Tips on MBTA Boston Public Hearings

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For the benefit of those who study the past…

Anyone planning on “creative attendance” should maybe understand a bit about the process. I attended, recorded, assisted and testified at one of these hearings in 2006.

The T’s transcript is made from a recording of a specialist speaking into a weirdo microphone. Therefore, the usual copious room comments may go completely ignored, as far as the record is concerned.

In 2006, the room was overpacked. People were upset, and chants of “let the people in” were answered by a request that each witness should speak and leave. I argue that this is not a true public hearing, that each of us is entitled to witness all the testimony.

Here’s what I have to offer for study: a full set of recordings of the event, as prepared for broadcast.

This was recorded by Freeman Z (http://freemanz.com) who also testified regarding MBTA Police criminality as a budget issue. Deval Patrick, Jared Barrios, Pat Jehlin, Grace Ross, Freeman Z,  and many others (each is announced,) testify at the MBTA Public Hearing At Boston Public Library in 2006 to a lively audience in a packed room.

Free Speech Ticket Disputed

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The Free Man has filed a dispute regarding the parking ticket Boston Police used as a device to impede our facilitation of Constitutionally protected speech on the Common.

This video documents a high ranking officer saying that a commercial permit is required for a free sound job at a political rally:

Defense offers the following Arguments…

-Van required for non-commercial amplification of 1st Amendment protected speech.

-Did not park on grass.

-No harm done.

-No signage.

-Did not block pedstrian traffic.

-Saturday notice of Monday event made city permit impossible.

-Single tech can’t park van and protect gear.

-Spite ticket: citation No 008726, dated 9/8/06 dismissed by Judge Carr. Gear was recovered from police in hundreds of pieces.

Cops mis-state law: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dunkY5Kd9qQ&feature=youtu.be

Vermin Supreme Sells Out

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When the Government accused me of running a double-secret-revere website for imperial straw man Vermin Supreme, I had just one thing to tell them. Vermin delivers ’Lies for Less!’

But has he lost his “vision thing”? Vermin used to be about morals and values. Now he shouts “Buy my merch!” …referring to the online store that lurks two clicks away from this…

VIDEO: “I’m A Meme I’m Vermin Supreme” by Flux Rostrum
(Meet Vermin …and his mother …and all their kidneys)

So Vermin’s gone commercial. Nobody wants to cross a man with such a large rubber boot on his head. So when the big rat commanded, I pressed a button, and poof! Bummer. It’s not just because he didn’t pay me again. I’m used to that, but where a lovely “Loop Supreme,” had greeted visitors, we are now assaulted by auto-tune vocals, pounding rhythm and disturbing images of Vermin fiddling with the moist and fuzzy animal parts, really just making a total ass of himself. I’m not used to this. I thought I knew him.

My snapshot “Call Police” appears in the video. It’s a souvenir of John Ashcroft’s Pump-Up-The-Patriot-Act Tour at Faneuil Hall Boston. It has reportedly adorned Boston Police Department documents.

How Vermin’s voice manifested within Faneuil Hall’s interior during that secure, closed-door meeting of top cops, will remain a  mystery to authorities.

I fear he may merely ride the coat-tails of his real enemies, who are the other fake candidates. He’s profiting by sales of silly t-shirts that mock his opponents, perhaps causing them loss of rest  or fitful thoughts on the campaign bus/jet/hovercraft. even while he sleeps.

Of course I’ll vote for him anyway. Despite this bizarre, low-bid sellout, Vermin’s our only solution …at least for now. The two-party system resembles a war between a malignant brain tumor and liver cancer, each fighting for total control of the body. Vermin is like an entirely different kind of cancer, and people respect that.

New VerminSupreme.com
Old VerminSupreme.com
FZ media on Obama: (Boston) Chomsky Unmasks Barack
FZ media on Romney: (Cambridge) ”Secular Church“ 

Somerville Journal: FZ and Friends Stand for Brad Manning

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The Somerville Journal has kindly printed a brief article on our ”Bradley Manning Square,” activities. The local news item prominently features a link to the collateral murder video.

Freeman Z, Susan McLucas and Veteran Bob Bowes…

have appeared for several months in Davis Square, transforming it to “Bradley Manning Square” on fridays. “The photo was shot by a kind stranger using Susan’s camera, then I tweaked it a bit.. It was a team effort,” says Freeman, a once-upon-a-time professional photographer.”

The group speaks out, displays signs and banners, collects signatures, and distributes literature to raise awareness in accordance with the BradleyManning.org program.

Speaking for the trio, Susan says, “We welcome all to come join us on fridays from 1-2pm, or to do their own thing for Brad. Either way is good.” Asked why she wants to free Manning, Susan says, “If Bradley did indeed leak those materials, which have been the source of innumerable world-shaking news stories, and which may reveal our government’s criminality and self-defeating brutality, which endanger us all, then he deserves our deepest gratitude and support.” (article)

R.I.P. Brian Arredondo (1987-2011)

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My dear friends and world class peace activists, the Arredondos of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, have suffered a second tragedy since the loss of their son Alex in combat. After years of unresolved grief over Alex, my new friend Brian took his own life a few months after the local post office was named in Alex’s honor. Brian was 22.

I was responsible for sound and stage at the event. As a tribute to my favorite peace activists, I’ve released what I expect to be the last high quality video of Brian, cut from footage shot from the tech van at stage-side by my good friend Chronos.

Carlos and Brian at the post office dedication ceremony
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Brian Louis Arredondo was the son of Victoria Foley and Carlos Arredondo, Stepson of Mélida Arredondo, Brother of Nathaniel Foley and Brother of US Marine Lance Corporal Alexander Scott Arredondo. Brian was 17 when Alex was killed in Iraq.

The family requests donations to help with funeral expenses be sent to: The Brian Arredondo Memorial Fund at The Cooperative Bank, 40 Belgrade Avenue, Roslindale, MA 02131.

FZ re-hacks WMBR-FM program “A Matter of Fact”

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A Freeman Z remix of wmbr radio announcers playing a Freeman Z remix of their own show on their own show.  Link

NEW WEBSITE: Amy Goodman hacked: DeMockracyNow.org

A Freeman Z remix of a Freeman Z image of Freeman Z’s cat remixing a Freeman Z recording…

Broadcast Quality Recordings of Chomsky at Tufts 2011

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Chomsky at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

AUDIO RECORDINGS
part 1 Lecture (62 minutes)
part 2 Q and A Session (33 minutes)

Noam Chomsky answered questions from an overflow crowd in the ASEAN Auditorium at the Fletcher School’s Cabot Intercultural Center.

Freeman Z’s media services for this Standing Room Only event included Public Address Amplification for auditorium and audience overflow room and Press feeds.

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