Free Speech TV Newsletter, August 12, 2000 ____________________________________________________________ Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Browse through our library of hundreds of films and video or host your website with us. http://www.freespeech.org Watch Free Speech TV 24/7 on Dish Network Channel 9415. Get a Dish and watch Free Speech TV and hundreds of other channels. Learn how your purchase supports Free Speech TV. http://members.freespeech.org/dish ------------------------------------------------------------ This newsletter is underwritten in part by Working Assets Long Distance ------------------------------------------------------------ IN BRIEF: 1. Free Speech TV broadcasted a historical coverage of the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia from July 31st to August 5th live from the Independent Media Center. Using satellite and public access television, radio and the internet, reports of the rukus at Bush's coronation were one of few contrasts to the corporate media blackout. <http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/philly.html> 2. Tune in August 14th-18th. Watch our live coverage from the Independent Media Center in Los Angeles as tens of thousands mobilize at the Democratic National Convention: On Free Speech Dish Network Channel 9415, and streamed live on the web at http://www.freespeech.org. Also available on more than 40 Public Access cable stations around the country. (For listings visit http://satellite.indymedia.org) * Democaracy Now! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales 8am-10am (eastern time) * Crashing the Party: live reports from the barricades in LA. 9 pm-10:30 pm (eastern time) with radioforchange.com host Laura Flanders. 3. FEATURED WEBSITE THIS WEEK: Jam For Justice <http://members.freespeech.org/jamforjustice> 4. VIDEOS THIS WEEK: Daily coverage of Democracy Now! Ralph Nader at the RNC. Amy Goodman asks ex-President Bush if he's a war criminal for bombing Iraq... Billionaires for Bush or Gore try to buy FSTV... Crashing the Party from Philadelphia... Police crush puppets... documented reports of torutre and brutality against protestors in Philly jails... million dollar bails for misdemeanors... and more <http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/philly.html> Live coverage from LA starting Monday <http://www.freespeech.org> ____________________________________________________________ WANT A BETTER WORLD? IT'S YOUR CALL. Help save rainforests, defend reproductive freedom and house the homeless while you save money on long distance calls. Every time you talk on the phone with Working Assets Long Distance, 1% of your charges are donated to progressive non-profit groups -- at no extra cost to you. Click below for more details! http://www.workingforchange.com/services/join/form.cfm?formID=IE-071-FSN-1 ____________________________________________________________ Indymedia Convention Coverage 2000! on Free Speech TV Last week, thousands of Americans descend upon Philadelphia to confront Republican pols and fat cats. They challenged the establishment on issues such as campaign finance reform, universal health care, the death penalty and the reality of massive poverty in the midst of plenty that characterizes the world of corporate "globalization." Free Speech TV and the Independent Media Center in Philadelphia joined with hundreds of media activists to cover the action. At week's end, over 450 protesters had been arrested. On August 10th nearly 200 were still in jail, often beaten and brutalized by their jailers. Rabbis and Jewish community leaders in Philadelphia issued a statement decriying the city's treatment of protesters and "urged society to heed the demonstrators "prophetic voices." The Rabbis called on the city: "Do not persecute them for speaking out." (http://www.phillyimc.org) A new mass political movement announced its emergence in the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization last November. And with it was born a new independent media, young men and women with internet, camera, radio and writing skills, sick and tired of the homoginized balony they are fed in the corporate media, bored by the half-stepping "loyal opposition" pieties of the old "left media." The Philadelphia RNC was a focal point for newly galvanized, "no business as usual" forces from the east coast" The Los Angeles DNC is the mobilization point for tens of thousands from around the country who refuse to listen to another crop of forked tongued, corporate bought pols ooze how "they feel your pain" while they stab you in the back. Free Speech TV will again provide a television and internet platform on EchoStar's Dish Network Channel 9415 for national coverage of the week's events. The Independent Media Center will present dozens of pre-produced segments on the reality of life in Los Angeles, a white ruled, overwhelmingly non-white city that concentrates some of the nation's most intense social contradictions. These segments will form part of our 3 and a half hours of daily live programming. Please tune in for this historic coverage. You can watch it on the Dish Network channel 9415. If you don't have a dish, get one <http://members.freespeech.org/dish> or watch the programming streamed live on the internet at freespeech.org and indymedia.org. Democracy Now! can also be seen at <http://www.democracynow.org> Support Independent Media, enter your tax deductible online donation at <http://www.freespeech.org/donate.htm> Or send your check to: Public Communications Inc c/o Free Speech TV 2945 Center Green Court South, Suite G Boulder, CO 80301 ____________________________________________________________ FEATURED WEBSITE THIS WEEK: Jam For Justice <http://members.freespeech.org/jamforjustice> a project of the Independent Media Center, works to combine the worlds of music, art and politics until they become one. We are connected with what's happening in the streets; now is the time to turn up the heat. We need music and art to create the energy to take on our important social and political issues. Communication, coordination and action are going to move us forward. People around the world are waiting - are you ready? ____________________________________________________________ Missed something? You can see the convention videos and all of our 600 + titles at any time by searching our audio & video libraries at <http://www.freespeech.org> ____________________________________________________________ If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter please enter your email at http://freespeech.org/unsubscribe and you will be removed.
