Category: the grassroots

The Unversity of Illinois has a very unfortunate and racist mascot known as “Chief” Illiniwek. There’s been a strong movement for the last ten years to convince the U to rid itself of this tarnishing mockery of Native Americans. Today a group of students and supporters staged a sit-in of the administration building, which apparently…

I don’t do this blog or my radioshow to make money, and I don’t mind footing the minor costs of keeping it all running. As a result you don’t see this page littered with AdWords, banner ads or Amazon associate plugs. That’s why I’m asking you to take seriously my request that you support community…

I surfed on by the (apparently frozen in late-2003) ‘new’ Factsheet 5 website, but found a nice interview with Mike Hoy of Loompanics Unlimited, publisher of great titles like Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, The Art & Science of Dumpster Diving and Methods of Disguise. About twelve years ago I bought a Loompanics title at an…

I’ve been in the Denver, Colorado area since Sunday, and had the opportunity to make a trip to Boulder yesterday, which is the home of Free Speech TV. FSTV is the first and only nationwide progressive satellite TV channel, airing on Dish Network, with some programming picked up and rebroadcast on public access TV channels…

In case you haven’t been reading the Be The Media! Blog, here are some some links to coverage highlights of the National Conference on Media Reform and the Be the Media! conference, that happened in Madison, WI, this past weekend (Nov 7-9). (Of course, this is just a sampling of some interesting bits — read…

I am now here in Madison at the home of my friend, John Anderson, of DIYmedia.net. John is spearheading the effort to arrange webcasts of many of the talks and sessions at the Media Reform Conference and Be the Media! Conference, and he has gotten access to three different servers to aid this cause. Tonight…

The University is cutting the phone lines and not letting reporters anywhere near the studios of Radio For Peace International, so the flow of information is restricted, and will probably come through more informal channels for the moment. Here’s the latest update, forwarded to me from the Free Pacifica list: From: Chuck Scurich Sent: Monday,…

I received the latest update in the ongoing struggle between global shortwave community broadcaster Radio For Peace International and its landlord, the United Nations chartered University for Peace. Unfortunately, the news is not good (but there are glimmers of hope): 10/30/29 – The Copy Exchange – The University for Peace (UPaz) gave little ground to…

The Be the Media! Blog is now up and running. It’s a group weblog of indy-minded Be the Media! conference participants. As soon as the domain name propagates DNS, it’ll be available at it’s new domain — http://www.bethemediablog.net — but as of right now, it’s not working, so use the link at the beginning of…

My pal John Anderson at DIYMedia.net got his own opportunity to press NPR president Kevin Klose on the topic of NPR’s efforts to quash low-power FM back in 2000. John was especially interested in hearing what Klose had to say about NPR claims that LPFM would cause heinous interference to their station, in light of…