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IMC Radio News 2/16/2004 |
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by UCIMC Radio Group
Email: radio (nospam) ucimc.org (verified)
Phone: 217-344-8820
Address: 218 W. Main Suite 110, Urbana, IL 61801 |
20 Feb 2004
Modified: 03:59:49 PM |
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IMC Radio News broadcast on WEFT 90.1FM on 2/16/2004 at 5:30pm. |
 IMCRN 2-16-04.mp3 (8192 k) |
This week on IMC Radio News, Lori Serb reports on a recent visit to Allen Hall at the University of Illinois by Native American activist Lakota Harden, but first, these headlines.
The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Project will receive a $200,000 grant from the Open Society Institute to fund one year of operations starting in March. The wireless project seeks to design and build low-cost equipment for networking computer resources throughout a community. Wireless technology allows low-cost grassroots cooperative networks to provide services traditionally provided by for-profit telephone and cable businesses. This grant will fund a group of programmers to solve many technical problems preventing global implementation of community wireless networks. During the next year, the Champaign-Urbana Wireless project will implement it's open source community wireless technology in Eastern Europe and Northern Africa, as well as Champaign-Urbana. The Champaign Urbana Community Wireless project is a project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and more information can be found on the web at cuwireless.net.
A group of activist programers in Urbana-Champaign recently launched a consulting organization called Acorn Active Media. Acorn, which is a non-heirarchical workers collectve, seeks to engage in software, website, and technical development in support of the global justice movement. Acorn's clients include activist and community organizations, non-profits, and locally-owned businesses. Acorn, a non-profit organization, uses any surplus funds from it's projects to subsidize work for clients that could not normally afford market rates. Acorn Active Media is a project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and more information can be found on the web at acornactivemedia.com.
Radio Free Urbana, the IMC's low power FM initiative has received it's construction permit from the FCC and has formed an operating board. Radio Free Urbana received the call letters WRFU and has to build it's station within six months. Organizers for the project hope the IMC's Capital Campaign will have raised sufficient funds to purchase a building in Urbana within that time. WRFU will add an additional 168 hours per week of community-produced programming to the Champaign-Urbana radio dial. WRFU is a joint project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and Socialist Forum, a local non-profit association which holds the actual broadcast license.
Members of the University of Illinois' Board of Trustees may delay a vote to retire the University's Chief Illiniwek mascot, which many consider to be a racist stereotype. The issue was delayed at the November trustees meeting until the March 11 meeting and may now be delayed again until their April meeting. Illinois Student Government, the embattled student organization mired in controversy over its legitimacy, will hold a student referendum on the Chief on March 16th and some Trustees wish to wait for the results of that referendum before making their decision. The Board of Trustee's will hold a special meeting on February 19th to discuss procedures for replacing resigning Chancellor Nancy Cantor, who many associated with an anti-Chief stance. The Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative has launched a month of Anti-chief activities leading up to the proposed March 11th Board of Trustees vote on the issue. Additional information about anti-chief month can be found on the web at
www.prairienet.org/prc. |
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http://www.weftfm.org/
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