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Remembering Brian Anders through action
Listen to TheFightBack‘s 2010 interview with Brian Anders [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 Brian Anders, a tireless D.C. activist and homeless advocate, passed away August 28. He asked that he be remembered not with tears but … Continue reading
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VeriFone contract suspended
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Sept. 1 show here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “The District is hereby ordered to… suspend any further contract work,” Judge Monica Parchment of the … Continue reading
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D.C.’s very funny VeriFone contract
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Aug. 25th show here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “We’re not doing anything that is not legal,” D.C. Taxicab Commission chairman Ron Linton told TheFightBack at a … Continue reading
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WPFW and NAACP-Alexandria Hold Town Hall
Listen to The Latino Media Collective on Pacifica Radio WPFW 89.3 FM: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “We know affordable housing is dwindling in Alexandria,” activist and Alexandria resident Nisaa Harper told the standing-room only crowd … Continue reading
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The Human Cost of Gentrification: Pete talks with Bruce DePuyt
“The Washington area is a boom-town, cranes are everywhere and communities are on the upswing as investors pour billions into new real estate. But what happens to people who get priced out by all this progress?” NewsTalk host Bruce DePuyt … Continue reading
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Questionable Firings at Howard University’s WHUT-TV
Listen to three of the “Howard Four” here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 (The Urban Revival cross-posted the piece and Union City linked to it.) “The behavior of the television station under this administration, this is … Continue reading
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Taxi chair’s condescension
The Taxi Link airs on WUST 1120 AM. Listen to the Aug. 18 show here: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “The regulators and the people that control this city, they have no respect for the taxicab … Continue reading
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WPFW To Hold Town Hall Amidst Alexandria’s Gentrification
Listen to WPFW’s Latino Media Collective: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “I hope this Monday the 20th we can make our voices heard [and] somebody can listen to us,” activist Hector Pineda Martinez told Oscar Fernandez, … Continue reading
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DC’s Taxi “Kangaroo Court”
Listen to The Taxi Link, Aug. 11: [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download mp3 “[I question] whether this is racial or not,” D.C. Taxicab Commission (DCTC) member Stanley Tapscott said after the commission’s meeting last week at which it approved increased fines for … Continue reading
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The Taxi Link, Aug. 4: The Lawsuit, the Media and the Mayor
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] download mp3 “They have waged a number of media campaigns against us,” D.C. cabbie Mechal Chame said of the local press corps. “We are not against the public interest.” Chame appeared on WUST … Continue reading
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