Producer Catherine Komp and anchor Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News talk about FSRN's news gathering and editorial process, its virtual, commuting operations and its worker-run collective organizational structure.  FSRN came into being in 2000 by striking reporters protesting the censorship policies of the Pacifica Network.

(Broadcast on WPKN on September 12. 2012)

Producer Catherine Komp and anchor Dorian Merina of Free Speech Radio News talk about FSRN’s news gathering and editorial process, its virtual, commuting operations and its worker-run collective organizational structure.  FSRN came into being in 2000 by striking reporters protesting the censorship policies of the Pacifica Network.

(Broadcast on WPKN on September 12. 2012)

Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, talks about her own path to integrating her Jewish values with her political response to Israel's policies as well as the work her organization is doing to inform American consciousness and  to influence US government policy about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, its blockade of Gaza and Israel's policy toward its own Palestinian citizens.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on August 29, 2012)

Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, talks about her own path to integrating her Jewish values with her political response to Israel’s policies as well as the work her organization is doing to inform American consciousness and  to influence US government policy about the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, its blockade of Gaza and Israel’s policy toward its own Palestinian citizens.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on August 29, 2012)

Nora Kramer, vegan and animal rights activist, Texas coordinator for  Mercy for Animals and founder of YEA camps, talks about her life's path, her philosophy and practice of activism and her love of sports.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on August 8, 2012) 

 

Nora Kramer, vegan and animal rights activist, Texas coordinator for  Mercy for Animals and founder of YEA camps, talks about her life’s path, her philosophy and practice of activism and her love of sports.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on August 8, 2012)

 

 

Australian author Stephanie Dale talks to me about her 1,000-mile pilgrimage through the Balkans and Middle East that she traveled with her 29-year old son, Ben.

(Broadcast on WPKN89.5 Bridgeport, CT on July 11, 2012)

 

Australian author Stephanie Dale talks to me about her 1,000-mile pilgrimage through the Balkans and Middle East that she traveled with her 29-year old son, Ben.

(Broadcast on WPKN89.5 Bridgeport, CT on July 11, 2012)

 

UPDATE In the Supreme Court of Pakistan a short order was passed today (January 7, 2013) in which the original agreement and its appendages signed by the Balochistan Development Authority with the foreign companies "is held to have been executed contrary to the provision of the Mineral Development Act, 1948, the Mining Concession Rules, 1970 framed thereunder, the Contract Act, 1872, the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, etc., and is even otherwise not valid, therefore the same is declared to be illegal, void and non est."

 

June 13, 2012 In a case before the Pakistan Supreme Court, lawyer Usman Kazim Jamil describes how bad governance and lack of transparency are threatening to deprive the people of Baluchistan province with rightful access to and ownership of the largest deposits of copper and gold in the sub-continent.  The lawyers are requesting the Court to stay the case from going to international arbitration so it may be resolved in the local courts instead.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on June 13, 2012)

 

 

 

 

UPDATE In the Supreme Court of Pakistan a short order was passed today (January 7, 2013) in which the original agreement and its appendages signed by the Balochistan Development Authority with the foreign companies “is held to have been executed contrary to the provision of the Mineral Development Act, 1948, the Mining Concession Rules, 1970 framed thereunder, the Contract Act, 1872, the Transfer of Property Act, 1882, etc., and is even otherwise not valid, therefore the same is declared to be illegal, void and non est.”

 

June 13, 2012 In a case before the Pakistan Supreme Court, lawyer Usman Kazim Jamil describes how bad governance and lack of transparency are threatening to deprive the people of Baluchistan province with rightful access to and ownership of the largest deposits of copper and gold in the sub-continent.  The lawyers are requesting the Court to stay the case from going to international arbitration so it may be resolved in the local courts instead.

(Broadcast on WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport, CT on June 13, 2012)