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Public Access of Indianapolis (PAI) is a nonprofit community media organization with a goal of reestablishing public access TV on Bright House Networks (Time Warner) and Comcast cable television systems in Indianapolis. PAI provides volunteer video services for nonprofits, and maintains an on-demand, streaming video library of community events and meetings.
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The November 21-27, 2005 issue of the Indianapolis Business Journal (IBJ) has an article, "Cable firms call foe a phony," about the Indianapolis-based, Verizon and SBC-funded Consumers for Cable Choice (CCC), run by attorney Robert K. Johnson. Verizon and SBC want to avoid cable franchises as they enter the lucrative video services market. IBJ reporter Chris O'Malley writes, "To many observers, CCC is merely a veiled attempt by SBC and Verizon to add legitimacy to their lobbying efforts in state legislatures and in Congress. Rather than a grass-roots group, they dub CCC an 'Astroturf' group." Grant Smith of Citizen's Action Coalition, and Rick Maultra of the Indianapolis Cable Communications Agency are among those quoted. |
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Local public access television across the United States is being threatened by legislation introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Critics say the bills could eliminate the only source of funding public access providers receive and would take away control from local governments. Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman speak with Anthony Riddle of the Alliance for Community Media and George Stoney, who many consider the father of public access. [Transcript, Video, mp3] |
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Teresa Mendez of the Christian Science Monitor highlights public access TV in Cambridge, MA and other locales such Grand Rapids, MI and Minneapolis-St. Paul, and the potential negative impact of pending legislation: "Public-access television, whose future may hinge
on a bill before Congress, is TV's public square - a community outlet
for the civic minded, musicians, and even bonsai lovers." Full story.
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Senators John Ensign (R-NV) and John McCain (R-AZ) upped the ante on telecommunications reform with the introduction of the sweeping Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act of 2005 (S. 1504) in late July. We urge you to contact Senators Bayh and Lugar and ask them to oppose this legislation which guts decades of federal communications law and virtually eliminates state and local regulation of telecommunications, including cable and telephone. |
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?Fake News? Charges Spark Call for TV License Intervention, Creation of Community Media Centers and News Alternatives
Citizens from Kentucky, Tennessee and Indiana Converge on Louisville to Plan Visits to TV Stations and Startup of Community Media Centers and News Systems |
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 A sense of local community:
Media activists support public access (NUVO article)
More than 50 community media activists and producers around the Midwest met downtown at the Radisson over the weekend for the Alliance for Community Media's regional spring conference. Continue reading "A sense of local community." |
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George Stoney discusses the untapped power of community access media
Media activist George Stoney, 88, has spent his working life promoting the development of an engaged citizenry by using the power of TV to connect constituents with elected representatives. "What we have in Manhattan is an open studio that's built so people can hold meetings and cablecast it so they also get audience response," he says. |
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Media Mergers, Lies, and Broadband Video Control:
Why the Comcast and Time Warner Takeover of Adelphia Harms the Public Interest Diverse Community Programming and a Nondiscriminatory Internet at Stake as the Two Cable Giants seek FCC and FTC Approval by Center for Digital Democracy: Washington Watch
Ever ravenous to swallow up more media properties, Comcast and Time Warner are poised to jointly carve up Adelphia Communications (which currently has 5 million cable subscribers). Comcast and Time Warner, the first and second largest U.S. cable operators respectively--expect to acquire the fifth largest cable company with hardly a whisper of protest from the two federal regulatory agencies responsible for its approval (FTC and FCC) or from Congress. |
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 American law has had great difficulty using its European categories of religion and rights to take account of Native notions of land as sacred. Whether the law in question is the First Amendment's Free Exercise of Religion Clause, property law, or law related to sacred sites, there has been tension between the law and Native religion. Four speakers discuss the law's difficulties in accommodating Native Americans' spirituality of land in this 2003 Spirit & Place Festival event. |
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 When public health activist Erin Brockovich defeated a corporate polluter, her access to public records played a key role. Such records serve as a "civic memory" of information that can greatly impact the democratic process. Join a practical workshop with activists who demonstrate the value of Indiana's freedom of information laws, and offer ways to overcome barriers to access for more effective community activism and policy-making.
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