Common Bonds of Indianapolis - Media

Darwin Day

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:34:14 -0800

Start: Mar 8 2008 - 8:00am

End: Mar 8 2008 - 5:00pm

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Registration will begin at 8:00 am in the new IUPUI Campus Center, sponsored by Center for Inquiry Indiana and IUPUI Freethinkers. In the afternoon, three speakers will be on a panel to answer questions and respond to ideas posed by Creationist/Intelligent Design proponents.For more information email cfiindy@insightbb.com or call 317-77-5892 Go to

"The School Newspaper: Who Decides What is News"

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:22:07 -0800

Start: Mar 5 2008 - 12:00pm

End: Mar 5 2008 - 12:50pm

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Panelists include R. George Wright, IU School of Law; Diana Hadley, Indiana High School Press Association, and Teresa Wright, Noblesville High School Journalism Advisor. For more info, visit aclu-in.org

IN DEBT WE TRUST - Free Film at Key Cinemas

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:12:04 -0700

Start: Jun 28 2007 - 7:00pm

End: Jun 28 2007 - 9:30pm

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IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in the Iraq War. The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence of a debt-and-credit industrial complex." While many Americans may be "maxing out" on credit cards, there is a deeper story: power is shifting into fewer hands.....with frightening consequences. IN DEBT WE TRUST shows how the mall replaced the factory as America's dominant economic engine and how big banks and credit card companies buy our Congress and drive us into what a former major bank economist calls modern serfdom. Americans and our government owe trillions in consumer debt and the national debt, a large amount of it to big banks and billions to Communist China.

Free Screening: Reel Bad Arabs

Wed, 02 May 2007 23:45:16 -0700

Start: May 8 2007 - 6:00pm

End: May 8 2007 - 8:00pm

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This groundbreaking documentary dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged form the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Featuring acclaimed author Dr. Jack Shaheen, the film explores a long line of degrading images of Arabs--from Bedouin bandits and submissive maidens to sinister sheikhs and gun-wielding "terrorists"--along the way offering devastating insights into the origin of these stereotypic images, their development at key points in US history, and why they matter so much today.

Public Access of Indianapolis Holiday Gathering and Screening

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:25:31 -0800

Start: Dec 16 2006 - 11:30am

End: Dec 16 2006 - 1:30pm

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Join us for a short meeting, refreshments, and a screening of a new video on media by Nick Hess, Vice President of Public Access of Indianapolis. Everyone is welcome.

Center for Inquiry Teens

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:32:06 -0700

Start: Oct 26 2006 - 7:00pm

End: Oct 26 2006 - 9:00pm

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Center for Inquiry Teen will meet on Thursday October 26 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Au Bon Pain, 901 Indiana Ave. for discussion of current political and social topics of interest to the group. Email Caroline at CFI-Teen-owner@yahoogroups.com for details. CFI Teen is a group of high school age teens interested in peace and social justice issues. We are politically and socially liberal. We are atheist or theist, including non-mainstream religions. We utilize science and reason in forming our worldview.

Public Access of Indianapolis Monthly Meeting

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 01:37:15 -0700

Start: Jul 15 2006 - 11:30am

End: Jul 15 2006 - 1:00pm

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Join us for our monthly meeting. Agenda:

Update on the campaign for public access TV
Update on activites in Washington, related to media
Newsletter distribution

Indianapolis Needs a Public Access TV Channel

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:09:57 -0800

"Indianapolis is really alone when it comes to having no public access." Bunnie Riedel, former Executive Director, Alliance for Community Media, Washington, DC This is not the distinction that Indianapolis wants or needs. Some 3000 communities around the country have public access TV. They recognize the importance of having a local television channel available to the public, especially since the cable company monopolies use public rights of way. In the 1980's, Indianapolis' citizens, religious leaders and community groups understood its importance and fought a long, tough public battle to have public access TV in the first cable franchise agreements. In 1996, the City quietly ended it, trading public interest for corporate gain.

Public Access of Indianapolis Monthly Meeting

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:01:14 -0800

Start: Mar 18 2006 - 11:30am

End: Mar 18 2006 - 1:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

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Everyone is welcome to the general monthly meeting of Public Access of Indianapolis. Planned Agenda:

Plans for Midwest Peace Summit
Update on telecommunications reform bills in Indiana and US Congress
Update on Alternative Media Festival 2006
Committee reports
Community events

Additional information: 317-335-5272 or info@indyaccess.org