Non Pacifica Programming

Who's in your genes? / Madison Powers ; produced by Gregg McVicar.

Series which explores how changes in communication and information technologies are encroaching upon the individuals right to privacy.|WHO'S IN YOUR GENES? / Madison Powers| produced by Gregg McVicar. SERIES: Computers, freedom, and privacy| no.
Panel discusses the tensions between an individual's right to privacy and the interests of third parties. Employers may someday screen job applicants using genetic information, insurance companies will desire to gather and store samples which one day may reveal more about us than they do now, and how police are building DNA forensic data banks.

Free speech and the public telephone network / Jerry Berman ; produced by Gregg McVicar.

Series which explores how changes in communication and information technologies are encroaching upon the individuals right to privacy.|FREE SPEECH AND THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE NETWORK / Jerry Berman| produced by Gregg McVicar. SERIES: Computers, freedom, and privacy| no.
Panel discussion on how free speech principles of open access, diversity, and nondiscrimination might prevail if Telcos becomes an information provider. They explore the rules for safeguards and local loop competition, and how good infrastructure design can advance Frist Amendment values.

Who logs on? / Robert Lucky ; produced by Gregg McVicar.

Series which explores how changes in communication and information technologies are encroaching upon the individuals right to privacy.|WHO LOGS ON? / Robert Lucky| produced by Gregg McVicar. - SERIES: Computers, freedom, and privacy| no.
Panel discusses the potential impact of high capacity optical fiber, which will become available to homes in the coming decade. These technologies will introduce a whole range of services, from video telephones to on-line shopping. The panel asks who will have access to this network, who will pay, who will benefit, and the implications for free speech and information diversity.

Ethics, morality, and criminality / J. Michael Gibbons ; produced by Gregg McVicar.

Series which explores how changes in communication and information technologies are encroaching upon the individuals right to privacy.|ETHICS, MORALITY, AND CRIMINALITY / J. Michael Gibbons| produced by Gregg McVicar. - SERIES: Computers, freedom, and privacy| no.
Panel comprised of experts from the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, New York State Police, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation discuss if new phone equipment should be designed to allow federal wiretaps, "call selling" as a rip-off operation, the proper role of police in computer fraud investigations, and how policy decisions are shaping the furture of our country.

Speaking for the unspeakable / Bruce Sterling ; produced by Gregg McVicar.

Series which explores how changes in communication and information technologies are encroaching upon the individuals right to privacy.|SPEAKING FOR THE UNSPEAKABLE / Bruce Sterling| produced by Gregg McVicar. - SERIES: Computers, freedom, and privacy| no.
Bruce Sterling presents the viewpoint of the "computer community" who are not represented at the CFP-2, speaking up for those who are too "venal, violent, treacherous, power-mad, suspicious or meanspirited" to receive an invitation to attend.

The Citizen's agenda for '92 / Ralph Nader.

Speech by noted consumer adovcate and social critic on the plutocracy and growing up corporate. He begins by cricizing the educational process which does not stimulate creative thought, as demonstrated by the latest University rage "FUCO," which is a disciplinary, sovereignty power.

The Mythic Columbus / Howard Zinn.

Historian Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples History of the United States, examines the popular misperceptions and the realities of Christopher Columbus. While researching a book on Columbus, he read Columbus' journal which depicted Indians as kind, loving, generous and peaceful. But Columbus' obsession with finding wealth lead to cruel and brutal treatment of the Indigenous peoples.
r.1. Talk (55 min.) -- r.2. Question and answer session (30 min.).
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