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Roach of Committee on Media Monopoly, 30 July 1991
NLG Media Issues, Cultural Environment Movement, prospectus,
21 May 1991
Page 18
8. Legal Materials, 1991-1993 (5 of 5 folders) (Roughly chronological)
NLG-CDC Case Summary of “Zoom Black Magic Radio/WTRA vs. Federal
Communications Commission,” 9 Apr 1991
NLG-CDC fax “U.S. Court of Appeals Pumps Up the Volume,” 30 Nov
1993, re Dougan v. USA-FCC, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals ordered
the FCC to address the issue of whether Americans have the right to
broadcast from their micro radio stations
News release from Andrew Yoder, unlicensed radio station operator, nd, re
his arrest and fine by the FCC for $17,500
FCC Bill for Collection, 6 Apr 1993, re $750 fine
Tom Reveille’s petitioner’s informal brief for the U.S. Court of Appeals, 25
June 1993
NLG-CDC newsletter, June 1993 (6 parts)
“Proceedings of the Symposium on Media Accountability under International
Law,” by the Union for Democratic Communications/NLG, 14 June 1989,
re the worldwide movement for grass-roots communications
9. Mbanna Kantako Legal Brief “Exhibit,” by William Cooper, 7 Jan 1998
FCC acting in an illegal and unconstitutional manner; First Amendment
issues; Telecommunications Act as unconstitutional; exclusion of the poor
and minorities from the airwaves; increase in corporate monopolization of
the airwaves; U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and the right of Kantako
to communicate; history of Kantako and WTRA; history of communi-
cations regulations; FCC as a historically racist institution; homogeniza-
tion of viewpoints.
10. Mailing Lists for Black Liberation newsletter, nd
Black media; liberal and leftist outlets; authors, activists, and scholars,
unions; participants at the MacBride Round Table in Istanbul; SSU (UIS)
professors receiving newsletter
11. Media Contacts with Correspondence and Articles, 1989-1990 (1 of 3 folders)
(Roughly chronological)
Telephone messages from Greg Cockrell of KFI radio and John Amen of
Newstalk Radio Network-WNTR, Washington, D.C., ca. 1990
List of TV and Radio interviews with Kantako, 1989-1991
Lies of Our Times, “Microwatt Revolution,” by Townsend, Jan 1991, includes
original manuscript
Letter from Lee Ballinger of Rock & Roll Confidential, 13 Nov 1990,
inquiries from California. Letter to Ballinger from Townsend
Atlanta News Weekly, “Community Development: One of Many Solutions,”