[Peace] PRESS ADVISORY: CITIZENS TO OPPOSE CENSORSHIP

Randall Cotton recotton at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 10 13:42:12 CDT 2004


For those of you interested in the "Democracy Now!" on UPTV issue (or the
Martel Miller censorship issue)...

I sent this off to news organizations earlier today...

: *** PRESS ADVISORY ***
:
: Public to oppose censorship by Mayor Satterthwaite and the City of Urbana
at
: Monday's Urbana Public Television (UPTV) Commission Meeting
:
: On Monday, September 13th at noon in the Urbana City Council Chambers,
: dozens of local citizens will demonstrate opposition against Urbana City
: Administration attempts to censor public-access cable programming
requested
: by over 1000 local residents. "Democracy Now!", an increasingly popular
: publicly-funded, non-profit, independent news and analysis program has
been
: requested for scheduling on public-access cable channel UPTV (Insight
Cable
: Channel 6) by a petition of over 1000 area residents. However, the request
: was blocked by Mayor Todd Satterthwaite at the last UPTV Commission
meeting
: on July 12th. The mayor, who normally doesn't attend UPTV Commission
: meetings, was present at the July 12th meeting to argue vigorously in
: opposition to the initiative. A comprehensive history of this issue
: (complete with transcripts and audio clips of the July 12th meeting) is
: available on the web at:
:
: http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/20138/index.php
:
: In addition, at the same meeting, some area residents may also speak out
in
: opposition to UPTV's censorship of a citizen documentary about Champaign
: police stops, which was originally scheduled for broadcast on August 25th,
: but was banned by UPTV and turned over to police authorities. Details on
: this story are available on the web at:
:
: http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/20086/index.php
:
: Press contact:
: Randall Cotton
: 217-722-8470
:




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