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By Terry McMoore | March 31, 2007 |
It took a bitterly fought lawsuit brought by the New York Times to get the Fire Department of New York to release some of its dispatch tapes from 9/11. The NYT requested the tapes in early 2002, got denied, and went to court. When the FDNY lost the fight three and a half years later, on 12 August 2005 it made available 23 CDs, almost all containing audio of radio dispatches, plus transcripts of oral histories and some other text. The NYT posted about one-quarter to one-third of the audio. The Memory Hole also received the discs due to its freedom of information request, and we’re posting all of them.
Twenty-one of the CDs are audio CDs. The Memory Hole has ripped the audio into MP3 files and posted them at the Internet Archive. Each one lasts 44 to 47 minutes. The link below will open each MP3 (64 Kbps). «Read the rest of this article»
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By leftymathprof | March 31, 2007 |
The Compass IV Conference will be held April 13-14, 2007 at the Cohn Adult Learning Center in West Nashville. This is THE statewide progressive gathering of the year in Tennessee. You don’t want to miss it!
This two-day gathering of progressives from around the state will feature networking, workshops, skill trainings, films, live music, the TAP Long Haul Awards and Silent Auction plus other events. The keynote speakers are David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government – and How We Take It Back, and Paul Waldman, author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success.
Registration prices go up April 7, so be sure to register before then. Here are links to TAP’s main web page, the conference schedule, and conference registration.
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