Saturday Session with Bishop

STOP ACTA & TPP

Stop ACTA & TPP! - Never use trade agreements to mess with the Internet!

They tried to push internet censorship through Congress and we stopped them with our STOP SOPA/PIPA protests. But the companies behind SOPA & PIPA have a backup plan: secretive trade agreements like ACTA & TPP. If we can't stop these backroom deals, the internet's future belongs to SOPA's backers. DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO SPREAD THE WORD, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES, YELL FROM THE STREET CORNERS, ALL OF IT! You can start by using the form below to send a message. Get more detail from KILLACTA.org

I urge you to vote no on ACTA and to communicate its severe problems to your colleagues. ACTA's vague language locks us into obsolete copyright and patent laws, preventing democracies from updating their laws to unlock new economic and social opportunities.It criminalizes harmless remixes by ordinary users if they achieve 'a commercial scale' (art 2.14.1) which many amateur videos do on sites like Youtube. And it criminalizes legitimate websites by making them responsible for user behavior ('aiding and abetting' art 2.14.4).Worse, it permanently bypasses the democratic process by empowering the 'ACTA Committee' to 'propose amendments to [ACTA]' without your approval. (art 6.4) In other words, it's impossible to know what you're voting for.The global movement against the US law SOPA showed that internet freedom is a crucial issue which belongs in the legislative process of each country. You should view ACTA as an attempt by a handful of companies to circumvent the democratic process, and you should vote against it.Thank you. Please reply if you have any questions.

Saturday Session with Bishop

April 10, 2010

Podcast Update

If you missed out on the abbreviated show tonight, you missed out on quite a bit. You can catch the interview with US Army Veteran Adam Eppinger (mp3) about the recent Wikileaks release.

Also, Libertarian Comedian Tim Slagle joined the show (mp3) to make us laugh when there is so much to cry about.

On the show

Your three hours of influence from Saturday Session with Bishop ~~can be heard from 4 - 7p CST~~ has been cut in half because of NASCAR©. Tune in online at WMAY dot com to hear News on the march, a former soldiers' account about the rules of engagement, and comedian Tim Slagle will bring some libertarian humor to the show at 5p. You can also catch live streaming video of what is happening inside the studio from Bishop's web cam (only available from 4 - 5:30p CST).

News on the March

Isn't April "Alcohol Awareness" month? Apparently there's some beef between governors about wanting April to be "Confederate History Month." Also, why is Utah seizing up Federal land? Hate-triot Altert! Just how involved were undercover FBI agents in taking down the Hutaree? Have you heard about the rEVOLution in the Asian country of Kyrgyzstan? Tyranny has a way of being equalized by those who are oppressed, and the Kyrgyz experiment goes to show just that. Find out the latest. Also, a TV station was raided by protesters in Thailand.

He was there during the invasion

Earlier this week there was a video leaked showing a US helicopter perspective attacking, what turned out to be, two prominent Iraqi reporters. This video was leaked by Wikileaks.org, a growing online service allowing whistle-blowers to have direct contact with muckrakers on a completely anonymous basis. US Army Veteran Adam Eppinger, who spent over 20 months in Iraq and Afghanistan during the initial invasions, joins the show to provide a better understanding into the soldiers mentality in the heat of battle and how the Rule of Engagement are flexible in war.

Seriously, if you can't laugh, you'll go crazy

Then, Libertarian comedian Tim Slagle joins the show again to try and make us laugh about the insanity of big government, centralized power, and tyranny that is no longer hiding in the shadows. Read Tim's articles at BigGovernment.com. Also, catch Tim at Mason City Limits for a special Libertarian fundraiser that is sure to be a friggin' blast! Tim appears at Mason City April 16 and 17.

Contact

Greg Bishop can be contacted many different ways. Check out Bishop's Google Profile to get links and phone numbers. To call Saturday Session on WMAY, dial 217.629.7970 or email bishop@wmay.com. You can also join the video chat room with live streaming video (available during the show, 4 to 7p 5:30p CST, only). As always, you can check out some of the past shows at the Saturday Session streaming channel from 970 WMAY, The News and Talk of Springfield.