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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Media : UCIMC |
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Indymedia to U.S., U.K., Swiss and Italian Authorities: "Hands Off Our Websites" |
by Global Indymedia via Sascha Meinrath
Email: sascha (nospam) ucimc.org |
11 Oct 2004
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 Evidence is beginning to mount that the authorities of at least four countries (Switzerland, Italy, U.K. and U.S.A.) are involved in last week's seizure of two of Indymedia's servers that brought down more than 20 of the Indymedia network's web sites and several internet radio streams. Indymedia has yet to receive any official statement or information about what the order entailed or why it was issued. |
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News :: Arts |
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Dave Lippman will be performing at a benefit for WRFU |
by dave berliner
Email: daveberliner (nospam) hotmail.com |
10 Oct 2004
Modified: 10:14:52 PM |
 Political satirist/songwriter Dave Lippman will be performing at a benefit for WRFU, low-power community radio, one night only!
Accompanied by the anti-folk singer, George Shrub (boo! hiss!)
Tuesday, October 12th
8pm
Channing-Murray Foundation
Southeast corner of West Oregon and Matthews in Urbana, Illinois
Tickets are on sale for a suggested donation of $5-20
at Record Swap, 110 South Race St, Urbana (open seven days week!)
or at the door or from Socialist Forum members
Profits from the show will go to build WRFU, a new community radio station that will begin broadcasting on 104.5FM by June 2005.
Cosponsored by Channing Murray Foundation, Socialist Forum, and WRFU |
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News :: Media |
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Take Back The Media calls for Channel 15/20 Boycott |
by The Voice of Labor
Email: thevoiceoflabor (nospam) centurytel.net |
10 Oct 2004
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The boycott has been called against all sponsors of Sinclair owned and/or operated TV stations. In addition to Channels 15 in Champaign and 20 in Springfield, these include WYZZ-43 in Bloomington/Peoria, KDNL-30 in St. Louis, WVTV-18 and WCGV-24 in Milwaukee, WMSN-47 in Madison, and KGAN-2 in Cedar Rapids/Dubuque |
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News :: Elections & Legislation |
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Election machine equipment recommendation committee meeting report |
by J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Email: jbn (nospam) forestfield.org |
10 Oct 2004
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I am the delegate from the Prairiegreens (the local Green Party
chapter) to the Champaign County Election Equipment Recommendation
Committee. This unelected committee features people from a variety of
political groups and civic organizations in Champaign county. We will
make a recommendation to the County Board so they will know what
voting machines to purchase. Champaign county will use punch cards in
November 2004 but we will switch to electronic voting machines for the
following elections. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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FBI seizes Global Indymedia Servers. Reasons Unknown. Background Info: |
by Sascha Meinrath
Email: sascha (nospam) ucimc.org |
07 Oct 2004
Modified: 08 Oct 2004 |
FBI took the hard drives of Global IMC servers in the USA and the UK. It appears that a court order was issued to Rackspace (Indymedia's service provider with offices in the US and in London) to physically remove the hard drives from Global Indymedia servers (backup servers are now in place). Rackspace was given no time to defend against the order before it was acted upon and turned over the hard drives, both in the US and the UK. The servers hosted numerous local IMCs and the reason for the seizure is not known.
The FBI's latest anti-free-press actions began at the beginning of October when they visited Indymedia's ISP demanding the removal of identifying information from photographs of undercover police officers that was posted on the Nantes Indymedia website. When asked what the US government was doing requesting the removal of information from a French-run website that contained information about Swiss police actions, the FBI stated that this was a "courtesy" to the Swiss government. The FBI agents stated that no laws had been broken, and no crimes had been committed. However, because no identifying information was posted on the website in question, it was unclear what actions the FBI was requesting. |
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Hollinger Fires Reporter on the Beat of Congressman Weller and His Guatemalan Ex-Dictator's Daughter Bride-to-Be |
by Michael Green Fonte
Email: michaelfonte (nospam) yahoo.com |
02 Oct 2004
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Hollinger International, the Enron of newspapers, has allowed its corruption to seep down to its local Joliet paper with the wrongful termination of a reporter who may have been attacked in connection with his investigation into Wellergate |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Elections & Legislation |
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Press Conference Launches Campaign Against At-Large Seats in Urbana |
by Vote No At-Large
Email: noatlarge (nospam) yahoo.com |
25 Sep 2004
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Residents from all over the city of Urbana have launched a campaign to oppose at-large seats on the Urbana City Council. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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Champaign County State's Attorney Drops Eavesdropping Charges Against Martel Miller for video taping and audio recording police interactions with residents; Patrick Thompson Still Charged |
by Kimberlie Kranich
Email: kakranich (nospam) yahoomail.com |
24 Sep 2004
Modified: 25 Sep 2004 |
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Champaign County State’s Attorney John Piland today dropped eavesdropping charges against E. Martel Miller for video and audio taping police stops of residents after a month of intense organized community pressure followed by requests made public yesterday by the Urban League of Champaign County and Champaign Police Chief RT Finney and City Manager Steve Carter requesting that Mr. Piland drop the eavesdropping charges. |
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