Month: September 2004
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Media EmergenC in San Diego
Now this is a reason to go to San Diego in early October — The National Association of Broadcasters is holding its annual Radio Show convention in San Diego on Oct. 6 – 9. The San Diego IMC along with Free Radio San Diego and other local organizations is hosting Media EmergenC, an independent media…
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eMusic Relaunching
The relaunch of mp3 download service Emusic would ordinarily be a little outside what I usually cover here, except for the fact that I used to be a happy customer during their unlimited download subscription days. Well, I also think that eMusic has distinguished itself in the typically stupid and corrupt music industry by focusing…
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Feds Raid Knoxville Community Radio
From a KFAR press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, September 15, 4:00 pm Knoxville First Amendment Radio (KFAR 90.9 FM) Station Raided by the FCC At roughly 10:00 am this morning, three federal agents rom the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Atlanta offices, accompanied by three US Marshalls, broke into the KFAR radio station in South…
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Friday’s Radioshow Now On-Line: Press Conference in Support of Champaign Man Charged with Eavesdropping Police
Yesterday’s radioshow is now on-line for listening and downloading. It features audio from the press conference along with an interview with Nicole Lamers, a volunteer with VEYA, the organization sponsoring the Citizen Watch initiative documenting Champaign police conduct. We also preview Monday’s meeting of the Urbana Public TV commission where they will be discussing community…
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IL ACLU Supports Champaign Man Charged with Eavesdropping for Videotaping Police Conduct in Public
Today the Illinois ACLU released a statement of support for Martel Miller, a local man charged with criminal eavesdropping for videotaping police traffic stops and documenting the disparity between how the police treat black folks in their neighborhoods as compared to how they treat similar conduct of mostly white University of Illinois students in Campustown.…
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Posting will be light
Messed up my left wrist, making it difficult to type very much, so posting will be light or closer to one-liners — the last post left me tired.
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Champaign, IL PD Says It’s a Felony To Videotape Them in Public
Two local Champaign, IL men have recently been arrested for videotaping police performing traffic stops in their predominantly black neighborhoods — the bogus charge is felony eavesdropping. I interviewed one of the men, Martell Miller, on the radio show on Aug. 27, and the archive is on-line for listening. Now that the word is out…
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NoRNC Phone Tech and the Evolution of Indymedia
Rabble of Anarchogeek worked this past week on a very cool last-minute project to make all sorts of information available by phone to protestors and reporters on the streets in NYC. He also posts his thoughts on the evolution of Indymedia, which I think are spot on. He identifies some strenghts of Indymedia, which I…
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On Today’s Radio Show: RNC Wrap-UP with A-Noise Webcast, U-C IMC Reporters Arrested and Detained
On today’s mediageek radioshow, we’ll talk to Sarah from the A-Noise collective, which provided 24-hour web-radio coverage of the RNC protests for six days straight. We’ll also hear the story of one Urbana-Champaign IMC reporter who was arrested and detained at the now infamout Pier 57 facility. The radioshow airs Fridays at 5:30 PM on…
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Feature on U-C IMC Reporters Arrested in NYC
Two volunteers stayed at the Urbana-Champaign IMC all night last night in order to take phone calls from our reporters who had been released from detention as well as keep tabs on one reporter who still remains in custody, but is in Central Booking and scheduled for release today. They used some of that time…