[1812] in peace2
Become the media!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Fri Jul 12 01:02:09 2002
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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 01:01:54 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
If you aren't a cop, fed, or a troll, you are on this list because you
want to be part of a movement to increase peace and justice in the world.
And while each one of us needs to figure out for ourself how we want to
work at this, one tactic is to help get other voices and ideas out through
independent media.
Many of you have heard about IMC <www.indymedia.org>, <boston.indymedia.org>
and have relied on it for the fastest way to get news from crisis
zones throughout the world (Seattle, Genoa, Palestine, etc.) We
know the corporate media has vested interests in promoting war
and other trends that promote international corpocracy.
What many of you may not realize is that MIT's own WMBR (88.1 FM) has a
local news show on thurs evening (6pm) and some public affairs shows that
are happy to have input and participation from folks like us. The news
department also has digital audio recording equipment that we can get
trained on and check out to record and edit events, talks and/or
interviews. If this sounds remotely interesting, email me or stop
by tomorrow at WMBR (basement of Walker Memorial) at 6:30pm and
meet the no-censorship radio team. Brice will be a guest on the
show talking about the recent senate vote on the Yucca Mt. repository.
I will be checking out some audio equipment. Chuck and Linda will
be running the show, but will be able to chat or answer questions
in the breaks. Mark Weaver, who along with Chuck and Linda works on the
news, also has his own public affairs show called "breaking the chains."
So, if you can imagine any kind of audio message you would like to get
out, this is a low-activation-barrier way to do it. It could be about
international student visas, genetically modified foods, union issues
in the area, impending war in Iraq, the admins undemocratic removal
of lobby 7 drop posters for no good reason, the world bank, suicide
at MIT, information on Islam, the science on global warming, or
whatever else you can think of.
The content can come in many forms:
you can make a recorded statement (like an editorial to a paper, but read.)
you can interview someone
you can tape a talk
you can interview random people on a topic to elucidate a sense of
perception on a topic, breadth of perspectives, etc. - an
anecdotal audio survey of sorts...
you can make an audio collage of some sort
you can make and/or record music
you can record yourself attempting Tuvan throat singing (if you are any good
at
it)
you can ask to be a live guest on a show, which can usually be arranged if a
bit of advance notice is provided
recorded content can also be uploaded to IMC websites
you can do many other things that I have never even thought of
And last but not least, the "you" in the previous section need not be the 2nd
person singular, it can be the 2nd person plural. If you have an idea
but only want to edit or only want to write or only want to find ideas,
then you can work with others who like doing the other pieces, and *voila*
we have cooperation.
If you have read this far, you are probably at least a bit interested, so
consider coming down on friday, or if you are busy fri. but want to learn more
or want to link up with others working on this, email me - eventually we
will put an email list together for this. And feel free to email the
news folks directly at news@wmbr.org.
whose airwaves?
In hope,
Aimee
PS links of interest:
wmbr.org is the station
www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~andronic/NCRHomePage.html
