Deepa Fernandes is currently the host of the WBAI radio program "Wakeup Call" and formally hosted the nationally syndicated Pacifica radio news show "Free Speech Radio News" on the politically independent, anti-war Pacifica Radio Network. Fernandes has worked as a freelance producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Pacifica Radio. WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... Free Speech Radio News (FSRN) is a worker run collective that produces a half hour newscast each weekday. ... Pacifica Radio is a network of five independent, non-commercial, listener-supported radio stations in the United States that is known for its leftist and pacifist political views. ... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ... The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australias national public broadcaster. ... Pacifica Radio Newtork. ...
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Fernandes began her career in Sydney, Australia working as a daily news reporter. She would then proceed to work in Latin America. Working on a 26-part documentary series on indigenous communities in Ecuador. From then she went to Cuba to work as a daily features producer at Radio Havana Cuba. She would also go on to work as a producer for the flag-ship Pacifica radio program Democracy Now! and co-produce Our America's a radio program on issues effecting Latin America and the Caribbean, along with hosting Wakeup Call and Free Speech Radio News. Her new book TARGETED: HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE BUSINESS OF IMMIGRATION (Seven Stories Press) comes out this January. This is about the city of Sydney in Australia. ... Radio Habana Cuba (RHC) is the official international broadcasting station of Cuba. ... Democracy Now! logo. ...
“DeepaFernandes has created a powerful text of stories, interviews, research, and facts to dramatize the inanity of a war the United States government is waging against the immigrant poor in the guise of fighting terrorism.
DeepaFernandes extensive and serious research about immigration policies, homeland security business and the elites that profit from both, offers solid information and facts in contrast with the constant flow of prejudice, misinformation and outright lies that seem to frame the debate in our current "talk show" culture.
In the very tough post 9/11 context, DeepaFernandes carefully documents specific immigration policy abuses and courageously denounces the institutions and policies that make them happen; even more important, she identifies politicians, government officials and corporations that are profiting from it.
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