Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 22:19:51 -0700 From: William M Mandel <wmmmandel-AT-earthlink.net> Subject: [Fwd: [EMMAS] INVITATION TO A PARTY] -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [EMMAS] INVITATION TO A PARTY Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:25:10 EDT From: WoodSL-AT-aol.com Reply-To: emmasdance-AT-cs.pdx.edu To: WoodSL-AT-aol.com PASS IT ON!!! CALLING ALL MEDIA ACTIVISTS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS, AND ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT THE QUALITY AND INDEPENDENCE OF MEDIA AND JOURNALISM TODAY: A unique opportunity is coming up. We invite you to take advantage of it. On September 19th, POV, America's premiere broadcast showcase of independent documentaries on public television, will feature "KPFA On the Air," a one hour documentary on the legendary community radio station, on PBS stations everywhere. In most cases, the show will air at 10pm, but check your local station for the exact time. The broadcast is a co-presentation with the Independent Television Service (ITVS). SYNOPSIS: In 1949, America's first listener-supported community radio station, KPFA, began broadcasting from Berkeley, California. The station quickly became a living testament to free speech and cultural diversity - a vital community of the air that often found itself embroiled in conflict. This riveting film takes us through KPFA's passionate 50-year history, including its founding by pacifists and poets, through its defiance of Cold War conformity, to the present day challenges that confront this on-going experiment in democratic media. HERE'S OUR SUGGESTION: Organize a house party around the broadcast. Invite friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and use "KPFA On the Air" to raise questions and begin to develop strategies to improve, critique, or simply better understand the radio, television, and new media outlets available in your community. A list of possible discussion questions and relevant web sites is included below. If a house party isn't feasible, POV offers what amounts to a national forum on issues its broadcasts raise through its "Talking Back" program. Viewers can send a camcorder tape of their opinions, or telephone, write letters or send Email. A selection of these responses is broadcast or web-streamed later in the POV season. Who might see these responses? Congress, the FCC, PBS, CPB, and NPR, among others. Write or send tapes to POV, PO Box 750, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY 10011. Email to pov-AT-pbs.org. Call 800-688-4768. QUESTIONS you might want to ask: Use, adapt, or make up your own - but don't miss a chance for stimulating discussion and action in your community about media that's important to you. To what extent do you have access to radio (public, community, commercial) in your life? What kind of access? What kind of relationship would you like to have with media in your community? What is the purpose of non-commercial radio/television? Why is it important? What functions can a radio station like KPFA serve in your life, in the life of your community? How would you describe you local public/community radio station? What do you know about the Pacifica Network? What lessons can be learned from the crisis that overtook Pacifica last year? What do you think about low power FM licenses, which the FCC is offering to community groups for the first time in decades, and many members of Congress are seeking to block? What do you think about Internet radio stations, and streaming audio and video? Who has access? Who should have access? How can they get it? If the public owns the public airwaves, what are our rights as owners? WEB SITES OF INTEREST: www.kpfa.org (program schedules, special events, and information about the station and staff) www.pacifica.org (the official web site of the Pacifica network) www.savepacifica.net (for background on last year's crisis and updates on the latest developments in the struggle over the future of Pacifica and KPFA) www.lasarletter.com (for information on Pacifica's founder, Lewis Hill) www.pbs.org/pov (POV's interactive web site) www.itvs.org (Independent Television Service, the primary funding organization for innovative independent films that meet the needs of underserved audiences) www.kqed.org (the San Francisco-based station is preparing a web page to coincide with the broadcast, and plans to include streaming audio and video of KPFA programs and selected scenes and outtakes from the film) www.newsreel.org (to buy or rent "KPFA On the Air" for educational or organizing purposes). California Newsreel can also be reached at 415-621-6196. I HAVE MS. WOOD'S PERMISSION to add my website, www.BillMandel.net to the foregoing list. I broadcast on KPFA for thirty-seven years. The film has four clips on me. The website offers fuller material on my firing in 1995 for ignoring the gag rule. That event was the start of the intense controversy between the station and Pacifica for the past five years and counting. The website includes two chapters of my autobiography, SAYING NO TO POWER, with rich material on KPFA in the years covered. ################################################################# "If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution." Emma Goldman This message comes to you from the emmasdance list. To obtain guidelines for how to participate in this forum send mail to <majordomo-AT-cs.pdx.edu> with this command in the body: info emmasdance Send appropriate email to <emmasdance-AT-cs.pdx.edu> and it will be passed on as soon as possible. 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