Author: Paul

On Sunday’s show: I’ll play segment’s from Mbanna Kantako’s tape of the Federal shutdown of his micropower station, Human Rights Radio. I’ll also have updates on the most recent micropower station shutdowns and the final push to convince President Clinton to veto legislation aimed to kill LPFM.

Stephen Dunifer of Free Radio Berkeley posted an article to the Indymedia site declaring “FCC Declares WAR on Micropower Broadcasting – Fight Back!” He notes that there a number of new transmitter designs in the works to make getting on the air easier for new microbroadcasters interested in civil disobedience.

A post to the Downstate Illinois Radio Watch message board reports that there may be a new unlicensed station on the air in Decatur. The posted says the station is at 99.9 FM and is going by the name “Human Rights Radio.” Perhaps this broadcaster is on the air in solidarity with Mbanna Kanatko and…

Wired News has a story about Alan Freed and Beat Radio Minneapolis. Freed, who operated ulicensed Beat Radio until being shut down, lost his last appeal in the 8th circuit, challenging the constitutionality of the ban on low power stations and unlicensed operations. Like the outcome in the Free Radio Berkeley case, the judge ruled…

More on the Human Rights Radio Shutdown: As soon as the raid started Mbanna started recording things on his tape recorded. The full 36 minute undedited recording is now available in RealAudio at the Indymedia site, and in mp3 at the A-Info Radio Proejct site. Listen and hear our government at work. If you have…

On Friday, Sept. 29 at 5:15pm, pioneering Micropower Broadcaster Mbanna Kantako and his Springfield, IL, unlicensed micropower radio station, Human Rights Radio, were shut down by Federal Marshals and the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC charges that Kantako’s station, operating at less than 100 watts of power, threatened the radio communications for the Air Rendezvous…

The Downstate Illinois Radiowatch has a listing of the LPFM applications made in the state of Illinois. Note how many applications are filed by churches or other religious groups. I count 38 out of 83 total applications, which makes for 46%. Also note that all of these applications are for Christian groups–no other religion is…

The first preliminary meeting for a new Urbana-Champaign, IL (maybe all of Central Illinois) Independent Media Center happened yesterday, Sept. 24. Rationales for being and ideas for getting of the ground were discussed, and then, concretely, people signed up to cover portions of the S26 IMF/World Bank protest and education events planned to occur in…

Wired News has a nice report on some of the protests going on right now around the National Association of Broadcasters conference in San Francisco. They cover the mock “National Association of Brainwashers” press conference, cosponsored by Fairness and Accuracy in Media (FAIR), and the Media-Access Project.

The Indpendent Media Center reports that a “Philadelphia Police Warrant Accuses IMC’s of Orchestrating Demonstrations.” It’s part of a recently unsealed Police Affidavit used to justify the Philly Police raid on the protestors’ puppet making operating during the RNC last month.