Translations with Father Charlie: The Making of the Video

The March episode of Chicago Independent Television features tenants from the Kimbark Housing project taking on Chicago City Hall, commemorative events in Chicago around the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Black Panther Fred Hampton, a trailer from the forthcoming film "Workers Republic" about the famed Republic Windows and Doors sit-in strike, and a short film called "Zombie Apocalypse" about a Chicago perspective of the health care debate of 2009.

Read more about Episode 55 | CIMC TV Podcast | CIMC Video Page | CITV on YouTube

Portland IMC is a multimedia news service with a social justice focus. It is part of the international network, "Independent Media Center", also known as "Indymedia" or "IMC" for short. The mission of Portland Indymedia volunteers is to empower everyone to be the media by providing and maintaining the tools & audience using an anarchist model of organization. Portland Indymedia encourages and PULLS content from local, first-hand experiences through OPEN publishing. Instead of pushing content like traditional media. In other words, we provide direct access to media.

Once upon a time, a few years before the invention of blogs and Twitter and social networking sites, Indymedia revolutionized the way media is made. Back then when corporations & powerful institutions, like the IMF, wanted to black out insurrections and dissenting voices it was relatively easy to do so. They had exclusive influence on the media. Then here came this wild idea. This Open publishing program, written in fancy new code that enabled comments to articles! The news content was USER driven. And...

Click here for the video of this speech and others from the E-law direct action panel

From the open publishing newswire: KPFT was started in about 1968 by a group of people who thought Houston was in dire need of a Pacifica station. Larry Lee, KPFT’s founder, organized other people, raised money, and persuaded Pacifica to apply for a Houston license. After much difficulty, KPFT went on the air on March 1, 1970.

The political climate of Houston in 1970 was repressive. The Vietnam War and the protests it spawned were at their height. There were numerous attacks against alternative or underground groups in Houston as well as against various civil rights organizations. KPFT went on the air with controversial programming and was twice bombed off the air in its first eight months of operation, first on May 12, 1970, and again on October 6, 1970. KPFT received massive publicity after the first bombing. [Read Full Story]

KPFT just completed their winter pledge drive this weekend raising 261,000 dollars, 95% of the goal. This included a pledge of $400 delivered with a brick by a self-described Klansman.

Houston Indymedia began a program on KPFT in 2002 covering local news and social justice struggles in Houston and across the globe. Our show continues to this day, airing every Friday at 7:30pm. Many of the radio shows reports are uploaded to the news wire and on to the Radio Page. Thanks to everyone who pledged to support us this past pledge drive! www.kpft.org

The first edition of Buffalo Class Action's quarterly agitational paper can be found here. This edition contains two articles. The first, is a call for building a movement of tenants and the homeless throughout the city of Buffalo. The second article talks about the goals of an anarchist agitational paper and why we need our own media, as an anarchist organization.

You can find out more about our organization at www.BuffaloClassAction.com

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The February episode of Chicago Indymedia's radio program "From The Trenches" features a report from the Vancouver Media Co-op of Chicago anti-Olympics activist Martin Macias, who was stopped at the U.S. Canada border; Cynthia McKinney, who spoke in Chicago about her involvement in progressive politics and in Middle East activism; and an interview with freelance journalist Jessica Pupovac who spoke about how a story she wrote helped lead to the release of Michael Tillman, a Chicago man unjustly jailed for 23 years.

Download February episode | Chicago Indymedia's radio page | CIMC / FTT Radio podcast feed

Well, SOME news sources are worth checking out for political news. Others, not so much.

My roommate back in college admitted once that he spent an awful lot of time complaining about things (Usually justifiably, I thought) but felt he really had to make an exception once and to declare that the meal we were eating at a usually not-so-great cafeteria was really first-class. In the same light, I'd really like to commend the front-page piece in the Inky today summing up the health care summit yesterday. It's a solid, substantve piece that lets one know where all the players in the health care game are standing and where they're headed.

We're proud to announce the release of the 31st issue of the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Newsletter. Download the PDF for free:

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Comfort Zone Cafe 1002 Elmwood near Bidwell

Indymedia Meetings are now held at the Comfort Zone Cafe

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Haiti may not be the center of the world’s attention anymore, but the United States hasn’t turned its eye away. In fact, the United States military has embarked on a new occupation of Haiti—the third in the last 16 years, the Indypendent’s Arun Gupta writes.

“Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide “security and stability” to bring in aid, violence was never an issue, according to nearly all independent observers in the field.

The military response appears to be more opportunistic. With Haiti’s government “all but invisible” and its repressive police forces “devastated,” popular organizations were starting to fill the void. But the Western powers rushing in want to rebuild Haiti on a foundation of sweatshops, agro-exports and tourism. This is opposed by the popular organizations, which draw from Haiti’s overwhelmingly poor majority. Thus, if a neoliberal plan is going to be imposed it will be done at gunpoint.”

For more, see “The U.S. in Haiti: Neoliberalism at the Barrel of a Gun,” below.

Also in the latest issue of the Indypendent: an analysis of the recent Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC; what’s next for climate change solutions after the failure of Copenhagen; and a look at the upcoming Oscars.

For more, see below!

Experience Is The Best Teacher: Bronx School Fights to Save Building Trades Programs As DOE Pushes College Prep Over Hands-on Learning || Beyond Port-au-Prince: Grassroots Women’s Group Brings Aid to Remote, Hard-Hit Areas of Haiti || Legal Floodgates Open: Undocumented Haitians Now Have Chance to Live, Work Legally in U.S. || Compassion of the Church: Springing Faith into Action for Haiti || Students Say: ‘NO FARE!’ || SoHo’s Real Fashion Victims || Unhitched: Married Couples Get Unmarried to Support Gay Rights || Affordable Housing Victory in the Bronx || WEB EXCLUSIVE: Haitian Journal: Beneath the Ruins, The Indypendent’s Nicholas Powers Finds the Hopes, Fears, Dreams, Confusion, Regrets, Anger and Generosity of the People of Port-au-Prince || Community Calendar || Reader Comments || Corporations Unleashed: Landmark Supreme Court Decision to Allow Unlimited Spending in Federal Elections || A Race Against Time: Push for Regional Solutions to Climate Change Gathers Steam || The U.S. in Haiti: Neoliberalism at the Barrel of a Gun || The Godfather of Microcredit: Muhammand Yunus’ Vision of ‘Social Business’ Is a Curious Amalgam of Left and Right || Bolivia Organizers Counter-Copenhagen Summit || Wastelands: Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish Proved Poetry Can Be for the People || Your Own James: Caribbean Revolutionary C.L.R. James Left a Rich Body of Thought; A Marxist Polymath Who Rejected Leninism || Political Films to Test Oscars: Will the Blue People Win?

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The latest edition of the Activists Against Racism Movement (AARM) newsletter has been published and is circulating around Rochester. The newsletter, which focuses on the issue of mayor control of the Rochester City Schools, includes articles from both members of AARM and the community discussing why we need to oppose the proposed takeover.

AARM has been active in releasing newsletters to the community, having already produced two since the start of 2010. I talked with Tim Adams, who works closely on the paper, to discuss the content of this edition, how they make the newsletter, why they do it, and more.

The Black History Month issue of the Public i is out on stands now featuring an article by Michael Burns on the history of the Douglass Center. Also in this issue is an interview with Deborah Thomas, at whose home Kiwane Carrington was killed. There is an article on all-white juries by Jan Kruse. The GEO's Kerry Pimblott writes about ensuring that higher education is publicly accessible. The Public i's own Belden Fields writes a satirical aritcle comparing the NYPD to the Champaign Police Dept.

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Rochester Indymedia journalist, Dawn Zuppelli, was interrogated and detained for over an hour by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) on her way to cover protests at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC. Upon arriving at customs at the Vancouver International Airport, she and her colleague Ted Forsyth, also with Rochester Indymedia, were asked the obligatory questions as to why they were coming to Vancouver. Zuppelli was tagged for further interrogation and funneled off to a check point area sometime around 12:05AM on February 10. She was released sometime around 1:15AM. She was taken into a separate room with other agents and passengers. The room was outfitted with sterile metal desks, two sided mirrored window rooms, and plenty of customs officers donning bullet proof vests and latex gloves.

Additional Information: Indymedia Reporter Detained in "No Mans Land" on his way to Vancouver Olympics | Independent media reporter rejected at border - Feb 6

Indy TV #33 deals with the issue of the proposed Mayoral Takeover of the Rochester city schools. Our roundtable consists of members of Community Education Task Force, which formed to oppose Mayoral Control and to put forward alternatives. Dan DiClemente is president of the Union BENTE (Board of Education Non-Teaching Employees. Ryan Acuff is with Rochester Students for a Democratic Society. Bishop Tillman is with Mission Consortium of Churches International. I represent a lot of the members in this community, non-teachers who work for the city schools and also send their children and grandchildren to city schools. The majority of my members live in the community and when you're talking about taking away their voting rights, which is what is happening here— they are looking to remove a school board that was recently elected by the public, they want to remove that voice they have in education and replace it with one person who would have control and say over all the issues in the city school district… We don't believe that rolling back on civil rights issues is the way to go. -Dan DiClemente BENTE We agree that there's a lot of issues with the education system, but the problem isn't that we need to have less democracy, but if anything we need more democracy and moves towards ways that empower the community more… more community control over schools not less. So moving towards different reforms such as non partisan elections, participatory budgeting, ways that the community can be more directly involved. -Ryan Acuff, SDS I'm in opposition to Mayor Duffy being in control of the schools because he does not have the background… Neither have I seen the qualified consulting of people who can help him make such a decision of changing over one of the most important systems in Rochester… that system that trains and educates our children. -Bishop Tillman Watch Show Here

Indy TV #33 Extra! Interviews with the Community Education Task Force