[CIMC-work] (RCN, CAN-TV funding) Re: A modest proposal

[Chris Kaihatsu]

Mitchell, all,

This sounds like an excellent course of action. I certainly do appreciate the footwork/gruntwork involved in seeing this through....


Chris





On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:23:53 -0600 (CST), Mitchell Szczepanczyk wrote:
> CMA and CIMC,
> 
> This morning, I received an email from Greg Boozell at CAN TV.  Greg told
> me that the city has already collected more than $1 million in
> RCN-related fines, but CAN TV has yet to see any of this money.  Greg has
> asked me to file a Freedom Of Information Act request to see if we can
> extract some documents from the city cable office to find out why CAN TV
> hasn't gotten any of this money.  I've spoken with Greg over the phone,
> and I've agreed to serve as the vector here.
> 
> My modest proposal is as follows:
> 
> (1) I file a FOIA request with the city.  (Greg will be sending me all of
> the details on how to do this, and I hope to work on this during the
> weekend.)
> 
> (2) Post the results as a CMA release (we could write up a press
> release).  Would CMA be willing to assume the lead of this project?  
> 
> (3) Use Chicago Indymedia (including a center panel, to be sure) and
> other media outlets to promote the findings.
> 
> The timetable of this, of course, hinges on how quickly we get the
> documents from the cable commission.  Greg told me it could be a week or
> more; others are suspicious that it'll be that quick.
> 
> What do you all think?
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> _ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
>   /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
>      http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org
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