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The Media Squat is freeform, bottom-up, open source radio looking towards similarly open source, bottom-up solutions to some of the problems engendered by our relentlessly top-down society.
Each show will initiate a series of discussions, which will themselves comprise part of an expanding wiki of resources, support material, and community-generated content.
This isn't pure '60s or Whole Earth radicalism and self-sufficiency (though it's certainly related) but a 21st Century, cyberpunk reclamation of all technologies and social contracts as essentially open source, up for discussion, and open to modification. It's an application of the hacker ethic and net collectivism to everything, done in the spirit of fun and adventure.
Ongoing forums with host, guests, and listeners take place at http://www.mediasquat.net.
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RAMONES > > You're in the Media-squat. Our last best hope for airtime. > > The Media Squat is freeform, bottom-up, open source radio looking towards similarly open source, bottom-up solutions to some
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of the problems engendered by our relentlessly top-down society.
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Join us every Monday night on WFMU, WFMU.ORG, and iTunes, or all week long at mediasquat.net
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We want your ideas for guests - including yourself - as well as finished pieces. Come make radio with us at media-squat.net
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I'm on the road this week, broadcasting from my hotel room. I did an interview with Harvey Pekar just for the occasion, though, and that's coming up.
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Tomorrow, June 2, is the publication of my new book Life inc: how the world became a corporation and how to take it back. I'm doing a lot of talks and panels to promote the main ideas of the book: tha
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and panels to promote the main ideas of the book: that the crisis is an opportunity.
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You can watch the film > Find out about tour dates
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Come meet me live at Boston Public Library Tuesday evening, June 2, > in SF at Booksmith on Haight on June 9, or at A New Way Forward seminar in SF on June 10.
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New York at McNally Jackson on June 16, and a book party co-sponsored by WFMU and Arthur Magazine at Blue Stockings Bookstore on June 18
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Harvey Pekar is a cleveland-based comics writer, creator of the autobiographical American Splendor series which eventually became a feature film. He has written graphic novels about everything from
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growing up in Cleveland to the Beats to violence in Macedonia. He's a intellectual everyman, or everyman's intellectual, who looks at the urban landscape and modern experience through the eyes of a
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deeply human being.
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Walter "Fats" Pichon
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Wiggle Yo Toes
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We're talking with Harvey Pekar, the comics writer about his work, as well as the challenges facing anyone who wants to create art on a corporatist landscape.
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You've been listening to the MediaSquat on WFMU radio, WFMU.org, and all week at media-squat.net. Our guest has been Harvey Pekar.
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We Want the Airwaves
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