[Imc] Fw: [IMC-Audio] help needed for US Conference of Mayors

[Paul Riismandel]

Info about coverage at the US Conference of Mayors in Madtown next weekend:

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From: "wajid" <jwajid at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 1:24 AM
Subject: [IMC-Audio] help needed for US Conference of Mayors


> Hey all, 
> 
> this is Wajid from Four Lakes (Madison) Wisconsin. 
> IMC Madison finally has a physical space, and we're
> gonna stream some kick-ass radio.  Next weekend, June
> 13-18, we will be providing coverage of the 70th
> annual United States Conference of Mayors and the
> Mayors Business Council.  We'll run a live radio
> stream for the duration of the conference and we need
> help.  
> 
> We want to start the broadcast on Wednesday or
> Thursday, June 12/13, and continue through Tuesday
> June 18.  We have a wealth of archived music plus news
> pieces from recent coverage of the Mayors Conference,
> and we plan on inviting everybody in for interviews,
> shows and call-ins.  No shortage of material, but we
> need help with servers.  Specifically.can we get
> D.R.O.P. going to help provide mount points for
> streaming?  
> 
> I want to coordinate this on IRC, and would like some
> feedback on a good time to meet with folks who can be
> part of D.R.O.P. over the weekend.  WXM and I will be
> organizing the studio here, and we thought Sunday
> night/morning would be a fine time for an IRC meetin. 
> I propose a short meeting to coordinate the stream
> sometime between 21:00 (GMT -06:00) Sunday June 9 and
> 03:00 (GMT -06:00) Monday.  I know it's short notice,
> but could this work?  Other feedback?
> 
> *********
> 
> Some BACKGROUND on the US Conference of Mayors itself:
>  hundreds of mayors are set to converge on Madison,
> Wisconsin for their 70th annual meeting.
> (http://madison.indymedia.org/mayors )  Joining them
> for posh dinners, golf dates and schmoozing will be
> executives from some eighty corporations, i.e., the
> Mayors Business Council.  Charter Business Council
> members include:  Lockheed Martin, 3M, Waste
> Management, US Water, United Water, American Petroleum
> Institute, and Phillip Morris Companies.  Other
> Council members include Citigroup, Ford Motors,
> General Motors, Anderson, Sodhexo, Bechtel, Coca-Cola
> Company, Coors Brewing, Home Depot, Office Depot, and
> DuPont.  Also in attendance will be Homeland Security
> czar Tom Ridge, FEMA Director Joe Allbaugh, Health and
> Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, and possibly
> Resident George W. Bush.  U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO
> Tom Donohue will be leading the Mayors Council private
> breakfast inside Monona Terrace on Saturday, June 15.
> 
> With the formation of the International Mayors
> Conference
> (http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=4768&group=webcast),
> the power of local government to grease the path for
> corporate raiders has truly been networked worldwide.
> 
> The entire event is, of course, closed to the
> public.but funded with tax dollars and corporate
> contributions.  Citing unnamed intelligence indicating
> a risk of "violent anarchists," the Madison Police
> Department has requested close to US$700,000 for
> security
> (http://madison.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5350&group=webcast
>   
> http://www.madison.com/wisconsinstatejournal/mayors/27082.html
>  ).  Two Madison coalitions are organizing resistance,
> Creative People's Resistance
> (http://www.resist-the-mayors.org) and Cities for
> People (http://www.citiesforpeople.org ), and they
> expect strong solidarity from other activists in the
> region.  Counter-conference and direct action should
> bring a few thousand people to the streets of Madison,
> a university town in the middle of rural US with a
> long history of radical resistance.  Big fun.
> 
> 
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