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News :: Media |
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Chicago Community Broadcaster Caught in Funding Fight |
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by Mitchell Szczepanczyk, CIMC |
04 Feb 2004
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Chicago Access Network Television (CAN
TV), the cable-access broadcaster in Chicago, is amid a funding fight for the second time in
two years. The cable company RCN has
defaulted on a $215,000 due payment, which threatens the viability of the
network and a key media outlet for community groups (including Chicago
Indymedia).
Activist efforts won a similar funding fight with RCN, and the hope is
that community pressure can win the day again. The next stage in the
struggle is a City Cable
Commission meeting on February 10 in the basement of the Harold
Washington Library Center.
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : International Relations : Prisons : Protest Activity |
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Kathy Kelly Sentenced to Three Month Prison Term for SOA Protest |
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by Mitchell Szczepanczyk, CIMC |
27 Jan 2004
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 Chicago activist Kathy Kelly has been sentenced to three months in federal prison for "crossing the line" onto Fort Benning property during a November protest against the military institute in Georgia formerly known as the School of the Americas.
Kelly, a founder of the activist group Voices In The Wilderness, was among
28 activists who faced charges of trespass. Other former and current Chicagoans who were tried and convicted include minister Don Beisswenger (six months in federal prison and $1000 fine), hospital chaplain David Corcoran (six months), and educator Faith Fippinger (three months).
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News :: Miscellaneous |
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Cook County's Sea of Corruption |
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by DB |
24 Jan 2004
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 On October 17, 2003, six Cook County employees died during a fire that erupted at ceiling level on the 12th-floor of the County Administration Building at 69 E. Washington in Chicago's Loop. The six workers, including well-known Chicago feminist author Felice Lichaw, died when they were trapped in a smoke-filled stairwell by doors that locked behind them.
Testifying before an independent committee appointed to investigate the fire, an official who lost three employees in the fire compared the deaths to the deaths of the Willis children in 1994, and blamed the fire on "an ocean of political corruption" that allowed an unqualified firm to manage the building. Full Story |
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Announcement :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Environment : Globalization : Labor : Media : Peace : Protest Activity |
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News from the Underground, a festival of autonomous media |
by Thomas Yun
Email: mayday (nospam) riseup.net |
07 Jan 2004
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 Chicago Indymedia and Hasta Cuando have collaborated to bring you News from the Underground, a festival of autonomous media. This city-wide, two day media festival will features videos, music, photography, and food. Chicago Indymedia's video collective will debut the premiere episode of Chicago Independent Television at the festival.
The festival will take place January 16 and 17. Venues will be Women in the Director's Chair on the 16th and Decima Musa on the 17th.
 Festival sponsors include Polve Arte, Ritual Multimedia, Labor Beat / Labor Express, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, Producciones en el Ojo, and Chicago Media Action.
festival flyer
more information about the video collective
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Review :: Miscellaneous |
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A 2003 Chicago Indymedia Year In Review |
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by Mitchell Szczepanczyk, CIMC |
06 Jan 2004
Modified: 06:12:02 PM |
The Congress Hotel strike and the FCC fight, the FTAA in Miami and the WTO in Cancun, resolutions against war on Iraq and against the USA PATRIOT Act, gay rights victories in Texas and Massachusetts, the emptying of Death Row and the filling of jail cells with Lake Shore Drive protestors, Rachel Corrie and Edward Said, Rene Maxwell and Juancho Donahue--this is 2003 as told by those who posted to Chicago Indymedia. |
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