Brookline Access Television

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kevin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:30:00 +0000

Boys Hockey 1/19/12

Airing Date:

February 8, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:15pm

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kevin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Board of Selectmen

Airing Date:

February 5, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:23pm

The OB Media Rundown for 2/2/12

akalsow — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:18:40 +0000

With a talk show aimed at making social change, and plans to air short films “on everyday action that people can take to challenge the 1 percent,” Occupy Boston members are taking to the airwaves We want people to see what we are doing and become inspired,” said Occupy Boston TV member Bill Lewis at Brookline Access Television’s headquarters, where the group produces Occupy Boston Live.

Decked out in snorkels, fins, and scuba gear, more than 150 activists took to the streets of Boston’s financial district on Monday to call attention to “underwater” mortgages which they say are the root cause of the nation’s ongoing foreclosure crisis.

The demonstration – a joint effort made by members of City Life/Vida Urbana, MassUniting, and elements of the Occupy Boston and Wall Street movements – was met with curious looks from bank employees standing in the lobbies of Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Fannie Mae. But organizers did catch the ear of City Councillor-At-Large Felix Arroyo, who last week announced a proposed ordinance that would require the city only conduct business with banks working to reinvest in Boston.

Filed last Wednesday, the Invest in Boston ordinance would ask city financial officers to review the banks in which the city stores its revenue – accounts that together total more than $1 billion. Arroyo says that the city should only do business with banks that are financially responsible at the local level

Here’s a story you might have heard about the MBTA: it’s billions of dollars in debt. Boston has the lowest transit fares of any major city in the country, but the system is facing a $161 million budget deficit for fiscal year 2013, and it’s time for the riders to pay their fair share. To that end, the T released a proposal in early January containing two possible scenarios for fare increases and service cuts, to take effect in July of this year.

Here’s another story. The T is a lifeline for millions of people in the 175 cities it serves. Those most dependent on it are students, senior citizens, disabled people, and lower-income workers. Even those who don’t ride it reap the benefits, as public transportation keeps cars off the road, lowers pollution, and attracts tourists and shoppers who contribute to the city’s economy. The T employs over 6,000 unionized workers and enables thousands more to reach their jobs. The Ride transports elderly and disabled people to doctors’ appointments and allows them to live full lives rather than being confined to their homes. Harvard students use the T to get to extracurricular activities, job interviews, and the cultural events that make Boston an attractive place to go to school.

The act, passed by a majority of 29 to 9, resolved two months of discussion on whether the GSC’s constitution allowed the council to vote on such a measure.

Several representatives said they felt nervous about casting a vote on the contentious issue

In what could well be one of the more significant consequences of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Berkeley may become one of the first cities in the country to pull its assets out of a major bank – in this case, Wells Fargo – as response to its role in the financial meltdown.

The city council unanimously decided to review the feasibility of transferring its $300 million or so in assets from the bank to either a local bank or a credit union, and whether an institution of that size would be able to handle the banking transactions required of a medium-sized city

In light of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a record number of bank customers are transferring their deposits from big banks to credit unions.

It’s unclear exactly how many of these people are making the switch in step with the movement, but according to the National Credit Union Administration, credit unions in the state of Washington have seen a dramatic increase in deposits in contrast with those of last year.
“We’re seeing growth that’s still running between 140 and 150 percent of what we

saw this time last year,” said Boeing Employees’ Credit Union (BECU) spokesman Todd Pietzsch

What does it mean to be a Christian when organizations such as The Family create a Jesus that does not hear the prayers of the poor? An organization that prays to the powerful in place of God? That participates in the global crucifixion of the poor by turning Jesus’ cross into a social ladder for politicians to climb upwards, past the broken body of Christ? To cultivate relationships with dictators?

To cultivate the most powerful for political influence, to create an elite society for the elite, is that listening to the prayers of the people?

Religious Occupy movement protesters vowed to greet Washington’s National Prayer Breakfast guests with a vigil stressing wealth and income differences.

The Occupy Faith vigil — with protesters holding candles and handing out artwork from children depicting their dreams for the future — was to take place Thursday across the street from the Washington Hilton, where President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden were to join about 3,500 other guests, including international invitees from more than 100 countries.

The $650-a-plate, invitation-only National Prayer Breakfast is hosted by members of Congress and organized by the Fellowship Foundation, a conservative Christian network also known as The Family

Attendees to Saturday’s Human Rights Campaign dinner in New York will have to cross protesters angry at the organization’s support of investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Members of Queer Caucus, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, will air their disapproval in front of the Waldorf Astoria, site of the HRC fundraiser. The group is condemning the equality group for honoring Goldman Sachs, which QE says helped spur the global financial meltdown.

“The Queer Caucus condemns HRC’s decision to honor Goldman Sachs in a time of financial collapse caused by their unethical business practices and greed, and deplores the use of our cause and suffering for corporate public relations,” the group wrote in a statement. “HRC honoring Goldman Sachs at this time reveals all one needs to know about the corporate LGBT lobby, and its disconnect from the 99% and the LGBT people it purports to represent.”

The offspring of the Occupy Wall Street movement are forging solidarity ties with neighborhood groups fighting for justice. Most prominent among these collaborations are with the Occupy Homes initiatives coming out of existing neighborhood activities.

Quickly spreading in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Minneapolis, Boston and New Orleans, the Occupy people are joining with community groups that believe many homeowners in foreclosure, or about to be taken over, have a strong, equitable and often legal case to physically stay in or occupy empty homes in order to stave off eviction or keep people in their houses.

The equitable case is the widespread fraud and deception involving subprime mortgages raining down on innocent homeowners following the Wall Street crash and the corporate greed that caused it. This is the ugly license fostered by massively one-sided, fine-print contracts.

Business groups and unions are sparring over a little-known provision in the Dodd-Frank reform law that supporters concede is an effort to shame the nation’s highest-paid CEOs.

The rule, which predates the Occupy Wall Street movement but channels it in spirit, requires companies to disclose the difference in pay between their chief executives and average employees.

“It’s quite astounding that a relatively simple disclosure requirement would trigger so much hand-wringing,” said Brandon Rees of the AFL-CIO, which pushed for the provision’s inclusion in Dodd-Frank.

“They will be embarrassed, and that’s the whole point,” Rees said.

Following mass arrests in Oakland, the mainstream media has largely shifted blame for police violence onto a group of protestors who burned flags, broke glass and painted anarchist symbols on buildings. Yesterday, Alameda County prosecutors announced that they would only file charges against 12 demonstrators, releasing the more than 300 who were cited for “remaining at the scene of a riot” (and who the National Lawyer’s Guild says were kettled and illegally arrested.)

Hennepin County will pay $15,000 to a Minneapolis woman charged with trespassing during the Occupy Minnesota demonstrations last year.

Melissa Lynn Hill was issued a trespass notice Oct. 13 for writing slogans in chalk on the Hennepin County Government Center plaza. The county barred her from the plaza and Government Center property for a year.

In a federal lawsuit, Hill alleged that two days later she was arrested by a deputy sheriff while she was standing on a sidewalk adjacent to the plaza.

Doyel wrote primly of the protest, “It’s inappropriate.” I have to wonder if it was Doyel’s paycheck being threatened, whether he would think it appropriate to resist. But for all he knows, “right to work” is a breakfast cereal, so we’re left to wonder.

He then writes, “protesting the Super Bowl is unfair to the teams involved and the fans of the game.” This ignores two things. The first is that the players, as represented by the NFLPA, have come out loudly and proudly against “right to work.” Nowhere does Doyel mention this crucial fact. It’s absence is negligent.

Doyel also claims that the spectre of politics will repulse fans “liberal and conservative alike.” Has Doyel ever watched the Super Bowl? Politics swamp the game, whether it’s General David Petraeus flipping the coin, sexist commercials, military flyovers, or interviews with whoever is in the White House. Still, people somehow have the ability to separate this from the game itself. I watched the game last year with a group of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and if they could separate the politics from the fun of the game, then I think others could do it as well. Also, given the way working people have seen their wages and benefits gutted, who’s to say they wouldn’t be thrilled to know that the game is being used as a platform for something other than godaddy.com?

None of the people who said they were injured over the weekend appeared Wednesday. But a variety of videos online showed police firing into the crowds and slugging them with batons. Several police also were injured.

Some supporters who spoke Wednesday described chaos at Santa Rita Jail, which was caught off guard by the unexpected number of arrests that flooded the facility beginning late Saturday

The New York Police Department reprimanded an officer and a sergeant who obstructed journalists covering Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.

One of the incidents involved New York Times photographer Robert Stolarik, who was documenting an arrest at the World Financial Center back in December when an officer repeatedly stood in front of his camera, attempting to block his shots. The altercation was caught on video and went viral after it was uploaded to YouTube, intensifying a months-long standoff between police and the press.

Simply, any attempt to establish an Occupy camp on University of Alberta property – which is private property – will put the U of A community at risk, and, further, it will interfere with the university’s clear responsibility to effectively deliver its programs and services to students, staff and faculty,” the statement read.

Katie Nelson, a spokeswoman for the group, said the decision to set up camp would have been made following a rally to draw attention to the “inaccessibility of education.”

That rally, planned for the university quad following a march from Ezio Faraone Park, ended up on the north side of Saskatchewan Drive, across from Hub Mall, when the group was given notice they were not allowed on university property.

Occupy London protesters are taking over the stage with a theatrical production dramatising the group’s four month demonstration outside St Paul’s Cathedral.

A series of short plays inspired by the international movement’s protest against bankers and corporate greed are to be performed at the Arcola Theatre in east London on February 19.

German Munoz, organiser of the event titled, Occupied Times, said his intention was to create a “living newspaper” as in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution when theatre was used to inform people about current events.

MARIO Wanza, of Proudly Manenberg, who spent the weekend behind bars for his Occupy Rondebosch Common campaign, met the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) yesterday and made a call for a public inquiry into his arrest and into legislation regulating public gatherings

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kevin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000

Parent Forum

Airing Date:

February 9, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:52pm

Occupy Boston still making waves

akalsow — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:46:40 +0000

Coming soon, to a television station near you: Occupy Boston.

“We want people to see what we are doing and become inspired,” said Occupy Boston TV member Bill Lewis at Brookline Access Television’s headquarters where the group produces Occupy Boston Live

The talk show is just one of many ways that the people who spent 10 weeks camped out in Boston’s Dewey Square aim to keep their movement going. Some former occupiers gather in the evenings at a downtown church to discuss plans to battle what they say is the corrupting role that money plays in American politics. Some members spend their days looking for rentable office space, where they plan to plot new ways to convince working class Americans that the nation’s financial policies are rigged to benefit the wealthy.

Others, who call themselves Occupy the T, are fighting the debt-riddled MBTA’s proposed fare hikes and service cuts by demanding that the nation’s richest banks, most of which benefited from recent taxpayer bailouts, forgive the T’s debts.

Back at the Brookline studio, the TV group recently interviewed Occupy Natick organizer Betsy Boggia about the movement’s effort to spread to suburbia.

“There are still a lot of camps out there,” Lewis said.

Occupy Boston Live can be seen only on community access stations in Brookline, Winchester, Lowell, and Urbana, Ill., and YouTube.

But some day, organizers said, it’ll be a place where justice-minded citizen journalists can tell their stories to a vast audience.

In fact, Occupy Boston TV member Jess Schumann of Lowell is hoping that the show will become a place to see longer stories on social issues “that the mainstream media isn’t doing anymore.”

Plans are also under way to produce professional-quality work, including a Dewey Square-inspired film by British documentarian Richard Bergin.

Bergin said he was drawn to the movement because it reminded him of protests he participated in during his university days.

“It’s the only way the people can keep the government in check,” said Bergin, whose film tells the story of a Boston teacher who instructed his students to visit the encampment, and report back on what they learned.

“The banking system, and the 1 percent, the kids really got it,” Bergin said

Occupy Boston still making waves

akalsow — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:46:34 +0000

Coming soon, to a television station near you: Occupy Boston.

“We want people to see what we are doing and become inspired,” said Occupy Boston TV member Bill Lewis at Brookline Access Television’s headquarters where the group produces Occupy Boston Live

Back at the Brookline studio, the TV group recently interviewed Occupy Natick organizer Betsy Boggia about the movement’s effort to spread to suburbia.

“There are still a lot of camps out there,” Lewis said.

Occupy Boston Live can be seen only on community access stations in Brookline, Winchester, Lowell, and Urbana, Ill., and YouTube.

But some day, organizers said, it’ll be a place where justice-minded citizen journalists can tell their stories to a vast audience.

In fact, Occupy Boston TV member Jess Schumann of Lowell is hoping that the show will become a place to see longer stories on social issues “that the mainstream media isn’t doing anymore.”

Plans are also under way to produce professional-quality work, including a Dewey Square-inspired film by British documentarian Richard Bergin.

Bergin said he was drawn to the movement because it reminded him of protests he participated in during his university days.

“The banking system, and the 1 percent, the kids really got it,” Bergin said

Brookline Public Library events: Feb. 2 to 16

akalsow — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:43:35 +0000

Read the book, then watch the adapted film, sponsored by the Brookline Library and Brookline Access TV. “Howl’s Moving Castle,” based on Diana Wynn Jones’ book, will be screened at BATV on Feb. 15, and will be discussed at the Main Library on Feb. 22, at 7 p.m. Bibliophiles should be 18 or over. Books will be available at the Main Library one month before the screening. Films will be shown at the BATV Theater every third Thursday and both the book and the film will be discussed the following week, every fourth Thursday, at the Main Library conference room.

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kevin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:01:08 +0000

BandwidthTV

Airing Date:

February 9, 2012 - 10:30pm - 11:00pm

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kevin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

Revisions

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February 9, 2012 - 5:00pm - 5:43pm

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kevin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:17:56 +0000

Occupy Live

Airing Date:

February 9, 2012 - 10:17am - 10:57am

OccBetsy

kevin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:00:00 +0000

Occupy Live

Airing Date:

February 9, 2012 - 10:00am - 10:17am

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kevin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +0000

Board of Selectmen

Airing Date:

February 5, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:23pm

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kevin — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:15:00 +0000

Conflict of Interest Law

Airing Date:

February 8, 2012 - 12:30pm - 1:34pm

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kevin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Open Meeting Law

Airing Date:

February 8, 2012 - 1:34pm - 2:17pm

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kevin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:30:20 +0000

Chechnya

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February 8, 2012 - 7:00pm - 7:30pm