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Centuries after a revolution, in the name of democracy , and it's still 'the king can do no wrong.' Or as Richard Nixon put it, "When the President does it, that makes it legal." Clearly, if George W. Bush has studied anything, it's Nixon. From secret prisons to legalized torture; from renditions abroad to wiretaps at home; from illegal wars to ruinous occupations, crimes - as in violations of both U.S. and International laws - have become presidential prerogatives.

This news show airs weekly on Freak Radio, Friday mornings 10-12 noon, broadcasting news and opinion from independent media worldwide, focused on indymedia sites but also drawing from other websites. This week we heard audio from KBOO, KBCS, Radio4All, AudioPort, and indymedia sites indybay, santa cruz IMC, indymedia UK, san diego IMC, and more

Interview about the Berkeley tree sit and the police siege.

The Stand-off between tree sitters and university police at the Oak Grove in Berkeley has continued unabated for more than a week. (4:10 MP3)

Scott Key, president of Peace Fresno explains what happened at the protest outside the Radisson Hotel in downtown Fresno. 1:11 minute

Camille is a member of Peace Fresno

Here is a short clip of Saint Gabriel's Celestial Brass Band.

San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano's Speech

Hilda Sarkisian tells how CIGNA let her daughter Nataline die.

Earth First! Radio News is a No Compromise weekly radio program produced at Free Radio Santa Cruz. Focussing on Direct-Action and Bio-diversity, EF! Radio provides Eco-action and activist news, calls-to-action, updates and commentary on current events worldwide. Stories from Earth First!, Sea Shepherd International, Earth Liberation Front, Animal Liberation Front, Greenpeace, Canopy Action Network and actions by many other movements and local groups that defend Mother Earth are included with news about endangered animals, plants and ecosystems. Earth First! Radio is broadcast live from Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM, Thursday at 9:00 pm. Free Radio Santa Cruz is live on the Internet at http://www.freakradio.org with streaming mp3 up to 128 Kbs.

This news show airs weekly on Freak Radio, Friday mornings 10-12 noon, broadcasting news and opinion from independent media worldwide, focused on indymedia sites but also drawing from other websites. This week we heard audio from KBOO, Radio4All, Puerto Rico Indymedia, Portland Indymedia,

At the beginning of the primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton was the inevitable candidate, and even her staunchest opponents all but conceded her victory in November, given the Clinton name, the aura of an ex-president, a wealth of funding, and a ready organization at the highest levels of the Democratic Party.

On Wednesday night the University of Berkeley held a press conference to respond to the judges ruling. This 35 minute audio file contains the complete content of the press conference. The left channel is from the audio board, and the right channel contains the rooms audio - some questions may be difficult to hear as a result.

While GI William Shearer was serving in Iraq, he began having serious problems in his personal life. Shearer felt he got no support from the Army for dealing with those problems and began to feel that he was only a body to the military. When he returned home, his marriage had fallen apart and he was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Again, he felt that he received no meaningful help from the Army, and decided to find away to get out. Shearer talked with Courage to Resist from his home in Florida. (19:42)

On Tuesday morning, the University of California at Berkeley began the process of dismantling the support structures including platforms and traverse cable that had been used by the Berkeley tree-sitters who have occupied the Oak Grove for the past 18 months. The tree-sitters are attempting to stop the University from leveling the grove for a planned sports training facility.

Those who expect politicians to ease this problem are dreaming, as shown by the rejection of a recent bill seeking a windfall profits tax on oil companies in the Senate. Exxon, for example, made more money in the last several quarters than any corporation in the history of business. Will the politicians who accepted millions from the likes of them choke this golden goose?

Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager presided over the first two same-gender marriages in his office at 9am this morning. on average, the County of Santa Clara Clerk-Recorder's office performs 12 marriages a day, but on this day, that number had already been surpassed by noon. Rose Ketabchi filed this report from San Jose. (4.04)

Audio collage on sharing music in the digital age.

Interview with John Anderson on Pro-IP Act H.R. 4279 that recently passed the house and ACTA to create a new global standard for intellectual property rights enforcement.

The heat and light of politics does not reflect well on the inner sanctums of the Black Church, which, since its inception during the hellish depths of American slavery, had to speak in voices of pain, bitterness, truth and hope, in order to have any relevance to a people drowning in a sea of hopelessness.