[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL

[jonathan lawson]

Approve.

Martha Baskin did a nice piece on Real Change for Free Speech Radio News 
during the NAB; I'll create a link and add that as well. Good one.

jl

At 09:14 AM 10/5/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I will be leaving the house around 11:00 and will not
>be home until 6:00. If this article gets the requisite
>votes during that time could somebody please post the
>article. I am hoping I will get thumbs up before I
>leave but just in case I don't I want to make sure it
>gets posted ASAP since the conference is happening
>now.
>
>L.
>
>[green bar] POVERTY AND THE MEDIA
>[title] Homeless work at breaking the media blackout
>
>In the deft maneuvering of politics, compromise is
>often the name of the game. And in issues of
>homelessness this is no different. Politicians often
>give lip service to helping the homeless and pass
>legislation to this effect. However, in the
>self-congratulatory fashion of politics and <a
>href="http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=homeless15m&date=20010815&query=%22Timothy+Harris%22+AND+%22Real+Change%22">corporate
>media</a>, the details of service <a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18166&group=webcast">cutbacks</a>
>are lost. <a
>href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=18211&group=webcast">Causes</a>
>of homelessness are often unacknowledged, so media
>activists have stepped in to fill the void.
>
>A plethora of 'street newspapers' have opened shop
>around the world to provide a forum for the homeless,
>providing income for homeless vendors who - as in the
>case of Seattle's street paper, Real Change - keep 75%
>of the sales. Though some of these papers have been
>lambasted for providing <a
>href="http://www.realchangenews.org/real_change_org/thevision.html">uninspired
>reading</a>, others thoughtfully provide a <a
>href="http://www.alternet.org/sns/story.html?StoryID=14054">human
>face</a> to the problem of homelessness.
>
>A <a
>href="http://www.kwru.org/conference">conference</a>
>in Philadelphia this weekend has taken the task of
>educating people about issues of media democracy, its
>relation to the homeless and the importance of
>coalition building in order to break the media
>blackout.
>
><a href="http://www.phillyimc.org/">Philadelphia
>Independent Media Center</a>, <a
>href="www.realchangenews.org/">Real Change</a>
>
>
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