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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, August 7, 2000
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and audio
from the Independent Media Center on Monday, August 7, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
FOCUS ON PHILADELPHIA: The IMC Reports from
the free streets and activist-filled jails of Philadelphia in the
aftermath of the Republican National Convention.
OVERVIEW
This week, more than 430 people were arrested in dynamic,
nonviolent acts of civil disobedience that disrupted business-as-usual
in Philadelphia during the Republican National Convention.
The largest was an August 1 direct action by a multiracial alliance,
drawn from the movements against global capital, environmental abuse
and racist injustice, demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and other
political prisoners, the abolition of the death penalty and the
prison-industrial complex and an end to police brutality. The IMC was
there with an open, web-based newswire of breaking stories, photos, video,
audio, live radio, and two daily video satellite-casts.
WRITTEN REPORTS
RELEASED R2K PRISONERS HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE (8/6)
by John Tarleton
A half-dozen recently released R2K prisoners held an emotional
press conference Saturday afternoon (8/5). They described repeated
instances of police brutality and neglect during their time in custody.
The extraordinary bails (as high as $1 million) being levied against
protesters also came under fire. "I think these bails are meant to
stifle dissent," said Paul Hesnekker of the R2K Legal Team.
"It's part of an attempt to criminalize political activism in this country."
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/0335245&mode=thread
REPORTS ON AND FROM THE 400 ARRESTED ON THE STREETS OF PHILLY
by Philadelphia Direct Action Group
Activists who came to Philly to make their voices heard, to demand a response
o the issues of police brutality, the criminal injustice system, and the brutal
effects of corporate globalization are being met with unhumane and torturous
conditions in Philly jails and prisons.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/05/2141219&mode=thread
TORTUOUS CONDITIONS IN PHILLY JAILS
Reports from those released describe abuses now taking place to activists
still in jail. The first report is by Amy: "We were left in handcuffs
for about 6 hours. The cuffs were so tight that people were bleeding and our
hands were swelling. Once we were in the "Roundhouse" (the jail) we were
placed 7 or 8 per cell. The cells are 5 1/2 by 6 feet..."
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/230239
Joseph Rogers
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/04/190240&mode=thread
By Cliff Pearson
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/04/0556235&mode=thread
by IMC Philadelphia
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/05/1613230&mode=thread
MESSAGE FROM 24 IMPRISONED ACTIVISTS
forwarded by R2K Legal
"We are 24 male prisoners currently held at Curran-Fromhold
Correctional Facility for our participation or attempted
participation in the August 1st non-violent direct actions
against the Republican convention in Philadelphia..."
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/1858200&mode=thread
VIDEO
DEMOCRACY NOW!/ CRASHING THE PARTY
During convention week, two live video programs originating from the
Philly IMC were satellite-cast to millions of homes across the country.
Covering the issues being ignored by establishment media, Amy Goodman,
Juan Gonzalez and Free Speech TV took to the airwaves, satellite, and web
in a historic three pronged broadcast of movement-oriented analysis and
resistance news.
http://www.freespeech.org/
JONATHAN KOZOL ON THE RACIAL BIAS
IN EDUCATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
(speaking at "Democracy and the Death Penalty?")
by Philly IMC (Video)
Jonathan Kozol, one of America's foremost social critics and a resident
of the South Bronx, gives a gripping first-hand account of the racial
inequalities in American education and criminal justice.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/03/1726252
POLICE RAID PUPPET WAREHOUSE
Around noon of August 1st, police surrounded a West Philadelphia
warehouse that was being used for puppetmaking. They surrounded
the building and refused to let anyone in or out of the premises. Hours
went by before the police obtained a search warrant. Around
mid-afternoon, a spokesperson for the protesters emerged from the
building and began a forty-five minute negotiation for arrests. One of
the police concessions was that two protesters would be allowed to
talk to the press. IMC Video was there jostling elbows with the
corporate media to bring you the protesters' statement.
Video footage by By Philly IMC / Eddy Nix
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/03/2352237&mode=thread
By Martin Kelley/Philly IMC
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/02/0742259&mode=thread
TWO WOMEN: ONE PROTESTOR, ONE COP
By Philly IMC / Digital Age Video Inc
Interesting moment when two women, each on a separate side
of police lines, face of in a stare down. Sound could be better.
http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?currentview=video&page=2
PHOTOGRAPHS
PHOTO ESSAY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Greg Fuchs was there with his camera as the Philadelphia streets
swarmed with protest, police action, resistance, and arrest.
10 great shots.
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/08/03/0146201&mid=00-08-03-0213248
WHO's STREETS? OUR STREETS!
Photos by Peter
August 1st -- Activists drawing attention to the GOP's support
for the racist Death Penalty stopped traffic on two intersections
surrounding the convention center. While police screamed and
paced, protesters sang and chanted anti-death penalty slogans.
Three Images
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/08/03/2148205&mid=00-08-03-2149256
RUBBER BULLET
Photographer Hit by Rubber Bullet
by National Philistine
A freelance photographer, shows me the rubber
bullet that hit him in the back when he covered a rally
Monday morning. Bob tells me D.C. cops used rubber
bullets roughly 1/3 bigger than the ones used in
Seattle, doing more damage upon impact.
http://dc2.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3869
PHILLY COP TAKES A PUBLIC PISS
By DB McLean, Brooklyn Bridge Press
According to the photographer, this "high ranking Philly-cop"
arrested "six to ten protesters," then urinated in public.
The photographer was arrested after taking the shots.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/03/2226256&mode=thread
AUDIO
POLICE CALL FOR FBI CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTORS
Audio By Aaron Glantz
At a morning press briefing Philadelphia police commissioner John Timony
called on the FBI and the justice department to crackdown on activists.
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/philly/00-08-05-0218244.
WHEN PUPPETS ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE PUPPETS
Audio by Scott Harris, Between The Lines
Elizabeth Tubb, a teacher from Worcester, Mass.and puppetmaker who
discusses a demonstration taking place across from the jail where some
400 activists are imprisoned, including 75 puppetmakers arrested on
"conspiracy charges."
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/03/0244209&mode=thread
PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM SOUNDS
Audio By Paul DeRienzo & Joan Moossy
Let'em Talk is a radio program heard on NYC's WBAI-99.5-FM on Thursday
mornings at 1:30am eastern time. We recorded a cross section of sounds,
interview and commentary at the rally in Philly on Aug. 1. Interviews
include Jello Biafra and Len Weinglas.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/0114233&mode=thread
UnCONVENTIONAL COVERAGE
Audio By National Radio Project
Hosted by Norman Solomon, and Elizabeth Robinson. Featuring: Beka
Economopoulous and Matt Ruben with the R2K Network; James Wilson
Executive Director of the Florida Republican Party with an overview of
the Republicans activities this week; Dr. Rosanna Pallazari,a Canadian
doctor who takes issue with U.S. Republican and Democrats dismissal
of Canadian single payer system. She also speaks passionately about how
US style conservatism has "infected" the Canadian political system;
John Dodge, director of Philadelphia Unemployment Project, and Bonita
Arnold with Mothers On the Move, and more...
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/04/1922247&mode=thread
IMC RADIO NEWS
http://www.phillyimc.org/ratings.pl?type=story&sid=00/08/05/0334236
IMC LIVE RADIO FROM PHILLY
http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtml
COMMENTARIES
WHY PROTEST THE CONVENTIONS?
by Mike Albert
The usual answer to "why protest the conventions"? is to list
various violations of humanity that the two branches of our one
corporate party - the republicans and democrats - persist in maintaining,
and to note that we are demanding change in all these areas: bombing
other countries like Iraq and Yugoslavia; starving countries to death as
in sanctioning Cuba and Iraq; aiding and abetting massacres in Timor and
Turkey, and with increasing danger, Colombia; propelling IMF and
World Bank income inequality and ecological devastation; advancing
domestic police and
prison violence that turns communities into occupied battle zones;
imposing welfare havoc that further impoverishes the already poor;
facilitating generalized corporate rapaciousness that materially and
socially
diminishes workers?"
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/17/1025244&mode=thread
JELLO BIAFRA COMMENTS ON PHILLY AND SEATTLE:
Philly: "It's interesting the planners would have Republic
National Convention here because it's one of the most third
worldified dramatically unequal cities i know of in the U.S.
Seattle: "When high finance becomes a street issue you know
something is getting through and it's getting through outside the
corporate mass media. What was different this time was seeing
he activist environmentalists walking side by side with labor.
I see a meeting of the minds and it's very important that everybody
out there become a part of this, this isn't just about waiting for
us to create the media reports for you. . . it's don't hate the
media, become the media."
http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/philly/00-08-05-2231254.mp3
WHY ARE THEY PROTESTING?
Letter to the LA Times 8/2/00
A recent article in the LA times makes no mention of why the
protesters are in the streets; rather it drives a wedge between
the protesters and the community the protesters want to help.
Here's one person's response.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/175228&mode=thread
A MOVEMENT-BUILDING CRITIQUE OF PHILLY PROTESTS
by Chris Crews
Did Philadelphia build on the momentum of Seattle, and DC?
Did the movement get it's message across? This commentary
critiques what happened in Philly with the hope of hitting
harder in LA. "As this social movement grows, we need to begin
to not only think strategically, but also about the big picture.
Where do we want this Movement to go, what will that direction
look like, what structural changes need to occur, and how
will we begin to move there?
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/06/1944211&mode=thread
FROM OTHER IMC's
Washington, DC
MICRORADIO ALERT: INFORMATION & ACTION
The battle over public access to our airwaves continues to be waged
all across the country. To date, the combined efforts of the
microradio movement have staved off attempts led by the
National Association of Broadcasters and National Public Radio
to kill or severely limit the FCC's Low Power Radio initiative.
By no means are we out of the woods yet, as anti-LPFM forces
are working closely with their friends in Congress to kill Low Power
radio through an Appropriations rider later this session.
Here's what we can do to stop them.
http://dc2.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3866
Seattle
SEIZING THE HISTORICAL MOMENT: INTERVIEW WITH ANURADHA MITTAL
by Sheri Herndon
Anuradha Mittal, co-director of Food First, has
been studying the effects of structural adjustment
abroad for years. In this interview, she takes on
structural adjustment at home, the relationship
between the conventions and the larger global
movement, corporate media's effects, building
solidarity globally and the power of independent
media.
http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=2791
Mexico:
ZAPATISTA VILLAGE UNDER ATTACK
Paramilitary forces burned down houses and expelled 30 families
from a village in Mexico known for its support of the
Zapatista guerrilla movement, just as President-elect Vicente Fox
is trying to establish contact with the rebels to set up peace talks.
>posted to the Mexico IMC Sunday, August 6, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=277
In the Words of the Community
http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/chiapas-l/2000.08/msg00019.html
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UPCOMING DIRECT ACTIONS
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in LA, Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Support Microradio: Slam the NAB!
Protest The "WTO of Media" the National Association
of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
Protest in Prague Sept. 26 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
http://boston.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=21
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makers, organizers, and activists working to increase
democracy and social justice by reporting events and
producing information as acts of autonomy, resistance,
and liberation from corporate control.
The IMC was established to cover the WTO protests in Seattle
last November. Hundreds of media activists have since setup
independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague,
Belgium, France, and Italy, with more to come.
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<div><font size="+2"><b>Hi Micah--</b></font></div>
<div><font size="+2"><b>Another IMC News Blast ready to go out to IMC
lists.</b></font></div>
<div><font size="+2"><b>Can you get it out?</b></font></div>
<div><font size="+2"><b>Thanks Greg</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="+2"><b>IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, August 7,
2000</b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div>A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and audio</div>
<div>from the Independent Media Center on Monday, August 7,
2000.</div>
<div>http://www.indymedia.org</div>
<div><font size="+1"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>FOCUS ON PHILADELPHIA: The IMC Reports
from</b></font></div>
<div>the free streets and activist-filled jails of Philadelphia in
the</div>
<div>aftermath of the Republican National Convention.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>OVERVIEW</b></font></div>
<div>This week, more than 430 people were arrested in dynamic,</div>
<div>nonviolent acts of civil disobedience that disrupted
business-as-usual</div>
<div>in Philadelphia during the Republican National
Convention.</div>
<div>The largest was an August 1 direct action by a multiracial
alliance,</div>
<div>drawn from the movements against global capital, environmental
abuse</div>
<div>and racist injustice, demanding freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal and
other</div>
<div>political prisoners, the abolition of the death penalty and
the</div>
<div>prison-industrial complex and an end to police brutality. The
IMC was</div>
<div>there with an open, web-based newswire of breaking stories,
photos, video,</div>
<div> audio, live radio, and two daily video
satellite-casts.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>WRITTEN REPORTS</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>RELEASED R2K PRISONERS HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE (8/6)<br>
</b>by John Tarleton<br>
A half-dozen recently released R2K prisoners held an emotional</div>
<div>press conference Saturday afternoon (8/5). They described
repeated</div>
<div>instances of police brutality and neglect during their time in
custody.</div>
<div>The extraordinary bails (as high as $1 million) being levied
against</div>
<div>protesters also came under fire. "I think these bails
are meant to</div>
<div>stifle dissent," said Paul Hesnekker of the R2K Legal
Team.</div>
<div>"It's part of an attempt to criminalize political activism
in this country."</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/06/0335245&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>REPORTS ON AND FROM THE 400 ARRESTED ON THE STREETS OF
PHILLY</b></div>
<div>by Philadelphia Direct Action Group</div>
<div>Activists who came to Philly to make their voices heard, to
demand a response</div>
<div>o the issues of police brutality, the criminal injustice system,
and the brutal</div>
<div>effects of corporate globalization are being met with unhumane
and torturous</div>
<div>conditions in Philly jails and prisons.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/05/2141219&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>TORTUOUS CONDITIONS IN PHILLY JAILS</b></div>
<div>Reports from those released describe abuses now taking place to
activists</div>
<div>still in jail. The first report is by Amy: "We were left in
handcuffs</div>
<div>for about 6 hours. The cuffs were so tight that people were
bleeding and our</div>
<div>hands were swelling. Once we were in the
"Roundhouse" (the jail) we were</div>
<div>placed 7 or 8 per cell. The cells are 5 1/2 by 6
feet..."</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/06/230239</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Joseph Rogers</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/04/190240&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>By Cliff Pearson</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/04/0556235&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>by IMC Philadelphia</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/05/1613230&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div> </div>
<div><b>MESSAGE FROM 24 IMPRISONED ACTIVISTS</b></div>
<div> forwarded by R2K Legal</div>
<div>"We are 24 male prisoners currently held at
Curran-Fromhold</div>
<div>Correctional Facility for our participation or attempted</div>
<div>participation in the August 1st non-violent direct actions</div>
<div>against the Republican convention in Philadelphia..."</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/06/1858200&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>VIDEO</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>DEMOCRACY NOW!/ CRASHING THE PARTY</b></div>
<div>During convention week, two live video programs originating from
the</div>
<div>Philly IMC were satellite-cast to millions of homes across the
country.</div>
<div>Covering the issues being ignored by establishment media, Amy
Goodman,</div>
<div>Juan Gonzalez and Free Speech TV took to the airwaves,
satellite, and web</div>
<div>in a historic three pronged broadcast of movement-oriented
analysis and</div>
<div>resistance news.</div>
<div>http://www.freespeech.org/</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br>
<b>JONATHAN KOZOL ON THE RACIAL BIAS</b></div>
<div><b>IN EDUCATION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE</b></div>
<div><b>(speaking at "Democracy and the Death Penalty?")<br>
</b>by Philly IMC (Video)<br>
Jonathan Kozol, one of America's foremost social critics and a
resident</div>
<div>of the South Bronx, gives a gripping first-hand account of the
racial</div>
<div>inequalities in American education and criminal justice.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/03/1726252<br>
</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>POLICE RAID PUPPET WAREHOUSE</b></div>
<div>Around noon of August 1st, police surrounded a West
Philadelphia</div>
<div>warehouse that was being used for puppetmaking. They
surrounded</div>
<div>the building and refused to let anyone in or out of the
premises. Hours</div>
<div>went by before the police obtained a search warrant. Around</div>
<div>mid-afternoon, a spokesperson for the protesters emerged from
the</div>
<div>building and began a forty-five minute negotiation for arrests.
One of</div>
<div>the police concessions was that two protesters would be allowed
to</div>
<div>talk to the press. IMC Video was there jostling elbows with
the</div>
<div>corporate media to bring you the protesters' statement.</div>
<div>Video footage by By Philly IMC / Eddy Nix</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/03/2352237&mode=thread</div>
<div>By Martin Kelley/Philly IMC</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/02/0742259&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>TWO WOMEN: ONE PROTESTOR, ONE COP</b></div>
<div>By Philly IMC / Digital Age Video Inc</div>
<div>Interesting moment when two women, each on a separate side</div>
<div>of police lines, face of in a stare down. Sound could be
better.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?curr<span
></span>entview=video&page=2<br>
</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>PHOTOGRAPHS</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>PHOTO ESSAY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE</b></div>
<div>Greg Fuchs was there with his camera as the Philadelphia
streets</div>
<div>swarmed with protest, police action, resistance, and
arrest.</div>
<div>10 great shots.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/03/0146201&mid=00-08-03-0213248</div>
<div><br>
<br>
</div>
<div><b>WHO's STREETS? OUR STREETS!</b></div>
<div>Photos by Peter</div>
<div>August 1st -- Activists drawing attention to the GOP's
support</div>
<div>for the racist Death Penalty stopped traffic on two
intersections</div>
<div>surrounding the convention center. While police screamed
and</div>
<div>paced, protesters sang and chanted anti-death penalty
slogans.</div>
<div>Three Images</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/03/2148205&mid=00-08-03-2149256</div>
<div><b>RUBBER BULLET</b></div>
<div>Photographer Hit by Rubber Bullet</div>
<div>by National Philistine</div>
<div>A freelance photographer, shows me the rubber</div>
<div>bullet that hit him in the back when he covered a rally</div>
<div>Monday morning. Bob tells me D.C. cops used rubber</div>
<div>bullets roughly 1/3 bigger than the ones used in</div>
<div>Seattle, doing more damage upon impact.</div>
<div>http://dc2.indymedia.org/display.php3?art<span
></span>icle_id=3869</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>PHILLY COP TAKES A PUBLIC PISS</b></div>
<div><b>By DB McLean, Brooklyn Bridge Press</b></div>
<div>According to the photographer, this "high ranking
Philly-cop"</div>
<div>arrested "six to ten protesters," then urinated
in public.</div>
<div>The photographer was arrested after taking the shots.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/03/2226256&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size="+1"><b>AUDIO</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>POLICE CALL FOR FBI CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTORS</b></div>
<div>Audio By Aaron Glantz</div>
<div>At a morning press briefing Philadelphia police commissioner
John Timony</div>
<div>called on the FBI and the justice department to crackdown on
activists.</div>
<div>http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/philly/00-<span
></span>08-05-0218244.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>WHEN PUPPETS ARE OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE
PUPPETS</b></div>
<div>Audio by Scott Harris, Between The Lines</div>
<div>Elizabeth Tubb, a teacher from Worcester, Mass.and puppetmaker
who</div>
<div>discusses a demonstration taking place across from the jail
where some</div>
<div>400 activists are imprisoned, including 75 puppetmakers arrested
on</div>
<div>"conspiracy charges."</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/03/0244209&mode=thread</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br>
<b>PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM SOUNDS</b></div>
<div>Audio By Paul DeRienzo & Joan Moossy</div>
<div>Let'em Talk is a radio program heard on NYC's WBAI-99.5-FM on
Thursday</div>
<div>mornings at 1:30am eastern time. We recorded a cross section of
sounds,</div>
<div>interview and commentary at the rally in Philly on Aug. 1.
Interviews</div>
<div>include Jello Biafra and Len Weinglas.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/06/0114233&mode=thread</div>
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<div><b>UnCONVENTIONAL COVERAGE</b></div>
<div>Audio By National Radio Project</div>
<div>Hosted by Norman Solomon, and Elizabeth Robinson. Featuring:
Beka</div>
<div>Economopoulous and Matt Ruben with the R2K Network; James
Wilson</div>
<div>Executive Director of the Florida Republican Party with an
overview of</div>
<div>the Republicans activities this week; Dr. Rosanna Pallazari,a
Canadian</div>
<div>doctor who takes issue with U.S. Republican and Democrats
dismissal</div>
<div>of Canadian single payer system. She also speaks passionately
about how</div>
<div>US style conservatism has "infected" the Canadian
political system;</div>
<div>John Dodge, director of Philadelphia Unemployment Project, and
Bonita</div>
<div>Arnold with Mothers On the Move, and more...</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/04/1922247&mode=thread</div>
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<div><b>IMC RADIO NEWS</b></div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/ratings.pl?type=<span
></span>story&sid=00/08/05/0334236</div>
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<div><b>IMC LIVE RADIO FROM PHILLY</b></div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtm<span
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<div><font size="+1"><b>COMMENTARIES</b></font></div>
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<div><b>WHY PROTEST THE CONVENTIONS?</b></div>
<div>by Mike Albert</div>
<div>The usual answer to "why protest the conventions"? is
to list</div>
<div>various violations of humanity that the two branches of our
one</div>
<div>corporate party - the republicans and democrats - persist in
maintaining,</div>
<div>and to note that we are demanding change in all these areas:
bombing</div>
<div>other countries like Iraq and Yugoslavia; starving countries to
death as</div>
<div>in sanctioning Cuba and Iraq; aiding and abetting massacres in
Timor and</div>
<div>Turkey, and with increasing danger, Colombia; propelling IMF and
World Bank income inequality and ecological devastation; advancing
domestic police and</div>
<div>prison violence that turns communities into occupied battle
zones; imposing welfare havoc that further impoverishes the already
poor; facilitating generalized corporate rapaciousness that
materially and socially</div>
<div>diminishes workers?"</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/07/17/1025244&mode=thread</div>
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<div><b>JELLO BIAFRA COMMENTS ON PHILLY AND SEATTLE:<br>
</b>Philly: "It's interesting the planners would have
Republic</div>
<div>National Convention here because it's one of the most third</div>
<div>worldified dramatically unequal cities i know of in the
U.S. </div>
<div>Seattle: "When high finance becomes a street issue
you know</div>
<div>something is getting through and it's getting through outside
the</div>
<div>corporate mass media. What was different this time was
seeing</div>
<div>he activist environmentalists walking side by side with
labor. </div>
<div>I see a meeting of the minds and it's very important that
everybody</div>
<div>out there become a part of this, this isn't just about waiting
for</div>
<div>us to create the media reports for you. . . it's don't hate
the</div>
<div>media, become the media."</div>
<div>http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/philly/00-<span
></span>08-05-2231254.mp3</div>
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<b>WHY ARE THEY PROTESTING?<br>
</b>Letter to the LA Times 8/2/00<br>
A recent article in the LA times makes no mention of why the</div>
<div>protesters are in the streets; rather it drives a wedge
between</div>
<div>the protesters and the community the protesters want to
help. </div>
<div>Here's one person's response.</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/06/175228&mode=thread</div>
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<div><b>A MOVEMENT-BUILDING CRITIQUE OF PHILLY PROTESTS</b></div>
<div>by Chris Crews</div>
<div>Did Philadelphia build on the momentum of Seattle, and DC?</div>
<div>Did the movement get it's message across? This commentary</div>
<div>critiques what happened in Philly with the hope of hitting</div>
<div>harder in LA. "As this social movement grows, we need to
begin</div>
<div>to not only think strategically, but also about the big
picture.</div>
<div>Where do we want this Movement to go, what will that
direction</div>
<div>look like, what structural changes need to occur, and
how</div>
<div>will we begin to move there?</div>
<div>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=0<span
></span>0/08/06/1944211&mode=thread</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>FROM OTHER IMC's</b></font></div>
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<div>Washington, DC</div>
<div><b>MICRORADIO ALERT: INFORMATION & ACTION</b></div>
<div>The battle over public access to our airwaves continues to be
waged</div>
<div>all across the country. To date, the combined efforts of
the</div>
<div>microradio movement have staved off attempts led by the</div>
<div>National Association of Broadcasters and National Public
Radio</div>
<div>to kill or severely limit the FCC's Low Power Radio
initiative.</div>
<div>By no means are we out of the woods yet, as anti-LPFM
forces</div>
<div>are working closely with their friends in Congress to kill Low
Power</div>
<div>radio through an Appropriations rider later this session.</div>
<div>Here's what we can do to stop them.</div>
<div>http://dc2.indymedia.org/display.php3?art<span
></span>icle_id=3866</div>
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<div>Seattle</div>
<div><b>SEIZING THE HISTORICAL MOMENT: INTERVIEW WITH ANURADHA
MITTAL</b></div>
<div>by Sheri Herndon</div>
<div>Anuradha Mittal, co-director of Food First, has</div>
<div>been studying the effects of structural adjustment</div>
<div>abroad for years. In this interview, she takes on</div>
<div>structural adjustment at home, the relationship</div>
<div>between the conventions and the larger global</div>
<div>movement, corporate media's effects, building</div>
<div>solidarity globally and the power of independent</div>
<div>media.</div>
<div>http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?art<span
></span>icle_id=2791</div>
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<div>Mexico:</div>
<div><b>ZAPATISTA VILLAGE UNDER ATTACK</b></div>
<div>Paramilitary forces burned down houses and expelled 30
families</div>
<div>from a village in Mexico known for its support of the</div>
<div>Zapatista guerrilla movement, just as President-elect Vicente
Fox</div>
<div>is trying to establish contact with the rebels to set up peace
talks.</div>
<div>>posted to the Mexico IMC Sunday, August 6, 2000</div>
<div>http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?<span
></span>article_id=277</div>
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<div>In the Words of the Community</div>
<div>http://burn.ucsd.edu/archives/chiapas-l/2<span
></span>000.08/msg00019.html</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>UPCOMING DIRECT ACTIONS</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><b>Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in LA, Aug. 14 -
17</b></div>
<div>http://d2kla.org<br>
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<div><b>Support Microradio: Slam the NAB!</b></div>
<div>Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association</div>
<div>of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco</div>
<div>http://www.mediademocracynow.org/</div>
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<div><b>Protest in Prague Sept. 26 2000</b></div>
<div>http://go.to/s26<br>
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<div><b>Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October
3</b></div>
<div>http://boston.indymedia.org/display.php3?<span
></span>article_id=21<br>
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makers, organizers, and activists working to increase<br>
democracy and social justice by reporting events and<br>
producing information as acts of autonomy, resistance,</div>
<div>and liberation from corporate control.</div>
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The IMC was established to cover the WTO protests in Seattle<br>
last November. Hundreds of media activists have since setup<br>
independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City,
Prague,</div>
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