[07.31.2001]
GetMusic.com will be having a live chat with two of the members of New Order today. The chat
with Peter Hook and Stephen Morris will begin at 4:00 pm (PT) / 7:00 pm (ET). For more info, head over to
http://www.getmusic.com/calendar/audiochats/neworder/index.html.
Also, the new video for "Crystal"
will premiere on August 9th on MTV2, every hour on the hour.
[07.30.2001]
When StarLink corn was discovered last year
in our food supply, it spawned a nationwide recall of food products. During the process, developer
Aventis CropScience tried to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow small amounts
in our food to avoid further recalls. Fortunately for consumers, the EPA have finally decided not
to allow the genetically altered corn in our food, noting that they were unable to establish a safe
amount of which can be consumed.
The Charlatans U.K. are set to release their 7th album this fall (September 11) entitled "Wonderland". They made a few appearances
in L.A. last week to preview the new material and we managed to get a few snapshots of them. They can be found in
fótos.
[07.28.2001]
Representatives from both the EFF and the U.S. Attorney's office met yesterday to discuss the release of Dmitry
Sklyarov. Despite productive talks, the U.S. Attorney's office did not agree to immediately drop the charges and release Dmitry. Since the talks
failed to produce the desired actions, protests for Monday, 30 July have been scheduled across the U.S.
For those in the Los Angeles area, a meeting to discuss Monday's rally has been scheduled for Saturday, 28 July at 3:00 P.M. on the Santa Monica
Promenade (3rd Street and Santa Monica Blvd). The rally will take place Monday, 30 July at 12:00 P.M. (Noon) in front of Senator Feinstein's
LA Office at 11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915, Los Angeles, CA 90025, 310-914-7300. Senator Feinstein has been an outspoken supporter of the
DMCA. For a list of other cities planning a rally in support of Sklyarov, visit freesklyarov.org.
As of yesterday, Dmitry Sklyarov is still being held in a Las Vegas jail.
North Las Vegas Department of Detention/Correction
2222 Constitution Way, North Las Vegas, NV, 89030
[07.24.2001]
In response to pressure from its own employees, customers, programmers, and protesters
and after a Monday meeting with the EFF, Adobe have decided to
drop all charges filed against Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested and charged with violating a provision
of the DMCA. Colleen Pouliot, Adobe senior vice president and general counsel, said in a statement
that "the prosecution of this individual in this particular case is not conducive to the best interests
of any of the parties involved or the industry." With it, Adobe are urging the federal government
to release Sklyarov. However, the battle to get Sklyarov released is not over as he will remain in
jail until U.S. Attorney for Northern California Robert S. Mueller decides to drop all charges.
[Adobe's press release]
[07.23.2001]
The announcement's been made. The 5th Annual Los Angeles Unofficial Depeche Mode Convention
will be held at The Palace (in Hollywood) on Sunday, September 23, 2001, from 6 pm - midnight. Tickets
will be $20.
After a long day and night of intense talks between government officials in Bonn, Germany, 178 countries agreed to sign onto the Kyoto Protocol,
the global climate treaty, even without the support of the U.S. Although the deal was watered down from the original agreed four years ago, it is
a very important start. Now all that remains is for countries to ratify the treaty and take action on climate change.
Who are the key countries responsible for polluting out planet?
Police attacks on journalists in Genoa over the weekend were so brutally severe that similar reports are starting to filter out from the more
mainstream media outlets such as the BBC and the Guardian. One
resident was even quoted as saying "I feel very sad. The anarchists got what they wanted. But I also saw, from my window, 30 policemen
beat a group of only four people. I was expecting something like this would happen."
[Eyewitness: Genoa police raid |
Riots force review of summits |
Police hit hard at core of dissent]
Reports
started coming in late Saturday night of brutal attacks on journalists who are covering the G8
meetings in Genoa, Italy. According to reports, Italian police stormed a school that was housing
the journalists and then they started beating and arresting them. Meanwhile, accross the street
police were beating people inside an activist organization center, including many who were found
sleeping. According to reports and medics on the scene, the beatings lasted over 45 minutes, resulting
in approximately 20 seriously injured people.
[07.20.2001]
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in the town of Genoa, Italy today to protest the Group
of 8 meetings. These 100,000+ people have gathered in the streets to express their dissent against
the closed meetings being held by the leaders of the world's most economically powerful countries,
who gather once a year to discuss general international policy. So far there has been one confirmed
death of a young Genovese man and an unconfirmed report of the death of a woman. According to eyewitness
reports, the Genovese man was shot twice in the head by police, then run over by their police vehicle,
and finally left for dead. WARNING: The images of the dead protester
are highly graphic in nature.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the agency responsible for conserving marine
species and managing commercial fisheries has released an Environmental Impact Assessment. In 1998,
Greenpeace sued NMFS for its failure to protect the Steller sea lion while managing the commercial
groundfish (fish that swim near the ocean bottom) fisheries off Alaska's coasts.
A decision by Judge Zilly in June of 2000 shut down much of the pollock fishery and required NMFS
to conduct an environmental assessment on the impacts the groundfish fishery in the North Pacific
have on the survival of Steller sea lions and the ocean ecosystem. After much delay, the 500 page
assessment was released in January of 2001.
Now, you have an opportunity to submit comments until July 25th to NMFS, telling them they have
to take into account the entire ecosystem, not just specific parts! Take Action Now!
Comments are due by the end of day July 25th!
Well, it's happened again! The DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) claims another victim by punishing him for expressing his First Amendment rights.
[Read More |
Statement on Arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov |
EFF Media Release |
DoJ Press Release |
Join the EFF | Boycott Adobe]
[07.19.2001]
Government officials have been gathering together this week at the Climate Summit
in Bonn, Germany to decide on the fate of the Kyoto Protocol.
President G.W. Bush recently paid back all his campaign contributors by withdrawing from the treaty.
Now Canada and Australia have made it clear that they too will reject the Protocol by not signing
onto it. With support for the treaty waning, its passage looks unlikely. The only hope for
climate justice lies in the hands of activists.
[07.18.2001]
New Order are still putting the finishing touches on their highly anticipated new album "NEWORDERGETREADY." To hold us over
until then, they have released their first single Crystal (3.01 MB),
which is now available for download. To download with a PC, right-click link and select "Save Target As..." For Mac's, click on link and hold, then select
"Save As."
The maxi CD single for "Crystal" will hit stores August 14.
Radiohead will be playing the Hollywood Bowl on August 20. Tickets for the
show officially go on sale Saturday, July 21. But you can get them during the pre-sale tomorrow (July 19)
at 10 a.m. Just go to Ticketmaster
and scroll down to the Hollywood Bowl show. After clicking on the link, enter the password = "sardine."
There will be a two ticket limit per household as only 1,000 tickets have been reserved for the
pre-sale. Tickets are $33 to $46, plus service fees.
Last month President G.W. Bush personally promised to work with Third World countries "to
reduce greenhouse emissions and maintain economic growth." But now he's undermining the attempts of
these Third World countries to develop renewable sources of energy and fight global warming. President
Bush is planning to cut U.S. aid to these countries which would have helped them combat climate change.
The U.S.'s determination to destroy an international agreement on cutting pollution (Kyoto Treaty)
is despicable.
[07.17.2001]
Come witness the largest exhibit of Salvador Dali art ever shown in Southern California.
Brought to you by the folks at The Salvador Dali Gallery,
"Dali at UCLA" is a showcase of 500 one-of-a-kind works,
oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, print suites, sculptures, and tapestries. Trust us,
this is an awesome exhibit! Oh, and a portion of the proceeds from art sales will benefit the
UCLA Mattel Childrens Hospital, Pediatric Genetics
department.
WHERE: UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom
WHEN: July 15 - 27, 2001. Mon. - Sat. (10 am - 9 pm), Sun. (10 am - 6 pm). Tickets are
$7.00 for the general public and $4.00 for students.
A wave of attention and criticism has been accumulating around the issue of trade. Now another
type of trade, that of children trafficked into the military and prostitution has also begun to raise
questions within the mainstream consciousness. Slavery, a supposed relic of the past, still exists
in many forms all over the world. Here's an investigative report from Nepal concerning the buying
and selling of young girls into the bonds of sexual slavery.
[Read More | Learn More]
[07.11.2001]
While re-organizing my room, we happened across an unfamiliar roll of film. To our surprise it was the long forgotten about second set of pictures of the
Polecats' gig at the Bowl-a-rama on Saturday, July 29, 2000.
The International Whaling Commission is scheduled to meet in London from July 23-27. While there, the U.S. will be in the position to renegotiated the return
and re-legalization of the hunting of whales for profit, overturning a ban that's been in place since 1986.
[Read More]
[07.09.2001]
Although Radiohead are currently on tour promoting their Amnesiac album, they're scheduled to make a small appearance on the animated series
South Park, in an episode entitled "Scott Tenorman Must Die." The episode will air in
the U.S. on Wednesday, July 11 at 10 pm / 9 Central.
If you miss it, encore episodes of South Park air Thursdays at 12:30 am, Saturdays at 10:00 pm, and Sundays at 2:30 am and 11:00 pm.
For those who simply couldn't make it to Divergence:
UCLA's Design and Media Arts Graduate Show 2001 last month, we've posted a few pictures from
LOST: Graffiti In The City Of Angels.
We are all well aware that the war on drugs has been a complete failure. Do you think Cannabis should be legalized?
Vote here.
Results as of this post: YES = 87.48% / NO = 12.52%
We've said it before and we'll say it again: President G.W. Bush
is an idiot! Bush has often criticized a global nuclear test ban treaty. He has repeatedly opposed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), claiming
that it's useless and "fatally flawed." Now he hopes that the treaty will die in the Senate.
[Read More]
