Tuesday 13 October 2009

[creative-radio] A radio contest gone very wrong

 

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asks for $24 million to $34 million in water-death case

From Andy Furillo

One of the plaintiff's lawyers in the wrongful death lawsuit over a radio
station's fatal water drinking contest today asked jurors to award his
clients between $24.62 million and $34.45 million for the loss of the love,
comfort and support of <http://topics.sacbee.com/Jennifer+Lea+Strange/>
Jennifer Lea Strange.

"Understand the value of a mother," attorney
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Roger+A.+Dreyer/> Roger A. Dreyer told the
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Sacramento+Superior+Court/> Sacramento Superior
Court jury. "Understand and appreciate the value of a mother, a lover, a
companion and a best friend."

Dreyer made his request on behalf of
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Jennifer+Strange/> Jennifer Strange's husband,
Billy Strange, 30, and their two children, Ryland, 6, and Jorie, 3.

The 28-year-old woman died on Jan. 12, 2007, of acute water intoxication as
a result of her participation in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest put
on by radio station <http://topics.sacbee.com/KDND/> KDND "The End" 107.9.
The contest promised the popular video game to the whomever could drink the
most water without urinating.

Strange went home and died after the contest.

Dreyer also asked the jurors to award his clients as well as
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Jennifer+Strange/> Jennifer Strange's older son,
Keegan Sims, another $1,888,135 in economic damages as a result of past and
present financial support and household services they could have expected to
receive.

Keegan Sims' attorney, Harvey R. Levine, is scheduled to present his closing
arguments to the jury on Wednesday on the non-economic damages he thinks
that should be awarded to the 13-year-old boy.

Defense attorney Donald W. Carlson, who is representing plaintiffs
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Entercom+Sacramento/> Entercom Sacramento LLC and
its parent company,
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Entercom+Communications+Corp/> Entercom
Communications Corp., also is scheduled to present his closing argument
Wednesday.

Dreyer, in his closing arguments today, told the jury today that the
evidence is "overwhelming" that two defendants remaining in the case were
responsible for the woman's death nearly three years ago.

"You get to decide what the standards are in this community, how radio
station personnel are going to operate ... and how a company like Entercom
is going to train its personnel," Dreyer said in the beginning of his
closing arguments in the trial that is nearing its conclusion in
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Sacramento+Superior+Court/> Sacramento Superior
Court.

Dreyer said that if the employees of
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Entercom+Sacramento/> Entercom Sacramento's "
<http://topics.sacbee.com/Morning/> Morning Rave" program on
<http://topics.sacbee.com/KDND/> KDND were negligent on the day of the fatal
contest, and if they were acting in the scope of their employment, then the
corporate defendants also are responsible and that they should be held
liable for <http://topics.sacbee.com/Jennifer+Strange/> Jennifer Strange's
death.

"We believe the evidence demonstrates in overwhelming fashion that these two
defendants were responsible," Dreyer said of Philadelphia-based Entercom and
its Sacramento subsidiary. He said it was up to Entercom "to make sure
people don't do dangerous contests. This isn't something we made up. These
are their rules."

Strange finished second in the contest.

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[creative-radio] More than 15.000 died - A fatal realities of fortress Europe

 

Prosecuted for saving the lives of refugees

The case of Cap Anamur president Elias Bierdel and his crew
By Stefan Steinberg
9 October 2009

"Supported by NATO naval units, overloaded and ancient boats are stopped
and forced back into African territorial waters. The corpses of those who
die attempting to flee eventually wash up on the beaches of Europe.
According to Bierdel, the total number of documented casualties on
European borders during the past decade total 15,000, but he describes
this figure as the "tip of the iceberg," with the real numbers likely to
be far higher. More than 400 such deaths at sea have been reported so far
this year."

Published by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/cape-o09.shtml

Save Lives: - Protest against the brutality and deaths of the refugees and
migrants by the EU - Frontex and the barbaric policies of Fortress Europe
Invitation to the preparation and support for the Caravan Festival 2010 in
Jena >>> http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1410

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"Unite Against Colonial Injustice"
Caravan Festival of African Masquerade - Masks and Music Parade in 2010

Invitation to the preparation and support for the Caravan Festival in Jena:

Help is needed! Get involved in the preparation of the Caravan Festival of
African Masquerade - Masks Parade and Music in Jena, 4th - 6th June, 2010

Appeal for a Caravan Festival – For the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in
Europe

Africa is not far from us – Unite Against Colonial Injustice

Save Lives: - Protest against the brutality and deaths of the refugees and
migrants by the EU - Frontex and the barbaric policies of Fortress Europe

A Political "Funeral" in remembrance of the refugees and migrants who died
in the sea and at the borders of Europe, and those persecuted,
criminalized, deported and brutalized by the police and the fortress
Europe policies: the victims of the consequences of national and
international injustice in Germany and in the fortress within Europe.

We will not allow any of the victims to have died without a trace.
Remembering also the horrors that our families have endured and conscious
of the fact the more will die, we will reveal a "monument" during the
festival in Jena for all victims of Frontex and the barbaric policies of
Fortress Europe.

There will be blocks of African Masquarede dancers and Music Parade
(during of the Festival) - African Masquerades are divine arts and
performance during special traditional festivals which in west and central
Africa are also celebrated in cases of disasters to seek for protection
and solidarity.

Stop the deaths and the persecutions of refugees and migrants in Germany -
Europe.

"We are here because you destroy our countries" - The Caravan for the
rights of refugees and migrants in Germany.

The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena

Update of information on proposals, actions, discussions and program:
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1410

Time: 4th to 6th of June 2010 in Jena

Themes:

a) African Masquerade dancers und Music-Parade
b) Cultural-political-program:

Save lives! – Deaths of Refugees and migrants at the fortress borders of
Europe with installations on the boat people and exhibitions.

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