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

June 26, 2010

Despite a busy week and a quick jaunt to Chicago for a show, your three hours of influence is on! Tune in online at WMAY dot com from 4 to 7pm CST for Saturday Session with Bishop. You can catch live streaming video of what is happening inside the studio from Bishop's web cam (only available from 4 - 7p CST). You too can take part in the conversation with Saturday Session by calling 217.629.7970 or emailing Bishop@wmay.com

News on the march

With leaks again on Session's focus this week (Wikileaks and Big Slick in the Gulf), a need to understand that the war in Afghanistan is a lost cause, and the G20 summit tearing apart the freedoms of the world's people, News on the march will start us off! Catch the stories you may have missed from throughout the week that are of grave importance! Get the stories you may have missed with "Bishop's Shared Items" ----->

Big Slick keeps a leakin'

Two months and one week have gone by and she is still gushing. Why are people still lined up at BP gas stations? Is that just a symptom of our ever increasing need for oil? How did that 6 month moratorium go there, Mr. President? Why is BP not being charged with criminal negligence? Was there a story earlier this week about Oil Rain? Oh boy! It just keeps getting worse!

Defending leaks

Keeping a close eye on the Wikileaks situation, find out where founder Julian Assange's latest attempts to protect the accused leaker are ending up. Also, with the Pentagon wanting to talk with Assagne, will he be coming back to the states ... ever? Assange has hinted at even more devastating releases soon to come. Will this open sourced information be what turns people against the war and the oppressive war state?

The war is f**ked

The news this week was focused on the ousting of Afghan War Gen. Stanley McChrystal over an article that appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. The mainstream buzz focused on some of the choice descriptions McChrystal and his staff used about administration officials. But what about the war that has now lasted longer than the Vietnam War? Are tax-payer dollars going to fund the terrorists we proclaim to be over their fighting?

The Group of 20

The G8 summit was yesterday. Today, the G20 meets to discuss how more centralization will be good for the world's economy. All of this globalization being guided from above meanwhile those below are being check for weapons by security forces carrying thousands of dollars of weapons around in public. Why is the G20 summit on such great lock down? What do they really fear?

TO MANY QUESTIONS AND NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS!

Contacting Bishop

Greg Bishop can be contacted many different ways. Check out Bishop's Google Profile (after Session's conversation with Katherine, who knows how much bigger Google will get) 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 CST, only)