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| This is the archive of UCIMC's site as it was on October 1, 2006, when we switched to a new software platform. Posting to this site has been disabled. For our current site, please go to www.ucimc.org. |
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News :: Media |
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Negativland Uses Mosquito Fleet To Sting The NAB |
by Paul Riismandel
Email: paul (nospam) mediageek.org |
13 Sep 2002
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On Thursday the Mosquito Fleet of unlicensed micropower radio stations in Seattle joined together for a joint broadcast at high noon taking aim at radio giant Clear Channel communications. Media collagists Negativland provided a 24 minute program mimicing the style and sound of FM station KJR but infusing it with a scathing indictment of the station's most obvious and absurd lies. |
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News :: Right Wing |
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Conservative Busted By FBI For Faking Green Connection To 'Terrorism' |
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by ML |
08 Sep 2002
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In the interests of full disclosure, more background on a case that is getting limited coverage in the dominant media. |
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News :: Gender and Sexuality |
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GrrrlFest Organizer On Opening Night |
by Peter Miller
Email: peterm (nospam) shout.net |
06 Sep 2002
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Aimee Rickman, director of GirlZone, tries to make a printer work at the IMC during the opening night of GrrrlFest 2002. GrrrlFest lasts through the weekend at various locations in Champaign-Urbana. |
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Announcement :: UCIMC |
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New Website Software |
by Clinton Popetz
Email: cpopetz (nospam) ucimc.org |
06 Sep 2002
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The software running the UCIMC website has been changed. You will notice various changes, improvements, and probably bugs. But please stick with us, and hopefully the transition will provide us with a more stable and versatile web presence! |
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Announcement :: Media |
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Urbana-Champaign Indymedia Is Running A Deficit And Needs Your Help |
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by Russ Rybicki |
06 Sep 2002
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The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center is running a deficit and needs your help.
Thanks to the generous contributions of both time and money that many have provided, we have been able to:
-develop this web site,
-produce a weekly independent news radio program heard on WEFT broadcasting from Champaign, IL USA,
-publish the Public I an independent monthly newspaper circulated in Champaign-Urbana Illinois,
-provide a shows venue and exhibit space for local artists,
-be the fiscal sponsor of global IMC projects
-provide a meeting for local grassroots organization. |
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Announcement :: Miscellaneous |
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Join The IMC Shows Group |
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by Arun Bhalla |
06 Sep 2002
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Are you interested in enhancing the local music and arts scene? So is the IMC Shows group!
The IMC Shows group has brought dozens of acts to
hundreds of people, all in the past six months. Ever since UC-IMC's space expanded to include a large performance area, the construction of the stage
and the massive upgrade of the sound system have combined to enable some phenomenal shows.
But the IMC Shows group could use your help. Currently a small group does everything from booking and promotiong shows, flyering across town, staffing the door at shows, running the sound equipment during shows, and keeping the room and sound equipment well-maintained.
If you have interest in any of the above, or anything related, you can join us for our weekly meetings, Wednesday nights at 9pm in the IMC front room (218 W. Main, Urbana).
If you can't make it to our weekly meetings or just want to help in a small way, such as by putting up flyers each week on a given route, please email me (bhalla (at) uiuc.edu), indicating your interest.
We would like the IMC Shows group to grow. Let us know how you can help! |
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News :: Miscellaneous |
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Subsidies For The Wealthy -- Pay Your Own Way For Working People |
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by ML |
06 Sep 2002
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I attended the July 30th Champaign County Board meeting where the proposals to place two referenda to support the county nursing home on this fall's ballot were approved and moved forward. Many citizens spoke out once again in favor of these measures essential to continuing the county's near 100-year tradition of having these facilities available to care for our older citizens. The _only_ member of the public to speak against these measures was a representative of the Champaign County Chamber of Commerce. She had appraised the mood in the room and, seeking to save face in the face of overwhelming public support for the nursing home, was careful to emphasize that the Chamber of Commerce's opposition to the proposed nursing home referenda was "at this time."
I unfolded the Tuesday, August 6 News-Gazette this evening to find the Chamber's slick monthly insert promoting the interests of business in Champaign County. The cover story was on the quickly-nearing completion of Campustown's $9 million facelift at public expense.
Without even a note of irony, the cover of this propaganda publication also noted that the board of the Chamber of Commerce _still_ "opposes a nursing home referendum." So, not much has changed since last week, except that their representative managed to escape a public booing by waffling on the Chamber's position at last week's county board meeting. I am not holding my breath on the Chamber changing their position at any time prior to November's election. Here's why. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights |
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First Amendment Case Headed To Federal Court In Illinois |
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by Jon Pike |
06 Sep 2002
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A First Amendment battle is headed to federal court in Illinois. At stake is
how much control college administrators will have over student college newspapers.
Staff members of the Governor's State University Innovator say that college
officials exercised unconstitutional
prior restraint over the newspaper. Organizations that fight for the First
Amendment rights of student newspapers, like the Illinois College Association
and the Student Press Law Center , say that if the staff of the Innovator loses
their battle then college administrators will have the same powers over college
papers that the US Supreme Court gave high school administrators in a 1989 case
that originated in the St. Louis Area: Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier. |
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