{"article":{"id":2022,"heading":"IMC NEWS BLAST 8\/16\/00","author":"IMC","created":"2000-08-18 03:07:13","modified":"2005-08-15 00:23:41","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:23:41","article":"
\r\nIMC NEWS BLAST | <\/b> Wednesday, August 16, 2000<\/b>\r\n<\/b><\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\r\n\r\n A compilation of breaking stories, photos, video, and audio \r\n from the Independent Media Center on Wednesday, August 16, 2000.
\r\nhttp:\/\/la.indymedia.org

\r\n\r\n\r\n SPECIAL EDITION:<\/b>The IMC Reports from the \r\nstreets outside the Democratic \r\n National Convention in Los Angeles \r\n

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\r\nOVERVIEW<\/b>\r\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\r\n As of this morning, all but a handful of the 420+ jailed activists \r\n have been released from Philadelphia jails, while in Los Angeles \r\n the police are responding to protests with chemical weapons, horses, \r\n rounds of rubber bullets, and mass arrests. While confrontations \r\n erupt in the streets, inside the Convention Center our teary-eyed \r\n President takes credit for these \"best of times.\" Outside, the IMCis \r\n in the streets recording, reporting, and posting information that \r\n the well-guarded Conventioners are protected from hearing and admitting \r\n into official debate.

\r\n   \r\n \r\n On Wednesday 16, 2000, this is what democracy looks like: \r\n<\/b>

\r\n \r\n CURRENT ISSUE OF *Why?* | The IMC's NEW PROTEST E-ZINE
\r\n Activists did not come to L.A. to fight the police, but to \r\n demand that the issues which effect our everyday lives enter into \r\n national debate. This issue of *Why?* looks beyond police clashes \r\n to the real issues that inspire protestors to put their bodies on the \r\n line: economic apartheid in the U.S.A., racial injustice, les\/gay\/bi\/trans \r\n rights, the worldwide fight against AIDS, the prison-industrial complex \r\n and more.
\r\nhttp:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/why.php3\r\n\r\n

\r\n \r\n UNRESTRAINED STORIES: FALSE CLAIMS OF PROTESTOR VIOLENCE
\r\n by Tim Ream
\r\n In numerous situations since the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, \r\n police have routinely spread unsubstantiated, misinformation of \r\n violent plans by protestors. This excellent report examines the \r\n state's emerging strategy of preemptive response to mass protest.
\r\n \r\nhttp:\/\/ la.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=543 \r\n

\r\n\r\n PROTEST CONCERT SHUT DOWN WITH RUBBER BULLETS
\r\n by Michael Fernandez
\r\n A free concert by the bands Ozomatli and Rage \r\n Against The Machine was interrupted by tear gas, \r\n pepper spray, and rubber bullets Monday evening \r\n as delegates watched from the Staples Center balcony. \r\n People who were there report what they experienced. \r\n www.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=3155 \r\n

\r\n \r\nBICYCLE RIDERS BUSTED AT FLOWER & 18th
\r\n Brendan McGuigan
\r\n Approximately 250 bicycling activists took to the streets \r\n Tuesday afternoon for a nonviolent demonstration. The LAPD responded \r\n with mass arrests. Read the eyewitness account. \r\nla.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=1591\r\n Photo:http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=1458
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\r\n\r\n IMC AUDIO NEWS HEADLINES
\r\n by IMC Audio Team
\r\n The IMC audio team's half-hour news on August 16th, 2000. It \r\n includes coverage of arrests at the Critical Mass bike ride, the \r\n anti-fur protest and arrests, Monday's Rage Against the \r\n Machine Concert, police brutality, legal and medical \r\n reports, the youth and women's marches, education, \r\n environmental racism, and an interview with a Young Democrat.
\r\nla.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=1658 \r\n \r\n

\r\n \r\n IMC 24 HOUR WEB RADIO
\r\n http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/radio\/index.php3 \r\n \r\n

\r\n \r\nHELP 420 UNJUSTLY ARRESTED at RNC
\r\n In the wake of the Philadelphia protests, activists, puppeteers, \r\n legal observers, medics and bystanders now face a serious legal battle. \r\n 37 face felony charges. To win, they need help. Here's an update \r\n about what can be done: \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=3254 \r\n

\r\n \r\n VALUE WOMEN's WORK! VALUE WOMEN'S LIVES!
\r\n Photo by Geoff Oliver-Bugbee 12:02am
\r\n 600 women marched through the streets of Los Angeles Tuesday morning \r\n to speak out for women's work and well being.
\r\n http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=1543 \r\n \r\n

\r\n WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION LOOKS LIKE
\r\n Photo by Joe King \r\n The armed atmosphere around the Staples Center speaks for itself. \r\n http:\/\/la.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=1532 \r\n \r\n

\r\n \r\n PRISON DIARY OF A PUPPETISTA FLEA
\r\n Personal diary of a puppetista practicing jail solidarity \r\n in ther Philadelphia jail system.
\r\n http:\/\/www.phillyimc.org\/article.pl?sid=00\/08\/15\/2324245&mode=thread\" \r\n \r\n

\r\n THE CORPORATE MEDIA INTERFERE WITH DEMOCRACY
\r\n by Andrea Buffa and Ben Clarke \r\n Media giants lobby and pay off politicians to maintain control \r\n of the airwaves. To break the grip, activists are mobilizing against \r\n the National Association of Broadcasters September in San Francisco. \r\n http:\/\/www.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=3187\r\n \r\n

\r\n \r\n FOREIGN MEDIA OFFERS BETTER COVERAGE OF U.S. EVENTS
\r\n By Mark Marbles
\r\n \"There are tremendous needs in this country to address: \r\n childcare, 44 million people without health insurance, \r\n helping poor and low-income people afford homes. \r\n Those priorities don't make it to the agenda\"
\r\n http:\/\/www.phillyimc.org\/article.pl?sid=00\/08\/04\/124236 \r\n \r\n

\r\n DEMOCRACY NOW! \/ CRASHING THE PARTY
\r\n During convention week two, live video programs originating from the \r\n L.A. IMC will satellite-cast to millions of homes across the country. \r\n Covering the issues being ignored by establishment media, Amy Goodman, \r\n Juan Gonzalez, Laura Flanders and Free Speech TV take to the airwaves, \r\n satellite and web in a historic, three-pronged broadcast of \r\n movement-oriented analysis and resistance news. \r\n http:\/\/ satellite.indymedia.org\/
\r\n Archived footage from the week in Philly. \r\n http:\/\/www.freespeech.org\r\n \r\n

\r\n NUEVO PAVOREAL: THE REAL STORY
\r\n by \"Enlace Civil, A.C.\"
\r\n Tension and violence continue to flare in Chiapas where attacks \r\n against Zapatista support communities are being reported. \r\n On August 11th, the community of Nuevo Pavoreal was attacked by \r\n men affiliated with the right-wing PRI party. Here's the report \r\n from the Mexico IMC. \r\n http:\/\/ mexico.indymedia.org\/display.php3?article_id=312 \r\n
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\r\n UPCOMING DIRECT ACTIONS<\/b>\r\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\r\nSupport Microradio: Slam the NAB! Protest The \"WTO of Media\"
\r\n Sept. 20-23, San Francisco
\r\n http:\/\/www.mediademocracynow.org
\r\n \r\n Protest in Prague Sept. 26 2000
\r\n http:\/\/go.to\/s26
\r\n \r\n Action Against the First Presidential Debate, October 3
\r\n http:\/\/www.bostoncan.net\/o3a.html
\r\n \r\n Summit of the Americas, April 2001, Quebec City
\r\n http:\/\/wtoaction.org\/ftaa.phtml
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\r\n INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER<\/b>\r\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>
\r\n \r\n The IMC is a decentralized network of independent media \r\n makers, organizers, and activists working to increase \r\n democracy and social justice by reporting events and \r\n producing information as acts of autonomy, resistance, \r\n and liberation from corporate control. \r\n The IMC was established to cover the WTO protests in Seattle \r\n last November. Hundreds of media activists have since setup \r\n independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, \r\n Belgium, France, and Italy, with more to come. \r\n

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