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Open Source Your Streets Tonight on 91.1 FM, 7pm

2:31 PM EDT on April 20, 2009

I'll be talking with author and media theorist Douglas Rushkoff on his new WFMU radio show, The Media Squat, tonight at 7:00 pm. We'll be focusing on what grassroots, locally-oriented livable streets activists can do -- and are doing -- to take control of the planning and design of their communities and reclaim their cities and lives from automotive tyranny.

Doug's got a great mind and conversations with him are always fun and interesting, so tune in to 91.1 FM in New York or 90.1 FM in the Hudson Valley. Media Squat is a live, call-in radio show and it would be great to hear from some Streetsblog readers and commenters while I'm there. Call in to 201-209-9368 if you want to join in.

LifeInc_1.jpgDoug's new book is called Life Incorporated: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back, and here's how he describes his radio show...

The Media Squat looks at both sides of Life Incorporated: How lifehas been literally "incorporated" by business and economics, and howcan we incorporate LIFE back into our world via local commerce, community,social currency, and other emerging forms of participatory culture.This is free-form, bottom-up, open source radio looking towardssimilarly open source, bottom-up solutions to some of the problemsengendered by our relentlessly top-down society.

You can find previous episodes of Doug's show and interviews with folks like Stephen Johnson, R.U. Sirius and Richard Metzger right here.

Aaron Naparstek
AARON NAPARSTEK is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek’s journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of "Honku: The Zen Antidote for Road Rage" (Villard, 2003), a book of humorous haiku poetry inspired by the endless motorist sociopathy observed from his apartment window. Prior to launching Streetsblog, Naparstek worked as an interactive media producer, pioneering some of the Web's first music web sites, online communities, live webcasts and social networking services. Naparstek is currently in Cambridge with his wife and two young sons where he is enjoying a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Naparstek is a co-founder of the Park Slope Neighbors community group and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition. You can find more of his work here: http://www.naparstek.com.

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