Free Speech TV (FSTV)
delivers hard hitting, independent, and informative programming via cable
tv to seven million homes every week. They have been broadcasting for the
last 5 years and now, thanks to a recent FCC ruling, may soon be on air 24
hours a day, seven days a week. This would be the nation's first full-time
television network dedicated to progressive social change. FSTV also hosts
the 1st and only audio/video webcasting site created entirely by its
members. Free Speech TV reaches 200,000 visitors each day. FSTV has
offered site hosting of the media center's daily audio/video content,
distribution through their cable network of a 1 hour video program
produced at the Independent Media Center of the popular protest and to the
WTO on their front page, reaching 6,000 to 8,000 viewers each day. They
are also providing technical and organizational support for the
center.
Contact: Eric Galatas
Phone: (303)442-8445
E-mail: programming2@fstv.org
Protest.Net Global activist calendar site. Protest.net maintains the upcoming actions on the global indymedia site. Protest.Net is a community of activists who are working together to create our own media. By publishing a public record, calendar, of our political activities on the web we are taking a stand against the established media. We are standing up and showing that serious activism is alive and well at the dawn of the 21st century. Everyday from Kansas to India activists are meeting, organizing, and protesting to demand a better world for all. When the corporate media takes note of our activities it is only to spit upon our struggle. We are accused of being misinformed bleading heart hooligans with nothing better to do than march up and down blocking traffic. Yet the rich get richer, and we are told to be complacent, to wait for our due. They say the environment isn't being destroyed, it's ok to kill millions of Iraqi's with vindictive sanctions, that the billions living in slums just need to work harder, that global domination by a corporate elite is the only way. Activists around the world are fighting for a better world. We can't rely on the media establishment to cover our movements. We will rise up and seize the means of communication!
Paper Tiger TV is a half-hour public access tv show that has aired weekly since 1981 in Manhattan, San Francisco, and elsewhere. PTTV demystifies the information industry by investigating the corporate structures of media through critical analysis of their content. The project consists of over 100 producers, artists, and activists who work collaboratively. Paper Tiger has offered the media center help with distribution of video via the internet and cable tv, and technical and organizational advice and support. Several producers from PPTV plan to travel to Seattle to assist hands-on in the media center's daily functioning.
Deep Dish TV is a national satellite network that links cable access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and people who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. DDTV distributes creative programming that educates and activates, providing an alternative to the commercial networks' presentation of a homogeneous and one-dimensional society. Deep Dish TV is programmed on more than 300 cable systems and selected public stations, and reaches more than 3 million home satellite owners in North America. Deep Dish has expressed great interest in satellite distribution of video content generated by the media center, as well as, video links to the center's web site.
Whispered Media Founded in 1995, Whispered Media
is a San Francisco based group of video activists promoting the use of video to
support campaigns of evironmental and social justice. They collaborated with the Indymedia efforts in
Seattle and helped to produce "Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO." Their recent production, "Shut
'Em Down," is a 9 minute edit used to get people to DC for A16. They will collaborate with the other video
producer groups to make, "Breaking the Bank," the new satellite cast (on April 21) about the World Bank and the IMF.
Contact: (415) 789-8484
E-mail: whisper@energy-net.org
Changing America Changing America is based in New York and has affiliated video producers in San Francisco. They were very instrumental to the production of Showdown in Seattle - providing much needed behind the scenes technical support as well as producing many segments on the labor presence in Seattle. "Breaking the Bank" the new one-hour piece will largely be produced in their studios.
community activist technology (cat) is an anarchist media collective in Sydney, Australia. We do web and video production around activist issues and events. A major project is active - local activist events and news. We are the pedestrians, public transport and pushbikes on the information super hypeway. Plug into the radical info flow.
Radio For Peace International
(RFPI) is a shortwave radio station which began broadcasting its'
round-the-clock progressive, bilingual programming in September, 1987. The
goal of Radio For Peace International is to address the world community in
order to encourage and stimulate dialogue on issues related to peace,
including peace education, environmental issues, the elimination of world
hunger and the establishment of social justice. Using shortwave radio
RFPI's broadcasts are receivable worldwide in addition to their fully
archived web-site featuring RealAudio? files. RFPI's studios and
transmitters are located on the campus of the University for Peace
(created by the United Nations) in Costa Rica. RFPI is a joint project of
Earth Communications with offices in Oregon, USA and the University for
Peace. RFPI will feature audio content from the media center on their
daily Progressive News Network, and also broadcast a daily audio journal
produced in Seattle and streamed over the net.
Phone: +503-252-3639
or +506-249-1821
E-mail: info@rfpi.org
World Trade Watch Radio (WTW Radio), co-hosted by Norman Solomon
and Julie Light, will air daily from Seattle during the upcoming WTO
ministerial Nov 29-Dec 3, 1999. This one-hour program will analyze the
official proceedings and air the voices of international organizers and
activists who will converge on the WTO meetings in Seattle. The program
will be uplinked to the National Public Radio satellite for radio
broadcast, and will be offered free as a downloadable program on the web
in MPEG format, and also on the internet in RealAudio? form. WTW Radio
will incorporate content generated by Independent reporters working out of
the IMC, and will work with our international distribution network to link
their files directly to the web sites of media projects around the world.
WTW Radio is co-produced by the National Radio Project, Corporate Watch,
and The Institute for Public Accuracy.
Public Citizen Founded by
Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen is the consumer's eyes and ears in
Washington. With the support of more than 150,000 people they fight for
safer drugs and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources, a
cleaner environment, fair trade, and a more open and democratic
government. We stand up for you against thousands of special interest
lobbyists in Washington -- well-heeled agents for drug companies, the
automakers, big energy interests, and the like. Public Citizen is includes
the groups Congress Watch, The Health Research Group, The Litigation
Group, The Critical Mass Energy Project, Global Trade Watch and Buyers Up.
Phone: (202)588-1000
E-mail: gtwinfo@citizen.org
Fairness and Accuracy In
Reporting (FAIR) is the national media watch group that offers
well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. They seek to
invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the
press. They scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest,
minority and dissenting viewpoints. FAIR was established in 1986 to shake
up the establishment-dominated media. As an anti-censorship organization,
they expose important news stories that are neglected and defend working
journalists when they are muzzled. Ultimately, FAIR believes that
structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates,
establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong, non-profit
alternative sources of information.
Contact: Jeff Cohen
Phone:
(212)633-6700
E-mail: jcohen@fair.org
Adbusters is a global
network of artists, writers, and students, educators and entrepreneurs who
want to launch the new social activist movement of the information age.
Their goal is to galvanize resistance against those who would destroy the
environment, pollute our minds and diminish our lives. To this end, the
Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine and website; and
offers its creative services through PowerShift?, their advocacy
advertising agency. Published out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 40,000-circulation
magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural
environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by
organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured
on MTV and PBS, in the Wall Street Journal and Wired, and in hundreds of
other newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the
world.
Phone: (604)736-9401
E-mail: adbusters@adbusters.org
The Ruckus Society. Since
forming Ruckus in October of 1995, Ruckus has trained and assisted
hundreds of activists in the use of non-violent civil disobedience. We
either bring activists to us or we go to them. Our showcase venue is the
Action Camp. Through these trainings, they help people learn the skills
they need to practice civil disobedience safely and effectively. These
trainings contain cerebral elements as well as physical, like
classroom-style instruction for action planning, communicating with the
media and non-violent philosophy and practice. Safety and non-violence are
integral themes of each subject taught. Ruckus condemns and does not train
activists in any technique that will destroy property or harm any
being.
Phone: (510)848-9565
The Direct Action Media
Network (DAMN) is a multi-media news service that covers direct
actions that progressive organizations and individuals take to attain a
peaceful, open and enlightened society. DAMN places its coverage of social
justice actions into both historical and contemporary context so that any
audience will find the events and issues covered accessible. DAMN produces
the Worldwatch International news section for the progressive magazine <A
href="http://www.netural.com/lip">Lip based out of Chicago and other
alternative publications. News sources for Worldwatch include the DAMN
news feed, New York Transfer News Service, A-Infos, and others. Lip
magazine publishes DAMN's Worldwatch section, and is a growing voice for
independent media. DAMN has offered to host aspects of the media center's
website, provide relevant links to organizations in their network, and
assist with daily coverage of actions in Seattle. DAMN accepts as an
affiliate any media outlet, social justice organization, or individual
reporter who agrees to provide or disburse news for the service. While
DAMN provides a free space for the exchange of affiliates' information, it
also reserves the right to determine its own original content."
Contact: Jay
Phone: (304)291-1507
E-mail: jay@tao.ca
The
Direct Action Network (DAN) is a network of grassroots community
and street theater groups across the western United States and Canada who
are mobilizing to creatively resist the WTO and Corporate Globalization.
We are organizing and coordinating mass non-violent direct action and
large scale street theater-giant puppets, dance, drums, music, spoken
word, and graffiti art at the WTO summit in Seattle, November 29-December
3.
Phone: (206)632-1656
E-mail:can@drizzle.com
Media Island
International (MII) is a resource and networking center for
individuals, organizations, and movements working on a regional, national,
and international basis. MII is committed to collecting, processing, and
distributing crucial information addressing the social justice, economic
democracy, ecological sustainability and peace issues that we all
collectively face. MII dedicates its attention to developing associations
with alternative media and first-hand sources of information nationally
and internationally. Since 1991 Media Island has been a fiscal sponsor
helping stabilize various emerging social change groups. Media Island has
offered the Independent Media Center its organizational support and
advice, linking with their networks and databases, help with fundraising,
and fiscal sponsorship to attract donors interested in tax-free
donations.
Contact: Jimmy Mateson
Phone: (360)352-8526
E-mail: mii@olywa.net
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Corporate
Watch
Counter Media (Chicago)
Free
Radio Berkeley
Grand Rapids TV
Homeless News Network
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
(IATP)
Institute for Public
Accuracy
Inter Press
Service
Jam For
Justice
KO-OP Radio Austin, TX
LA
Media Coalition
Labor
Beat
National Radio Project
NY Free Media
Alliance
One World
Pacific Center for Alternative Journalists
Paper Tiger West
Peoples Global Action (PGA)
Seattle Independent Media
Coalition
South End Press
Tao Communications
Undercurrents (UK)
Videoazimut
Whispered Media (SF)
World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC)
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