[IMC-News] Please Read: An explanation of the imc-news mess
Indymedia Tech Team
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Tue, 18 Jul 2000 20:19:09 -0400
Dear imc-news subscribers,
This message is an explanation of what happened on this list a few
days ago (the flooding of the the list with "unsubscribe"
requests) and why it happened.
Two weeks ago, Indymedia moved all it's mailing lists to a new server and
converted the lists to run on a new mailing list management program.
During the conversion of the mailing lists, some of them, including
imc-news, were misconfigured.
Imc-news was originally set up to be an anouncements-only mailing
list. Meaning that only messages and submissions approved by the
imc-news editorial group would be sent out to the mailing list and
subscribers to the list were prevented from posting. Unfortunately,
when the imc-news list was moved to the new server, it was
inadvertantly set up to allow all subscribers to post to the list.
A few days ago one of the subscribers sent a message to the imc-news
list requesting to be unsubscribed. This caused other subscribers to
reply to that intital message and thus initiate a self-perpetuating
flurry of messages to the list (a total of 93, to be exact). As each
person lashed out in their frustration, they actaully made the
problem worse.
Once the imc-tech team saw the problem we attempted to fix it. This
was difficult to do initially, because all the traffic that the imc-
list subscribers were creating was putting a significant load on the
server. The problem has now been completely fixed and we can assure
you that this problem will NOT happen again.
About unsubscribing from imc-news:
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requests to be unsubscribed from imc-news. I would like to take the
opportunity to explain to imc-news subscribers that each and every
one of you recieved a message (actually, you recieved this message
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, July 31, 2000.
SPECIAL EDITION: The IMC Reports
from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound
from the Independent Media Center
on Monday, July 31, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
PROTEST TV LIVE VIA SATELLITE FROM PHILLY
Democracy Now! and Crashing the Party!
Free Speech TV's live coverage from the Republican convention
successfully launched this morning with the broadcast of a
version of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now" hosted by Amy Goodman
and Juan Gonzalez. During the course of the week program times will be:
ECT 8am to 10am for Democracy Now!; ECT 9:00pm to 10:30pm for
Free Speech TV's Crashing the Party!
Please check coordinate updates: http://satellite.indymedia.org/
ACT UP! WELCOMES REPUBLICANS
By Kerul
Monday morning the opening day of the RNC, ACT UP
members risked arrest to drop a giant 30 by 75 foot banner.
The activists demand that George W. Bush take a stand against
high drug prices that result in the deaths of millions of
people with HIV in Africa and worldwide. They demand that
Bush publicly support the production of low-cost, generic AIDS
drugs in developing nations.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Monday July 31, @09:28AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/1428219&mode=thread
EIGHT SOA WATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
By School of the Americas Watch
Eight human rights activists were arrested this morning at
10 am in downtown Philadelphia in the street in front of City Hall,
while enacting the role of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA)
in repression and suffering in Latin America.
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @05:59PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/2259239&mode=thread
UNITY 2000 RALLY PREVIEWS POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
audio mpeg files by By Scott Harris:
1. Cheri Honkala previews poor peoples' march
2. Interview with Unity 2000 organizer Michael Morrill
3. Jonathan Kozol compares today's activist movement with the
insurgent movements of the 1960's.
4. Million Billionaires satirical skit for Unity 2000
5.Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch,
demands the torturers' academy be closed.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday July 30, @10:38PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0338227&mode=thread
TENT CITY RAISED AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
By Philly IMC (Martin Kelley video, Diane Audio)
Construction of the second tent city erected by the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union on July 28, 2000 in response to the Republican
National Convention
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @02:47AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0747253&mode=thread
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREG FUCHS
1. From the Silent March Against Gun Control
(the empty shoes represent the thousands killed annually by handguns)
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/30/0511205&mid=00-07-30-0511251
2.FROM THE HEALTHCARE MARCH
> Saturday July 29, @11:09PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/049220&mode=thread
RALPH NADER SPEAKS OUT IN PHILADELPHIA
1. Nader Calls for Health Care Reform
By John Tarleton
Ralph Nader denounced corporate control of the $1.1 trillion
health care industry Saturday, calling for a Canadian-style single
payer system that would provide health care coverage for 45 million
uninsured Americans.
Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @08:32AM
>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/1332227&mode=thread
2. A 5-minute segment of Ralph Nader speaking out against the
major parties for their failure to enact universal health care.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @09:01PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/021229&mode=thread
UVASHI VAID CRITIQUES BOTH PARTIES AND PROTESTS
By Philly IMC / Suzanne Baxter
Uvashi Vaid of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute critiques the major parties, and also the accomplishments
and limitations of an event like Unity 2000.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @11:41PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0441249&mode=thread
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
By czuckg@earthlink.net
Ten photos document Saturday's march against police brutality
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @01:49AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0649255&mode=thread
LADY LIBERATOR
photo of a radical cheerleader getting smiles and smirks
from Philly bike cops
by Christine de Pierro
>Posted tot he Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @02:27PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/31/1927233&mid=00-07-31-1928233
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
>Posted to the Mexico IMC 1am Mon Jul 31, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
EDITORIAL: DIRECT ACTION IN DEMOCRACY
By George Lakey,
Direct action can sometimes be useful even when it
lacks vision and clarity about strategic nonviolence.
The national conventions of both the Republicans and
Democrats will see various experiments in direct action.
Hopefully, the turbulence will encourage fresh thinking
about the injustices that haunt our society and that the
major parties avoid tackling.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/29/2036244&mode=thread
---------------------------------------------------------------
UNCENSORED IMC NEWSWIRE LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA
http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?currentview=newswire&page=1
PHILLY IMC LOGISTICS
http://www.tao.ca/earth/nyfreemedia/nyfma01439.htm
IMC RADIO
http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtml
---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>UPCOMING ACTIONS<<<
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in L. A., Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Slam the NAB: Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
S26--Prague 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
> Posted to the Boston IMC 12:51am Mon Jul 24 '00
http://boston.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=21
---------------------------------------------------------------
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media
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 and 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------
"By not having to answer to the monster media monopolies,
the independent media has a life work, a political project and
purpose: to let the truth be known."
-Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/freemedia/marcos.html
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, July 31, 2000.
SPECIAL EDITION: The IMC Reports
from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound
from the Independent Media Center
on Monday, July 31, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
PROTEST TV LIVE VIA SATELLITE FROM PHILLY
Democracy Now! and Crashing the Party!
Free Speech TV's live coverage from the Republican convention
successfully launched this morning with the broadcast of a
version of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now" hosted by Amy Goodman
and Juan Gonzalez. During the course of the week program times will be:
ECT 8am to 10am for Democracy Now!; ECT 9:00pm to 10:30pm for
Free Speech TV's Crashing the Party!
Please check coordinate updates: http://satellite.indymedia.org/
ACT UP! WELCOMES REPUBLICANS
By Kerul
Monday morning the opening day of the RNC, ACT UP
members risked arrest to drop a giant 30 by 75 foot banner.
The activists demand that George W. Bush take a stand against
high drug prices that result in the deaths of millions of
people with HIV in Africa and worldwide. They demand that
Bush publicly support the production of low-cost, generic AIDS
drugs in developing nations.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Monday July 31, @09:28AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/1428219&mode=thread
EIGHT SOA WATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
By School of the Americas Watch
Eight human rights activists were arrested this morning at
10 am in downtown Philadelphia in the street in front of City Hall,
while enacting the role of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA)
in repression and suffering in Latin America.
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @05:59PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/2259239&mode=thread
UNITY 2000 RALLY PREVIEWS POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
audio mpeg files by By Scott Harris:
1. Cheri Honkala previews poor peoples' march
2. Interview with Unity 2000 organizer Michael Morrill
3. Jonathan Kozol compares today's activist movement with the
insurgent movements of the 1960's.
4. Million Billionaires satirical skit for Unity 2000
5.Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch,
demands the torturers' academy be closed.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday July 30, @10:38PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0338227&mode=thread
TENT CITY RAISED AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
By Philly IMC (Martin Kelley video, Diane Audio)
Construction of the second tent city erected by the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union on July 28, 2000 in response to the Republican
National Convention
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @02:47AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0747253&mode=thread
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREG FUCHS
1. From the Silent March Against Gun Control
(the empty shoes represent the thousands killed annually by handguns)
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/30/0511205&mid=00-07-30-0511251
2.FROM THE HEALTHCARE MARCH
> Saturday July 29, @11:09PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/049220&mode=thread
RALPH NADER SPEAKS OUT IN PHILADELPHIA
1. Nader Calls for Health Care Reform
By John Tarleton
Ralph Nader denounced corporate control of the $1.1 trillion
health care industry Saturday, calling for a Canadian-style single
payer system that would provide health care coverage for 45 million
uninsured Americans.
Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @08:32AM
>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/1332227&mode=thread
2. A 5-minute segment of Ralph Nader speaking out against the
major parties for their failure to enact universal health care.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @09:01PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/021229&mode=thread
UVASHI VAID CRITIQUES BOTH PARTIES AND PROTESTS
By Philly IMC / Suzanne Baxter
Uvashi Vaid of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute critiques the major parties, and also the accomplishments
and limitations of an event like Unity 2000.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @11:41PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0441249&mode=thread
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
By czuckg@earthlink.net
Ten photos document Saturday's march against police brutality
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @01:49AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0649255&mode=thread
LADY LIBERATOR
photo of a radical cheerleader getting smiles and smirks
from Philly bike cops
by Christine de Pierro
>Posted tot he Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @02:27PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/31/1927233&mid=00-07-31-1928233
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
>Posted to the Mexico IMC 1am Mon Jul 31, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
EDITORIAL: DIRECT ACTION IN DEMOCRACY
By George Lakey,
Direct action can sometimes be useful even when it
lacks vision and clarity about strategic nonviolence.
The national conventions of both the Republicans and
Democrats will see various experiments in direct action.
Hopefully, the turbulence will encourage fresh thinking
about the injustices that haunt our society and that the
major parties avoid tackling.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/29/2036244&mode=thread
---------------------------------------------------------------
UNCENSORED IMC NEWSWIRE LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA
http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?currentview=newswire&page=1
PHILLY IMC LOGISTICS
http://www.tao.ca/earth/nyfreemedia/nyfma01439.htm
IMC RADIO
http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtml
---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>UPCOMING ACTIONS<<<
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in L. A., Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Slam the NAB: Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
S26--Prague 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
> Posted to the Boston IMC 12:51am Mon Jul 24 '00
http://boston.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=21
---------------------------------------------------------------
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media
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 and 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------
"By not having to answer to the monster media monopolies,
the independent media has a life work, a political project and
purpose: to let the truth be known."
-Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/freemedia/marcos.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
Suggestions? Feedback? Thoughts? Send to: greg@tao.ca
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, July 31, 2000.
SPECIAL EDITION: The IMC Reports
from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound
from the Independent Media Center
on Monday, July 31, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
PROTEST TV LIVE VIA SATELLITE FROM PHILLY
Democracy Now! and Crashing the Party!
Free Speech TV's live coverage from the Republican convention
successfully launched this morning with the broadcast of a
version of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now" hosted by Amy Goodman
and Juan Gonzalez. During the course of the week program times will be:
ECT 8am to 10am for Democracy Now!; ECT 9:00pm to 10:30pm for
Free Speech TV's Crashing the Party!
Please check coordinate updates: http://satellite.indymedia.org/
ACT UP! WELCOMES REPUBLICANS
By Kerul
Monday morning the opening day of the RNC, ACT UP
members risked arrest to drop a giant 30 by 75 foot banner.
The activists demand that George W. Bush take a stand against
high drug prices that result in the deaths of millions of
people with HIV in Africa and worldwide. They demand that
Bush publicly support the production of low-cost, generic AIDS
drugs in developing nations.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Monday July 31, @09:28AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/1428219&mode=thread
EIGHT SOA WATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
By School of the Americas Watch
Eight human rights activists were arrested this morning at
10 am in downtown Philadelphia in the street in front of City Hall,
while enacting the role of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA)
in repression and suffering in Latin America.
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @05:59PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/2259239&mode=thread
UNITY 2000 RALLY PREVIEWS POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
audio mpeg files by By Scott Harris:
1. Cheri Honkala previews poor peoples' march
2. Interview with Unity 2000 organizer Michael Morrill
3. Jonathan Kozol compares today's activist movement with the
insurgent movements of the 1960's.
4. Million Billionaires satirical skit for Unity 2000
5.Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch,
demands the torturers' academy be closed.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday July 30, @10:38PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0338227&mode=thread
TENT CITY RAISED AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
By Philly IMC (Martin Kelley video, Diane Audio)
Construction of the second tent city erected by the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union on July 28, 2000 in response to the Republican
National Convention
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @02:47AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0747253&mode=thread
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREG FUCHS
1. From the Silent March Against Gun Control
(the empty shoes represent the thousands killed annually by handguns)
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/30/0511205&mid=00-07-30-0511251
2.FROM THE HEALTHCARE MARCH
> Saturday July 29, @11:09PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/049220&mode=thread
RALPH NADER SPEAKS OUT IN PHILADELPHIA
1. Nader Calls for Health Care Reform
By John Tarleton
Ralph Nader denounced corporate control of the $1.1 trillion
health care industry Saturday, calling for a Canadian-style single
payer system that would provide health care coverage for 45 million
uninsured Americans.
Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @08:32AM
>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/1332227&mode=thread
2. A 5-minute segment of Ralph Nader speaking out against the
major parties for their failure to enact universal health care.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @09:01PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/021229&mode=thread
UVASHI VAID CRITIQUES BOTH PARTIES AND PROTESTS
By Philly IMC / Suzanne Baxter
Uvashi Vaid of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute critiques the major parties, and also the accomplishments
and limitations of an event like Unity 2000.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @11:41PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0441249&mode=thread
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
By czuckg@earthlink.net
Ten photos document Saturday's march against police brutality
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @01:49AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0649255&mode=thread
LADY LIBERATOR
photo of a radical cheerleader getting smiles and smirks
from Philly bike cops
by Christine de Pierro
>Posted tot he Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @02:27PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/31/1927233&mid=00-07-31-1928233
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
>Posted to the Mexico IMC 1am Mon Jul 31, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
EDITORIAL: DIRECT ACTION IN DEMOCRACY
By George Lakey,
Direct action can sometimes be useful even when it
lacks vision and clarity about strategic nonviolence.
The national conventions of both the Republicans and
Democrats will see various experiments in direct action.
Hopefully, the turbulence will encourage fresh thinking
about the injustices that haunt our society and that the
major parties avoid tackling.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/29/2036244&mode=thread
---------------------------------------------------------------
UNCENSORED IMC NEWSWIRE LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA
http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?currentview=newswire&page=1
PHILLY IMC LOGISTICS
http://www.tao.ca/earth/nyfreemedia/nyfma01439.htm
IMC RADIO
http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtml
---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>UPCOMING ACTIONS<<<
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in L. A., Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Slam the NAB: Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
S26--Prague 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
> Posted to the Boston IMC 12:51am Mon Jul 24 '00
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 and 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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purpose: to let the truth be known."
-Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, July 31, 2000.
SPECIAL EDITION: The IMC Reports
from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound
from the Independent Media Center
on Monday, July 31, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
PROTEST TV LIVE VIA SATELLITE FROM PHILLY
Democracy Now! and Crashing the Party!
Free Speech TV's live coverage from the Republican convention
successfully launched this morning with the broadcast of a
version of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now" hosted by Amy Goodman
and Juan Gonzalez. During the course of the week program times will be:
ECT 8am to 10am for Democracy Now!; ECT 9:00pm to 10:30pm for
Free Speech TV's Crashing the Party!
Please check coordinate updates: http://satellite.indymedia.org/
ACT UP! WELCOMES REPUBLICANS
By Kerul
Monday morning the opening day of the RNC, ACT UP
members risked arrest to drop a giant 30 by 75 foot banner.
The activists demand that George W. Bush take a stand against
high drug prices that result in the deaths of millions of
people with HIV in Africa and worldwide. They demand that
Bush publicly support the production of low-cost, generic AIDS
drugs in developing nations.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Monday July 31, @09:28AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/1428219&mode=thread
EIGHT SOA WATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
By School of the Americas Watch
Eight human rights activists were arrested this morning at
10 am in downtown Philadelphia in the street in front of City Hall,
while enacting the role of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA)
in repression and suffering in Latin America.
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @05:59PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/2259239&mode=thread
UNITY 2000 RALLY PREVIEWS POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
audio mpeg files by By Scott Harris:
1. Cheri Honkala previews poor peoples' march
2. Interview with Unity 2000 organizer Michael Morrill
3. Jonathan Kozol compares today's activist movement with the
insurgent movements of the 1960's.
4. Million Billionaires satirical skit for Unity 2000
5.Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch,
demands the torturers' academy be closed.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday July 30, @10:38PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0338227&mode=thread
TENT CITY RAISED AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
By Philly IMC (Martin Kelley video, Diane Audio)
Construction of the second tent city erected by the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union on July 28, 2000 in response to the Republican
National Convention
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @02:47AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0747253&mode=thread
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREG FUCHS
1. From the Silent March Against Gun Control
(the empty shoes represent the thousands killed annually by handguns)
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/30/0511205&mid=00-07-30-0511251
2.FROM THE HEALTHCARE MARCH
> Saturday July 29, @11:09PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/049220&mode=thread
RALPH NADER SPEAKS OUT IN PHILADELPHIA
1. Nader Calls for Health Care Reform
By John Tarleton
Ralph Nader denounced corporate control of the $1.1 trillion
health care industry Saturday, calling for a Canadian-style single
payer system that would provide health care coverage for 45 million
uninsured Americans.
Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @08:32AM
>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/1332227&mode=thread
2. A 5-minute segment of Ralph Nader speaking out against the
major parties for their failure to enact universal health care.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @09:01PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/021229&mode=thread
UVASHI VAID CRITIQUES BOTH PARTIES AND PROTESTS
By Philly IMC / Suzanne Baxter
Uvashi Vaid of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute critiques the major parties, and also the accomplishments
and limitations of an event like Unity 2000.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @11:41PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0441249&mode=thread
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
By czuckg@earthlink.net
Ten photos document Saturday's march against police brutality
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @01:49AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0649255&mode=thread
LADY LIBERATOR
photo of a radical cheerleader getting smiles and smirks
from Philly bike cops
by Christine de Pierro
>Posted tot he Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @02:27PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/31/1927233&mid=00-07-31-1928233
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
>Posted to the Mexico IMC 1am Mon Jul 31, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
EDITORIAL: DIRECT ACTION IN DEMOCRACY
By George Lakey,
Direct action can sometimes be useful even when it
lacks vision and clarity about strategic nonviolence.
The national conventions of both the Republicans and
Democrats will see various experiments in direct action.
Hopefully, the turbulence will encourage fresh thinking
about the injustices that haunt our society and that the
major parties avoid tackling.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/29/2036244&mode=thread
---------------------------------------------------------------
UNCENSORED IMC NEWSWIRE LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA
http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?currentview=newswire&page=1
PHILLY IMC LOGISTICS
http://www.tao.ca/earth/nyfreemedia/nyfma01439.htm
IMC RADIO
http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtml
---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>UPCOMING ACTIONS<<<
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in L. A., Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Slam the NAB: Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
S26--Prague 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
> Posted to the Boston IMC 12:51am Mon Jul 24 '00
http://boston.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=21
---------------------------------------------------------------
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media
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 and 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------
"By not having to answer to the monster media monopolies,
the independent media has a life work, a political project and
purpose: to let the truth be known."
-Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/freemedia/marcos.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, July 31, 2000.
SPECIAL EDITION: The IMC Reports
from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound
from the Independent Media Center
on Monday, July 31, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
PROTEST TV LIVE VIA SATELLITE FROM PHILLY
Democracy Now! and Crashing the Party!
Free Speech TV's live coverage from the Republican convention
successfully launched this morning with the broadcast of a
version of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now" hosted by Amy Goodman
and Juan Gonzalez. During the course of the week program times will be:
ECT 8am to 10am for Democracy Now!; ECT 9:00pm to 10:30pm for
Free Speech TV's Crashing the Party!
Please check coordinate updates: http://satellite.indymedia.org/
ACT UP! WELCOMES REPUBLICANS
By Kerul
Monday morning the opening day of the RNC, ACT UP
members risked arrest to drop a giant 30 by 75 foot banner.
The activists demand that George W. Bush take a stand against
high drug prices that result in the deaths of millions of
people with HIV in Africa and worldwide. They demand that
Bush publicly support the production of low-cost, generic AIDS
drugs in developing nations.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Monday July 31, @09:28AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/1428219&mode=thread
EIGHT SOA WATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
By School of the Americas Watch
Eight human rights activists were arrested this morning at
10 am in downtown Philadelphia in the street in front of City Hall,
while enacting the role of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA)
in repression and suffering in Latin America.
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @05:59PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/2259239&mode=thread
UNITY 2000 RALLY PREVIEWS POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
audio mpeg files by By Scott Harris:
1. Cheri Honkala previews poor peoples' march
2. Interview with Unity 2000 organizer Michael Morrill
3. Jonathan Kozol compares today's activist movement with the
insurgent movements of the 1960's.
4. Million Billionaires satirical skit for Unity 2000
5.Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch,
demands the torturers' academy be closed.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday July 30, @10:38PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0338227&mode=thread
TENT CITY RAISED AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
By Philly IMC (Martin Kelley video, Diane Audio)
Construction of the second tent city erected by the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union on July 28, 2000 in response to the Republican
National Convention
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @02:47AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0747253&mode=thread
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREG FUCHS
1. From the Silent March Against Gun Control
(the empty shoes represent the thousands killed annually by handguns)
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/30/0511205&mid=00-07-30-051125
1
2.FROM THE HEALTHCARE MARCH
> Saturday July 29, @11:09PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/049220&mode=thread
RALPH NADER SPEAKS OUT IN PHILADELPHIA
1. Nader Calls for Health Care Reform
By John Tarleton
Ralph Nader denounced corporate control of the $1.1 trillion
health care industry Saturday, calling for a Canadian-style single
payer system that would provide health care coverage for 45 million
uninsured Americans.
Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @08:32AM
>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/1332227&mode=thread
2. A 5-minute segment of Ralph Nader speaking out against the
major parties for their failure to enact universal health care.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @09:01PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/021229&mode=thread
UVASHI VAID CRITIQUES BOTH PARTIES AND PROTESTS
By Philly IMC / Suzanne Baxter
Uvashi Vaid of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute critiques the major parties, and also the accomplishments
and limitations of an event like Unity 2000.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @11:41PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0441249&mode=thread
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
By czuckg@earthlink.net
Ten photos document Saturday's march against police brutality
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @01:49AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0649255&mode=thread
LADY LIBERATOR
photo of a radical cheerleader getting smiles and smirks
from Philly bike cops
by Christine de Pierro
>Posted tot he Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @02:27PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/31/1927233&mid=00-07-31-192823
3
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
>Posted to the Mexico IMC 1am Mon Jul 31, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
EDITORIAL: DIRECT ACTION IN DEMOCRACY
By George Lakey,
Direct action can sometimes be useful even when it
lacks vision and clarity about strategic nonviolence.
The national conventions of both the Republicans and
Democrats will see various experiments in direct action.
Hopefully, the turbulence will encourage fresh thinking
about the injustices that haunt our society and that the
major parties avoid tackling.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/29/2036244&mode=thread
---------------------------------------------------------------
UNCENSORED IMC NEWSWIRE LIVE FROM PHILADELPHIA
http://www.phillyimc.org/newswire.pl?currentview=newswire&page=1
IMC RADIO
http://www.phillyimc.org/radio_sched.shtml
---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>UPCOMING ACTIONS<<<
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in L. A., Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Slam the NAB: Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
S26--Prague 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
> Posted to the Boston IMC 12:51am Mon Jul 24 '00
http://boston.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=21
---------------------------------------------------------------
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media
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 and 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------
"By not having to answer to the monster media monopolies,
the independent media has a life work, a political project and
purpose: to let the truth be known."
-Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
http://artcon.rutgers.edu/papertiger/freemedia/marcos.html
---------------------------------------------------------------
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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IMC NEWS BLAST | Monday, July 31, 2000.
SPECIAL EDITION: The IMC Reports
from the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia
A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and sound
from the Independent Media Center
on Monday, July 31, 2000.
http://www.indymedia.org
PROTEST TV LIVE VIA SATELLITE FROM PHILLY
Democracy Now! and Crashing the Party!
Free Speech TV's live coverage from the Republican convention
successfully launched this morning with the broadcast of a
version of Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now" hosted by Amy Goodman
and Juan Gonzalez. During the course of the week program times will be:
ECT 8am to 10am for Democracy Now!; ECT 9:00pm to 10:30pm for
Free Speech TV's Crashing the Party!
Please check coordinate updates: http://satellite.indymedia.org/
ACT UP! WELCOMES REPUBLICANS
By Kerul
Monday morning the opening day of the RNC, ACT UP
members risked arrest to drop a giant 30 by 75 foot banner.
The activists demand that George W. Bush take a stand against
high drug prices that result in the deaths of millions of
people with HIV in Africa and worldwide. They demand that
Bush publicly support the production of low-cost, generic AIDS
drugs in developing nations.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Monday July 31, @09:28AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/1428219&mode=thread
EIGHT SOA WATCH ACTIVISTS ARRESTED DURING CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
By School of the Americas Watch
Eight human rights activists were arrested this morning at
10 am in downtown Philadelphia in the street in front of City Hall,
while enacting the role of the US Army School of the Americas (SOA)
in repression and suffering in Latin America.
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @05:59PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/2259239&mode=thread
UNITY 2000 RALLY PREVIEWS POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
audio mpeg files by By Scott Harris:
1. Cheri Honkala previews poor peoples' march
2. Interview with Unity 2000 organizer Michael Morrill
3. Jonathan Kozol compares today's activist movement with the
insurgent movements of the 1960's.
4. Million Billionaires satirical skit for Unity 2000
5.Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch,
demands the torturers' academy be closed.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday July 30, @10:38PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0338227&mode=thread
TENT CITY RAISED AS AN ACT OF PROTEST
By Philly IMC (Martin Kelley video, Diane Audio)
Construction of the second tent city erected by the Kensington
Welfare Rights Union on July 28, 2000 in response to the Republican
National Convention
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @02:47AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0747253&mode=thread
PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREG FUCHS
1. From the Silent March Against Gun Control
(the empty shoes represent the thousands killed annually by handguns)
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/30/0511205&mid=00-07-30-051125
1
2.FROM THE HEALTHCARE MARCH
> Saturday July 29, @11:09PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/049220&mode=thread
RALPH NADER SPEAKS OUT IN PHILADELPHIA
1. Nader Calls for Health Care Reform
By John Tarleton
Ralph Nader denounced corporate control of the $1.1 trillion
health care industry Saturday, calling for a Canadian-style single
payer system that would provide health care coverage for 45 million
uninsured Americans.
Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @08:32AM
>http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/1332227&mode=thread
2. A 5-minute segment of Ralph Nader speaking out against the
major parties for their failure to enact universal health care.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @09:01PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/021229&mode=thread
UVASHI VAID CRITIQUES BOTH PARTIES AND PROTESTS
By Philly IMC / Suzanne Baxter
Uvashi Vaid of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy
Institute critiques the major parties, and also the accomplishments
and limitations of an event like Unity 2000.
>Posted to the Philly IMC Sunday, July 30, @11:41PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/31/0441249&mode=thread
MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY
By czuckg@earthlink.net
Ten photos document Saturday's march against police brutality
>Posted to the Philly IMC, Sunday July 30, @01:49AM
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/30/0649255&mode=thread
LADY LIBERATOR
photo of a radical cheerleader getting smiles and smirks
from Philly bike cops
by Christine de Pierro
>Posted tot he Philly IMC, Monday July 31, @02:27PM
http://www.phillyimc.org/gallery.pl?sid=00/07/31/1927233&mid=00-07-31-192823
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BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
>Posted to the Mexico IMC 1am Mon Jul 31, 2000
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
EDITORIAL: DIRECT ACTION IN DEMOCRACY
By George Lakey,
Direct action can sometimes be useful even when it
lacks vision and clarity about strategic nonviolence.
The national conventions of both the Republicans and
Democrats will see various experiments in direct action.
Hopefully, the turbulence will encourage fresh thinking
about the injustices that haunt our society and that the
major parties avoid tackling.
http://www.phillyimc.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/29/2036244&mode=thread
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>>>UPCOMING ACTIONS<<<
Protest Democratic Nat'l Convention in L. A., Aug. 14 - 17
http://d2kla.org
Slam the NAB: Protest The "WTO of Media" the National
Association of Broadcasters Convention. Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/
S26--Prague 2000
http://go.to/s26
Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
> Posted to the Boston IMC 12:51am Mon Jul 24 '00
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 and 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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the independent media has a life work, a political project and
purpose: to let the truth be known."
-Subcomandante Marcos, EZLN
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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
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
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
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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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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
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
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
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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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INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media
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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to subscribe to the IMC News Digest,
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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
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
BATTLE FOR INDEPENDENT UNIONS RAGE SOUTH OF THE BORDER
by Chris Cauthern Kutalik
Heavily armed police beat and jailed striking workers and
supporters June 19 at the Duro plant in Rio Bravo just over
the US border in the Mexican State of Tamaulipas. The arrests
and assaults came as the mostly women workers at Duro launched
an offensive to gain recognition for their rights as workers
to form an independent union and to end unsafe working conditions
in the plant.
http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=262
--------------------------------------------------------------
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
---------------------------------------------------------------
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Suggestions? Feedback? Thoughts? If you'd like
to subscribe to the IMC News Digest,
Send a message to: greg@tao.ca
---------------------------------------------------------------