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Brown Beret Radio Saturdays 6-9pm
in collaboration with Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 fm
Free Radio Santa Cruz has been on the air for over twelve years without a license. We broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, in defiance of federal regulations. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is charged with regulating the airwaves in the public interest. We believe that it has failed to do so and has proved itself to be controlled by monied interests.
We go on the air to protest corporate control of the airwaves, to bring local control and local accountability to our community media, to produce and broadcast a diversity of programs that are simply unavailable on corporate controlled stations. We do not air advertisements, we do not do pledge drives, we do not have sponsors or underwriters.
FRSC is part of a growing micro-radio movement, supporting the work of other independent media and other pirate and noncommercial web and broadcast stations. To find out more, listen to this history of Free Radio Santa Cruz.
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This week the hosts of Brown Beret Radio discuss the murders of Oscar Grant, Annette Garcia, and recent cases of police brutality and misconduct. In addition, they explore solutions on how to hold cops accountable for their misdeeds and create safer communities. Special Guest is Tracey Bell-Borden of the Black Panther Commemoration Committee and Newspaper. El Falcon from the Onda Bajita radio program provides coverage from recent protest in Riverside, CA., and interviews the husband and family of Annette Garcia and other victims of police abuse. Included are several hip-hop tracks by Sabac Red, Immortal Technique, rebel diaz, and Dr. Cornel West that deal with the issue of police and its relation to capitalism.
Brown Beret Radio reports on the the case against peace activist Alex Sanchez 10-24-09
Brown Berets Radio 10-24-09 on Alex Sanchez
On October 19, 2009, in a federal court house in Los Angeles, Alex Sanchez was once again denied justice and bail. Sanchez, a nationally recognized activist and peacemaker, is accused of maintaining ties to his former gang and participating in a conspiracy to murder. Father Greg Boyle, supporters and many concerned citizens of the Los Angeles area believe that Alex’s case is built on weak evidence and that he was targeted due to his political activism specifically on police harassment and abuse. US Ninth Circuit Judge Manuel Real rejected Alex’s bail due to assumed risk of flight. Over one-hundred supporters gathered outside the courtroom and demanded Alex’s release and a fair trial. Included in the crowd of supporters was former State Senator Tom Hayden, author Luis Rodriguez, and Barrios Unidos founder Nane Alejandrez. Other vocal supporters have included UFW founder Dolores Huerta, Father Gregory Boyle, and hip-hop author Jeff Chang.
Alex Sanchez was working to create peace and unity amongst our young people. In the past decade he had changed his life drastically and founded Homie Unidos. His case could happen to any activist working for peace in their community. WE ARE ALL ALEX!
Quilombo Arte Presents OTHERGROUND all stars showcase
Bocafloja, Para la Gente (PLG), Guerrilla Queenz, Poetic S, and Machetero at the Watsonville Brown Beret’s Art Space.
Recorder workshop sessions at the US Social Forum in Detroit, MI. on June 23, 2010.
Sponsoring Organization Name:
Youth Justice Coalition
150 years ago, Los Angeles declared a war on gangs leading to the massacre and burning out of the Chinese community, and the highest lynching rates in the nation throughout the late 1800s — primarily targeting the Mexicanos/Californios. Gang suppression tactics continued until the 1980s when an intensified War on Gangs created the nation’s first: gang databases, injunctions, court enhancements, militarized policing such as SWAT, gang units such as CRASH and GPS surveillance systems of both individuals and public housing developments. Despite the multi-billion-dollars spent on gang suppression during the past 30 years, and the highest detention, incarceration and deportation rates in the world, L.A. has seen an increase in both the number of alleged gangs and alleged gang members, as well as in homicides, injuries, prison investment and populations, and police violence. This workshop will cover the policies exported from L.A., as well as engage all of us to build strategies that can challenge these policies locally, at the state level, and nationally. Led by targeted youth, parents who have buried their children in both the ground and in prisons, and neighborhood OGs who are now working together to stop the killing through the building of community truces, street level mediation, and grassroots expansion of opportunities for youth on the streets and inside lock-ups.
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Simon Sedillo on Neoliberalism and Self-Determination at AK Press
Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer and film maker whose work has centered on placing skills, cameras and editing equipment in the hands of communities in resistance so that they may be able to document their own histories and human rights situation. Sedillo has spent the last 6 years documenting, producing and teaching community based video documentation in indigenous communities, in immigrant communities and with youth of color across the US and Mexico.
On April 16th, Simon Sedillo spoke at AK Press regarding Neoliberalism and Self-Determination based on his studies and experiences in Oaxaca, Mexico. Afterwards, he screened movies he and others have produced and then answered audience questions.
