http://www.myspace.com/heathhare Exposing Censorship Issues en-us Copyright 2005 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.stationware.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss angelhaar1@yahoo.com Heather Hare Treading the Undercurrent Exposing Censorship Issues ( KUCI 88.9fm in Irvine ) angelhaar1@yahoo.com Beware of the Button Police http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%20092608.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%20092608.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0800 An interview with Chris Finan, President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression about Banned Book Week September 27 - October 4, 2008. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%209-19-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%209-19-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%208-29-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%208-29-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%208-8-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%208-8-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%208-1-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%208-1-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0800 The former Journalism teacher and adviser of the award-winning Naperville high school's "Central Times" newspaper, Linda Kane, tells the story of how she was ousted from her position because of free speech issues. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%207-25-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%207-25-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Interview with Mik Vokavitch, Executive Director of the Tony Hawk Foundation. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%207-18-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%207-18-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%206-13.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%206-13.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Handler for Search Dog Foundation http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%206-06-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%206-06-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Internet Filters http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%205-23-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%205-23-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Our guest will be Jim Kimberly, a northern California visual artist whose interactive sculpture, "The Super Imposer," was removed from the Juried Art Show at the gallery of the Fairfield Center for Creative Arts because it was considered politically controversial. A jury of visual arts professionals had selected "The Super Imposer" for inclusion in the Art Show. The piece was removed soon after being put on display, because John DeLorenzo, Director of the Community Services Department, as well as other government officials, considered it too politically controversial in view of the war in Iraq and the military presence in the Fairfield community (Fairfield is home to the Travis Air Force base). Fairfield Visual Arts Association president, Christe Mandrell, resigned from her position because board members of the association refused to protest the City's orders to remove the piece. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%205-16-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%205-16-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%204-18-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%204-18-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%204-11-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%204-11-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Wikipedia calls itself the "free encyclopedia that anyone can edit." It is a constantly evolving and fluid set of reference entries on the web that undergoes a daily iterative editing and authoring process. Anonymity has been the flavor of this process… anyone can go in and edit, but they have never had to take accountability for their changes… until now. Thanks to an inspired CalTech graduate student, Virgil Griffith, my upcoming guest, who is also a visiting researcher at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, a way to reveal who has been editing their own entries has been devised with a program he has created, called WikiScanner. Find out who has been tampering with their own entries and censoring vital information. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%204-4-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%204-4-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%203-21-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%203-21-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Is censorship normal to German history and political culture, or is the verdict ambivalent? Treading the Undercurrent will interview German historian, Jeremy Roethler, Ph.D., regarding censorship originating within the German culture and explore the Reformation of 1517, the World Wars, German nationalism, the Third Reich, the Federal Republic, and wars of religion. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%202-29-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%202-29-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:00:00 -0800 We will be exploring the theme of self-censorship with Eric Maisel, Ph.D., a San Francisco Bay Area psychologist specializing in coaching artists, writers, and performers through the creative process. We will dialog on the affects of self censorship on any creative pursuit, what one can do to realize the face of this and how you can guide yourself to move through and past this, and a myriad of issues that arise when engaging in the war of art. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-2-22-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-2-22-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 -0800 David Zeiger was one of the civilians who helped run the Oleo Strut. He went on to a career in political activism and today he is a filmmaker and the director of Sir! No Sir!, a recent documentary on the all-but-forgotten antiwar activities of GIs from Fort Hood to Saigon . For two years he worked as a civilian at the Oleo Strut in Killeen, Texas–one of dozens of coffeehouses that were opened near military bases to support the efforts of antiwar soldiers. In the 1960’s this anti-war movement altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. By 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam. By the Pentagon’s own figures, 503,926 “incidents of desertion” occurred between 1966 and 1971; officers were being “fragged” (killed with fragmentation grenades by their own troops) at an alarming rate; and by 1971 entire units were refusing to go into battle in unprecedented numbers. In the course of a few short years, over 100 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; local and national antiwar GI organizations were joined by thousands; thousands more demonstrated against the war at every major base in the world in 1970 and 1971, including in Vietnam itself; stockades and federal prisons were filling up with soldiers jailed for their opposition to the war and the military…yet it has been virtually obliterated from the collective memory of that time. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%202-15.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%202-15.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Richard%20White%20interview%202-1-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Richard%20White%20interview%202-1-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:00 -0800 We will take a look at the case involving Lt. Ehren Watada and the Army’s attempt to redefine free speech. Watada is a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army and the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse orders to deploy to Iraq. In an interview, Lieutenant Watada asserted that he had a duty as a U.S. Army officer to evaluate the legality of his orders and conduct himself accordingly. For this reason he said that he could not participate in the Iraq War because it was "manifestly illegal" and that his participation would make him a party to war crimes. In June 2006, Lieutenant Watada made national headlines when he refused to deploy to Iraq. Initially Watada was charged with one charge of "missing movement" and four charges of "conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman." Each of the latter four charges is based entirely on political speech. If he had been convicted on all of these charges, Lieutenant Watada could have spent up to six years in prison. It is irrelevant at this point whether Watada’s legal defense of his case of not going to war was valid in the realm of international law or not, the deeper issue being in that the military is charging people for making personal political statements, that is political dissent as a punishable offense, and subpoenaing journalists to be used as investigative tools. Today as our guest, we have independent journalist, Sarah Olson, who conducted one of the first interviews with Lt. Watada and, as a result, was subpoenaed by the US Army to be used as a component of their prosecution. One charge of Conduct Unbecoming an Officer was based on his interview with Sarah, and they wanted her to testify on behalf of the prosecution based on her interview with Lt. Watada. Today we will examine what this case has represented to free speech, hear Sarah’s story, her response to the subpoena, and the community’s response to these attempts to stifle the press. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-1-25.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-1-25.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Logan Laituri was a paratrooper for two years in the 82nd Airborne in Ft. Bragg, NC before he reenlisted for an assignment in Hawaii with the 25th Infantry Division. He was on Oahu for one year and two days before deployed to Iraq on January 19, 2004. In Iraq, he served in the 1/14 Infantry as the entire country's QRF (Quick Reaction Force). As a result of an experience he had he decided to apply for status as a noncombatant conscientious objector. Today we will look at the IVAW, their mission, and also talk to veteran Logan Latuiri about free speech issues in the military. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/tREADING%20THE%20uNDERCURRENT-1-18-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/tREADING%20THE%20uNDERCURRENT-1-18-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Bonnie Dickinson has been teaching theater at Wilton High School in Connecticut for 13 years. She and her students developed the idea of a play about Iraq, initially inspired by the Sept. 3, 2006 death of Wilton High graduate Nicholas Madaras from an IED (improvised explosive device) blast in Baqubah, Iraq. The play used real testimonials from soldiers, from their letters, blogs and taped interviews, and Yvonne Latty’s book “In Conflict,” with the students acting the roles. It was an authentic docu-drama that incorporated the voices into the production. In mid-March, after students spent months preparing the play, the school administration canceled it. Superintendent Gary Richards wrote: “The student performers directly acting the part of the soldiers ... turns powerful material into a dramatic format that borders on being sensational and inappropriate.” We will explore the implications of the censorship of this play within this community, and how New York City, only 55 minutes away, embraced the production, with off-braodway theatres opening their arms to the performance. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-1-4-08.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-1-4-08.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Jarret Lovell, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of criminal justice at California State University, Fullerton where his research interests focus upon mass media and the administration of justice as well as grassroots movements and social protest. He is the author of several scholarly articles examining the portrayal of crime in popular culture. His first book, "Good Cop/Bad Cop: Mass Media and the Cycle of Police Reform", traces the influence of mass media on policing. Professor Lovell is currently at work on his new book Crimes of Dissent (forthcoming, New York University Press) which examines the motivations, methods, and consequences of civil disobedience, non-violent resistance, direct action, and other forms of 'illegal' dissent. In today’s interview we have examined some of the prominent themes explored in Dr. Lovell's forthcoming book, “Crimes of Dissent”, in regard to activism and social protest. We also examine censorship in activism and discuss some of the specific issues relating to this, including the need for city-issued permits to hold a protest, censorship at city council meetings, and the chilling effects of the new anti-terrorism legislation such as the U.S.A. Patriot Act and the UK Prevention of Terrorism Bill. We talk about some of the broader trends relating to “crimes of dissent” occurring at a national and global level first, then scale down to a local level and hear some very interesting stories relating to social protest that have occurred right here in our own backyard. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%2012-21-07.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent%2012-21-07.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Southern California healer and intuitive medic, Lisa Nilsen, will discuss the different types of censorship that can take place within interpersonal relationships and the affects that this can have at an energetic level on the relationship. She will describe the fascinating work that she does, guiding her clients to heal themselves at a cellular level, as well as helping people to love and perform at their highest potential. She will share her story of how and why she became a healer as well as the censorship she has experienced in pursuing this type of alternative work. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Lisa%20Nilsen-12-7-07.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Lisa%20Nilsen-12-7-07.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Alex Donis is a Los Angeles-based visual artist whose work examines and redefines the boundaries set within religion, politics, race, and sexuality. Interested in toppling societies' relationship to icons, his work is often influenced by a tri-cultural (Pop, Latin & Queer) experience. He has worked extensively in a variety of media including painting, installation, video, and works on paper. Donis created a series of paintings, entitled "War" that depicted fictionalized pairings of LAPD officers and gang members in same-sex dancing poses, which was accompanied with companion text from renowned African-American poet and performance artist, Keith Antar Mason. The Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Department (LACAD) and the Art Center administration cancelled the exhibition which was due to open in September of 2001 at the Watts Towers Arts Center in Los Angeles. The Watts Community Action Council, a locally based community group, led the charge against the exhibition. Representatives of the group threatened an angry protest during the opening reception and stated that violent actions might occur, such as angry residents attacking the artwork itself or perhaps the individuals. Donis stated, "My work for many years has been to understand hatred in society and how, as an artist, to dissolve it by bridging vast social divides. This is something I thought I had succeeded at via this exhibition. Now with this censorship, my rights and my freedom of expression are under attack." http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treding%20the%20Undercurrent-AlexDonis-11-30-07.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treding%20the%20Undercurrent-AlexDonis-11-30-07.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Elliot D. Cohen discusses his book Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship. Cohen shows how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America . He details how incredible power, control, and wealth have been amassed in the hands of an elite few while the rest of us have been systematically manipulated, deceived, and divested of our freedom. Cohen is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy, ethics editor for "Free Inquiry" magazine, and the author or editor of many books in journalism, professional ethics, and philosophical counseling, including News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy, and Philosophical Issues in Journalism. He was the first prize recipient of the 2007 Project Censored Award for his investigative reporting on the corporate takeover of the Internet. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Elliot%20Cohen%2011-16-2007edited.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Elliot%20Cohen%2011-16-2007edited.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Artist and Pomona College Professor of Art, Sheila Pinkel was invited to contribute to an exhibit at the T.H. Pendergast California Parole Museum in Diamond Bar commemorating 100 years of parole in California. Her submission was a mural illustrating conflict in the U.S. through history. The Administrator of the Parole Office decided the images were too "disturbing" and the mural should be removed from the exhibit. Pinkel agreed the mural was disturbing, however, that was an important part of her artistic message. Ms. Pinkel will tell the story of the censorship of her art and discuss all of its implications to our community. We will also explore the political themes behind her fascinating artwork. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Sheila%20Pinkel11-9-2007%209-2.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Sheila%20Pinkel11-9-2007%209-2.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Steve%20Anderson%20%26%20Jeffrey%20Smith-10-26-2007.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Steve%20Anderson%20%26%20Jeffrey%20Smith-10-26-2007.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/David%20Green%2010-12-07.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/David%20Green%2010-12-07.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800 10/5/07 interview with artist, Clinton Fein. Check out his website at www.annoy.com http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-10-5-07%209-2-edited.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/802/Treading%20the%20Undercurrent-10-5-07%209-2-edited.mp3 Podcasts Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800