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1. Free Speech TV Schedule
2. This Week on FSTV
3. FSTV Action Alert!
4. Become a Member
5. Order a DISH Satellite System
6. FSTV Internship Program
7. FSTV Info
8. E-guide Info
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1. FREE SPEECH TV SCHEDULE:

What's showing on Free Speech TV for Channel 9415 on the Dish Network this week? The FSTV Schedule is searchable by day, title, series or keyword:
http://www.freespeech.org/scripts/php/fstv/search_schedule.php3

For more information about Free Speech TV programming see:
http://www.freespeech.org/
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2. THIS WEEK'S PRIME TIME HIGHLIGHTS ON FSTV:

For late-breaking news and war coverage watch FSTV Special Report, premiering now on Sundays at 11pm EST, and daily at 8 am and 3pm EST and again at 11pm EST, and don't miss Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, every evening (except Saturdays) at 8pm EST and then repeated weekdays at 9am and 2pm EST.

This week, in our TV Guerrillas series:

Friday at 9:00pm EST and again at Midnight:
Performing the Border. Running Time: 43 min. Produced by the Ursula Biemann, 1999.
A video essay set in the Mexican - US border town Ciudad Juarez, where the US industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across from El Paso, Texas. "Performing the border" looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance of gender and the management of these gender relations. The drastic industrialization that occurred here drew mainly young women into the labor force. The video discusses the sexualization of the border region through the labor division, prostitution, the expression of female desires in the entertainment industry, and sexual violence in the public sphere. Interviews, scripted voice over, quoted text on the screen, scenes and sounds recorded on site, as well as found footage are combined to give an insight into the gendered conditions inscribed in the border region.

To learn more about this film or purchase a copy, go here:
http://216.168.37.176/vtape/default.htm

Followed by at 10:00pm/1:00am EST:
Rat Art: Croatian Independents. Running time: 50 min. Produced by Zev Asher, 1997.
Zev Asher's fascinating collage documentary, Rat Art: Croatian Independents focuses on artists working in Croatia, a nation devastated by the war in the former Yugoslavia. (Rat is the Croatian word for war.) Many of these artists, working in the capital city of Zagreb, were relatively distant from the war zone, while others fought at the front lines (legendary punk icon Satan Panonski enlisted in the army so that he could steal a tank), but all were equally aware of the war's effects on their nation. The range of artistic expression covered in RAT ART is impressive: appearing in the film are installation artists, musicians, fashion designers, performance artists, rock video directors, comic strip artists, photographers, filmmakers and more. Although there are enormous differences between these individuals, many of them share a sense that, as one puts it, "time has stopped and civilization has no chance for advancement." Ironies abound in postwar Croatia in scenes like a car trip along the "Highway of Brotherhood and Unity" and one artist's statement that "the most important thing in this war situation was to decide on and choose the most comfortable place to die in." With Rat Art, Zev Asher has developed a distinctive style of documentary; his observant, sharp-eyed camera work and quick, intelligent editing give the documentary's subjects an immediate presence and a powerful sense of urgency.

To learn more about this film or purchase a copy, go here:
http://216.168.37.176/vtape/default.htm

TV Guerrillas celebrates the historical and contemporary practices of producers and activists committed to using video for progressive social change and media literacy. TV Guerrillas also features work investigating our current media landscape.
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3. FSTV ACTION ALERT!:

Action: Support UNRWA's Emergency Appeal for humanitarian aid to Palestinians
Source: http://www.un.org/unrwa/emergency/index.htm

A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip. Funds are urgently needed to enable UNRWA to continue providing emergency humanitarian assistance to the thousands of refugees being affected by the on-going conflict.
The Israeli military incursions into refugee camps and towns have caused widespread destruction to homes, public and commercial buildings and infrastructure. Since September 2000, more than 5,000 refugees have had their homes damaged or destroyed by Israeli bulldozing and shelling. Israeli military actions in March 2002 alone caused damage to hundreds of refugee homes, 22 UN schools, four UN health clinics, two UN ambulances and four UN camp services offices. Please help us to continue providing emergency humanitarian assistance to Palestine refugees.

UNRWA has launched an appeal to carry out its emergency operations in 2002 to provide the following assistance to the refugees in the West Bank and Gaza Strip:

Emergency food supplies;
Medicines;
Blankets, tents and kitchen kits;
Building materials for the repair or reconstruction of damaged or destroyed refugee shelters;
Physical rehabilitation for the injured and trauma counselling for children affected by the violence;
Repair of UN schools, health clinics and other facilities.

Donate online at http://www.un.org/unrwa/emergency/donation/index.html or send a check to:

External Relations Office
UNRWA HQ, Gaza
c/o UNRWA Liaison Office, New York
One United Nations Plaza, Room DC1-1265, New York, NY 10017, USA
Telephone: (+1-212) 963 2255
Facsimile: (+1-212) 935 7899
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4. BECOME A FREE SPEECH TV MEMBER:

Progressive media needs your support! Join the fight for social justice and media democracy by becoming an FSTV member! With your help, we can keep bringing you the valuable progressive programming you won't see anywhere else: empowering, muckraking, inspiring and outrageous. We'll keep you posted on our weekly offerings and special events. And we'll send you our "What Democracy Looks Like" stickers as a gesture of our appreciation.

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Public Communicators, Inc.,
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FSTV is a project of Public Communicators, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
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5. ORDER A DISH SATELLITE SYSTEM:

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6. FSTV'S INTERNSHIP PROGRAM:

Free Speech TV offers internships at its Boulder office. For more information, see:

http://www.freespeech.org/html/intern.shtml
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7. ABOUT FREE SPEECH TV:

Working with activists and artists, FSTV uses television to expose social and environmental injustices - to help build community, to teach tolerance, to encourage personal creativity and stand for non-violent social action. FSTV is a media conduit to advance progressive social change. FSTV airs primarily social, political, cultural, and environmental documentaries, although some experimental and dramatic work is featured as well. FSTV acquires its programming from independent producers and distributors from all around the world. FSTV currently reaches over nine million US homes. It airs full-time via direct broadcast satellite on EchoStar's DISH Network. It also airs part-time on a network of 25 community access cable stations. FSTV occasionally presents special series on public television stations, such as "Crashing the Party," live coverage of the Democratic and Republican Conventions in August, 2000. FSTV's sister project --Free Speech Internet Television-- features the Internet's largest archive of progressive audio and video content.
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Thanks for your support of independent progressive television!

Linda Mamoun
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lindam@freespeech.org
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