Alternative
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| Newspapers |
Broadcast |
Entertainment |
Cable / Phone |
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| Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
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| Buy & read local, independent & alternative papers !
Baffler
UDirect
The Reader
NewCity
Lumpen
Windy City Times
Good Places for Alternative Literature:
Qimby's
New World Resource Center
AZone
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Listen to alternative radio & community radio !
Watch locally-produced independent TV ...
Independent Radio Stations:
WZRD 88.3 FM (northeast chicago)
WXAV 88.3 FM
WHPK 88.5 FM (southeast chicago)
WLUW 88.7 FM
WNUR (evanston)
Independent or Community Radio Programs:
Real World Radio
Our Voices / Wimminspeak
Counterspin (FAIR's radio program): WLUW 88.7 Wed 10 am; WZRD
88.3 FM Tues 7:30 pm
Community News Hour: Fri 10-11 am
Pacifica News: WZRD 88.3 Weekdays 4:30 and 10 pm
Labor Express: 88.7 FM Sunday 6:30 pm / Monday 10 am
Orbito Feminina: WCRW
The Natural Grocer: Saturdays Noon - 1 pm 106.7
Revolution Radio: HPR 1st & 3rd Tuesday 6:30-9:00
Alternative Radio (David Barsamian):
Independent or Community TV Programs:
Rights & Wrongs: Saturdays 7 am WTTW Channel 11
Free Speech TV - Channel 19, Sundays 6-10
Labor TV
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Support local independent theaters, video stores, film
makers & your local arts community.
Facets: video store & theater
Chicago Film Makers : theater
Music Box : theater
Specialty Video : video store
Film Center at the Art Institute : theater
Doc Films (U. of Chicago) : theater
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Support locally produced & independent cable TV ...
Cable Access
Chicago Labor TV
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| Let Your Voice Be Heard ! |
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Write letters to your local papers demanding more local
coverage, diversity in employment practices, progressive columnists, etc.
Let the Tribune & Sun-Times know they should be covering labor &
Movement issues ...
Contact your cable & telephone regulators !
Demand that your cable company find quality non-commercial
children's & public-interest programming, and dedicate channel-space to
local government (Council meetings, hearings, etc.) coverage
Go to FCC Hearings
Write to FCC Commissioners
Contact your Representative & Senator & support strong
ownership safeguards
File petititons with the FCC to deny transfer of licenses to
large corporations
Urge city officials to demand public interest obligations and
safeguards
Participate in broadcast license renewals & fight for our
right to have quality programming on public airwaves !
Contact the FCC and tell them to leave license renewals at
five years instead of eight
Contact the FCC and tell them not to restrict low-bandwidth
broadcast
Contact the FCC and tell them not to prosecute pirate radio
Legislative & Regulatory Bodies:
U.S. Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee: Antitrust,
Business Rights and Competition Subcommittee:
Chair: Strom Thurmond.
Republican Members: Hatch / Specter / Simpson
Democratic Members: Leahy / Heflin / Feingold
SD-224, Dirksen Building, Washington, DC 20510
202.224.5225
U.S. Congress, House Commerce Committe: Telecommunications
and Finance Subcommittee:
Chair: Fields
Vice Chair: Oxley
Republican Members: Moorhead / Schaefer / Barton / Hastert /
Stearns / Paxon / Gillmore / Klug / Cox / Frisa / White / Coburn / Deal /
Tauzin
Markey / Hall / Bryant / Boucher / Manton
Democratic Members: Studds / Gordon / Rush / Eshoo / Klink /
Collins / Richardson
2125 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
202.225.2927; fax 202.225.2525; commerce@hr.house.gov
http://www.house.gov/commerce/
Federal Communications Commission:
Secretary Reed Hundt
Office of the Secretary, FCC
1919 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20554
202.418.2801
202.418.2801 fax
rhundt@fcc.gov
Chicago regulatory agency
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Illinois Commerce Commission
527 East Capitol
P.O. Box 19280
Springfield, IL 62794
Dan Miller, Chairman (also VP with Crain Communications)
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| D.I.Y. - Do It Yourself ! |
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| Do your own zine ... |
Make your own movies & films
Have you considered pirate radio? (warning: this is illegal) |
Document the actions & stories of your
community |
Put on a cable access show |
| Learn More About It ! |
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| Info About Media
Concentration |
Organizations |
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Locally
- Chicago Coalition for Information Access: CCIA c/o Networking
For Democracy 3411 W. Diversey, Suite 1, Chicago, Il 60647. 312.284.8827
ccia-l@listserv.uic.edu http://cs-www.uchicago.edu:80/cpsr/ccia/
- Chicago Media Watch
- Community Media Workshop
Columbia College, 600 S Michigan, Chicago, IL 60605; 312.663.3223; fax
312.663.3227
Malcolm X College, 1900 W Van Buren, Chicago, IL 60612;
312.850.7321; fax 312.850.7323
commnews@mcs.net http://www.mcs.net/~commnews/
- CounterMedia Project: 1573 N. Milwaukee #517 Chicago, IL
60622 xmediax@ripco.com 312.670.9673
http://cs-www.uchicago.edu/cpsr/countermedia/
- The File Room http://fileroom.aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents/homepage.html
- illustrated archive on censorship
- Peace & Justice Radio Project . American Friends Service
Committee . 59 E. Van Buren, #1400 . Chicago IL 60605 . 312.427.2533 . fax
312.427.4171
- Progressive Media Initiative: c/o Ralph Suter, 1529 W. Touhy
Ave., #2, Chicago IL 60626-2623, fax 312-743-0602. For more information
call 312-743-6130.
- Street Level Youth Media: P.O. Box 578336, Chicago, IL 60657.
951 N Ashland Avenue, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60622. 312.862.5331.
312.862.0754. livewire@charlie.acc.iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~livewire/
- various media arts collectives
Nationally
- Center for Media Education
- Consumer Federation of America
- Consumers Union
- Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR): 130 W. 25th St.,
New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212-633-6700 Fax: 212-727-7668
http://www.igc.apc.org/fair/
- Media Access Project
- Progressive Media Project, Madison, Wisconsin - distributes
columns from a variety of writers
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