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

July 24, 2010

After traveling to the desert and back, Saturday Session is on. Be sure to tune in for your three hours of influence only on WMAY dot com from 4 to 7 CST. Don't forget, you can also join the chat room with live streaming video with Saturday Session's tiny chat room (available from 4 to 7 CST only).

Download the MP3 of July 24th's Session here and don't forget to watch all the very moving daily video blogs captured on the road with Free Beer and Hot Wings' Producer Joe and Bishop.

Free Lyndsay?

For the past week, Bishop traveled with Producer Joe Gasmann of The Free Beer and Hot Wings Morning Show to document probably one of the most elaborate and ridiculously absurd radio stunts the world has ever known. Though the name of the stunt changed many times, it essentially was the Producer Joe Double Rainbow Lindsay Lohan Freedom Trip.

Here's the premise: Producer Joe would drive in a 1995 Dodge Caravan, with no AC and painted with logos from companies that sponsored the trip, all the way across the country to try to free Lindsay Lohan from her jail sentence. On the way producer Joe would pick up Bear, the crazy double rainbow guy, and eventually make it to Los Angeles. The main purpose of going to L.A. was to make the media spectacle surrounding Lohan's turning herself in even more ridiculous with Producer Joe acting like her biggest fan but the trip alone made for an incredible story!

Well, everything went off without a hitch, and hours upon hours of footage were captured. You can see daily video blogs online at Free Beer and Hot Wings' website (caution, most of the videos have strong and offensive language). The journey through the heart of American and across the blazing desert with no AC is condensed for you to see what it was really like in the car and around various scenes. After a week and 1 day of traveling to meet a viral video character and to parade outside a Beverly Hills Court House, it is time to get back to reality.

News on the March

The past week's news flew by so fast. After de-programming 60-plus hours of road from his visual cortex, Bishop will give you an overview of some of the things you may have missed out on from the last 7 days. News on the march is a compilation of stories that may have been under-covered, especially as the mainstream continues it's focus on the scandalous behavior of post-teen starlets and professional athletes. Be sure to catch all the stories Bishop covers (and some there just is no time for) with Bishop's Shared Items through Google Reader.

Free Press

Saturday Session will surely continue to discuss the issues of the first amendment. In particular, the importance of the free press. Everyone is a citizen journalist. Everyone has the right to be the press and to get up front a news conferences with cameras in politicos faces or to keep a watchful eye on law enforcement. Everyone must do these things, in order for true freedom. If you don't have the time to do it, support a local organization that does have the time, resource and patience to do it.

Turn on Saturday Session for the latest developments on the assault of a truly free press and why it is important to act now. Granted, the past few generations' media realities have been primarily controlled by corporate media, but it is not too late to counteract the poor attentive public with rich local and/or independent media content. The internet is a very useful resource ... that is sadly also under attack.

Community Access

Tonight, the Access 4 Producer's Group is holding another fundraiser in the upstairs at Broadway Nights in Springfield. Be sure to swing by for the Runway Show/Art Exhibit/Concert/Comedy Show tonight at 210 Broadway in Springfield and also support community public access. Hopefully Saturday Session will hear from Access 4 organizer Ted Keylon

Contact

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)