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Announcement :: Arts : Media : UCIMC
Nov 11-13: IMC Grand Opening, Radio Free Urbana's First Broadcast, Workshops, Wireless at Urbana Free Library!
05 Nov 2005
This weekend - Friday November 11 to Sunday November 13th - will be an historic moment for our community. We want you to be part of it.

--> The IMC will open its community space in the downtown Urbana Post Office building!

--> The IMC will co-host a Radio and Wireless Barnraising with the Prometheus Radio Project!

--> Radio Free Urbana (WRFU 104.5 FM) will broadcast its first show!

--> The Urbana Free Library will be installed with wireless internet access - both indoor and out!
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Commentary :: Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Media : Miscellaneous : Regime
Plame Name Blame Game
04 Nov 2005
CHXplamename.jpgHope y'all had a Happy Halloween.
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News :: Labor
Beyond the Split: Re-Energizing the Labor Movement
30 Oct 2005
Area unionists met Saturday Oct. 22 to discuss this summer's AFL-CIO split and what steps the labor movement must now take to address what may be its historical nadir. For more on this important conference/workshop, see this month's Public i.
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Commentary :: Media
Silencing the Violence of War
29 Oct 2005
Mainstream media have blood on their hands. That is one lesson we can draw from official apologies for pre-Iraq War coverage, beginning with the New York Times’s public confession in May 2004. Typically, these “media culpas” confessed being overly credulous in accepting the Bush administration’s rationale for war. They attributed mistakes to good-intentioned professionalism and innocent oversight, but not systemic or individual failures. (To their increasing embarrassment, the Times’s apology conveniently failed to note Judith Miller’s byline on four of the six articles singled out as seriously flawed). Perhaps media elites assumed that tepid apologies and strategic ambiguity would inoculate them against further scrutiny. As passive consumers of news, we’d accept that there’s nothing to see here; better to move along, keep quiet and go shopping. Media have apologized and we can rest assured that now they’re getting it right.

Of course, this doesn’t stand up to a nanosecond of scrutiny. There is now little doubt that media helped sell an illegal war –– for which they have yet to come clean –– but ongoing coverage continues to normalize and even glorify barbaric aspects of war by daily serving up an antiseptic version of events in Iraq.
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News :: Iraq
Photos from Vigil for 2000 Dead
27 Oct 2005
moveon3.jpgPhotos from the moveon rally in memory of the 2000 soldiers who have died so far in the war with Iraq
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Announcement :: Prisons : UCIMC
Books to Prisoners Book Sale
17 Oct 2005
Modified: 20 Oct 2005
sm_flier.JPGHUGE BOOK SALE OCTOBER 22ND
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Announcement :: Right Wing
NCAA mascot decision
19 Oct 2005
UIUC's Board of Trustees (BOT) have appealed the NCAA mascot ruling. Urgent action is needed to encourage the NCAA to stand by their decision and pressure the BOT to action.

Dear community members,
The letter below is included to urge you to make some time and respond directly to the NCAA regarding the university’s appeal of the mascot ruling. UIUC’s Native American House’s administration, faculty and students have all taken strong stances against the BOT’s stalling antics and lack of desire to gain input from the American Indian community on this issue...
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Announcement :: Arts : Civil & Human Rights : Media
WRFU, Radio Free Urbana Barnraising Nov. 11-13 with Prometheus Radio Project and C-U Wireless
17 Oct 2005
WRFUlogo.jpgUCIMC & Prometheus Radio Project
present
RADIO STATION BARNRAISING: RADIO FREE URBANA, WRFU-LP!
Novermber 11-13

Dozens of radio workshops and station building will take place at the sparkling new IMC space in Urbana's former Post Office Building. Radio Free Urbana, WRFU-LP, 104.5 FM will be born on Sunday, November 13th! All skill levels encouraged, from engineer to nowhere near, and no one will be turned
away for lack of funds!
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Commentary :: Civil & Human Rights : Urban Development
The Incorporation of Savoy within the Mass Transit District
16 Oct 2005
Various reasons are presented why Savoy should be incorporated within the Mass Transit District (MTD). Opponents to incorporation complain about the imposition of higher taxes to fund MTD services – as though the residents of Savoy will be shouldering an unfair burden of taxes for services that they don't need. If anything, exactly the opposite is true – residents of Savoy are already paying LESS than their fair share of local taxes.
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News :: Miscellaneous
Relief Campaign for Earthquake Victims in Pakistan
12 Oct 2005
quake.gifPakistani Students at UI and Urbana-Champaign American-Pakistani Community Launches Relief Campaign for Earthquake Victims in Pakistan
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