Community Video in Action

Update: Channel 16 starting covering this important board meeting after the Indianapolis Star article on September 2, 2002.  Thanks to all the volunteers who helped make this happen.

by Andrea Price

Ever wondered what goes on at a Capital Improvement Board (CIB) Meeting?  We wondered why it, unlike other meetings, was not covered by Channel 16.  We were told that Channel 16 had offered to cover the meetings, but the Chairman of the Board declined.

At Indianapolis' First Alternative Media Festival in 2002, author and media critic, Dr. Robert W. McChesney, Research Professor in the Institute of Communications at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, spoke on the history of media in the US, and the current anti-democratic effect that corporate media consolidation has on the country.

Attorney Bryan Stevenson, of the New York University (NYU) Law School and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama,  speaks on the death penalty, and how race, class, mental illness, and age distort the ideal of justice in the US.