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Perpetual static
New infighting continues KPFA's long march toward meltdown.
By A.C. Thompson

The other insurgents
Iraqi labor unions resist US designs on that country's oil.
By Sadaf Siddique

French connection
Renowned economist contrasts European resistance with American disconnect.
By Tim Redmond

Is Pride political?
KRON decision to avoid Ammiano shows how accepted queer life has become.
By Tim Kingston

Neighborhood Business: A league of its own
The Albany Bowl celebrates a half century of Olympic proportions.
By Ben Bush

Neighborhood Business: Biztips
Openings, closings, and other life changes on the small-business scene.

Editorial: Aggregate carefully

Opinion: The spirit of Stonewall
By Tommi Avicolli Mecca

This month in Lit

Lit: Marginalia
Becoming a (hu)man
By Paul Reidinger

Lit: Queer souls
From Gogol to Prufrock, a young writer finds victims of a common passion
By Masha Gutkin

Lit: Laughter filled with rage
Two AIDS writers divided by a common crisis
By Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Bernstein Sycamore

Lit: The serpent
In the graphic novel Epileptic, disease becomes "another way of telling stories"
By Kate Isenberg

Lit: House hunter
Bookmania!
By Michelle Tea

Lit: Reviews

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Community Internet: Broadband as a Public Utility
From Freepress.net: Hundreds of cities and towns are launching Community Internet systems that promise universal, affordable access to high-speed broadband services.
Now telecom and cable lobbyists are pushing a federal bill that would outlaw Community Internet and municipal broadband everywhere.
Stop this disastrous bill. Send a letter to Congress now.

Journalists under fire
Press freedom alerts, journalists in high risk zones, digests from the frontlines of the free press around the globe, and links to national and international organizations working for press freedom

Freedom of information
Alerts, news and commentary on sunshine, open government and first amendment issues.