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World Social Forum Video Clips

November 15, 2008
Video in preparation for the social forum in Belem.
In preparation for the World Social Forum in January in Belem, there are now posted video clips which address different social movements.

Pandora: The Can Opener

November 14, 2008
Many of the Pandora initiators are long-time politicians on the Italian left.
http://www.pandoratv.it/ The mass media in Italy is pretty much controlled by billionaire/politicia

NYC Pranksters Recreate the New York Times

November 12, 2008
The Yes Men Strike Again.

Early this morning at several key locations around Manhattan, copies of an "alternative" New York Times were distributed. The website http://www.nytimes-se.com

Corporate Encoding and Indymedia

November 9, 2008
The working class newspapers have become cheap tabloids.

Indymedia and the Enclosure of the Internet Published: Sunday 09 November 2008 16:54 by Yossar

Civil Society Information Advisory Council's Recommendations for Participation in Internet Regulation

November 9, 2008
atitza Rodríguez is the Director of EPIC´s International Privacy Project and Coordinator of The Public Voice Coalition

How to create a governance structure for an open, just and equitable INTERNET?
Many of the civil society representatives who were active at WSIS--The World Summit on the Information Society--have been working for the past few months on a document to define future public participation (they call it "multistakeholder") in internet governance.
The metaphor "multistakeholder" is itself instructive.
Is this about real estate? Is the Internet property?
Who holds the stakes?

Letter Asking for Support of Canadian Community TV

November 8, 2008
CACTUS pushes for community media in Canada.

Dear Friends of Community TV, I want to thank all of you for your interest and interventions so far o

Guatemala-- Community Station Raids

November 3, 2008
Police have confiscated equipment at four radio stations.

Rosendo Pablo Ramirez, 34, and his five-year-old daughter, Abeth, beside a wireless antenna/transmit

Stephen Dunifer on Liberating the Commons

October 28, 2008
Liberating the Commons

Sunday Oct 26th, 2008 11:01 PM Liberating the broadcast spectrum through electron

Attack on Indigenous Community Recorded

October 22, 2008
The government claims it is willing to resolve this problem.
A LOCAL CAMERA CAUGHT A SOLDIER FIRING AT CIVILIANS AT CLOSE RANGE--PART OF THIS CNN REPORT This is a report from Mario Murillo: As the mass popular mobilization in Cauca and the rest of Colombia continues, the government of Alvaro Uribe finally addressed the five point agenda of the Popular and Indigenous Minga, a small

Community Media Forum in DC

October 21, 2008
The Latin American and Hemispheric Studies Program and the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University present
“Best practices and principles for democratic regulation of community radio and television in Latin America”

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:30-2:00pm
Department of Government, Monroe Building Room 428
2115 G Street, N.W. George Washington University

Eduardo Bertoni, Due Process of Law Foundation