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Hi Friends,

It's been awhile since we've seen you.

Let's get together for drinks and conversation on a comfortable downtown deck, overlooking Elliott Bay.

We'd love to hear your ideas and feedback on some recent stuff that's cooking:

* National Conference on Media Reform - we've got reportbacks!

* The Launch of "Listen Up! Northwest" weekly regional radio program

* Upcoming Campaigns: Digital TV Transition

* Community Needs Assessment, Broadband and Digital Inclusion

Please RSVP by Friday, June 27, if possible, to jonathan@reclaimthemedia.org

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The Grassroots Radio Conference 13 will be held July 24th - 27th in Portland, Oregon - with registration and reception open on Thursday, July 24th.

The conference is being co-hosted by KBOO, KPSU, KPCN and others. It will be held in Portland's lively, modern downtown, on the campus of Portland State University. Most conference events will take place at the Native American Student and Community Center, at the intersection of S.W. Broadway and Jackson Street, at the south end of downtown Portland. Some workshops will be held in adjacent campus buildings.

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The Grassroots Radio Conference 13 will be held July 24th - 27th in Portland, Oregon - with registration and reception open on Thursday, July 24th.

The conference is being co-hosted by KBOO, KPSU, KPCN and others. It will be held in Portland's lively, modern downtown, on the campus of Portland State University. Most conference events will take place at the Native American Student and Community Center, at the intersection of S.W. Broadway and Jackson Street, at the south end of downtown Portland. Some workshops will be held in adjacent campus buildings.

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The Grassroots Radio Conference 13 will be held July 24th - 27th in Portland, Oregon - with registration and reception open on Thursday, July 24th.

The conference is being co-hosted by KBOO, KPSU, KPCN and others. It will be held in Portland's lively, modern downtown, on the campus of Portland State University. Most conference events will take place at the Native American Student and Community Center, at the intersection of S.W. Broadway and Jackson Street, at the south end of downtown Portland. Some workshops will be held in adjacent campus buildings.

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The Grassroots Radio Conference 13 will be held July 24th - 27th in Portland, Oregon - with registration and reception open on Thursday, July 24th.

The conference is being co-hosted by KBOO, KPSU, KPCN and others. It will be held in Portland's lively, modern downtown, on the campus of Portland State University. Most conference events will take place at the Native American Student and Community Center, at the intersection of S.W. Broadway and Jackson Street, at the south end of downtown Portland. Some workshops will be held in adjacent campus buildings.

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Freedom to Speak!

Celebrating free speech, Reclaim the Media joins Puget Sound Access is holding a set of public forums on contemporary issues that confront this most basic civil liberty.

Click here for program details and directions. Speakers include:

Porter Bayne, Founder, Ameritocracy.com
Darcy Burner, Candidate, 8th Congressional District
Dow Constantine, King Council Council Member
Robert Cumbow, Attorney
Judy Endejan, Attorney
Bob Hasegawa, State Representative
Charles Johnson, Washington State Supreme Court Justice
James Neff, Seattle Times Investigative Editor
Paul Nelson, Founder, Global Voices Radio
Larry Phillips, King Council Council Member
Bill Ptacek, Director, King County Library System
Jan Strout, Codirector, Reclaim the Media
Dave Upthegrove, State Representative

For more information or to volunteer, call 253.479.0200 or email info@pugetsoundaccess.org

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Come apply for your converter box coupon! The digital TV transition takes place February 17, 2009. If your analog TV uses “rabbit ears” or a rooftop antenna and is not connected to cable, satellite or other pay service, you will need a converter box to keep your analog TV working. The Federal government is providing assistance. All U.S. households are able to request up to two, $40 coupons to help pay for the cost of certified TV converter boxes. Come learn more about the digital TV transition and sign-up for your coupon at this event, sponsored by the US Department of Commerce/NTIA and the City of Seattle.

For more information contact Jill Novik at 206-684-8583 or Brenda Tate at 206-386-1989.

For more information, visit www.DTV2009.gov or call
1-888-DTV-2009 (1-888-388-2009). Deaf or hard of
hearing callers may dial 1-877-530-2634 (TTY).

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Community Cinema Seattle presents a special free community screening of CHICAGO 10, followed by discussion with local activists and politicians.

Saturday, October 4, 4-6pm, at SIFF Cinema in McCaw Hall, Seattle Center (321 Mercer Street at 3rd Avenue). Cosponsored by ITVS, KCTS, KBCS, RTM, SOCR, & SIFF.

Reclaim the Media is pleased to join Community Cinema Seattle to help launch their new schedule of free film screenings. The version of CHICAGO 10 shown at this screening event has been modified from its original feature length to make more time for audience discussion.

Written and directed by Brett Morgen (THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE), CHICAGO 10 presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of revolution, then and now, CHICAGO 10 is a parable of hope, courage and ultimate victory, the story of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government.

At the 1968 Democratic Convention, protesters, denied permits for demonstrations, repeatedly clashed with the Chicago Police Department, who waged a week-long terror campaign that resulted in riots witnessed live by a television audience of over 50 million. The events had a polarizing effect on the entire country.

Our Seattle event will include local speakers to discuss ways that Seattle citizens can peacefully express their Constitutional rights to protest.

SIFF Cinema is located in the Nelsholm Family Lecture Hall on the lower level of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall at Seattle Center. The main entrance is directly below the skybridge from the Mercer garage at the Corner of 3rd Avenue North and Mercer Street. In addition to the Mercer garage, parking is available on the street (metered and zoned) or in adjacent pay parking lots and garages.

ITVS Community Cinema Seattle is presented by The City of Seattle Office for Civil Rights, KCTS9 Television Seattle, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Reclaim the Media and the Seattle International Film Festival.

Free. To reserve seats, call 1-800-930-6060 and press 3, or email chicago10@communitycinema.org

For more information visit communitycinema.org.

Bus: Several bus routes stop within walking distance of SIFF Cinema and Seattle Center. From downtown Seattle, take routes 2, 3, or 4 to Seattle Center. From Capitol Hill, take route 8 down Denny. Visit the Metro Transit Trip Planner to find other routes to McCaw Hall.

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LADIES FIRST (a project of Communities Against Rape and Abuse)

DJ MISS A, AMBER FLAME, ELA, & THEEsatisfaction

8:00pm open mic / 9:00pm feature @ Hidmo (20th and Jackson)

This will be a very special Ladies First, because it will combine three great things, ART, POLITICS, & ACTIVISM.

Fabulous LGBTIQ artists of color that are sizzling in their craft and move audiences with their talent wherever they roam in Seattle. We have Amber Flame and eLa mixing words and magic on the mic in the name of spoken word and truth telling and have both been featured artists at many notable events, such as Seattle Poetry Slam and WildRose's "Spit." Then we have the fab duo of THEE and Satisfaction combusting on stage to form THEESatisfaction mixing rhymes and beats sweetly. Then you have the home girl, DJ Miss A, turning out the 1's and 2's and making it look good…. These smart educated women spit hot fire, as they educate and inspire myself and others.

Dynamic featured organizations, National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF) Seattle Chapter, Reclaim the Media, and National Organization for Women (NOW) with their Washington NOW Women's Voter Project and Seattle NOW, because October 4th is the last day to register to vote. NAPAWF is doing a coordinated nation wide effort with Get Out the Vote (GOTV) with all their chapters across the country for NAPAWF's National Voter Registration Day "Be seen. Be heard. VOTE!" campaign. "Did you know that ...-Asian Americans are the LEAST likely population to vote... BUT once we've registered to vote, we are the MOST likely to vote? In the 2004 Presidential election, 40% of Asian American women were first-time voters? People don't register to vote because they don't know how, don't think they can, or simply forget! Registering people to vote is a way create dialogue and to get our community issues addressed."

NOW will also be there registering people online and have resources available about "Voter Rights and Protection" information from Rock the Vote, League of Women Voters and ACLU of WA, especially how to reclaim your right to vote if you have been formerly incarcerated.

Come and kick it, because there is no better way to take action then to party for a cause and have good conversation about the state of the world today. But more importantly, learn:

1. If you are truly registered, because as history shows there are too many marginalized communities that are disenfranchised due to "computer glitches." We will show you how to check on your voting status.

2. If you know where your voting location is. We will confirm your understanding of your district and where you will actually vote.

3. How to register yourself and others in your community and extended deadlines for registering.

For more information about the artists:
www.myspace.com/theesatisfaction
www.myspace.com/lastoftheredhots
www.myspace.com/a_flame
www.myspace.com/speakela

For more information about featured organizations:
Seattle NOW
Seattle NAPAWF

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GROUND NOISE AND STATIC: Free Speech Under Attack at the RNC

A community reportback on protests, police and arrested journalists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis/St. Paul

Sun Oct. 5 4-6pm at Central Cinema (21st and Union, Seattle)

Download flyer (pdf)

Featuring on-the-scene video coverage of protests and arrests from PepperSpray Productions (Seattle) and Submedia (Vancouver), followed by critical discussion.

Speakers include: Shamako Noble (Hip Hop Congress/RNC Welcoming Committee), Susan Gleason (Reclaim the Media), Larry Hildes (National Lawyers Guild), Doug Honig (ACLU-WA), and local journalists arrested at the RNC. Discussion moderated by Joaquin Uy (KBCS).

Cosponsored by Pepperspray Productions, Reclaim the Media,
ACLU-WA and KBCS 91.3fm Community Radio.

When PepperSpray reporters ran into Cindy Sheehan outside the Democratic National Convention they asked for her prediction of what will happen in November. Cindy said "One of the corporate candidates will win, and the question then, as always, will be what will the people do, not what will the politicians do."

It was exactly for this reason that Seattle's PepperSpray collective sent 2 reporters to the democratic and republican national conventions, not to gain access to the convention floors, but to cover the movement in the streets. We weren't there to document either party, nor the crimes they have committed. The list is so long and the crimes so bad even corporate media has been reporting that for some time now. What corporate media overlooks is the story hidden in plain sight, of the movement, larger, more diverse, and more creative than anything happening inside the conventions. The corporate media would ignore, sensationalize, or insult those gathered in the streets, but indymedia was there to cover the action, and to find out what motivates the movement and to give both strategic and tactical reports of the battle for the future of humanity. Meanwhile the two major parties spent millions on riot gear and more millions to buy "demonstration insurance" that would cover the lawsuits police might incur while doing whatever it took to keep the people down. Apparently in modern America the Bill of Rights applies unless somebody gives the cops insurance money.

PepperSpray reporters went bravely into the melee, collaborating
with Vancouver's Franklin Lopez to issue a daily video report from the streets. Both PepperSpray reporters were arrested, as were so many other media workers, but now they are back, with a terabyte of video clips. Continuing the collaboration with Submedia's Franklin Lopez, we have prepared a report-back from what Republican nominee McCain dismissed as the "Ground-noise and static."

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With a highly anticipated election just weeks away, Cascadia Community College and the University of Washington Bothell are co-sponsoring a panel discussion about the role of democracy in community media on Tuesday, October 21, 11am-1pm in room UW2-005 on the UW Bothell/Cascadia Community College campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Panelists for the discussion, titled Got Democracy? The Role of Democracy in Media, will be:

Naomi Ishisaka - Communication Director, OneAmerica

Jonathan Lawson - Executive Director, Reclaim the Media

Marshall Parker - Executive Director, SCAN Community Media

Geov Parrish - Commentator, Eat the State!, Saturdays at 8:30am on KEXP 90.3 FM

Sabrina Roach - Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM

Cascadia faculty members Danielle Powell and Deborah Wadell will moderate the panel. The discussion will focus around emerging trends in democracy and free speech in local community media.

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Dave Zirin on A People’s History of Sports
Downstairs at Town Hall Seattle, enter on Seneca Street.

Called an icon in the world of progressive sports, Dave Zirin is a columnist with The Nation, author of Sports Illustrated’s The Edge of Sports and the XM satellite radio show of the same name. Zirin views sports as not mere games, but a reflection of the political conflicts that shape American society. His new book, A People’s History of Sports in the United States, offers an entertaining chronicle of larger-than-life sporting characters and dramatic contests, in what amounts to an alternative history of the United States as seen through the games its people play. Presented by the Town Hall Center for Civic Life, with Elliott Bay Book Company.

See our Bookshelf section for a review of Zirin's previous book, Welcome to the Terrordome

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FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein will be in Seattle Oct 23 to discuss and explain the upcoming Digital Television transition, in which all over-the-air TV broadcasts will convert to a digital signal.

Bring your questions to one of two public forums:

Thurs, Oct 23, 3-4:30pm at the Seattle Downtown Library (4th and Madison; underground parking or any downtown bus route)

Thurs, Oct 23, 6-7:30pm at Asian Counseling and Referral Service (3639 Martin Luther King Jr Way S, Seattle; free parking or take #42, #48 or #7 bus).

BACKGROUND: When the digital TV conversion takes place on Feb. 17, 2009, most TVs (excluding those with cable and satellite service) will need a special converter to keep working. The Government is providing coupons for $40 off the cost of a converter box, but consumers must apply for the free coupons in advance.

Coupon application forms may be filled out at the above meetings, where you can also get all your DTV-related questions answered.

For more information (or for instructions on how to apply for coupons online), visit www.reclaimthemedia.org/dtv.

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Live From Main Street Seattle: Beyond Hockey Moms and Palin Politics

4pm-5:30pm at the Museum of History and Industry, 2700 24th Ave E in Seattle

Join us, less then two weeks before the election, as we move beyond lipstick and hockey pucks to investigate what real national security looks like at Live From Main Street Seattle. In this nationally televised town hall hosted by GritTV's Laura Flanders, an all-women panel will examine how issues of national security impact our daily lives and ask the tough questions about how to build a better future. Does the solution lie in our military or social policies? What are women doing to ensure security in their communities and in the world at large? And how does the militarization of our budget affect security in other areas of our lives?

Get ready for a conversation you haven't heard before and share your voice! Admission is free, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Click here to reserve your seat.

The Lineup:

• Martha Burk, Author, Your Money and Your Life: The High Stakes for Women Voters in '08 and Beyond. Martha Burk is a political psychologist and women's issues expert who is co-founder of the Center for Advancement of Public Policy, a research and policy analysis organization in Washington, D.C.
• Rosalinda Guillen, Community to Community Development, a women-led place based, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities.
• Carol Kessler, Director of the Center for Global Security for Pacific Northwest National Lab. The Center’s mission is to address the full range of global security issues by probing the impact of economic, social, institutional energy and environmental conditions that affect it.
• Sarah Rich, mother of Suzanne Swift—the Army Specialist who spoke out on rape and sexual harassment by her commanders in Iraq. She went AWOL was court marshalled and served 30 days in prison. She is back in the army again and will be out in January 2009.
• Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner is an author, freelance journalist, and consultant in the field of environmental policy and political strategy. She is the Executive Director of MomsRising.org.
• Erin Solaro, Author, Women in the Line of Fire: What you should know about Women in the Military.
• Sarah van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! Sarah has edited issues of YES!, written, and spoken on leading-edge innovations that show that another world is not only possible, it is being created.