Category: the grassroots

Rabble considers the future of pan-national television, by way of noting that a new Central and South American-based television network, TeleSur, is about to go live on July 24. Rabble’s big question is: how “to bridge these more high budget TV networks with real bottom up technology to restructure how we think of and view…

Over at the excellent Stay Free! Daily blog, Jason Torchinsky asks what to do with the millions of analog TV sets when digital TV finally becomes the standard and analog signals go dark in 2009. His suggestion is: [something like] local, indepedent TV stations. Stations with a broadcast range of just, say, Brooklyn or Silverlake…

According to the Inter Press Service News Agency: The first operating licence ever granted by the Argentine government to an indigenous community radio station is being hailed as a major step forward in giving a voice to this sector of the population, while posing formidable challenges. The FM radio station, which has been operating without…

On yesterday’s radioshow I played part of a panel from last weekend’s Allied Media Conference, Radical Media: The Experience of Detroit. I played portions of the talk by Charles Simmons, who was a member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. Next week, I’ll play audio from Abayomi Azikiwe who has been a radio host…

Allied Media Conference is this weekend, and in usual mediageek style, I’m rushing to get zine #3 into print right now. Someday, I may release more than one zine per year… someday. My pal John at DIYmedia.net is doing a session on microradio and I’m doing a session on blogging. My focus is not on…

Although my Spanish is pretty rusty I’ll be very interested to listen to the Zapatista’s Radio Insurgente on radioActive San Diego. I hope they can archive the program for those who miss it live, or might want to air it on other stations. Update: lotu5 from radioActive informs me that the program is already archived…

I’ll be participating in a little session during the lunch break at the Wednesday Media Consolidation conference along with some of my comrades in independent media from the ‘hood. It happens at 12:30 PM in the Krannert Center Lobby, between the session featuring Phil Donahue, John Nichols and Naomi Klein and the one featuring Len…

Without a doubt, I have to say that the Allied Media Conference is the one conference that I most look forward to, and I’m glad to see that this year’s is scheduled and getting organized. This year it goes down June 17 – 19, in good old Bowling Green, Ohio, as always. The reason why…

Radio coverage from the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre is being provided on-line by Forum de Radio in English, Spanish, Portugeuse and French. The WSF runs through Mon, Jan. 31. I also understand that a Dutch webcaster, Radio ZwartRoodActief, has live WSF coverage, in addition to coverage of World Economic Forum protests at its…

Courtesy of Amoshaun from the IMC-Audio collective, here’s a list of known live streams of news and information coming out of anti-inaugural activities in DC: Live DC Radio Coop Site: http://dc.indymedia.org/ Stream: http://liveradio.indymedia.org:8003/cpr.ogg.m3u Call-in Number: 202-332-4481 Enemy Combatant Radio is Broadcasting 20th-22nd Site: http://www.enemycombatantradio.net/ Stream: http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/ecr-hi.mp3.m3u Call-in Number: (415) 864-1006 Portland IMC Web Radio Site:…