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IMC Radio News for 5.31.04 |
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by Danielle Chynoweth
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Address: UC-IMC |
03 Jun 2004
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IMC Radio News for May 31, 2004 (31 minutes)
Main feature: Alternative viewpoint on adoption
Headlines:
Dave Dellinger Dies
RadFest
Biking to the RNC
Group for Girlz and Womyn holds its Kick Off
Ryan's campaign stalking Obama |
 IMCRN-2004-5-31.mp3 (0 k) |
Script:
It’s 5:30 on Monday and it’s time for the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Radio News your source for community news on your community radio station, WEFT 90.1 FM. I'm Kimberlie Kranich, your host for this week.
Our main feature this week takes an alternative view on adoption. But first, this week’s headlines.
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Last Tuesday, America has lost one of the great non-violent activists of the past century.
Dave Dellinger died last Tuesday at a nursing home in Montpelier, Vt. According to friends, he had suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Dellinger was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts to a well-to-do family (his father was a lawyer and a prominent Republican). A Yale and Oxford student, He also studied theology at Union Theological Seminary. Rejecting his comfortable background, he walked out of Yale one day to go and live with the homeless during the Depression.
For more than sixty years, Dave Dellinger was at the forefront of movements for peace and social justice. He refused to serve in WWII for which he was jailed. In jail he led hunger strikes and protests against jail conditions including racial segregation, solidarity confinement and the “hole” which was known to create mental illness in prisoners.
During the 1950s and 1960s, Dellinger joined freedom marches in the South and led many hunger strikes in jail. As US involvement in Vietnam grew, Dellinger applied Gandhi's principles of non-violence to his activism within the growing anti-war movement, of which one of its high point was the Chicago Eight trial, of which he was of the eight.
Dave Dellinger worked to end U.S. atrocities in Central America in the 80s and against the recent war in Afghanistan. In 2001, Dellinger led a group of young activists from Montpelier, Vermont, to Quebec City, to protest the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
His autobiography is called Yale to Jail.
Dave Dellinger had last visited Urbana-Champaign in the 90s when he and his spouse Elizabeth Peterson were in residence at Allen Hall. They also spoke at the School for Designing a Society.
Near the end of his life, struggling with hearing problems and advancing Alzheimer's, Dave composed a poem that described his approach to life:
I love everyone,
even those who disagree with me.
I love everyone,
even those who agree with me.
I love everyone,
rich and poor,
and I love everyone of different races,
including people who are indigenous,
wherever they live, in this country or elsewhere.
I love everyone,
whatever religion they are, and atheists too.
People who contemplate, wherever it leads them.
I love everyone,
both in my heart and in my daily life.
We lost Dave Dellinger, last Tuesday May 25th at the age of 89.
Music –
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RadFest is coming this weekend. RadFest is an annual weekend conference in Wisconsin for progressive activists and academics in the Midwest.
Also known as the Midwest Social Forum, the central goal of the conference is to provide an opportunity for progressive activists, organizers, and intellectuals to come together to discuss issues, strengthen networks, and devise strategies for progressive social, economic and political change. The conference has grown significantly in recent years, becoming an important annual gathering for progressives.
Workshops this year will put a spotlight on racial equity in schools, Colombia, the School of the Americas, The WTO, Palestine, civil liberties, labor issues, independent media, the occupation in Iraq, Latino organizing, low power radio, and feminism. Robert McChesney of Media Reform.net, Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, Jamala Rogers of the Black Radical Congress, and others will be speaking.
To view more information, or register online, go to havenscenter.org.
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Jimmy and Dave are two of the hundreds of thousands who will be converging on New York City in August to protest outside the Republican National Convention. Most will be driving, but Jim and Dave are going to bike to New York … from Chicago … and they want you to join them. Jimmy offers his reasons for going: “I hate George Bush.” And why he is going by bicycle: “Realizing the difficulty of parking cars, buses or oxen on the island of Manhattan, I've decided to bicycle there from Chicago” he said. They and their travel companions will join a “bike bloc” in New York City which will be holding an alternation convention called the BNC – or Bike National Convention. They will be hosted by the Cyclists for Peace who are offering accommodations to those who arrive to Manhattan by bike.
Jimmy and Dave are leaving on August 16th from Chicago. To join them e-mail garrisonkilla (at) earthlink.net or view their story on the IMC website: ucimc.org.
To find out more about protests at the Republican National Convention go to: rncnotwelcome.org.
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Last Saturday witnessed the kick-off of a new group supporting the creative endeavors of girls and women. The Resource and Action Group of Girlz-n-Womyn – known as RAGG – emerged on the local scene with a day of workshops followed by an evening of open mic performances. Girls and women witnessed a puppet show about body awareness, learned how to make paper airplanes, created jewelry, and learned about what makes political organizing efforts effective.
R.A.G.G. is a local grassroots partnership of girlz and womyn for girlz and womyn whose aim is to provide safe spaces, resources, and activities to foster creativity, self-expression, and empowerment.
Building on the work of GirlZone, which closed recently, R.A.G.G. developed out of the community's desire to continue providing social activities and workshops to girls and women in Champaign County.
RAGG welcomes all girls and women to join in their efforts. They meet every Tuesday at 6:30 PM at the Independent Media Center at 218 W. Main Street in downtown Urbana. For more details on R.A.G.G., see http://ragg.ucimc.org
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In an underreported footnote in the News Gazette last week, it was mentioned that the Jack Ryan campaign is stalking Barack Obama, Ryan’s contender for the Illinois Senate seat. Ryan has had a campaign staffer, Justin Warfel, follow Obama with a video camera all day.
Not only does he record Obama's public appearances, he tails Obama in his car; he follows him into restrooms; he stays a couple feet behind him when he's walking in public; he waits outside his office and pesters his secretary. And he heckles Obama at public appearances. Ryan’s campaign claims he is making sure the Illinois Senator does not contradict himself. Some republicans are displeased with this tactic, saying it is inappropriate and a violation of Obama’s privacy.
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And now for this week's IMC Radio News feature. IMC Reporter, Ondine Gross, interviews Robin Fossum, a person who was adopted, and who presents a critical view of
adoption that we don't often hear.
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That wraps up IMC Radio News for this week. This week’s show producer was Danielle Chynoweth. Ondine Gross was a contributor. Technical assistance from Clint Popetz.
If you'd like to get involved with this show, drop us a line at radio (at) ucimc.org, or call 344-8820. No experience is necessary. Archives of this program are available at the IMC website, ucimc.org. |
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