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PUBLIC MARKS from jlesage with tags news & politics

December 2006

November 2006

Boston Review

by 1 other
left political and literary review, good writing

PublicRadioFan.com

by 9 others
a radio listening site: schedule listings for thousands of public radio stations and programs around the world

Welcome to Transparency

by 1 other
"interprets and critiques movies and television, news and political rhetoric, theme parks and advertising, computer games and the Internet, and other creations of contemporary culture"

Open Source Radio Show

"Every time we have an idea for an hour of radio we post it to the site." Via blog viewers help build shows which air after research.

"We"--with the words of Arundhati Roy

a 64-minute Internet documentary made anonymously in New Zealand, using Roy's speech and a montage of politically inflected imagery; new style of essayistic documentary; DVD at hi-res available

WWF - A way of life threatened by climate change

an audio/slideshow with native peoples of Alaska testifying to effects of climate change

SF Gate: Sex trafficking from South Korea to US

During their trip to South Korea, Chronicle reporter Meredith May and staff photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice found that while the public sex industry has slowed, parts of the business has gone underground and is still alive and well. Audio/slideshow in 4 p

October 2006

The Propaganda Remix Project

by 2 others
old WW2 posters with contemporary messages; very well thought out designwise; print out for your office door

September 2006

Think Progress

by 6 others
left news and reports, well written, has newsletter to send via email daily

August 2006

Watching America

by 1 other
translated news from non-English sites

July 2006

Democracy Now!: radio and TV news

by 1 other
news site from Amy Goodman's acclaimed NPR and cable TV show

Counterpunch

by 7 others
excellent daily newsletter / articles from Left authors

Truth out

by 5 others
left in-depth news

June 2006

Guardian

by 23 others
excellent background sections, well set out as a web site, no charge for use of archives

UPI news from Washington Times

This newspaper carries all the UPI stores for the day. Free.