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Indymedia's Radio Group - DROP (Distributed Radio Open Project) will Produce a Live Internet Broadcast: Thursday January 31st - Monday February 4th.

For Immediate release, Monday, January 28th, 2002
Contact: imc-audio@indymedia.org http://radio.indymedia.org/

1. The World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
2. The World Economic Forum and protests in New York City
3. The Munich Conference on Security Policy protests in Munich
4. Additional Programming from India, the UK, San Francisco and Seattle, among others.

The World Economic Forum (WEF)

Some very important people are missing from the headlines and the stories of the world's most influential economic institutions like the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The real players - corporate representatives - meet for the WEF this year in New York City with minimal remote press access. Teach-ins and protests planned in New York City get to the heart of corporate globalization and US economic power.
http://www.weforum.org/
http://www.anotherworldispossible.com/

The World Social Forum (WSF)

Also missing from the headlines are the alternatives devised by grassroots organizations and the world's non-elites. Set to happen at the same time as the WEF is the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a conference exploring such alternatives to an increasingly standard corporate agenda.
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/eng/index.asp

The Munich Conference on Security Policy

This annual meeting brings together the government officials and the military of NATO and the EU. Much of the coalition behind the military coalitions that brought us the wars in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq are forged in conferences like this security conference. The last few months have seen military coalition involvement from Japan and Germany unprecedented since WWII. European activists are planning to bring their message held by most of the world: not to expand the "War on Terrorism" to more countries.
http://www.carneval-against-nato.de/
http://www.anti-nato.de.vu/

1. Stream the live broadcast any time;
2. Download audio highlights from the live stream for broadcast; or
3. Download produced MP3 programs giving background, updates, headlines, stories and wrap-ups.

The live internet stream will begin on January 31st and last through February 4th from stations in Seattle, San Francisco, Vermont, New York, Munich, Porto Alegre, and India.

To View a Schedule of the Broadcast please go to http://www.Protest.Net/drop/.

• http://freeteam.nl:8000/drop - 24kbps
• http://live.waag.org:7800/drop -24kbps
• http://xaos.pvl.at:8000/drop - 24kbps
• http://radio.uk.solipsists.org:8000/drop - 24kbps
• http://www.autistici.org:8000/drop - 24kbps
• http://radio.us.solipsists.org:8000/drop - 24 kbps
• http://notowar.com/blast.m3u - 16kbps

For archived MP3s of the broadcast go to http://radio.indymedia.org/drop/archive.html.

Some portions of the stream may be in Portuguese, Spanish, French, or German.

If you have any questions about playing the broadcast, please email imc-audio@indymedia.org. For more details, go to http://radio.indymedia.org/.

Since the WTO protests in Seattle, 1999, the Independent Media Center (IMC) has been covering the voices of those critiquing these global institutions and their impact on democratic structures, then streaming it over the internet. Likewise, the IMC will produce live breaking coverage of the forums and protests in Brazil, New York, and Munich. Hundreds of media activists will be calling in reports, conducting phone interviews and collecting audio on the front lines, in workshops, and at teach-ins.

For more about the IMC, go to http://www.indymedia.org/ and http://www.indymedia.org/about.php3. See also Microradio.net for more information about live web streaming: http://www.microradio.net/.