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Join Pacifica Radio as we cover the 10th Annual Grassroots
Radio Conference, as hosted by Prometheus
Radio Project, in Northampton, MA. We will have live audio
links here while we broadcast.
Updates on the Pacifica specials on Independent Media, coming
from GRC10 this weekend:
Saturday night
Aug. 6
8:00 PM EST - 10:00 PM EST
[for affiliates: KU Left]
Opening GRC Plenary hosted by Amy Goodman
Gathering of media activists from around the world. Share
the excitement!
Amy Goodman, internationally acclaimed journalist and host
of the nationally broadcast daily radio/TV news hour Democracy
Now!, comes to Northampton on August 6th for a live broadcast
celebrating community media and the birth of a new Northampton
radio station WXOJ-LP.
During this public event—part of Prometheus Radio's
Grassroots Radio Conference and Radio Barnraising—Amy
Goodman will interview, among others:
Pete Tridish, co-founder of Prometheus Project, LPFM movement
Martin Espada, the Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts
Former SNCC field secretary, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell Sut
Jhally, founder of the Media Education Foundation Long-time
war tax resister and civil rights activist, Juanita Nelson
John Nichols, co-founder of the media reform group Free Press
Juanita Nelson, Long-time war tax resister and civil rights
activist. FOr more information about these guests, see below.
Sunday Afternoon
Aug.7
Report from GRC10 and Birth of A Radio Station
Sunday, August 7
1:00 PM 3:00 PM EST
[for affiliates: KU Right]
The program will bring you the sounds of this pivotal yearly
grassroots Independent media conference, cutting-edge discussion
about media, and the basics of radio-making from the ground
up. Edited sound gathered by participants from throughout
the conference will be featured, together with the conference's
culmination when WXOJ-LP goes on the air.
1:00 - 2:00 PM:
Sound montage of voices at GRC -
National Correspondent Larry Bensky interviews people from
the LPFM movement to explain what "Barn-Raisers"
are. (His program "Sunday Salon" in Berkeley joins
the national broadcast until 2 PM). Live national listener
call-ins
2:00 - 3:00 PM:
New Northampton radio station WXOJ-LP & celebration -
More sound montages from GRC and reports on media issues raised.
Information about Guests interviewed by Amy Goodman during
the Saturday night plenary:
- John Nichols
co-founder of the media reform group Free Press and the
National Conference on Media Reform. He is the Washington
correspondent for the Nation magazine and the editorial
page editor for The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin.
He is the author of many books including "It's the
Media, Stupid."
- Sut Jhally
Founder of the Media Education Foundation in Northampton
and director of many documentaries including Hijacking Catastrophe:
9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire.
- Martin Espada
He has been called "the Latino poet of his generation."
He is a professor in the Department of English at the University
of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he teaches creative writing,
Latino poetry, and the work of Pablo Neruda. He has published
seven collections of poetry. In 1999, Espada made headlines
when National Public Radio refused to air his poem about
death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal called "Another Nameless
Prostitute Says the Man Is Innocent." He is the winner
of the American Book Award, among other honors. He is the
Poet Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts.
- Ekwueme Michael Thelwell
He is a former SNCC field secretary. He is a professor of
black studies in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst. He is the author of several
books including The Harder They Come. He co-wrote with Stokely
Carmichael's "Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles
of Stokely Carmichael" which came out last year.
- Juanita Nelson
Long-time war tax resister and civil rights activist. In
1942 she participated in some of the earliest sit-ins of
the American Civil Rights Movement. She later worked on
desegregation campaigns in Cincinnati, Washington D.C. and
was an organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality. In
1948, along with her late husband Wally, she founded the
group Peacemakers -- a national organization dedicated to
active nonviolence as a way of life. That same year both
of them stopped paying taxes. In 1959 she is believed to
have become the first woman in modern times to be apprehended
for war tax refusal.
- Rep. Peter Kocot
(Massachusetts state legislator from Northampton) The Massachusetts
House has just became the first state legislature to pass
a Resolution in support of the U.S. Conference of Mayor's
call to support the global Mayors for Peace initiative for
nuclear abolition. Kocot sponsored the legislation that
condemned nuclear weapons. The resolution begins "as
long as nuclear weapons exist, cities around the world will
be vulnerable to instantaneous devastation on a scale exceeding
even that experienced by Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945."
It ends stating "weapons of mass destruction have no
place in a civilized world."
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