I was listening to KPFA, my local pacifica station this morning, and they were having a fund drive for the Pacifica Radio Archives. The archives contain the voices of 20th century people's history: Studs Terkel, Mahalia Jackson, James Baldwin, and *many* more voices of the people, peace and justice! The fund drive is needed to support their preservation project (and other projects) which seeks to digitize many of the old tapes in the archive.

This site is dedicated to Radical Reference (RR) dream projects. Since RR was launched, numerous great project ideas have emerged. We hope RR dream projects will turn into reality in the near future and the first step is listing those dreams. Please feel free to pursue any of our dream projects and/or list your dream project(s) on this page or submit them to RR Web administrators who will post for you. When you list your dream project, please note your contact information. Someone might volunteer to help your dream come true!

Radical Reference NYC Collective meeting 11/17/2006

present: Julie, Jenna, Tracy, Melissa, Gretchen, John (recording secretary pro tem)

• Item I: NCOR in DC, late March (?) – National Conference on Organized Resistance – last year RR did workshops on factchecking and FOIA and using the public library for activist research. It was agreed that it would be good to be involved again. Eric and Jenna may do a presentation on open source tools for websites, based on RR’s experience. Another idea would be a "reverse factchecking" presentation – how to establish credibility in a zine/website/newsletter. Carrie from DC has discussed this with Jenna; others are more than welcome to get involved.

UPDATE:The new version of the flyer (in English and Spanish) is posted here.

How can I find a list of US-based or US-backed corporations doing business in Oaxaca, Mexico? Something like the Directory of American Businesses in Mexico would be a good jumping off point, but I don't have access to it. The American Mexico Chamber of Commerce has a broad listing of American companies doing work in Mexico, but it is not specific to Oaxaca and would require quite a bit more digging to match this.

How many people have AIDS in Africa and how many people have Malaria in Africa?

I fought the law and...
the law didn't fight back...
and I had a hollow victory.

I put my account of my August 2006 Critical Mass ticket and hearing on Critical Mass Tickets.

I am looking to go back to school with the goal of becoming a librarian. However, I'm looking to get a lot out of going back to school. I'm looking to fashion a sort of music librarian career out of my education.

I am trying to correlate the employment rate and general economic status of Colorado Springs to the defense budget as a means to look at how closely tied our economy is to making war. Colorado Springs employs 1 in four people in militrary related jobs.

Widely attributed to Thoreau on the Internet:
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Can anyone find a source verifying that Thoreau actually wrote this?