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The Washington News Council presents a Public Forum:

Today’s News: A ‘Webolution’ In Progress
Monday, Sept. 17, 2007, 6:30-9 P.M.

at the Seattle Public Library
Microsoft Auditorium

Moderator: Merrill Brown (former Editor-In-Chief and Senior VP, MSNBC)

Panelists:
Joan McCarter (blogger, DailyKos)

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Eastside Fellowship of Reconciliation presents:

War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
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Wednesday September 26, 7p.m., doors open 6:00
The Bradford Center, 752 108th Ave. NE, Downtown Bellevue

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The 4th Independent South Asian Film Festival kicks off Oct. 3 with a musical performance and a short documentary on community media in rural India.

Voices of Kutch

(Chaitanya Modak, 2006, India, Kutchi with English subtitles, 34 mins.)

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Reclaim the Media presents a group of exciting new films documenting and celebrating the power of community media to deepen social justice and expand the power of the people.

On Sun. Oct 21, Radios Populares (Chicago) will conduct a workshop on community radio and social movement organizing ((Details here).

Featured films:

• Pirate Radio USA (SEATTLE PREMIERE Sun. Oct. 21, 7pm and 9:30pm; presented by filmmakers Jeff Pearson and Mary Jones)
Seattle-based filmmakakers "DJ's Him and Her" take you on a live tour of the underground world of illegal broadcasting in the USA. Radio Davids battle Media Goliaths and find out the real price of freedom.

• Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad/A Little Bit of So Much Truth (Mon. Oct. 22, 7pm; presented by filmmaker Jill Friedberg)
When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...They TOOK the media. In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

• Making Waves (SEATTLE PREMIERE Mon. Oct. 22, 9pm)
PREMIERE. If the public took back the airwaves, what would they sound like? Armed with the First Amendment, Tucson radio pirates use unlicensed radio as a form of civil disobedience, protesting the lack of individual expression and diversity on the airwaves and the FCC regulations that make getting licensed a nearly insurmountable challenge. For one station, this means providing real alternatives to 'alternative' music. For others, it means educating the public about its Constitutional rights. aking Waves takes a frank look at these pirates and their motivations, both political and personal.

• Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television (SEATTLE PREMIERE Tues. Oct. 23, 7pm; presented by Paper Tiger cofounder DeeDee Halleck)
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media for 25 years, and its groundbreaking productions have influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world. Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger TV tells the story of how this NYC video collective has grown and evolved since 1981. It’s a jubilant mosaic of archival footage featuring interviews with media critics and historians as well as current and past Tigers.

• Waves of Change: a panel discussion
(Tues. Oct 23, following Paper Tiger)
a panel discussion on the future of community media broadcasting. Guests include DeeDee Halleck (Deep Dish TV), Jill Freidberg (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad), Joaquin Uy (KBCS 91.3FM Community Radio), Marissa Chavez (Youth Media Institute), Jeff Reifman (NewsCloud.com), Marshall Parker (SCAN-TV), Jonathan Lawson and Karen Toering (Reclaim the Media), and other community media practitioners, evangelists and pioneers.

Film screenings will take place in Seattle's coolest microcinema/restaurant, Central Cinema in Seattle's Central District. Check this page for details.

The Reclaim the Media Community Media Film Festival is cosponsored by KBCS 91.3FM and the Northwest Community Radio Network.

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Reclaim the Media presents a group of exciting new films documenting and celebrating the power of community media to deepen social justice and expand the power of the people.

On Sun. Oct 21, Radios Populares (Chicago) will conduct a workshop on community radio and social movement organizing ((Details here).

Featured films:

• Pirate Radio USA (SEATTLE PREMIERE Sun. Oct. 21, 7pm and 9:30pm; presented by filmmakers Jeff Pearson and Mary Jones)
Seattle-based filmmakakers "DJ's Him and Her" take you on a live tour of the underground world of illegal broadcasting in the USA. Radio Davids battle Media Goliaths and find out the real price of freedom.

• Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad/A Little Bit of So Much Truth (Mon. Oct. 22, 7pm; presented by filmmaker Jill Friedberg)
When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...They TOOK the media. In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

• Making Waves (SEATTLE PREMIERE Mon. Oct. 22, 9pm)
PREMIERE. If the public took back the airwaves, what would they sound like? Armed with the First Amendment, Tucson radio pirates use unlicensed radio as a form of civil disobedience, protesting the lack of individual expression and diversity on the airwaves and the FCC regulations that make getting licensed a nearly insurmountable challenge. For one station, this means providing real alternatives to 'alternative' music. For others, it means educating the public about its Constitutional rights. aking Waves takes a frank look at these pirates and their motivations, both political and personal.

• Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television (SEATTLE PREMIERE Tues. Oct. 23, 7pm; presented by Paper Tiger cofounder DeeDee Halleck)
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media for 25 years, and its groundbreaking productions have influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world. Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger TV tells the story of how this NYC video collective has grown and evolved since 1981. It’s a jubilant mosaic of archival footage featuring interviews with media critics and historians as well as current and past Tigers.

• Waves of Change: a panel discussion
(Tues. Oct 23, following Paper Tiger)
a panel discussion on the future of community media broadcasting. Guests include DeeDee Halleck (Deep Dish TV), Jill Freidberg (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad), Joaquin Uy (KBCS 91.3FM Community Radio), Marissa Chavez (Youth Media Institute), Jeff Reifman (NewsCloud.com), Marshall Parker (SCAN-TV), Jonathan Lawson and Karen Toering (Reclaim the Media), and other community media practitioners, evangelists and pioneers.

Film screenings will take place in Seattle's coolest microcinema/restaurant, Central Cinema in Seattle's Central District. Check this page for details.

The Reclaim the Media Community Media Film Festival is cosponsored by KBCS 91.3FM and the Northwest Community Radio Network.

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Reclaim the Media presents a group of exciting new films documenting and celebrating the power of community media to deepen social justice and expand the power of the people.

On Sun. Oct 21, Radios Populares (Chicago) will conduct a workshop on community radio and social movement organizing ((Details here).

Featured films:

• Pirate Radio USA (SEATTLE PREMIERE Sun. Oct. 21, 7pm and 9:30pm; presented by filmmakers Jeff Pearson and Mary Jones)
Seattle-based filmmakakers "DJ's Him and Her" take you on a live tour of the underground world of illegal broadcasting in the USA. Radio Davids battle Media Goliaths and find out the real price of freedom.

• Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad/A Little Bit of So Much Truth (Mon. Oct. 22, 7pm; presented by filmmaker Jill Friedberg)
When the people of Oaxaca decided they'd had enough of bad government, they didn't take their story to the media...They TOOK the media. In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some compared it to the Paris Commune, while others called it the first Latin American revolution of the 21st century. But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca. A Little Bit of So Much Truth captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice.

• Making Waves (SEATTLE PREMIERE Mon. Oct. 22, 9pm)
PREMIERE. If the public took back the airwaves, what would they sound like? Armed with the First Amendment, Tucson radio pirates use unlicensed radio as a form of civil disobedience, protesting the lack of individual expression and diversity on the airwaves and the FCC regulations that make getting licensed a nearly insurmountable challenge. For one station, this means providing real alternatives to 'alternative' music. For others, it means educating the public about its Constitutional rights. aking Waves takes a frank look at these pirates and their motivations, both political and personal.

• Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger Television (SEATTLE PREMIERE Tues. Oct. 23, 7pm; presented by Paper Tiger cofounder DeeDee Halleck)
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) has been creating fun, funky, hard-hitting, investigative, compelling and truly alternative media for 25 years, and its groundbreaking productions have influenced generations of media artists and activists around the world. Paper Tiger Reads Paper Tiger TV tells the story of how this NYC video collective has grown and evolved since 1981. It’s a jubilant mosaic of archival footage featuring interviews with media critics and historians as well as current and past Tigers.

• Waves of Change: a panel discussion
(Tues. Oct 23, following Paper Tiger)
a panel discussion on the future of community media broadcasting. Guests include DeeDee Halleck (Deep Dish TV), Jill Freidberg (Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad), Joaquin Uy (KBCS 91.3FM Community Radio), Marissa Chavez (Youth Media Institute), Jeff Reifman (NewsCloud.com), Marshall Parker (SCAN-TV), Jonathan Lawson and Karen Toering (Reclaim the Media), and other community media practitioners, evangelists and pioneers.

Film screenings will take place in Seattle's coolest microcinema/restaurant, Central Cinema in Seattle's Central District. Check this page for details.

The Reclaim the Media Community Media Film Festival is cosponsored by KBCS 91.3FM and the Northwest Community Radio Network.

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The Union for Democratic Communications 2007 Conference:

Emancipatory Communication and the Global City
October 25-28, Vancouver BC

This year's UDC conference is hosted by Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, and will be held at SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus.

The Conference theme is 'Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City'. The keynote address will be delivered by Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Planet of Slums. Other featured speakers include Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer-Witheford and DeeDee Halleck.

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The Union for Democratic Communications 2007 Conference:

Emancipatory Communication and the Global City
October 25-28, Vancouver BC

This year's UDC conference is hosted by Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, and will be held at SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus.

The Conference theme is 'Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City'. The keynote address will be delivered by Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Planet of Slums. Other featured speakers include Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer-Witheford and DeeDee Halleck.

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The Union for Democratic Communications 2007 Conference:

Emancipatory Communication and the Global City
October 25-28, Vancouver BC

This year's UDC conference is hosted by Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, and will be held at SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus.

The Conference theme is 'Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City'. The keynote address will be delivered by Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Planet of Slums. Other featured speakers include Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer-Witheford and DeeDee Halleck.

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The Union for Democratic Communications 2007 Conference:

Emancipatory Communication and the Global City
October 25-28, Vancouver BC

This year's UDC conference is hosted by Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication, and will be held at SFU’s downtown Vancouver campus.

The Conference theme is 'Enclosure, Emancipatory Communication and the Global City'. The keynote address will be delivered by Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz, Ecology of Fear and, most recently, Planet of Slums. Other featured speakers include Dan Schiller, Nick Dyer-Witheford and DeeDee Halleck.

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Iran and the United States are on a collision course.

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Iran and the United States are on a collision course. In his new collection of interviews, Targeting Iran, David Barsamian presents the perspectives of three experts on Iran who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime; Iran’s internal dynamics and competing forces; relations with Iraq and Afghanistan; and the consequences of U.S. policy.

Presentation is preceded by a dinner/meet-and-greet; contact bbullert (at) antiochseattle.edu for more info.

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Reclaim the Media and the Future of Music Coalition present:

Rock the Net! with Matt Nathanson
Oct. 30, Crocodile Cafe Seattle

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Independent journalist Dahr Jamail presents his new book Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq

$5

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The Olympia Film Festival presents:
Advocating Activism: performance, discussion

This event brings together two masters of the written and spoken word, bearing witness to the violences of war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine.

Dahr Jamail will be speaking from his new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He is described by Howard Zinn as “a superb journalist,” whose reporting “takes us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation.”

Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian spoken word Hip-Hop artist, best known for her award-winning performance in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003). She has published three collections: Born Palestinian, Born Black; Drops of This Story; and Zaatar Diva. Her passionate performance captures cultural resistance to war, occupation, prisons, racism, dispossession, and gender inequality, while demonstrating the amazing ability to survive, to love, and to maintain hope through times of struggle.

This afternoon’s event is a benefit for The Rachel Corrie Foundation and the kick-off of our Advocating Activism documentary series in the Festival. For more information on the work of The Rachel Corrie Foundation please see www.rachelcorriefoundation.org

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The Federal Communications Commission has announced the sixth and final public hearing on media ownership issues will be held in Seattle, Washington on Friday, November 9, 2007.

The hearing time, and location are as follows:
400 p.m. -11:00 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Town Hall Seattle
Great Hall
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)
Seattle, WA 98101
http://www.townhallseattle.org/greatHall.cfm

The purpose of the hearing is to fully involve the public in the process of the 2006 Quadrennial Broadcast Media Ownership Review that the Commission is currently conducting.

This hearing is the sixth and final media ownership hearing the Commission intends to hold across the country. Previous FCC public hearings in the current review of media ownership issues were held in Los Angeles, CA on October 3, 2006; Nashville, TN on December 11, 2006; and Harrisburg, PA on February 23, 2007; Tampa Bay, Florida on April 30, 2007; and Chicago, Illinois on September 20, 2007.

The hearing is open to the public, and seating will be available on a first-come, firstserved basis. The hearing format will enable members of the public to participate via “open microphone.”

A live audio cast of the hearing will be available at the FCC’s website at www.fcc.gov on a first-come, first-served basis. The public may also file comments or other documents with the Commission and should reference docket number 06-121 when filing by paper or submit your filing electronically by going to http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/upload_v2.cgi and enter
proceeding number 06-121. Filing instructions are provided at
http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/comments.html.

Sign language interpreters and open captioning will be provided for this event. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Include a description of the accommodation needed, and include a way we can contact you if we need more information. Please make your request as early as possible. Last minute requests will be accepted, but may be impossible to fill. Send an e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice), 202-418-0432 (tty).

For additional information about the hearing, please visit the FCC’s website at http://www.fcc.gov/ownership. Press inquiries should be directed to Mary Diamond at 202-418-2388 or to Clyde Ensslin at 202-418-0506.

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The Jumpoff: A NY Regional Media Justice Skills & Strategy Session
Join Reclaim the Media and the other groups comprising the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) from 9am to 6pm on Thursday, November 29th at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network as we bring youth, social, economic, and racial justice organizers together with media activists in the NY region to build skills in policy development, policy advocacy, integrating strategic communications, and media activism and production into grasssroots social change organizing efforts, and strategic communications.

This day-long strategy and skills building session will be facilitated by the SPIN Project, a non-profit communications strategy group dedicated to working with groups to build a fair, just and equitable society that want to be heard in today crowded media environment; and by The Praxis Project, a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems.

Contact Betty Yu at betty@mnn.org for more information.

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Commemorate the 8th Anniversary of the 1999 WTO Protests

Download the poster! (pdf)

With the imminent release of the major motion picture,"Battle in Seattle", and the City of Seattle's $1 million settlement with WTO protesters, to be distributed this Fall, we will gather to reflect on the legacy of the WTO protests, to inspire the telling of our own stories, and to learn how the work for local and global justice continues in our region today.

Saturday, December 1, 2007
Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave, Seattle
$5 suggested donation - no one turned away for lack of funds.
Light fare and beverages provided.

PROGRAM: Doors open at 6:00
Opening Presentation: 7 - 8pm: The WTO today: are we still winning?
David Korten, Intl Forum on Globalization, author of "When Corporations Rule the World"
Garry Owens, Northwest LELO
Heather Day, moderator, Community Alliance for Global Justice

Workshops 8 - 9:30pm: Stopping the expansion of NAFTA (The Security and Prosperity Partnership); Connecting the local and global fights for food justice; Free trade, forced migration and immigrant rights; Patenting and Access to Medicines; Using escalation to win organizing victories; Ending the debt burden; Building alternatives to Free Trade Agreements; Reclaiming our history and the media; Non-Violent Direct Action; Biofuels - will they solve the peak oil crisis and lead to greater global justice in international trade?

Party 9:30 - midnight! Enjoy music, the People's Space for live performance, and the WTO Protest Installation:
Bring (or wear) your favorite WTO protest memorabilia for collective, temporary installation that night!

(Also, send your electronic images from the protests by Nov 25th to can@drizzle.net to be included in a powerpoint show)

CO-SPONSORS: Allyship, American Friends Service Committee, AnakBayan, A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), Arts Kollective Organizing Committee, Backbone Campaign, BALLE Seattle, BAYAN USA, Community Action Network, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Council of Canadians, Dyke Community Activists, Green Party of Seattle, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, Inland Boatman's Union, Jubilee Northwest, Moving Images, National Lawyers Guild - Seattle chapter, NAWFORD (North American Women for Diversity), Pepperspray Productions, Philippine-US Solidarity Organization, Pinay sa Seattle, Reclaim the Media, Ruckus, Sahng-nok-su, Seattle CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), Seattle Radical Women, Social Justice Ministries - Church Council of Greater Seattle, Student Labor Action Project, WA Fair Trade Coalition.

GET INVOLVED! *Co-sponsor (we ask that you help publicize and make a donation if possible): Contact Heather Day hrd99@igc.org *Join the planning committee: Meetings Wed Nov 21 and Nov 28, 7-9pm, at CAGJ office - 606 Maynard Ave S. in the ID *Volunteers needed Dec. 1! Contact Erica Kay: can@drizzle.net 206-568-7110, 206-351-2863 *Spread the word! for more info, please contact CAGJ: 206.405.4600

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David Domke and Kevin Coe discuss and sign The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America (Oxford University Press)

Dec. 11, 7pm. Free.

In The God Strategy, David Domke and Kevin Coe offer a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years--from the 1932 election of Franklin Roosevelt to the early stages of the 2008 presidential race. They conclude that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Sectarian influences and expressions of faith have always been part of American politics, the authors observe, but a profound change occurred beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. What has developed since is a no-holds-barred religious politics that seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms, proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations of Christmas. Sometimes these signals are intended for the eyes and ears of all Americans, and other times they are distinctly targeted to specific segments of the population. It's an approach that has been remarkably successful, utilized first and most extensively by the Republican Party to capture unprecedented power and then adopted by the Democratic Party, most notably by Bill Clinton in the 1990s and by a wide range of Democrats in the 2006 elections. With innovative, accessible research and analytical verve, they document how this has occurred, who has done it and why, and what it means for the American experiment in democracy.