| Features of the Tennessee IMC |
| Published as of Wednesday, 13 October 2004 08:01:09 AM |
| Elections & Legislation | | Johnston City, Tennessee to host Third Party Candidates' Presidential Debate Friday October 15th | | 13 Oct 2004 | | Friday October 15, 2004 join democracy advocates for a true alternative to two party politics. A debate between several presidential candidates is planned from 2:00 to 4:00PM at ETSU’s Auditorium. A reception will follow at Carnegie Hotel from 7:00 to 10:00 PM and will host DJ Tabatha Williams; the award for attendants choice based on IRV ballot tally will be given at 8:00PM. There will be open mic performance from 9:15 10:00PM, bring your song, poem or other form of political artistic expression to share. |
| Environment | | National Coal takes Katuah Earth First! to Court | | 08 Oct 2004 | | Friends,Y'all might remember the little Hell Month project we have going against National Coal Co. - the new firm that is buying and continuing the Zeb Mountain mountain top removal project.Well, this morning (friday, oct 8th), a bunch of us got served with a temporary restraining order from the Chancery Court of Knox County.It seems that National Coal has been getting quite a few emails, faxes and phone calls and they claim it is disrupting their business. In their affidavit, they lie about our one little protest, claiming we blocked traffic and threatened people with "bludgeons". |
| Media | | FBI Seizes Indymedia Servers in the UK | | 07 Oct 2004 | | Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over information hosted on Indymedia web servers to the FBI. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied by turning over two Indymedia servers to federal authorities, effectively removing those sites from the internet. The list of affected local media collectives includes Ambazonia, Uruguay, Andorra, Poland, Western Massachusetts, Nice, Nantes, Lilles, Marseille, Euskal Herria (Basque Country), Liege, East and West Vlaanderen, Antwerpen (Belgium), Belgrade, Portugal, Prague, Galiza, Italy, Brazil, UK, and Germany. |
| Media | | Free Radio News is Born | | 05 Oct 2004 | | After KFAR (Knoxville First Amendment Radio) was shut down by the FCC, listeners had to tune into the web for their news. Now we have a 24-hour progressive radio news stream online!All the news that was playing on Knoxville's pirate radio station KFAR (Knoxville First Amendment Radio - http://www.kfar.org) is now available 24 hours a day online via FREE RADIO NEWS.http://www.freeradionews.org/The website was launched this past weekend, as a legal way for listeners and supporters of independent alternative radio to get their daily fix of progressive news online. |
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