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  Santa Cruz, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz was colonized in the mid-1700s by the Spanish, who established both a mission (Mission Santa Cruz) and a secular settlement named Branciforte.
Santa Cruz is also notable for the extensive damage it suffered during the October 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which leveled the mostly unreinforced-brick downtown, killing five people.
Santa Cruz is also home to KSCO 1080 AM, one of the last independent commercial radio stations in the country.
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 Encyclopedia: Santa Cruz, California   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The Santa Cruz, Big Trees and Pacific Railway is a diesel-powered tourist operation in Northern California, with just over eight miles of trackage between Olympia, CA and an interchange with the Union Pacific (formerly Southern Pacific) at the Santa Cruz Wye.
The Santa Clarita Valley is part of the Santa Clara River valley in California, squeezed between the San Gabriel and Santa Susana Mountains to the South and the Sierra Pelona/Liebre Mountains/Topatopa Mountains to the North.
Santa Cruz County, California CITY (Citytv Toronto) is a television station based in Toronto, Ontario.
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 Free Radio Santa Cruz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Radio Santa Cruz (FRSC) is a pirate radio station in Santa Cruz, California.
It has been on the air since the mid-1990s and was raided by the FCC on September 29, 2005 transmitting again within 48 hours of the raid at 101.1 FM.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_Radio_Santa_Cruz   (139 words)

  
 Internet radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because the radio signal is relayed over the Internet, it is possible to access the stations from anywhere in the world—for example, to listen to an Australian radio station from Europe or America.
Radio HK was created by Norman Hajjar and the Hajjar/Kaufman New Media Lab, an advertising agency in Marina del Rey, California.
Tuning in to a broadcast like a traditional radio is not possible on internet, so finding different broadcasts has to be done with a search-engine or a website that collects on-line radio broadcasts.
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 One Hundred New Pirate Radio Stations… : LA IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Free Radio Olympia, in Wa., was served with a “Notice of Apparent Liability” in the summer of 2002, which was delivered personally to the place of broadcast by an FCC field agent.
Free micro-radio offers the community a means for outreach to communicate, organize, and unify." Eve from FRSC said, “Freedom of speech, equal assess to the airwaves and diverse voices” made indy radio important.
Radio, especially, is an interesting case, because ultimately the radio spectrum is a resource, and like all resources, access to it must be controlled to ensure that the federal government can commandeer it when necessary for “national security” or military superiority.
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 [IMC-Audio] Fw: Feds raid Santa Cruz pirate radio station
We'll get more donations." Free Radio, which counts on contributions to air its broadcasts featuring music, poetry and political views, proudly proclaims on its Web site that its commercial-free broadcasts are "in defiance of federal regulations." The volunteers who run the operation vow the silence will be temporary.
Kristen Phillips-Matson of Live Oak, a Free Radio listener and full-time mom who brought her toddler daughter with her, said she was there to ask agents the tough questions not asked by the mainstream media.
Duran, Free Radio's programmer, said the collective is comprised mostly of "working-class people." A 40-year-old single parent who has at times been homeless, he said he helped launch the station almost 10 years ago with members of Food Not Bombs and others.
lists.indymedia.org /pipermail/imc-audio/2004-September/0930-6p.html   (943 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | Longest-Standing Pirate Radio Station Free Radio Santa Cruz Shut Down by FCC
Pirate radio station Free Radio Santa Cruz which had been operating without a license for nearly 10 years, was raided yesterday for the first time and shut down.
Free Radio Santa Cruz has been on the air, operating without a license for nearly 10 years and has never been raided before yesterday.
This outlet that we had for ten years in Santa Cruz to be able to communicate with each other, share ideas, talk about politics and things that are just not being talked about in mainstream news and corporate controlled media.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/09/30/1411235   (1725 words)

  
 Free Press : Councilmen back pirate radio station against FCC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
SANTA CRUZ — The airwave pirates of Free Radio Santa Cruz-96.3 FM often jab the City Council for “anti-poor” policies.
Free Radio broadcaster Robert “Skidmark Bob” Duran said previous council support seemed to give the station more clout in dealing with the federal government.
While the station and the council have dramatically different views about politics in Santa Cruz, council members have been invited to air their opinions on the station.
www.freepress.net /news/article.php?id=1017   (733 words)

  
 DIYmedia.net - Free Radio - A Documentary Video
He once did a story for his station on Stephen Dunifer and Free Radio Berkeley and was intrigued by the concept of unlicensed broadcasting.
Also included are perspectives on the movement from other instrumentals like Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley, "Captain Fred" of Berkeley Liberation Radio, "Skidmark Bob" from Free Radio Santa Cruz, and two members of Free Radio Austin - just to mention a few from an incredibly diverse cast of rogue radio personalities.
Free speech is all about protecting all kinds of speech, especially the most unpopular speech," he says.
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Raid degli agenti federali a Free radio Santa Cruz
FRSC stava trasmettendo un'intervista pre-programmata quando il segnale è stato interrotto.
This is not free speech, but hooliganism of the lowest form, wrthy of nothing but contempt for the doers, and those they support.
www.indymedia.org /it/2004/10/111923.shtml   (1791 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Free Radio Santa Cruz
It's a happy situation for FRSC volunteers like Red Momma and her 10-year-old son, DJ Galaxy, who's now free to tear it up on the turntables without fear of being raided and charged with broadcasting without a license, since all they're doing is streaming content over the web, which is perfectly legal.
FRSC was the first station in the Cruz to broadcast Democracy Now, which they would record on cassette from KPFA and then play on the air.
And then there were the folks behind Free Vermont Radio who, when their public radio station arbitrarily decided to go all classical, encouraged listeners to send their pledges to an escrow account which would be held onto until the programmers came to their senses, which they eventually did.
www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/12.08.04/freeradio-0450.html   (1233 words)

  
 FCC Steals the Voice of the Poor BECKY JOHNSON / Street Spirit v.10, n.11 November 2004 1nov04   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
On the morning of September 29, a young woman was leaving her home in Santa Cruz to go to an early class when she saw this man "poking around the bushes." She asked him if he needed help.
In fact, the impetus for starting up a micro-broadcasting radio station began in 1996 when a Santa Cruz chapter of Food Not Bombs was suffering from police harassment, and the organizers couldn't get traditional media to cover the issue.
Free Radio Santa Cruz has a policy of taking all calls placed from a holding cell at the jail and broadcasting them on the air live.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/2004/FCC-Robs-Pirate1nov04.htm   (1605 words)

  
 Research Contents
A Free Radio stations chances of being busted are usually greater the closer they are to an FCC field office and the zeal of local licensed broadcasters in filing complaints.
Successful free radio stations seem to have variations on the European pirate radio model, depending on what the particular situation is. The traditional model involves a core group of organizers who attract a larger group of announcers and supporters.
Free Radio broadcasters who have been shutdown or barred from further broadcasting have toured the country lecturing and organizing people to start their own radio stations, both legal and illegal.
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 TheKSBWChannel.com - News - Pirate Radio Station Continues To Sound Off After 10 Years
Free Radio Santa Cruz FM 101.1 has been flouting the FCC for the past 10 years.
It is made up of a diverse group of voices in Santa Cruz who sound off on a 35-watt radio station somewhere in their city.
Radio Free Santa Cruz says information is what is important in its programming, including stories about the homeless and prison life.
www.theksbwchannel.com /news/3561869/detail.html   (339 words)

  
 MA News Kiosk - Free Radio Santa Cruz 96.3 FM Visited by FCC; Stays On Air in Defiance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At approximately 4:00 pm January 14, 2000, the studio of FRSC 96.3 fm was visited by William R. Zears from the FCC's San Francisco field office.
FRSC programmer V-Man spotted Zears in the driveway of the house where the 40 watt station broadcasts from.
The agent saw V-man's FREE RADIO SANTA CRUZ 96.3 FM silkscreened sweatshirt and responded, "This must be where it is." Zears, who followed V-Man to the porch, was then informed that he was trespassing and told to leave the property.
www.infoshop.org /news5/radio1.html   (649 words)

  
 Homeless United for Friendship and Freedom - Santa Cruz, California, USA
HUFF is Santa Cruz's oldest and most stubbornly persistent grassroots homeless advocacy group.
We make trouble for the powers that be, who perpetrate criminal human rights abuses such as the "blanket ban": a law prohibiting homeless mothers and children from covering up with a blanket between the hours of 11 p.m.
Free Radio Santa Cruz is also reportedly picked up by pirate broadcasters and relayed at 101.1 FM.
www.huffsantacruz.org   (1128 words)

  
 MetroActive | MetroSantaCruz | Pirate Radio
Free Radio Berkeley founder Stephen Dunifer, who has helped accelerate the micro-radio movement by offering low-cost transmitters and kits for sale, estimates that several hundred low-power stations, each operating at less than 100 watts, are broadcasting around the country.
He attributes the popularity of free radio to a failure of licensed broadcasters to serve the public interest.
While the FCC argues that "pirate" radio broadcasts do "irreparable harm" to the public, station operators claim the public is on their side.
www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/02.01.96/radio-9605.html   (2219 words)

  
 No more Free Radio Santa Cruz | Wikinerds Portal
FRSC was transmitting at 101.1MHz FM in the Santa Cruz town and also to the world via the Internet by using streaming technology.
Santa Cruz is located in California, United States of America.
Santa Cruz means holy cross in Spanish and it was named as such by Spanish explorer Don Gaspar de Portola who discovered the land in 1769.
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 One Hundred New Pirate Radio Stations… : Miami IMC
I wondered what FRSC volunteers, and other microradio, or “pirate,” radio station volunteers, were feeling about this raid.
DJ Questionmark, from Free Radio Olympia (FRO), in Wa., said he was not surprised by the raids, nor was DJ Megawatti from FRO.
DJ Megawatti from FRO responded that she thought perhaps FRSC was targeted because it had been on the air longer than most other microradio stations in the movement.
miami.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=330   (3100 words)

  
 Free Radio Santa Cruz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Free Radio Santa Cruz -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Free Radio Santa Cruz is a pirate (A communication system based on broadcasting electromagnetic waves) radio station that operates in (Click link for more info and facts about Santa Cruz, California) Santa Cruz, California.
After almost 10 years of broadcasting it was raided by (An independent governmeent agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite) FCC.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fr/Free_Radio_Santa_Cruz.htm   (135 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.09.30 - Wooo HOOO! Free radio Santa Cruz is BACK!
Free Radio Santa Cruz has fixed their live stream and are now back on the internet.
The first show to go back on the air, ironically was free speech radio news, the very show that had been playing that the FCC turned off yesterday morning.
Free Radio Santa Cruz does offer high quality fund raising events however, this is not enough at this time.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/09/298535.shtml   (284 words)

  
 portland imc - 2004.09.29 - Free Radio Santa Cruz RAIDED; Equipment Siezed - Citizens Protest!
FRSC 101.1 FM, was airing a pre-programed interview with Howard Zinn when the listeners of FRSC heard the sound static due to the first ever FCC raid on station in almost 10 years of broadcasting for the Santa Cruz community and listeners around the world via online streaming.
FRSC has received strong support from members of the community, including the Santa Cruz City Council.
150-200 Santa Cruz residents showed up in short order to protest the actions of the FCC, most of them listeners, and many of whom had taken the time to scrawl a brief message of their own on a sign that they brandished in the face of this atrocity.
portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/09/298442.shtml   (329 words)

  
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Phil Free is primarilly a protest song writer/singer spending most of his career working for groups like Earth First!, Food Not Bombs, IWW, Copwatch, Industrial Hemp,Medical Marijuana, and Micro radio.
With Jus Kiddin Phil was one of the founders of Free Radio Santa Cruz, the 2nd longest running pirate radio station in the country going on 10yrs 24/7.
Phil Free, have taken their political activism to the streets in recent years, pushing the boundaries of free speech and making enemies of quite a few merchants.
philfree.indiegroup.com   (276 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Web radio Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Web radio is a radio re-broadcasting service one can receive via the Internet.
Because the radio signal is relayed over the Internet through the World Wide Web, it is possible to access the stations f...
Web radio (or Internet radio) is a radio re-broadcasting service one can receive via the Internet.
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 Free Radio Santa Cruz: Radio Free Petaluma interview : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Free Radio Santa Cruz: Radio Free Petaluma interview : SF Bay Area Indymedia
Interview with Ed from Radio Free Petaluma an Unlicensed Microradio station at 95.5fm in California.
Free Radio Santa Cruz has been on the air for over ten years without a license.
www.indybay.org /news/2005/10/1777769.php   (143 words)

  
 Free Radio San Diego 96.9FM
Free Radio San Diego 96.9FM (FRSD) is San Diego's oldest running, and most notorious unlicensed radio broadcaster.
It's free for us to design all kinds of goofy stuff, so don't be suprised if you see some 96.9FM golf club covers.
We'll be there until 2:00am, so feel free to strike up a conversation with anyone, ask any questions you've been dying to know, and of course watch the ever so beautiful Ishala belly dancers.
www.pirate969.org   (1915 words)

  
 GammaBlaBlog :: Free Radio Santa Cruz Raided by Federal Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At 8:20 AM on Wednesday, September 29, armed US Marshals and FCC Agents (the US radio police) raided the house from which Free Radio Santa Cruz broadcasts.
The target was Free Radio Santa Cruz, an FM micro-station boasting 35 to 40 watts of power and offering round-the-clock music, activism and other local programming, in addition to such national programming as Radio Pacifica’s “Democracy Now'’–; all in defiance of federal licensing laws.
The complaint sought forfeiture of radio station equipment, which radio operators say is valued at $5,000.
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 Reclaim the Media
On Wednesday September 29th at 9:20 AM armed federal marshalls and FCC agents served a warrant at the studio of Free Radio Santa Cruz.
It's been three days since the federal government silenced Free Radio Santa Cruz.
To donate through a safe and secure credit card transaction visit http://www.freakradio.org/donate or make checks payable to "Free Radio Santa Cruz", or simply "FRSC." Our address is PO Box 7507 Santa Cruz, CA 95061.
www.reclaimthemedia.org /print.php?story=04/10/02/1228601   (631 words)

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