From: fbp@igc.apc.org (Foreign Bases Project)
Newsgroups: soc.rights.human
Subject: Upcoming nat'l ET videocast
Date: 12 Sep 92 00:47:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1476700451:000:3141
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!fbp    Sep 11 17:47:00 1992


From: Foreign Bases Project <fbp>
Subject: Upcoming nat'l ET videocast

/* Written 10:57 pm  Sep  4, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor */
/* ---------- "Upcoming nat'l ET videocast" ---------- */
Put East Timor on Television in Your Community

The East Timor Action Network/US has produced a half-hour videotape on 
East Timor. Aggression and Self-Determination: Massacre in East Timor 
will be transmitted nationally via satellite at the end of the month by 
Deep Dish TV. The program will then be available for broadcast on public 
access cable television. Deep Dish TV has a lot of experience in getting 
progressive viewpoints onto cable TV and will help ETAN and you make sure 
that the show gets the widest possible audience.

The show features footage of the November 12 massacre, testimony before 
the U.N. Committee on Decolonization, the IMET debate in the House of 
Representatives, and various public meetings. It focuses on the U.S. role 
in supporting Indonesia and what Americans can do about it. People 
featured in the documentary include Jose Ramos Horta (representative of 
National Council of Maubere Resistance), Amy Goodman (WBAI), Allan Nairn 
(New Yorker), Charlie Scheiner (ETAN/US), Victoria Forbes-Adam (Amnesty 
International), Li-lien Gibbons (ETAN, Canada) and many more.

How to Get the Video on the Air

Call your local cable station and ask to speak to the public access 
programmer. Ask them to record the satellite transmission of Aggression 
and Self-Determination and schedule it for airing. The program can be 
downlinked from SATCOM F4, Transponder 20 on Tuesday, September 29 at 1 
pm and Thursday, October 1 at 6 pm, Eastern time. Aggression and Self- 
Determination: Massacre in East Timor is the second half of an hour long 
transmission, News You Can Use. The first half hour is No Hay Paz (There 
is No Peace) on Salvadoran refugees.

Promote the show. Once the shows are on tape, find out the dates and 
times for cablecast so you can make announcements on public radio, in 
alternative journals, newsletters, community calendars, etc. ETAN can 
supply a flyer to which you can add cablecast dates in your area. Include 
the flyer in mailings and post them around town.

Problems? If your cable station doesn't have a satellite dish, call 
Cynthia Lopez at Deep Dish TV, (212)473-8933 (igc:deepdish), so that they 
can make arrangements to get the program to them. Let Deep Dish and ETAN 
know if your town is going to carry the program. If your access 
programmer will not carry the programs, ask them why and call Cynthia 
Lopez at Deep Dish for help.

As Deep Dish learns from its own network when systems will be carrying 
the program, they will tell us and we can provide the information to you. 
As you arrange for cablecasts, call John M. Miller, (718)788-6071 
(igc:fbp). He can also provide information on where Aggression and 
Self-Determination will be broadcast. A videocassette version of the show 
will also be available for sale or rent for showings at meetings, etc.

East Timor Action Network/US    
PO Box 1182, White Plains NY 10602. (914)428-7299 
cscheiner@igc.apc.com