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DeeDee Halleck

(04/03/2008)

5:47

The first Paper Tiger show was Herb Schiller Reads the Times- a weekly public access show in Manhattan, critiquing the NYT.

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:47

5:49

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-5330003-3318402?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=herbert+schiller&x=0&y=0

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:49

5:49

Herb Schiller has written many books about media, and Ms. Halleck recommends The Mind Managers.

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:49

5:51

Paper Tiger started in 1981, and has had over 400 shows.

Other programs include:
Super Barrio - a housing activist in Mexico who helps tenants organize against ruthless lenders

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:51

5:52

Napoleon Williams- Zoom Black Magic Radio
Herb Schiller & Mary Feaster
Joel Kovel on Bill Moyers

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:52

5:53

http://www.papertiger.org/

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YouTube: paper tiger Play

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:53

5:55

In 94 and 96 Paper Tiger helped lead a march to demand public access. Manhattan now has one of the strongest public access programs.

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:55

5:59

Another protest held at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in 2000. Here the protestors put bicycle locks around their necks! Police didn't know what to do, because they didn't have the tools to remove the locks, so the police ended up putting partitions around the groups of protestors. But they continued shouting, so in effect, they became their own "radio station" - you could hear them shouting, but you couldn't see them.

Thursday April 3, 2008 5:59

6:01

In 2005, at the Republican National Convention, Linda Iannacone and Rev. Billy led a "March Against the Media"

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:01

6:03

Meanwhile at Paper Tiger, they needed to look into leasing a satellite and send programs that way, rather than mailing big cassettes. It costs between $500-600 an hour.
But the challenge is getting people to know that it will be on.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:03

6:04

That's how Deep Dish TV got started.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:04

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http://www.deepdishtv.org/Home/

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:05

6:09

Set aside non-commercial channels. A law that 4% of direct broadcast must be public access.
These include:
LinkTV,
UCTV,
RFD-TV (this one just got pulled, because they started playing commercials. This is where Don Imus is now!),
FSTV

Its supposed to be 4%, and there are now over 500 channels, so they are considering a class action lawsuit to force these channels to be doing what they should be doing.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:09

6:11

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6:11

Democracy Now is one of the programs. They started on radio, and tried to get things started on tv. After 9-11 they decided to go on TV.

There are now more viewers/listeners than there are for Larry King.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:11

6:13

IndyMedia is another example. Indymedia was posting stills and video online in 1999, way before YouTube.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:13

6:14

One of the things IndyMedia has done is document abuse of police power.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:14

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Thursday April 3, 2008 6:14

6:16

Because of the importance and success of IndyMedia, there has been a reaction to them, and police have tried to shut them down.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:16

6:19

New program called "Shocking and Awful" about recent current war in Iraq. Each of the episode has a different theme. One was about the cultural disrutption in Iraq.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:19

6:19

http://www.democracynow.org/2005/2/15/shocking_and_awful_a_grassroots_response

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:19

6:20

Art of the Resistance: held a draw-in...people would go to the Assyrian galleries around the world and try to draw some of the art, in an effort to show how important the art and culture/heritage is.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:20

6:21

Show called, "The World Says No to War"
http://www.democracynow.org/2003/2/17/the_world_says_no_to_war

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:21

6:24

try to do documentaries and speeches, but they really pay attention to the asthetic value of the work they do.

Worked with Visual Resistance to create exhibit.

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Thursday April 3, 2008 6:24

6:25

In the above photo, a screen plays poets presenting their poems against the war, next to a Picasso guernica drawing, on a background made of stock reports from the Wall Street Journal.

Thursday April 3, 2008 6:25

6:29

Now starting to focus on newer technology.

Full Spectrum Warrior, game made at USC with a grant from the Dept of Defense.