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Jim Kent is a freelance writer and radio journalist who lives in Hot Springs, South Dakota. He
can be heard on Free Speech Radio News, Voice of America Radio, National Public Radio,
South Dakota Public Radio, Nebraska Public Radio, National Native News Radio, and A.A.R.P
Radio.

A recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for a radio news series, Jim is a current columnist
for the Rapid City Journal and the Lakota Country Times, a guest columnist for Indian Country

A report released July 12 by Human Rights Watch says there are grounds for President Barack Obama to order criminal investigations of former President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and CIA Director George Tenet, for ordering the use of torture, secret detention facilities and rendition of detainees. FSRN's Danny Wood interviews Andrea Prasow, senior counterterrorism counsel for Human Rights Watch. See more videos at The Real News Network.

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Yasmin Madadi leads workshops on radio reporting for Arab youth in Brooklyn. Her 30 minute documentary,"Battle After Combat: Homeless Female Vets," profiling four women soldiers after their service in Iraq, aired nationally on Free Speech Radio News May 2009. Between 2003 to 2006, Yasmin conducted  writing workshops for youth in Oakland, California through June Jordan's Poetry for the People.  She is also a freelance reporter and researcher for Rolling Stone, New York and The Nation Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times.

Kristofer Ríos is a New York City based freelance journalist who reports for the Community News Production Institute. Kristofer has covered issues impacting the Latino community in New York, including the issues of gentrification in East Harlem and hate crimes against Latino immigrants in Long Island. Kristofer has spent time researching, archiving, and preserving music in Ghana, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

Amy Browne has produced independent media (written, radio and photography) since the 1990s. In 2000, she started reporting for WERU community radio in rural Maine, and began hosting "RadioActive", a weekly grassroots environmental and social justice news journal, along with Meredith DeFrancesco. In addition to contributing to FSRN, Amy has also reported for "Live Wire Independent News", "Workers Independent News", and "Pacifica Peacewatch".  Currently she works full time at WERU, coordinating news and public affairs programming and the youth radio program, and producing "Voices", a community audio magazine, in addition to "RadioActive".

Radio experience includes co-founding the weekly grassroots environmental and social justice new journal “RadioActive” on WERU Community Radio, in Maine, in early 2001. Continuing as co -producer and journalist, along with radio partner, and fellow FSRN collaborator and contributor, Amy Browne. Besides FSRN, national contributions have been made to Pacifica Peace Watch , WINS, Making Contact, and with recent regularity for National Native News.
Also on WERU, co founded and produced/hosted the first year of “Indigenous Voices”, a program on issues and experiences of the four Native American tribes in Maine. Also produced “ The Sister Station Report” on WERU, presenting news and issues in El Salvador effecting the community and larger social movement in the listening area of Radio Sumpul, WERU’s Salvadoran sister radio station. Have produced segments for FSRN from Maine and from El Salvador.

Karen Miller is one of FSRN’s Capitol Hill reporters. A born and bred Hoosier (that means she’s from Indiana for all you non-Midwest types) she was first introduced to Pacifica when she used to listen on the beach in Santa Barbara, California where she lived for 9 years. Her background includes working in journalism in various places around the country; WBST-Muncie, Indiana, KVEN-Ventura, California, Marcus Media, Indianapolis, Indiana and as an intern at CNN in their Washington DC Bureau. In addition to her media background, Karen has also worked in the non-profit world.