The Global Village CAT

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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

Community Access TV - Where and why


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.



Fernsehen der "Dritten Art”
ist ein Sammelbegriff für Fernsehstationen und -projekte, die abseits des öffentlich-rechtlichen oder kommerziellen-privaten Fernsehens arbeiten. Darunter sind Offene Kanäle, Public Access TV, Media Participation TV, Local Community TV oder Fernsehkunstprojekte zu verstehen. ("Television of The Third Art" is a research project about public access television worldwide at University of Vienna 2001. (In German only)

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 report 2007

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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