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Szczepanczyk: An event with (against?) Schweickart this weekend...
Blog Post, February, 07 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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A heads-up for ZNet readers: I'm going to be participating in an event in Chicago this Saturday with David Schweickart. Yes, that David Schweickart. Details are below. We hope to have the audio (and video?) posted and available sometime after...
Szczepanczyk: Touched down in the land of the delta blues: My take on the National Conferenece for Media Reform in Memphis
Blog Post, January, 22 2007
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Until last weekend. Memphis had been the city I most wanted to visit but hadn't yet visited. (I personally credit Marc Cohn.) So, when the 2007 National Conference for Media Reform took place at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, hot damn!...
Szczepanczyk: On the death of Gerald R. Ford
Blog Post, December, 27 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The story is breaking with the announcement swallowing U.S. cable television as I type these words: Gerald R. Ford, former U.S. president, has died at the age of 93. Ford will be buried in a locale about 12 city blocks away from where I type th...
Szczepanczyk: Review of the book "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Joel Bakan
Blog Post, December, 18 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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(Please note that this review is about the book The Corporation, the companion to the film of the same name, and not the fiim itself.) I find myself with mixed feelings about The Corporation: the book by Joel Bakan. On the one hand, I rank the...
Szczepanczyk: Good news and bad news in the U.S. media policy struggles
Blog Post, December, 11 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The good news, as the Save The Internet coalition reports: The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want...
Szczepanczyk: On the death of Milton Friedman
Blog Post, November, 16 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I was broadcasting my radio show in Chicago this afternoon when I heard that neoliberal economist Milton Friedman died this afternoon at age 94. Indeed, my show airs on the University of Chicago's own radio station, on the very campus where Fried...
Szczepanczyk: I made calls for Moveon.org...
Blog Post, November, 01 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Okay, I feel a little dirty (being an anti-war Chomsky reading parecon supporter and all that) but today I joined Moveon.org's big calling machine and called about twelve numbers, reading a script in support of a democratic candidate I know nothin...
Szczepanczyk: New York Indymedia videographer slain in Mexico
Blog Post, October, 28 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I thought I was going to blog about Death of a President, a faux documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush -- which I saw tonight, which is set in Chicago, which boasts video footage of protesters I know personally, and with footage r...
Szczepanczyk: Victory: An update of media and internet activism in the U.S.
Blog Post, October, 27 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Earlier in 2006, I blogged about the efforts to stop the wretched rewrite of the Telecommunications Act, the main law in America involving the media and the internet, and its likely negative ramifications as to the future of the internet and curre...
Szczepanczyk: A brief word about the Mark Foley matter
Blog Post, October, 15 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I don't want to spend too much time about the Mark Foley scandal in the United States House of Representatives, involving a resigned representative and his electronic communications of an explicit sexual nature with Congressional male pages. The...
Szczepanczyk: Help The NewStandard in its emergency fundraising campaign
Blog Post, September, 16 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Many ZNet and Z Magazine readers are familiar with The NewStandard, the excellent progressive-minded online journalism website, built on the model of participatory economics, funded without advertising or nonprofit grants, operating on a very frug...
Szczepanczyk: Katrina, Chernobyl, and the Yes Men
Blog Post, August, 29 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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One year has passed since Hurricane Katrina and a staggering level of follow-up ineptitude rendered the effective destruction of New Orleans. I can't help but think that the effect of that hurricane and what followed may ultimately be to Amer...
Szczepanczyk: Casinos in Spirit: The World Trade Organization and The World Series of Poker
Blog Post, July, 30 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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In this post, I'd like to draw some comparisons between contemporary political economy and competitive poker. I think it's useful to see political economy through the lens of poker, since (as I'll explain further) I think there's an extraordinary...
Szczepanczyk: Why is there a ZNet blog post about twenty-year-old comic books?
Blog Post, July, 22 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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When I was growing up, I was interested in comic books. One series of comics which I read was the New Universe, a line of comic books produced by Marvel Comics to commemorate Marvel's 25th anniversary -- in 1986. I read and owned all the books...
Szczepanczyk: Zidane's Cheap Shot Heard 'Round the World?
Blog Post, July, 11 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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French soccer superstar Zinedine Zidane gave an amazing performance in the 1998 FIFA Men's World Cup championship game to win France's first ever FIFA Men's World Cup. It even inspired the Chicago Tribune to call him "the best thing to happen to ...
Szczepanczyk: Fiction and making activist vision tangible
Blog Post, July, 08 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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I recently learned the importance in the history of Poland of the writer Adam Mickiewicz -- whose 19th-century writings about a then-hypothetical Polish nation-state helped inspire the work which eventually would lead to the modern nation-state of...
Szczepanczyk: Activists Must Be Amphibians: A Review of Derek Wall's Babylon and Beyond
Blog Post, July, 03 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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It's cool when you first hear about a book when you get an email from the author who emails you out of nowhere to tell you about the book. It's much cooler that the book in question kicks ass. The book in question is "Babylon and Beyond: T...
Szczepanczyk: Update about media policy in the U.S.
Blog Post, June, 26 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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The fight for the future of media policy in the United States rages on. One controversial bill, the dreaded COPE Act, was unfortunately approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 8. Companion legislation is currently being considered ...
Szczepanczyk: Solidarity Poker
Blog Post, June, 16 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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Technorati Profile I understand that there are folks out there who are playing with Chicago Parecon Poker. This is cool. However, the rules I posted earlier are a bit out of date. The game has undergone some revisions, and even a name change...
Szczepanczyk: Blog like there's no tomorrow, because tomorrow you might not be able to...
Blog Post, June, 10 2006
Mitchell Szczepanczyk
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It's like the post in the supposedly satirical newspaper, The Onion: Terrifying Bill Passed During NBA Playoffs Last night, June 8, 2006, we saw Game One of the 2006 NBA finals. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to kill the in...
