Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia, and Aidan Delgado are leading a 241 mile march for peace that started in Tijuana, Mexico. The march will going through Marine Corps Depot Camp Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA, culminating in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial […]

Local activist Mike Ferner and friend and Ed Kinane were arrested last week for disrupting a House Appropriations Committee hearing. Read more about it at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence site. Mike and Ed are participating in a 34-day fast to end the war, and we’ve posted Mike’s reports here on our blog.

An eviction notice was posted on a gate of the largest urban community garden in the United States on Wednesday, March 1, 2006. According to the notice, the 14-acre farm in South Central Los Angeles–which is currently home to 300+ family plots planted with a variety of crops, including numerous traditional Mesoamerican plants–must be vacated […]

Danny Schechter. New York: Select Books, 2006.
Schechter is is a television producer and independent filmmaker, and is a veteran of the news business. He had stints as a producer at ABC and CNN, and was an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
When News Lies: Media Complicity […]