The Global Village CAT * 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 08
conference in Salzburg Austria

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)

The History of Public Access Television by Bill Olson (2000)

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 

Study on the State of Community Media in the European Union
EU Parliament Culture and Education committee report 2007