....las vegas indymedia is in danger of losing this site! the good folks in pennsylvania are soon preparing to change their server situation. this seems to mean that this site is in grave danger of losing its host. i have had an email from the administrator of the server that hosts this website. i was informed that they are going to move their webservers and this site may NOT make the cut. they feel that there is not enough interest in las vegas for lvimc. if that is actually the case then the point is moot. on the other hand, if this is NOT the case, people in vegas who ARE concerned about this site need to get together and DO something about it? now it's my overstanding that there are no current lvimc meetings. if there is any desire to continue this thing, those who are concerned should seriously consider doing something EFFECTIVE about it!

peace, jeffrey p

.... it seems like y'all ain't payin' tenshun! this site is, in all likelyhood, going to GO AWAY! IF there is ANY interest in previnting this from happening y'all had better get it together and find a NEW home for it. if LVIMC still exists in any way, shape or form whomever is concerned should definately have a meeting. is ANYONE there?!

peace, jp

i'm here. anyone else?

Like the title sez, jp, am here, too, even if I don't stop in that often these days.

BTW, jp, just gimme a buzz if and when ya wanna set up an lvimc meetin'.

I think you've got my Hotmail and MySpace addies, so drop me a line when ya can.

I wanna thank Las Vegas Indymedia for allowing me the chance to vent, to have some form of catharsis over the years. I'm sure most of you only know this side of me ...

http://www.thecomicshop.com.au/covers/ukannuals/ukann-incredible-hulk-1979.jpg

http://www.amazingcomics.it/hulk_1.jpg

... and I'm not going to apologize. Fact is, I have every right to be pissed off AND SO DO YOU, GIVEN TODAY'S HEADLINES ...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/26/99/

Published on Monday, March 26, 2007 by Politico.com
Senate GOP Says No to Al Gore-Global Warming Concert at Capitol
by John Bresnahan

... late Friday afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tried to get Senate Republicans to allow former Vice President Al Gore to stage a global warming concert on Capitol grounds. But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) objected to Reid’s request, and the resolution authorizing the concert, for now, remains stuck in the Rules and Administration Committee.

... if McConnell won't let someone as placid and tepid as Gore have a forum, well, to quote Jack Nicholson, wait'll they get a load of ME ... and NO, the answer is NOT to don't worry/be happy either. Case in point ...

http://www.alternet.org/movies/49591/

Oprah's 'Secret' Could Be Your Downfall
By Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. Posted March 26, 2007.

If you are one of like three people left who haven't heard about The Secret -- come on, it was even on Oprah -- let me explain. Australian talk show producer Rhonda Byrne read The Science of Getting Rich, a book written in 1910 by Wallace D. Wattles, in her darkest hour and discovered what she believes is the essential truth -- that "your current thoughts are creating your future life. Your thoughts become things." Translation: if you are thinking about how bad your life is, bad things will continue to happen; if you start thinking about great things, they will inevitably manifest ...

... there is sound research that confirms that envisioning yourself succeeding has a real impact on your performance, sports being the most prescient example. At a time when a violent, morally-messy war is going on four years and the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, who doesn't need a good dose of wide-eyed idealism? But idealism is not all the fast-talking "experts" behind The Secret are dishing out. They are also articulating a dangerous message ...

... the distraction that promoters of The Secret are creating from the very real, systemic issues undergirding poverty. The book boldly and ignorantly states, "The only reason any person does not have enough money is because they are blocking money from coming to them with their thoughts." Tell that to the 36 million Americans living in poverty. Even worse, tell that to the 3 billion people worldwide who live on less that $2 a day. If The Secret's logic is to be believed, then those who are hungry are not envisioning food hard enough, those without running water aren't imagining the feeling of satiation with enough enthusiasm. It doesn't matter if you are born in the Sudan or San Francisco, according to The Secret's catch-all claim; you can always fantasize your way into "massive wealth." This point of view neglects the effects of government policy, class, race, gender, geography, and a host of other systemic influences on the kind of wealth -- and life -- one is able to create. It is the good ol' American Dream delusion supersized into ridiculousness. Now you don't even have to work for your wealth, you just have to sit back and dream it into existence. No matter if you are from a poor family, living in a war zone, or a thousand miles from the nearest medical clinic.

... can we say, pure evil ..? For the record, this is why I don't need the password for this site. I'm black, homeless, unemployed and don't have the time to help administer a site for a town I haven't lived anywhere near for almost a year now. It's not an instance of "walking the talk" either. To counter this bullshit Oprah's putting on a pedestal, it takes two things to do anything in life, desire and the means, and if you're lacking in either, you're fucked. And in case you don't know, an overabundance of desire will not magically compensate for a lack of means.

I REPEAT: An overabundance of desire will NOT magically compensate for a lack of means.

If Las Vegas Indymedia is going to survive, somebody better come up off of the means, 'cause the desire's already there--in spades ... I've seen it; I've seen firsthand how hard all y'all work and how you turned a one-horse gambling town into yet another spot for anti-war protests to occur when such a thing was UNheard of during the Rat Pack/Elvis days of Vegas. I'm proud of you people, for what it's worth. I wish I could do more, but I don't even own my own computer, and when your biggest dream is to wait out a year-long waiting list for some subsidized housing in the ghetto of Seattle, you KNOW yo' ass is fucked up ...

http://www.saablofton.org/

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1024-30.htm

Published on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Let’s Challenge TV’s Lockout of Progressives
by Jeff Cohen

Martin Luther King Jr. often referred to 11am on Sunday as “the most segregated hour in America” – his way of highlighting hypocrisy and racial exclusion in Christian churches.

Today on television, that hour remains a time of exclusion and discrimination. It’s the time that the high priests of Washington’s Beltway gather on TV to pontificate about politics.

Just as churches preached about brotherly love as they excluded African-Americans, TV’s beltway pundit shows preach about elections while typically excluding nearly half of the political spectrum – the progressive half.

With the winds of change threatening to blow open the 2006 election, I’ve been turning more and more to the Sunday morning politics shows. But I find the same old players, a narrow mix of tired pundits – and virtually no one sympathetic to the new winds raging.

These programs tend to feature solid rightwing pundits vs. waffling liberals – a spectrum no broader than from GE to GM. Viewers regularly see proud conservative advocates like George Will, Brit Hume, William Kristol and Robert Novak; we rarely see proud progressive advocates.

And it’s not just Sunday mornings. Evenings on cable news are also dominated by rightwing hosts – Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson, Glenn Beck, etc. -- with only Keith Olbermann offering any backtalk. And “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” has just hired as its Democratic pundit, Mike (telecom industry lobbyist against net neutrality) McCurry.

If the November elections sweep dozens of conservative incumbents out of Congress, it would be the perfect time for progressive activists to take on the conservative-leaning punditocracy and demand an opening up of the old boys’ club to new, progressive voices.

Activist groups like MoveOn.org have already taken action to expand TV punditry -- and media watch groups like FAIR and Media Matters have spent years documenting the discrimination against progressive viewpoints in TV news.

In my book “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media,” I offer an inside look at TV’s standard “debate” format that pits proud, aggressive conservatives against backpedaling, barely left-of center liberals. These narrow center-right disputes leave out policy proposals that are – or would be, if heard – hugely popular among middle-class Americans: universal healthcare, corporate responsibility, tax justice, fair trade.

When “our side” is represented by apologetic, retreating liberals, viewers get the mistaken impression that American progressives are weak, evasive and lacking in values and firm principles (especially in foreign policy). When “our side” is represented by corporate Democrats who feel the need to establish their Beltway credentials by deriding MoveOn or liberal bloggers or unions, it reinforces the notion that we – and not Team Bush – are extremists.

Progressives are mobilizing like never before -- through the Internet and small-dollar fundraising and independent media -- to change the faces of those who represent us on Capitol Hill and in government throughout the land. Isn’t it time we mobilized to change the faces of those who represent us in big media forums? We have a right to speak for ourselves to the American people day after day on what is still our country’s dominant medium, television – just like the O’Reillys, Hannitys, Falwells and Coulters.

If this election shakes up the corrupt, conservative political system, that should be our signal to take on the media system that has enabled the corruption to flourish.

Jeff Cohen is the founder of FAIR and author of “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media”

hi ...

i just saw that indie media las vegas may not make the cut and i just wanted to contribute my 2 cents ...

first, las vegas' scene is just beginning to wake up and get organized, we need this resource to help us stay informed ...

second, las vegas is CRITICAL to the national and global movement for peace and true dissemination of information -- not does EVERYONE from the united states come to Las Vegas, but EVERYONE FROM THE WORLD comes to Las Vegas.

I realize we need to do more to mobilize ourselves and the people here, but we are doing it ... Las Vegas is a critical player in the next presidential election and impacts the world as visitors from all over can be impacted by the demonstrations and public statements we make here.

thank you for considering it ... PLEASE do what you can to help us do what we are all trying to do together. Personally, I just moved here and have not yet plugged totally into the movement here and just found out about IndyMedia here in Las Vegas at the March 17th public witness at the federal building.

Thank you.
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'