Audio Activism

Economics is Pseudo-Science - Part 3, The New God
Here is Stan Goff reading the third track of his essay “Economics is Pseudo-Science”. Enjoy!

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I’m going to Oakland, CA for a really unique gathering of “programmers and activists developing free and open source advocacy tools” called AdvocacyDev II. I’ll be blogging and podcasting the event. Check back here at the begining of next week for more. I’m so looking forward to meeting people who are using technology for positive change in the world. Yeah! advocacydev

Marnie Webb the Director of CompuMentor’s TechCommons put together a neat pdf handout about nonprofit tech. It’s for a panel she’s on tomorrow at Alliance for Community Media International Conference and Trade Show. It contains several links to stuff Ruby and I have written and a few posts here on AudioActivism. Too cool!

In a earlier post I told you about Marie and her fight to stay in the US. According to the Fair Immigration Reform Movement website Marie Gonzalez has been allowed to stay in the US by the Department of Homeland Security for one year. Sadly her parents are still being forced to leave. Yet another example of how broken immigration law breaks families apart. Check out Marie’s blog and podcast to learn more.

Read Albert Yee’s post Live 8: Problems with Credentials over at the Philly Future blog. Live 8

Photo taken during interview podcast called One Campaign, One god, and What War?.
Photo by Albert Yee. Check out his other great photos and his blog. Live 8

On drive home from Philly and the hot disappointment that was Live8 I swore I would remove all of the big media crap in my life. As a first step I resolved to stop watching TV.

Ever since I can remember I have loved the machine called the television. I’ve been physically memorized, dare I say controlled by it for twenty plus years. In college I realized it wasn’t the CONTENT of the programming that compelled me to watch it but the cathode ray tube and its super fast flickering that held me. A Clockwork Orange? Remember that scene where Alex is forced to watch images with his eyelids forced open?

The machines the television and the film projector have influenced my creative life significantly. They have been the canvas of my moving paintings. But now the damage that big media has done to global culture is just too great for me to ignore. I can no longer consume them. I fear to use them as tools for art.

I will not support the massive, marketing, money making, media jugernaught that climbs on the backs of Africans to make a buck. They can claim all they want that Live8 was about stopping poverty in Africa, but in the end the rich just get richer off of the suffering of the poor. Now they don’t need to put the poor to work they just speak the names of those who suffer and money appears in the twenty first century robber barons bank accounts. Not to mention all the political power that is gained by a few media stars.

The withdrawal process is going to be hard for me. TVs are everywhere. In bars, in airports, in shopping centers, and on public streets. But I recognize this has to stop somewhere. If my brain’s power can’t be completely recovered from the effects of the TV maybe my future children will not be addicted at an early age. Live 8

Just heard on the BBC that several bombs have exploded in London tube stations and on a bus killing and injuring many. My heart is out to everyone there. I’m thinking all the good thoughts I can and sending them to you.

Lots of folks are wondering why people are protesting the G8. It isn’t just because we want them to end poverty in Africa. That would be a good start tho’. Check out the wealth of knowledge via links here at this Indymedia UK page. I’m going to read up and sharpen my wit!

Mike Outmesguine, who I interviewed a few months ago about Wi-Fi security, has written an article for Popular Science’s online mag How 2.0 called Be Your Own HotSpot. I wish I could afford to combine this idea with my Ultimate Mobile Audio Creation Kit. Mike was my influence for that post. Nice to see he’s spreading the word. Imagine the LIVE on the spot podcasts you could do with this gear!

via: Hack A Day