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FTAA Radio on Microradio.net |
Current rating: 0 |
by arrrgh
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13 Apr 2001
Modified: 15 Apr 2001 |
Tune in to a day of programming about the FTAA and upcoming protests in Quebec City at microradio.net
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Here\'s the Tentative Schedule
[All times in EDT]
11:00am-1:00pm Local Communities and the FTAA
Syracuse, NY, held a teach-in on March 31 that an overview of the FTAA and presentations from local community activists: Barrie Gewanter (Labor-Religion Coalition), Karen Kearney (local farmer), Carole Resnick (Developmental Evaluation Center, the health impacts of free trade on children), Don Hughes (ESF, on the environmental impacts), Howie Hawkins (Green Party, Free Trade and the local economy), and Tim Judson (Citizen Action Network).
1:00-2:00pm Action Updates (& Radical Cheerleaders)
From Quebec to Acteal, Chiapas: Resistance to Oppression of Globalization / To People Attempting to Cross the Border: A Call for Peoples\' Assemblies! / Pagan Call to Action / Women against capitalism / Knitters of the world, unite and takeover: FTAA knit-in / Hand in Hand for Our Land / Kites against the FTAA / Mohawks opening the Canadian Border for FTAA protest! / Americana Indigenismo: Indigenous Peoples, the FTAA and the 4th World
2:00-2:30pm Report on Release the Text & Buenos Aires Actions
People line up outside of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Ottawa to demand the FTAA text, which are not available to the public. Featuring Ragging Granny, \"Prime minister Chrétien\", Canadian Citizens, and audio from Crossing over the Barriers (87 arrested). Americas ministers set 2005 FTAA deadline. San Francisco: Anti-FTAA protest shuts down Trading and other reports on Finance Ministers Protest. Update on Free trade documents to be made public. Also – The really tough question in Buenos Aires by Naomi Klein.
2:30-3:00pm FTAA documentary
The Free Thought Area of the Airwaves: Introduction to the Free Trade Area of the Americas with Paul Hellyer, Canadian Action Party; Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians; Patty Barrera, Common Frontiers; Dr. Albert Berry, University of Toronto. A documentary with funky original music by Miss klc and Jackson2Bears suitable (we think) for broadcast.
3:00-3:30pm Security Update
Totalitarian Ban on Peaceful Assembly and Free Speech is in Court / Fortress Quebec / Tight security needed for summit, police insist / A Chain-Link Fence Rankles an Old Walled City / Summit police to get plastic bullets / Police force for summit rises by 1,000 Quebec Minister ups contingent to 6,000 citing new dangers / Lawyers shun summit: Delaying bail in Quebec City (FTAA Prosecutors Threaten to Quit) / Police repression biggest threat at Quebec City / SIGN THE CITIZEN CAGED PETITION!!!
3:30-4:00pm Report on the Borders
FTAA Canadian Border Lockdown: From Off the Hook, someone who was searched, then turned away at the Canadian border during pre-FTAA border lockdown. Recorded on Jan 30, 2001, from Off the Hook / WBAI / NYC. Report on officials working to lessen threat of border clash.
4:00-4:30pm Anarchist View of the FTAA
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin on corporate heads as \"international gangsters\" and about the revolutionary potential of this movement, as long as it takes up the challenge of adopting a militant anti-racist, class-conscious perspective really powerful. Also: Media distortion of anarchist activity, including Ya Basta! and \"Black Blocs\": A Statement of Clarification by Yuri the Yaba.
4:30-5:00pm FTAA Teach-in from Berkeley
Held on March 20. Featuring Victor Menotti of the International Forum on Globalization on environmental impacts; Pierre Labossiere of the Bay Area Haitian-American Council on the impacts of corporate globalization on the Caribbean; Karega Hart of the Service Employees International Union and the Black Radical Congress on the impacts of corporate globalization on workers and African-Americans; and Antonia Juhasz of the International Forum on Globalization who speaks about the nuts and bolts of the FTAA.
5:00-7:00pm Special FTAA Edition of Unwelcome Guest
Features audio from: \"Everybody\'s Business: A Teach-in on the FTAA\" held on Mar 19, 2001 in Vancouver, BC, with exceprts from \"What Women Say About the FTAA\" and \"Alternatives Through Action.\"
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Off the air or out of range? |
by a potential listener
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Current rating: 0
14 Apr 2001
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You are either off the air or simply out of range as of 2:30pm down at Washington street in Urbana.
I'd encourage others to post whether they can hear this or not so the originator of the broadcast can get an idea of his/her coverage area.
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