall Street
Posted by: | CommentsFox News has launched a proxy war on Occupy Wall Street (#OWS) on the taxpayers’ dime by instigating a federal investigation of New York Communities for Change, part of the team behind the successful Occupy the Boardroom. Politico’s Ben Smith reports tonight on an effort by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-1%; net worth $156 million) “to link the defunct community organizing group ACORN to the Occupy Wall Street movement.”
From NewsCorp (home of ‘Hacking on an industrial scale’) and Fox News comes this:
In a letter dated Monday, Issa, R-Calif., called for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch of the Eastern District of New York to launch a probe into allegations first reported by FoxNews.com that NYCC may have “solicited donations from union members under false pretenses and misappropriated those funds to support the protesters.”
Fox and Fiends’ business model relies on boogie men. So this is the next wave in Fox’s Zombie ACORN narrative that cranked up two weeks ago. They will be, as usual, relentless. NYCC rattled some cages, so Zombie ACORN must die … again.
Michael McAuliff from HuffPost: Read More→
Fighting Things That Aren’t There
Posted by: | CommentsHalloween may be gone, but not forgotten. You can tell that the Occupy movement is the stuff of some people’s nightmares when Fox News and other propaganda mills start “investigating.” For example, did you know Occupiers are actually “entitled, upper-class agitators with few legitimate grievances“? It’s true. I saw it on the Internet.
Anyway, this is a repost from yesterday.
Have you heard about Zombie ACORN? The conservative media is a-twitter with ACORN sightings over a year and a half after the right wing succeeded in killing off the voter-registering, community organizing group. Behind the 99% in the Occupy movement is ACORN, did you hear? They just won’t die.
Letters To Wall Street
Posted by: | CommentsJoshua Holland at AlterNet provides a progress report on the Occupy the Boardroom project, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street protest, including a little logistical background on the letter-writing campaign. Writes Holland,
The project is making Big Finance nervous. A memo drafted by Fay Feeney, a corporate board consultant, and leaked to occupiers in Washington, warns that “the anger, frustration and collective voice is too large to ignore… [Occupy the Boardroom] is personal and targeted to what you earn (along with power and influence) [and] banks are among the first businesses to be called out, occupied and disrupted.” Feeney goes on to urge “board members and corporate counsels [to] prepare themselves for a bumpy ride.”
Since Occupy the Boardroom went live at noon last Saturday, people displaced and upset over the financial meltdown have posted over 6,000 letters to Wall Street’s top executives:
The Right Rounds Up the Usual Suspects
Posted by: | CommentsRichard Eskow deconstructs polling of Occupy Wall Street done by Fox News’ professional centrist, Douglas Schoen. Discussing his data in the Wall Street Journal, Schoen characterizes the movement as favoring “radical left-wing policies” reflecting “values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people,” including “radical redistribution of wealth.” Those conclusions are “not supported by his own survey,” Nate Sliver tweets. In fact, radical redistribution of wealth draws 4% support in Schoen’s poll.
Eskow summarizes Schoen’s results and compares them to recent national polls. Surprise: Occupy Wall Street responses are in line with most of America. So why the spin?
Whenever America’s right wing feel threatened or that the world has slipped beyond its control, very predictably — and with much less style than Captain Renault — conservatives round up the usual suspects: commies and hippies. And dirty hippies (DFHs). It’s an old tradition, Mandrake, like getting rid of fluoridation in our water. Familiar enemies are a comforting point of reference in an unsettling present and scarier future.
