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Video-SAVE San Francisco Community Access Station 
On Tuesday December 1, 2009 media activists protested and spoke out about the possible closure of the San Francisco Community Access station at 1720 Market on December 18, 2009. The City of San Francisco which spent over $1 million building out the station is preparing to spend $200,000 to dismantle it with no real community access station to replace it. The Newsom appointed operator Bay Area Video Coalition and it's Executive Director Ken Ikeda also did not inform the SF Supervisors or the p...
Posted: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 6:39am PST
Video-New SF Community Access Boss BAVC ED Ken Ikeda Buttering Up SF Mayor Newsom Ken Ikeda who has taken over San Francisco Community Access and is collaborating with the Newsom administration to shutter the Community Access station was very good at buttering up Newsom in a video....
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2009 12:49pm PST
Media Alliance Concerned About BAVC Closure Of Community Access Station Media Alliance issued a statement of concern about the closure of the San Francisco community access station...
Posted: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 10:00pm PST
New blog from IMPACT! Petaluma There is a new blog for the organization IMPACT!, based in Petaluma, CA. This blog will be regularly updated to inform the public of all the activities of our organization. IMPACT! is an all-volunteer, multi-racial, youth-led organization that works for radical social change in Petaluma....
Posted: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 12:55pm PST
Stop The Shutdown Of Community Access In San Francisco! Photos Of 12/1/20 Press Conference 
A press conference and rally was held to prevent the closure of the San Francisco Community Access center at 1720 Market St in San Francisco. The city has the funds to pay for keeping the studios and station open but BAVC is planning to shut the center without an alternative community access center that would be available....
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 9:32pm PST
BAVC’s New Public Access TV-The Privatization Of San Francisco Communit Access While BAVC has been unable to announce to all the producers and programmers that they will be closing down. They did announce to Cine Source Magazine in November that they would be closing down....
Posted: Tue, Dec 1, 2009 10:06am PST
BAVC Still Unable To Get Independent Website For SF Community Access 
The Bay Area Video Coalition which was awarded by the control of San Francisco Community Access stations by Newsom and the Department of Telecommunication Services has still refused to put up an independent website for the community access station. Ken Ikeda the director is now planning to shut down the flash studio and permanently shut down the main studio while they rebuild in their own offices. They also have refused to publicize the closure to the producers, programmers, supporters of com...
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 9:03pm PST
Stop The Destruction Of Community Access In San Francisco The City along with it's handpicked operator Bay Area Video Coalition are planning to close the community access center on December 20, 2009 without another location to do productions. A picket and press conference will be held on this attack on community access and free speech on TV....
Posted: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 9:43am PST
CBS steals two Indymedia photos for their coverage of UC Campuswide Protests 
Here are two screencaps of photos that CBS has stolen from Indymedia without giving any credit, attribution or compensation.
I will try to upload the a facsimile of the video itself too in case it's needed as evidence....
Posted: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 12:27pm PST
Injunction Hearing Set in WBAI Election Suit A court injunction was requested as part of a suit brought by a group of listeners, staff and local station board candidates challenging the integrity of the election process which has been stopped and rescheduled numerous times since last summer. Among the listed plaintiffs is someone who has already been in the news in the past week - civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, a local station board candidate heading the Justice and Unity ticket....
Posted: Tue, Nov 24, 2009 5:07am PST
Elfie’s End Game Party 
Family, friends and compadres of George Elfie Ballis held a farewell party for him on Sunday, November 22. Ballis is a long time cornerstone of Fresno’s progressive community. He has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Some at the party said they will remember Elfie as the family photographer for social justice activists in this area, while others remembered him for his work (Elfie would probably use the word “dance” rather than work) with National Land for People (a land reform movement)...
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 6:36pm PST
Alcatraz Remembered: LIVE Radio Broadcast, Coit Tower Lit with All-Night Projections 
Where: Coit Tower, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, CA,
TUNE IN: 6pm-11pm Wednesday, broadcast on KPOO 89.5 FM (online at www.coitlive.com www.ohloneprofiles.org)
Viewable from: Pier 31, Fisherman's Wharf, Pioneer Park, Grant St. & Greenwich St, Washington Sq. Park...
Event Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2009 6:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2009 10:32am PST
A Beautiful, Powerful Voice is Silenced Some Voices Are Alive With Power, Enthusiasm and Joy...
Posted: Sun, Nov 22, 2009 10:57am PST
Breaking the Sound Barrier in Fresno 
Amy Goodman was in Fresno on November 20, 2009 as a part of her Breaking the Sound Barrier book tour. Her 1 hour presentation is below....
Posted: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 8:31am PST
Video-UCB Striker/Organizer On Pacifica/KPFA And Coverage Of UC Strike Struggle 
Despite the fact that KPFA is located in Berkeley where a mass strike movement is developing it has been unable to cover the mass rallies live and even eliminated a segment on the strike which was on Democracy Now that played on November 17, 2009 and discussed the planned UCB strike on November 18, 2009. One strike activist is angry that KFPA and Pacifica have refused to properly cover this critical struggle....
Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 2:15am PST
Public Access Saved, but Studio is Closing! (video/x-ms-wmv 11.6MB) Due to a lack of funding around December 20th 2009 the new managers of public access will be forced to vacate the building at 1720 Market street. BAVC has indicated they would like to have a Flash studio and edit suites at their Mariposa Street building, but there is not enough money to have a three camera tv studio. The new title for public access is sfcommons, and info about it can be found at BAVC's website, http://www.bavc.org....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 12:38pm PST
East Oakland YMCA Urban Services Homies Youth Unity Dinner an incredible night of youth from all over east oakland coming toether to break bread, watch a movie( the fourth world war) and speak how we can spread unity throughout east oakland and the world!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2009 1:17am PST
KPFA election results for Local Station Board KPFA at 94.1 FM, a listener sponsored station, has elected a Local Station Board. It is not clear how many voted as there seems to be no published showing of the numbers of voters. The results seems to show that the radical candidates barely won, which means again not enough people voted....
Posted: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 7:07am PST
LA Indymedia 10-Year Anniversary: "Troublemaking: The Worst and Best of Indybay" 
On Saturday, November 14th, 2009, Los Angeles Indymedia celebrated 10 years since the first Independent Media Center (IMC) opened its doors in Seattle to cover and support the demonstrations against the meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). While the entirety of 10 years of media activism can hardly be presented in an hour, Indybay discussed some of the highlights of stories covered, technologies developed, legal threats battled and lessons learned over the past 9+ years of Indymedi...
Posted: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 10:18pm PST
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