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David
This is a special Free Speech Internet Television newsletter covering the
Seattle WTO protests.
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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
1. WTO PROTEST WEBCAST
Welcome to the largest grassroots webcast in the history of the internet.
2. THE WTO BAND
Spearhead netcasting live from Seattle.
3. FIVE DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WTO
Cutting-edge documentaries on free trade issues from a people's point of
view, featuring the new film Zapatista.
4. FREE SPEECH ISSUE OF MONTH
Seattle KOMO 4 news director issues statement to not cover protests
organized without permits, essentially excluding the majority.
5. MISC.
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1. WTO PROTEST WEBCAST
Freespeech and Community Activist Technology is sponsoring the Independent
Media Center website, indymedia.org, which has been established to
counteract the corporate information blockade of WTO protests. The Center's
wire service is changing the face of media production and dissemination as
we know it.
In addition to featuring live reports from the streets in Seattle, the site
allows visitors to upload their own WTO-related content whether it be text
reports, video footage, audio clips or photographs, from anywhere in the
world.
Reports are coming in from cities around the US and Europe, India, Korea,
Mexico, Canada, Egypt, South America, and many more! Because The resistance
is global, so too is the indymedia.org coverage.
Independent Media Center is located 1415 Third Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101.
Voice: (206) 262-0721, www.indymedia.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Fax: (206)
262-9133.
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2. THE WTO BAND
On Tuesday night November 30 at the Seattle Showbox, Spearhead and the "WTO
BAND" featuring Jello Biafra, Krist Novoselic, Kim Thayil and Gina Mainwal
will be broadcasting live to the internet. This WTO-protest benefit has
been organized by the Institute for Consumer Responsibility. Check
indymedia.org for the latest information.
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3. FIVE DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WTO
Deep Dish Satellite TV in association with Free Speech TV and the
Independent Media Center in Seattle will broadcast sattilte feeds directly
from Seattle. These feeds include five pre-produced documentaries which
will be featured on a daily basis during the WTO ministirial at
http://freespeech.org.
Day One November 30, 1999
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Seattle Showdown: Taking a Stand for Economic Justice 30:00
Why we are here. Reports from the caravans converging on Seattle. Messages
from many parts of the U.S. and the world. Introduction to the Seattle
Independent Media Center and the video production process. Interview with
Noam Chomsky.
Global Village or Global Pillage 30:00
This project shows constructive ways ordinary people around the world are
addressing the impact of globalization on their communities, workplaces, and
environments. It weaves together video of local and transnational
activities, interviews, music, and original video comics to show that,
through grassroots organizing combined with mutual support around the world,
ordinary people can empower themselves to deal with the global economy. By
Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, Brendan Smith.
Day Two December 1, 1999
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Seattle Showdown: Global Sweatshop: Working in the New World Order 30:00
Voices from the US labor movement commenting on globalization: Dolores
Huerta from United Farm Workers; Linda Chavez-Thompson, VP AFL-CIO; Ron
Judd, President, Kings County Central Labor Council, Brian McWilliams, ILWU
International President. Chinese Workers Association; Voices of workers from
around the world: Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Columbia, South
Africa, the Philippines, Canada and elsewhere.
Crisis of Capital, Hope of Labor 30:00
This powerful video provides a fast moving compilation of the recent
struggles of the Korean Labor Movement. General strikes, mobilizing
thousands of workers and their families, have successfully shut down entire
cities as labor has forced "neo-liberal" economic reforms to be
reconsidered. Neo-liberal reforms in Korea, not unlike those imposed on
countries like Indonesia, Brazil, and Mexico, have caused considerable
social unrest, and have devastated the lives of working people across the
globe. These economic policies, often advanced by U.S.- backed institutions
like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, demand that
"developing" governments slash social services, and allow for unrestricted
levels of foreign investment. The reforms are highly anti-democratic, and
are often forced upon a nation's government under threat of economic
sanctions. Speculative trading and other entrepreneurial practices often
leave these nations' working people literally starving when currencies are
dumped and capital takes flight. The Korean Labor Movement serves as an
extraordinary example of people working together to resist these oftentimes
inhumane economic practices, and to seek a future of their own choosing.
By Korean Labor News Production.
Day Three December 2, 1999
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Seattle Showdown: Deregulation and Privatization: the Money, the Law and the
Contract Against Equality 30:00
How the WTO undercuts local environmental, labor and affirmative action law.
How womenand minority communities in the United States and entire nations in
the world are affected. Interviews with environmental lawyers, Women
Workers' Conference on Women, Immigration, and Globalization. Interview with
Ralph Nader.
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, The World Bank, and the IMF 30:00
The war in Nicaragua is not over; it has only become more invisible to the
outside world. Deadly Embrace traces the history of U.S. involvement in the
region, focusing on the current economic attack of the IMF, the World Bank
and U.S. agencies. The tape combines footage of the everyday struggle to
survive with a textbook-clear analysis of structural adjustment, the debt
crisis and free trade. After five years of IMF and World Bank programs,
Nicaragua has experienced the worst economic collapse in its history and has
been reduced to one of the poorest countries in the world. Nicaragua's
situation is not unique-- six million children die each year in the Third
World because of IMF and World Bank policies. by Liz Canner
Day Four December 3, 1999
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Seattle Showdown: Corporate Food/Compounded Hunger 30:00
Council for Responsible Genetics, Institute for Agriculture and Trade
Policy. Interviews with Vandana Shiva Jose Bove, President of the French
Farmers' Union, who is fighting McDonalds. Banana workers from Honduras,
Haiti's Piggy Bank: The Loss and Recovery of the Creole Pig 30:00 In Haiti's
rugged countryside, the Creole pig was a poor family's most important
economic asset, a staple for both food and culture. When swine flu broke out
in 1980, USAID pressured Haiti to eradicate this indigenous pig
population.This video shows the self-interest of US aid, the interconnected
nature of resources, and the trauma caused by harsh agricultural policies
imposed from above. But it also teaches that resistance can bring renewal
and hope: through grassroots and human rights assistance, the Creole pig has
returned. This is an example of how local actions can solve local problems.
by Robin Lloyd
Day Five December 4, 1999
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Seattle Summary: Where Do We Go From Here? 30:00
Organizing against sweatshops. How to stop genetic engineered crops.
Building a World Peoples Trade Organization. Sustainable Human Development.
Bringing the anti-WTO message back to your campus.
Cancel the Debt Now 30:00
Jubilee 2000 is a worldwide movement to cancel the unpayable debts of the
most impoverished countries in the world by the end of the year 2000.This
film explains the origin of these debts, and why they should be canceled. It
shows the devastating impact of debt upon the people and the environment in
poor countries, and it invites the American people to work in solidarity
with people from the developing countries to help alleviate the suffering of
hundreds of millions of people throughout Africa, Latin America and Asia. By
Anne Macksoud.
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4. FREE SPEECH ISSUE OF MONTH
KOMO News has announced a policy of covering only those events carrying an
official seal of approval from the city government. Responsible reporting
or a news blackout?
On the Saturday evening news, the news director of Seattle ABC affiliate
KOMO, Joe Barnes, announced that his station was going to take part in the
city's attempt to control activism around the upcoming WTO ministerial
conference.
In an announcement that is now posted on the web (komotv.com/news), he told
viewers that the station was "taking a stand on not giving some protest
groups the publicity they want." The station, he said, "will not devote
coverage to irresponsible people or illegal activities of disruptive
groups."
One person whose action will likely lose coverage due to this policy is
Mario Santos, of the Karapatan Filipino Center for Human Rights. Santos
traveled here to take part in the International People's Assembly, which
will be assembling at Fourth and Jackson on Tuesday morning. "It's
significant that the corporate mass communications won't cover our
activity," says Santos. "They're losing out on what organized groups,
communities of color, and international delegations have come for."
The International People's Assembly was denied a permit last week despite
extensive negotiations between organizers and the Seattle Policy Department,
and organizers' willingness to cut the length of their march by 80 percent.
The march includes delegations from countries ranging from Holland to
Honduras. It has been intentionally routed to begin south of downtown, in
the city's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods.
All groups that are holding protests this weekend, legally or not, have a
right to fair media coverage. The distribution of permits for protesters is
always politically charged and those groups that the City doesn't see
eye-to-eye with, usually lose out. Does this mean that what they have to
say should be ignored.
An unpermitted street theatre demonstration took place Sunday afternoon in
the Capitol Hill neighborhood; no KOMO news trucks were on the scene. There
are exceptions to the TV station's policy. "If you see us doing a story on
a disruption," said Barnes, "but we don't name the group or the cause, you'
ll know why." Barnes was unavailable for comment Sunday afternoon, so it is
not clear how this policy will play out as, for example, hundreds of people
get arrested in the course of permitted, legal demonstrations.
"It's easy to cover screaming people," Barnes continued, in a rather
ungenerous characterization of celebratory street theatre performances.
"But we don't think any debate should be settled by the people with the
loudest voice."
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5. MISC.
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