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Media Outlet List

2011-12-15T05:56:31Z

Hawkerj:

A list of Local Media and Contacts

Please add the area it serves, the name of the publication, the number of issues published, the frequency it is published, ie. weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, which day of the week or month copy is needed by, who the contact/s are and contact details.

Area Name Size Frequency Copy Needed By Contact Who Contact Details

Acton The Beacon beacon@cnc.com

Media Outlet List

2011-12-15T05:56:09Z

Hawkerj:

Media Outlet List

2011-12-15T05:53:38Z

Hawkerj:

A list of Local Media and Contacts

Area Name Size Frequency Copy Needed By Contact Who Contact Details

Acton The Beacon beacon@cnc.com

Media Outlet List

2011-12-15T05:51:30Z

Hawkerj: List of local media and contacts

A list of Local Media and Contacts

Area Name Size Frequency Copy Needed By Contact Who Contact Details
Acton The Beacon beacon@cnc.com

Media

2011-12-15T05:43:23Z

Hawkerj: /* Other Resources */

''Please direct all inquiries and requests for interviews to [mailto:occupybostonmedia@gmail.com occupybostonmedia@gmail.com]'''

:View an archive of official [[Press Releases|Press Releases]].<br>
:[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhPMHAyaEM3N0pEZVBZN05BOUdHbVE6MQ Tell us] why ''you'' Occupy.

==External==
*[[Ext. Audio|Radio]]
*[[Ext. Video|Video]]
*[[Ext. Text|Web]]
*[[Ext. Photography|Photos]]

==Community Generated==
*[[Int. Audio|Audio]]
*[[Int. Photography|Photos]]
*[[Int. Text|Text]]
*[[Int. Video|Video]]
*[[Graphic Design|Graphic Design]]
*[[Press Release Process]]

== Occupy Boston's Media Channels<br/> ==

*[http://www.occupyboston.org/ Web Site and Blog]
*[https://www.facebook.com/OccupyBoston Facebook]
*[http://twitter.com/Occupy_Boston Twitter]
*[http://twitter.com/#%21/Occupy_Boston/ob-working-groups/members List of OB Working groups Twitter accounts]
*[http://occupybostonglobe.com/ The '''Occupy''' Boston Globe]
*[http://www.flickr.com/groups/occupyboston/ Flickr]
*[http://www.livestream.com/occupyboston Live Stream] (used mostly for GA's and other events at the GA stage in Dewey Square)
*[http://www.occupyboston.org/2011/12/08/list-live-feeds/ UStream] (mobile live casting for Occupy Boston event's around Boston)
*[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/OB-TV Occupy Boston TV- Cable Access TV Show]
*[http://www.occupyboston.org/radio/ Occupy Boston Radio]
*[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/Occupy_News_Network Occupy News Network 24HR streaming video news on behalf of OB for benefit of all occupies and 99%!] (soon)
*YouTube
*[https://www.facebook.com/OccupyBostonMus Occupy Boston Music]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/FSUOccupyBoston Free School University Lecture]

==Working Group Meeting Notes==
See details about the[[Media_Strategy | Media Strategy Meetings]]

See the minutes:

*[[WG/Media/Minutes/11022011 | Nov. 2]]
*[[WG/Media/Minutes/11022012 | Nov. 15 - Emergency GA breakout group]]
*[[WG/Media/Minutes/11022013 | Nov. 23]]

==Other Resources==
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L-3w-9o_xIHiSeYfgLLNml6SjpEqpu0TNxxwYx1zqpg/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1 Important Media Links (Google Doc)]
*'Like' [https://www.facebook.com/OccupyTogether Occupy Together's (Global) Facebook]
*[http://occupywallst.org/ OccupyWallSt.org]
*[http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet Adbusters.org]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Boston Wikipedia Entry on Occupy Boston with Citations]
*[http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/ We Are the 99%] (Tumblr)
*[http://twitter.com/#%21/WeOccupyAmerica/occupations/members Twitter List] of all Occupy accounts across the nation.
*[http://www.youtube.com/occupytv OccupyTV] (Collection of Videos from Occupy Sites around the Nation)
*[http://kck.st/nHEb8h The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film]
*[http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution Occupy Wall Street Live Stream]
*[http://www.youtube.com/user/99percentfilm 99 Percent: Occupy Wall Street Youtube Channel]
*[http://www.fightbacknews.org/ Fight Back News]
*[http://www.openmediaboston.org Open Media Boston]
*[[Press Release Ideas]]
*[[Media Action List]]
*[[Media Outlet List]]

== Contact ==

*[mailto:occupybostonmedia@gmail.com occupybostonmedia@gmail.com]
*[http://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyBOS_Media OB Media's Twitter]

WG/Strategies/Ideas/Free Network

2011-12-13T03:57:59Z

Hawkerj: FreeNetwork111213jh

Independence from Major Telecommunication companies allows people to have free access to information as well as true competition for pricing and services.

While many people believe they are living in a Capitalist society with competition for pricing and services, in fact the Telecommunications companies have often divided the USA into monopolies, allowing them to charge unfair pricing and services.

Even worse, these monopoly Telecoms also apply for Subsidies from the USA Government to provide services that they often fail to deliver.

However combating this are a number of alternative service providers. These range from small independent Wireless Internet Service Providers, (WISP's) who mostly work in rural and semi rural areas but some city areas to completely independent and alternative ISP's and Network solutions such as the Freedom Tower Network who created the Internet Access for many of the OWS sites across the USA.

The ability for a community to build, own and operate it's own ISP independently of the major Telecom companies gives the community greater independence from unfair service fees, better access and illegal monitoring.

Additionally these networks can be resilient, and far harder to be shut down or access to free information limited by the whim of the government or large Telecom company.

Typically these networks use a Wireless distribution systems.

Once in place, a local network can also usurp the local telephony network as well. With Wireless handsets and Smart Mobile phones, people within a locally owned network can call each other for free, greatly reducing their own local call costs, strengthening their own network, and reducing their dependance on National carriers.

Of course Major Telecoms lobby the two Political Parties heavily to protect their monopolies and subsidies, and ensure that there is local laws as well at town planning and city planning to discourage locally owned network where possible.

With the low costs of Network distribution technologies today, it is possible to establish your own community WISP or ISP.

The Free Network Movement is one such movement that is doing that for OWS New York providing Internet Access for the OWS site in New York as well as other OWS sites.

Their vision is:-

We envision communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by the whole of humanity, rather than by corporations and states.
We are using the power of peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is immune to censorship and resistant to breakdown.
We promote freedoms, support innovations and advocate technologies that enhance and enable digital self-determination.

[[http://freenetworkmovement.org Free Network Foundation]] isaac@freenetworkmovement.org

Using many of the links below and other sites you can establish your own Community ISP and leave the Heavy cost of Using Corporate Telecommunications behind you.

Here are some specific solutions that are being discussed:

[Bysantium]]

FreedomTowers

There are many popular low cost reliable products, a few worth mentioning are:-

Ubiquiti Networks www.ubni.com is a very popular product to use. Very low cost and very powerful, it is one of the most popular products uses. Very good at long range line of site distribution.

Ruckus Wireless www.ruckuswireless.com is another powerful unit, with good outdoor reliability.

http://www.wirelesscowboys.com/ A good Blog for learning about setting up a WISP.

Mikrotik

AirControl

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