Featuring Michael Franti and Suheir Hammad

The Fourth World War
a big noise film

Next Coordinated Broadcast:
Friday, October 29th, 2004

Broadcast Theme:
2004 Election

INTERVIEW WITH KFAR, PIRATE RADIO STATION RAIDED BY THE FCC

There is a serious problem with Independent Media Centers (IMCs) in the open comment areas. IMCs end up publishing as much content *against* freedom, racism, sexism, classism, etc., as they do *for* those things via the open comment areas. “Trolls,� or people who stalk indy media sources and writers, work hard at publishing as much hate mail in comment areas on IMCs as the individual IMC editorial groups will allow or overlook. They do not deserve to be published, plain and simple. It is time the plug was pulled on the trolls.

I would like to request that IMCs talk about this option:

What if we set it up so the author of the article could *choose* to have an OPEN OR CLOSED comment area. The *author's choice*, not the IMC editorial's choice. Authors would have to decide open or closed BEFORE comments happened. One shot deal. But if you choose CLOSED comments, all comments will simply be blocked from that article from day one, and permanently the comments will just not happen.