[rfu-membership] Fwd: [grc] Commemorate May Day,
by broadcasting the radio play, "Inquisitions."
Andrew Ó Baoill
andrew at funferal.org
Sun Apr 13 18:19:50 CDT 2008
I want to propose that we schedule this production to play on May Day
(May 1st) during time when no regular content is airing. Possible
times would include:
8-11am
12-2pm
I can add it to the automation system, once I have permission.
My proposal would be that this be a special broadcast, and that it
have the same protections that Radio Bilingue usually has - that it
not be pre-empted by unscheduled live local content. The broadcast
could be under the auspices of the A Critical Ear programming group,
if that was necessary.
On a somewhat unrelated note: after our formal meeting next week, I
can provide some training in using Zara Radio to those interested.
Andrew
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Between The Lines <betweenthelines at snet.net>
> Date: 12 Aibreán 2008 14:50:46 GMT-05:00
> To: grc at peak.org
> Subject: [grc] Commemorate May Day, by broadcasting the radio play,
> "Inquisitions."
>
> Commemorate May Day, by broadcasting "Inquisitions,"
> a radio play dramatizing the struggle for workers rights and civil
> liberties.
>
> Dear Radio Friends,
>
> This note, from the producers of Between The Lines Radio
> Newsmagazine, contains important information about a new radio play
> titled "Inquisitions (and Other Un-American Activities,)" written
> by our colleague Greg Guma, Pacifica Radio Network's former
> executive director and former editor of Toward Freedom Magazine,
> based in Burlington, Vermont.
>
> This 120-minute audio drama, perfect for your May Day broadcast
> schedule, recounts the history of the movement for an 8-hour
> workday, the 1886 Haymarket bombing and the Palmer Raids, relating
> the struggle for social justice and free speech of that era to
> today's post-September 11th Bush administration assault on civil
> liberties and dissent. This audio production is available to non-
> commercial radio stations for broadcast.
>
> If you wish to air this program, please email Anna Manzo at
> betweenthelines at snet.net or call (203) 268-8446, and we will
> provide you with download instructions.
>
> For more details, read the press release below or visit our website
> at http://www.squeakywheel.net/inquisitions.html
>
> An audio sample of this timely play can be heard by clicking these
> links:
> RealAudio: http://www.squeakywheel.net/inquisitions.ram
> MP3: http://www.squeakywheel.net/inquisitions.mp3
>
> We hope your radio station will consider scheduling a broadcast of
> "Inquisitions," a thought-provoking audio drama providing listeners
> with historical perspectives on the challenges to America's Bill of
> Rights and government tolerance of dissent.
>
> In the spirit of audio revolution,
> Scott Harris & Anna Manzo
> Squeaky Wheel Productions,
> distributors of Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
> betweenthelines at snet.net
> (203) 268-8446
> ********************
> A Brief History of May Day
>
> The very first "May Day" occurred in Chicago on May 1, 1886. On
> that date, thousands marched peacefully in Chicago for the 8-hour
> workday. Later that day, in a strike at the McCormick Harvester
> plant, six workers fighting scabs on a picket line were killed.
> The next day, a protest was held at Chicago's Haymarket Square,
> where a bomb exploded, killing eight police officers.
>
> Eight anarchists were tried for the bombing and sentenced to death
> despite a lack of evidence or witnesses and a worldwide movement
> which rose up to oppose their conviction. Four were executed by
> hanging, one committed suicide and the remaining three were released.
>
> Those events in history led to the observance of May Day as an
> international workers holiday outside the U.S. But here in the
> U.S., May Day has been marginalized by corporations and their
> political allies as a "foreign" holiday. "Labor Day" was placed on
> the calendar in September and May Day became "Law Day."
>
> -adapted from the writings of Richard Gibson and Eric Chase
> **********************************************************************
> *
> "Inquisitions (and Other Un-American Activities"
> Dissent and Its Enemies: Epic Drama Released for Radio
>
> A new play that dramatizes attacks on free speech and civil liberties
> is now available for radio broadcast as a compact disk set.
>
> With the interrogation of activist Lucy Parsons during the 1919
> Palmer raids as its framework, Inquisitions (and Other Un-American
> Activities) is a dynamic new audio production that explores timely
> themes through a dramatic recreation of the movement for an eight-
> hour workday, the Haymarket bombing, and hanging of four activists.
> It was recorded in May, 2003 at City Hall in Burlington, Vermont,
> on the 117th anniversary of the infamous 1886 bombing.
>
> "Inquisitions..." is the result of more than a decade of research,
> and includes characters such as radical organizer Albert Parsons,
> business tycoons like Marshall Field and John D. Rockefeller, plus
> muckraker Henry Demarest Lloyd and J. Edgar Hoover at the start of
> his FBI career.
>
> According to a review by David Warner in the Vermont weekly
> newspaper, Seven Days, the new play is "inarguably timely now, as
> the contradictory demands of national security and civil liberties
> are once more at odds." Illuminating the past, it raises thorny
> questions about the threats to freedom when dissent is considered a
> crime.
>
> Inquisitions (and Other Un-American Activities) was co-produced by
> the Catalyst Theatre Company and Toward Freedom, a Vermont-based
> media education organization. Written by Greg Guma, former
> executive director of Pacifica Radio Network, directed by Bill
> Boardman, and performed by a 20-person cast, the production runs
> two hours with intermissions, but also can be broadcast in two or
> three installments.
>
> At the end of the broadcast, the following announcement should be
> made to correct out of date information included in the ending
> credits:
>
> "To stage a local production or your own public reading of this
> timely drama, contact the playwright, Greg Guma at MavMedia at aol.com
> or (802) 233-0934. Audio CDs of this play are no longer available
> for sale."
>
>
>
> ###################################
> Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
> Squeaky Wheel Productions
> P.O. Box 110176
> Trumbull, CT 06611
> Phone: (203) 268-8446
> Fax: (203) 268-3180
> http://www.btlonline.org
> http://www.squeakywheel.net
> betweenthelines at snet.net
> ###################################
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Andrew Ó Baoill
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PhD student, Institute of Communications Research, University of
Illinois
Communications / Participatory media / Political action
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andrew at funferal.org / http://funferal.org
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everwhere.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (Letter from a Birmingham Jail)
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