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...Terrorist Attacks One of the conclusions of the 9/11 investigations was that in a major disaster, nothing is as important as the ability to communicate. This is not just a technical issue: just as they need interoperable radio systems, first responders also need to know and trust each other. That's a particular challenge in Washington, D.C., area, where a major disaster would be dealt with by two state governments, police and fire departments from 18 jurisdictions, and more than 40 federal police agencies and security services. Two years ago, the Government Accountability Office asked the Department of Homeland Security...
...apparent joylessness that went into Show Your Bones is blessedly absent from the final product. Instead, the album sounds like a tight band making a small but confident pop move. The chorus of the first single, Gold Lion, has the catchy, repetitive meaninglessness of all good radio hits but is defined by the power of O's voice hooting in delight as it fades out. O's lyrics are intentionally vague--"Lyrics age poorly, especially if they're specific," she says--but she sings like an actress, with elastic trills and meaningful pauses, so there's a story...
...problem is making felons out of everyone who is here without documents. What people miss is that includes 1.6 million children. Who thinks of this crazy stuff? These measures are just horrendous. We've taken enough bad-mouthing from these talking heads on radio and TV. If this House bill passed, I would be a criminal. And I wouldn't stop what I'm doing, so I'd be one of the first people arrested. This is no longer just an immigration issue. It is a civil rights movement...
...Angeles radio producer Luis Garibay, the crusade began with a question, put to Angelica Salas, executive director of the city?s Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights. Was the recently passed House bill making felons of undocumented immigrants and those who help them a serious enough threat, he asked her, that Latino deejays should do something to promote opposition to it? ?The anti-immigration forces have their echo chambers through FOX News, CNN and talk radio,? she told him. ?You guys have to be ours...
...first, the Latino community had to get the message about the protests. Enter the deejays. When his nanny told him that she and other babysitters in the neighborhood were inspired to attend the march after hearing so much about it on the radio, UCLA Professor Abel Valenzuela realized how influential the talk shows were. In other cases, chatter on the airwaves about protests elsewhere inspired left-out listeners to become accidental activists. All day long on March 22, Martha Ramirez, a tax preparer and mother of four in Kansas City, Mo., heard a deejay tell a string of curious callers...