COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY: How Are They Linked?

[Doug Schuler]

This sounds GREAT!!

-- Doug

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COMMUNITY POWERED RADIO
CPR**308 27th Ave. E.**Seattle, WA**98112
cpr at gurlmail.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:  Sheri Herndon 633 1987


COMMUNICATIONS, COMMUNITY AND DEMOCRACY:
How Are They Linked?


Alan Korn, the premier attorney on microradio will be speaking at Seattle
Central Community College, Room 4601 on Thursday, May 13 at 7 p.m.  There
will also be a screening of the award-winning documentary, "Fear & Favor in
the Newsroom".

Alan Korn is an attorney with the National Lawyers Guild Committee on
Democratic Communications (CDC) and is on the steering committee of the
Microradio Empowerment Coalition.  Mr. Korn has worked with the CDC on
microradio issues throughout the 1990s, and he is the author of the initial
legal arguments used by Mbanna Kantako, Stephen Dunifer, and others
challenging the Federal Communications Commission 's ban on low power
community radio.  Because of the courtroom victories in the Free Radio
Berkeley case and the continued electronic civil disobedience of microradio
broadcasters around the country, the FCC is now considering a proposal to
create a legalized low power FM radio service.  

Mr. Korn will discuss the history and strategy of the microradio movement
and explain why public comment is urgently needed to avoid the many flaws in
the FCC's low power FM proposal.  He'll also talk about the role of
democratic and independent media in our local communities.

Mr. Korn is also an arts and entertainment attorney and has lectured
extensively on copyright law issues and authored a monthly column on legal
issues for musicians.  He appears in the documentary film, "Sonic Outlaws",
by Craig Baldwin (1995) addressing fair use issues arising at the
intersection of copyright law, free speech, and contemporary artistic
expression.

There will also be a screening of a segment of the film, "Fear and Favor in
the News Room", an award winning exposé of corporate media.  Directors Beth
Sanders and Randy Baker will be present to introduce their film, which was
banned by PBS's national distributor. 

This event is being sponsored by Community Powered Radio.  CPR is a
Seattle-based organization formed in 1998 to educate people about media
democracy and literacy issues and to support grassroots groups in the
creation of their own media.  Our current campaign is to promote
noncommercial low powered radio in the Pacific Northwest.  


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