Chicago Independent TV in Aug: DRM Protest, Net Neutrality, Taste Arrests, New Orleans

ON THE SHOW THIS MONTH:

Chicago Indymedia’s summer intern hosts an episode of the show.

Digital Restrictions Management Protest – This segment documents a June 10th, 2006 protest in front of the Apple Store in downtown Chicago. Their target was DRM, Digital Rights Management, or Digital Restrictions Management as they called it, which is a technology that limits the use of digital media provided by big corporations.

Net Neutrality! – A piece about the future of the internet and how the big bad corporations are, once again, trying to bribe [-- we mean, "convince" --] Congress to rewrite the constitution and do away with our right to internet access, all for an easy buck. Incensed yet? Well, you should be...

Taste of Chicago Arrests - The Taste of Chicago is a big annual food fest in downtown Chicago. A lot of people go to it and it's a generally good time. Fun for the whole family! Some activists went out there to enjoy the festivities... hand out some flyers, maintain a presence against coercive military recruiters... and then got arrested in a police crackdown of peaceful counter-recruitment protesters.

2005 G-8 Protest in Scotland – The G8 is an exclusive club consisting of leaders of the eight major world governments. They meet once a year, and are often received quite warmly... by protesters. They could have come to Chicago in 2004, but they instead went to some remote island off of Georgia. I guess they learned something from the G8 summit of 2005, when they met up in Gleneagles, Scotland, to be met by these creative protesters.

Music Video - Walking to New Orleans – By Iraq Veterans Against the War. Iraq war veterans who are critical of the war and have returned to America to help out and march on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims..

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