[Imc] Fw: [IMC-Audio] help needed for US Conference of Mayors
Paul Riismandel
paul at mediageek.org
Sat Jun 8 16:30:54 UTC 2002
Info about coverage at the US Conference of Mayors in Madtown next weekend:
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From: "wajid" <jwajid at yahoo.com>
To: <imc-audio at lists.indymedia.org>
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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