Coming Up: George Galloway in Brighton
recorded February 1st, 2010
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Planned to air on WZBC-FM's Truth and justice Radio

 
Two cherished friends of 492 Cafe, Dr. Howard Zinn and Australian Punker turned Scotish Communist Folker Alistair Hulett have crossed the rainbow bridge this week.
 
Our Latest Noam: Chomsky Looks at the Elections, the Economy & the World
 
- - - > A Special Message about Gaza from Noam Chomsky < - - -
 

 

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Evan Greer Recordings
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Two cherished friends of 492 Cafe, Dr. Howard Zinn and Australian Punker turned Scotish Communist Folker Alistair Hulett have crossed the rainbow bridge this week.
 

Andrew Bacevich in Rethinking Afghanistan, a new movie by Robert Greenwald (Trailer)
Hear Andrew Bacevich

Greenwald is the director/producer of..."Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" (2006), "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005), and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" (2004). Millions of viewers have seen these films via grassroots "house parties" and independent online DVD sales, a groundbreaking method of alternative distribution. Greenwald...produced a trilogy of political documentaries: "Unprecedented: The 2000 Election" (2002); "Uncovered: The War on Iraq" (2003), which he also directed; and "Unconstitutional" (2004). (more)

 

 

 


Chuck Turner: Witness for the prosecution against Chuck Turner evaporates.

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Four Videos from the
One State for Palestine/Israel
Conference

Joiner Center and Trans-Arab Research Institute

Participants talk about the two-day conference at UMass on a One State Solution for all of Palestine/Israel.


Ali Abunima, Founder: Electronic Intifada

 

Palestine/Israel: Combatants for Peace

3/6/09 -Two former combatants, a Palestinian who resisted the occupation ...and an Israeli soldier who now denounces violence, join forces to speak out!

 

Principled Reisistance to the Israeli Occupation

2/17/09 -Noam Chomsky, Palestine scholar Leila Farsakh and Israeli activist Shachaf Polakov discuss the Israeli occupation and the Siege on Gaza.

 

Live Sound Reinforcement Job and Broadcast Recording:

Noam Chomsky Speaks on Obama!

11/19/08 -Arlington Street Church, Boston: 492 Cafe worked with Democracy Now cameraman Robbie Leppzer, Christopher Lydon, (The Connection, Radio Open Source, etc.) CCTV Cambridge and Z-Mag while managing sound and recording this, Chomsky's first post-election talk. Here's the Report. ...It's even worse than you thought!

Facts about Obama's Cabinet!


Photo: Radio Free Maine

Cristopher Lydon and Suren Moodliar stand by
as Freeman Z affixes Dr. Chomsky's microphone.

 

Rock and Roll Sound Reinforement:
Stop The Wars -Halloween Party

10/25/08 -Chinatown/Boston: 492 Cafe managed sound for Stop The Wars Boston's Halloween fundraiser party at the Encuentro Cinco organizing space, featuring the funkulous Five-Piece Band Bojah and the Insurrection.

 

Outdoor Sound Reinforement:
Boston Common Peace Rally

10/11/08 -Boston Common: Our biggest gig yet, a peace rally on Boston Common. Hanley Sound assembled the 12-foot speaker towers we used to deliver 3,000 Watts of crisp and clear music and speech for two thousand peace-lovers ...while keeping the stage area comfortably quiet. Guests included Pat Scanlon (shown,) Chuck Turner, Joseph Gerson and many others.

 

Mobile Sound Reinforement and Recording:
Sacco & Vanzetti Remembered

8/9/08 -Boston: For the third consecutive year, 492 Cafe provided loud and clear mobile sound solutions for the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society's annual rallies and march through Downtown Boston. Speakers include City Councilor Chuck Turner, Dorotea Manuella, Sergio Reyes and others. (Listen)

 

Mobile Sound Reinforement and Recording:
From Iraq and Afghanistan Back Home to Dorchester -A Community Responds to the Wounds of Violence

9/20/08 -Dorchester/Boston: 492 Cafe provided pro-bono sound reinforcement for this Dorchester People for Peace event with a surprise visit from our favorite poet by far, Veteran for Peace David Connolly.

 

Recording Gig: Tavis Smiley; Zinn Interview

4/17/08 -Newton: Freeman Z records Howard Zinn at his home, and at his convenience, sparing him a studio visit (for Tavis Smiley on Public Radio International.)

 

News Segment:
Boston Pelosi Protest

8/4/08 -JFK Library, Boston: Dissenters risk arrest to give Nancy "impeachment's off the table" Pelosi a piece of their collective mind. Hear our Radio Report for a glimpse at how little Americans' rights are by this Democrats ic Party leader!

 

Anti-Discrimination Award

5/31/08 -Boston: 492 Cafe team members Steve Cornie and Freeman Z are recognized by ADCMA for work on the WZBC-FM program This Week in Palestine, hosted by Sherif Fam.

 

Half-Recording:
Democracy Now's Amy and David Goodman

5/16/08 -Jamaica Plain: Responding to a stage snafu, Freeman Z slaved over a hot digital editing workstation to carve up this little gem of a piece of David's inspirational stories, including the government-censored struggle of Librarians prosecuted under the Patriot Act.

 

Live Sound Reinforement and Recordings:
Gaza Emergency Relief Fundraiser

4/30/08 -St. Peter's Episcopal, Boston: This highly successful benefit for the Gaza Mental Health Foundation featured an impressive 7-piece Arab-Jazz Fusion Brandeis Student Band, "Mochilla"

 

Live Sound Reinforement and News Report:
5 Years in Iraq Vigil

3/19/08 -Boston Common: Check out this Report, including AFSC's Paul Shannon, Carlos and Mélida Arredondo, Military Families Speak Out, Music from Vietnam Veteran Chuck Williams and proof of how Citizen Rupert's Fox News distorted the event.

We weren't hired for this year's anniversary vigil, even after finding our own sponsor to pay the expenses! ...And it was pathetic!!! A dinky amplifier laid on the ground, maybe twenty people attended, and nobody cared. Feel-good activism that doesn't even feel good.

We had 200 people last year, even in pouring cold rain! Way to go, meek people! You go. You just ignore cultural realities, stand on your principles ...and help keep Halliburton going strong.

   
 

Field-Test:
Acoustic Artillery

3/14/09 -Freeman Z was invited to help evalute sound equipment for The Smedey Butler Brigade, a local chapter of the national Veterans for Peace.

"The Smedleys," says Freeman, "need a self-contained, portable PA system for their public events. So we took a prospective unit out for a test drive, to see whether it's right for their needs. There's a lot to consider. ...We're dealing with concepts of acoustics and numbers. But the bottom line is, if it sounds good, it is good!"

 

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