IMC NEWS BLAST | Thursday, September 21, 2000

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IMC NEWS BLAST | Thursday, September 21, 2000

A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and audio
from the Independent Media Center on Thursday, September 21, 2000.
http://www.indybay.org/

FOCUS ON SAN FRANCISCO:
DAYS OF ACTION AGAINST THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS

OVERVIEW
As Members of the National Association of Broadcasters began
their three day national conventional in San Francisco yesterday,
activists from all over the country began descending on the city
to protest the corporate commercialism that the NAB represents,
it's misrepresentation of crucial issues such as homelessness,
immigration, and globalization, and its aggressive campaign against
Low Power FM.

While the NAB claims that microradio interferes with their "business;"
community groups claim that the NAB interferes with our democracy.

As activists confront NAB convention-goers, the IMC will be there
to give voice to the growing movement of people who insist that public
access to the airwaves is a non-negotiable demand in a democratic society.

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ANTI-LPFM | INSIDE THE BELTWAY | NPR
by Peter Franck
LPFM activist-attorney Peter Franck of the National Lawyers Guild Committee
on Democratic Communications knocks out a superb assessment of 
pending anti-LPFM
legislation and National Public Radio's present campaign to crush low-power
community radio before it legally takes off.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=78


SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS & STATE? NAB, FCC, & CONGRESS COLLABORATE
by Ben Clarke
Attacks on micro radio, millions to buy congress, monotonous white-dominated
TV. Welcome to the world of the NAB!
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=57


MOVING THE MEDIA REVOLUTION FORWARD
IMC's Sheri Herndon Interviews  Robert W. McChesney
"I think we need to demand things from commercial broadcasters for the use
of the spectrum, and the things I would immediately say we should demand
of them is that they not run any television paid political ads which basically
urinate on our political culture...we should take all the commercials off
television news as well and divest those from the owners and make them the
property of collectives of journalists...."
http://www.la-indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3493


NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF WOMEN DEMONSTRATES AGAINST THE NAB
by feight
Reportback from the National Organization of Women's Sept 20 demonstration.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=66
Medea Benjamin talks with Patrica Ireland at the NOW demo:
http://lincoln.transbay.net/~indy/local/webcast/uploads/dummy2.ram


INTERVIEW WITH STEPHEN DUNIFER
by John Tarleton
Stephen Dunifer launched Radio Free Berkeley in 1993 with a transmitter
the size of a brick. In this interview, he reflects on efforts to build a
grassroots movement to free the media from corporate control. Photos.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=59


LETTER FROM FAIR TO THE NAB
Drafted by FAIR and signed by media activists including Noam Chomsky,
Ben Bagdikian, this letter eloquently reminds the NAB who the airwaves really
belong to: communities, not corporations. Sign on, then send it on.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=97


CORPORATE MEDIA DIS DEMOCRACY
by Peter Phillips
Peter Phillips delves into how the politics of Media Moguls shapes the
minds and lifes of their audience and what effects that has upon the
state of the nation.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=22


FIRST AID FOR ACTIVISTS
by Black Cross
Basic First Aid information for radicals/activists from the Black
Cross Health Collective, including how to treat exposure to the kinds
of chemical weapons used by police against protestors.
http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4745


PHOTOs: ANTI-NAB ACTION, 1998
On October 4 & 5, 1998, LPFM activists swarmed the streets of
Washington, DC to protest corporate control of media and to demand
increased community access to the airwaves. Protestors gained control
of the space in front of NAB headquarters, and made off with the NAB's
flag, resulting in arrests.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=45
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=43


CATCHING UP WITH RALPH NADER
by chance martin
Transcript of Ralph Nader's meeting with San Francisco
social justice.
http://www.indybay.org/display.php3?article_id=23


LEGAL FOLLOW-UP FROM THE CONVENTIONS
Activists in Los Angeles meet to continue organizing in support of those facing
criminal charges from D2K and those brining civil lawsuits, and join together
in the larger, ongoing battle for police accountability.  There are 8 criminal
cases heading for trial in the next several months.
http://la.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3860


ZAPATISTA MESSAGE ON MEDIA
This 10 minute video message by the Zapatistas emphasizes the importance of
opening up spaces in establishment media, and in developing autonomous networks
of resistance and communication for movement-building. Posted to the 
Mexico IMC.
Video: http://mexico.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=271
(Text: 
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/ezln/1997/marcos_inter_media_feb.html)


BREAKING NEWS:
OCCUPATION OF VP GORE HEADQUARTERS: UPDATE FROM OLYMPIA
Updates from Olympia Direct Action
by Oly Earth First!
Yesterday more than 150 activists took over VP AL Gore's campaign headquarters
for more than 7 hours. This excellent post contains a summary of events, media
links covering the protest, and includes poetic narrative read at the 
beginning of
the office occupation.
http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=4758


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INFO AND UPDATES ABOUT THE ANTI-NAB ACTIONS AND EVENTS
See Media Alliance's killer web site:
http://www.mediademocracynow.org/

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"It's not to late to take advantage of the fact that radio and
television stations are not yet guarded by troops."
--Siutuationist Observation

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UPCOMING DIRECT ACTIONS

Protest in Prague Sept. 26 2000
http://go.to/s26

Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
http://www.bostoncan.net/o3a.html

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INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER
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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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