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Worldwide links to Public or Community Access Television
and other links related to the movement
for the Freedom of Speech.


Articles, Books, Reports and Speeches - Conferences and Projects

   
The Buske Group an useful site with U.S. public access documentation

Civilmedia

Annual media conference in Salzburg Austria

CommunityMedia.eu
Connecting research, teaching, policy and practice.

Community Television Policies and Practices Around the World
report prepared by TimeScape Productions for The Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission 2009.

Community Television in the United States: A Source Book on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access - Linda K. Fuller (Greenwood Publishing Group)  October 1997 (available at Barnes & Noble )

Community Media Forum Europe: Position on the White Paper on a European Communication Policy COM (2006)

The Daily Planet:
A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat - Patricia Aufderheide's thinking on media and film, public telecommunications policy and contemporary society (2000) content. http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/aufderheide_planet.html

Declaration of Cajamar
at the International Seminar "Media for Citizenship in the Electronic Age: Community Television and New Technologies" July 1996 (Brazil)

DN! Democracy Now
A daily news program pioneering
the largest community media collaboration in the U.S.



Governmental Report on the future for Public Access Radio & TV
in Sweden (2004)

Marshall McLuhan - Interviews and lectures on video


Neighborhood TV
article by Tom Patrick McAuliffe

Hawaii Localism Coalition - Remarks to the FCC’s Localism Task Force by R. Sean McLaughlin President & CEO, Akaku: Maui Community TV in Monterey CA, July 21, 2004

Public, Educational, and Governmental Access Channels:
Localism and Diversity In Action

Keynote speech before the Alliance for Community Media 2001 by FCC Commissioner Gloria Tristani

Public Access Television: America's Electronic Soapbox
Laura R. Linder (Greenwood Publishing Group) Pub. Date: August 1999 

Documents on Community Media in the European Union
Submissions and position papers for the EU and Council of Europe

Report on Community Media in Europe European Parliament resolution September 2008

Technological Experiments on Amsterdam Local television

How will digital TV serve the public's needs?

"We can make our most powerfully effective medium a powerful force for expanding democracy. Free TV time [as part of Broadcasters' public interest obligations] can help free our democracy from the grip of big money....

That's the least we can ask of broadcasters, who are given access to the public airwaves worth billions of dollars at no cost, with only the requirement that they meet a basic public obligation."

President Bill Clinton 1997


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