Great news, comrades! Starting this July (isa), we will have a weekly TV show on Brooklyn public access! Working in tandem with the Live News Show in Manhattan, we have achieved the second stage of our plan to occupy the public access stations of all five boroughs.
At the same time, we will continue networking with media people in the Occupations around the nation, mobilizing people to occupy public access everywhere. Our goal is have Occupy's coverage of itself be broadcast on TV every day of the week, so that we can compete with the mainstream media as a primary news source, even for people who don't look further into the news than flipping on the TV and channel surfing.
By effectively sharing on a national level the workload of covering the movement as well as the media we create, we can make the task of producing an Occupied TV News show easier and easier, as more Occupied news shows pop up around the nation.
We are now calling out to everyone who would like to participate in the creation of the Brooklyn show. You don't need to be a Brooklyn resident, you don't even need to get up from your home computer! We continue to welcome the online assistance of everyone who wants to share their news tips and suggestions of videos to download. See the related Note Participate in the Occupation of Public Access TV!
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=268648966561917
We also seek writers, videographers, news anchors, broadcast technicians, and people who enjoy connecting with other people and spreading the word about what we do.
Let us know how you'd like to participate here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5SN29KL
Every public access show requires the name of an individual who takes responsibility for each show scheduled. My name is down as the producer of the Brooklyn show, but in respect to the movement's horizontalism, I am not declaring myself the sole producer of the show. Any other Occupier Certified as a Producer by BRIC TV will be equally qualified as me to be a producer of the show. I simply am pledging to bottomline this show's production if no one wants to share that responsibility with me, and envision a rotating-role system once we get rolling.
Fellow residents of Brooklyn are invited to join me in taking any one of the three courses that qualify one to be a Certified Producer. To take any of these course you must be able to prove your Brooklyn residency, and you must first take a free 2-hour orientation. The next one's on Saturday, May 19 and is the last one before the next set of TV Studio Production and Basic Field Production courses.
More information about the classes:
http://www.bricartsmedia.org/events/community-media
I will be bringing to this project my four months of experience working on the Live News Show on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. For most of this time I have shared with producer Ananda Selassie the responsibility of preparing for broadcast a script and roster of videos, and contributed many innovations to the show's production process and outreach. It has been an incredibly inspiring and edifying time for me, and has given me much material for a vision of how I would like the Brooklyn show to function. But this is a horizontal movement, and I would like to take all my ideas and put them together with those of everyone interested in joining me on this adventure. I'll set up an organizing meeting soon; contact me now if you want to receive an invite!
We have about nine weeks to set up a crew, and I feel very confident that we can do it in that time. One thing I have learned from my time with MNN is how important it is to delineate all the tasks a work crew do, and to make sure that there's a person to do each job, with a few extra versatile workers who can fill in when someone needs to cancel. I would like to put heads together with everyone interested and make up a roster of jobs to be filled by July, including outreach. It is important to me that the workload is adequately distributed so no one needs to stress out or skip sleep to work. If, God forbid, we haven't got every position filled by July, I would rather show repeats of the MNN show until we have them filled, than be understaffed. It is also very important to me that the participation of people already working on the Manhattan show not detract from the time they contribute there. I am reducing my own contributions to the show in order to make sure Brooklyn happens, but only one of us has to do this.
Get in touch with me if you are interested in helping out with this show or would like to be kept up-to-date with the progress of our organization.
Power to the People!
Atiq Zabinski
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Let us know how you'd like to participate here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5SN29KL
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