Indymedia's Radio Group - D.R.O.P. project will Produce a Live
Internet Broadcast: Thursday Janurary 31st - Monday February 4th.

For Immediate release, Monday, January 28th, 2002
Contact:  imc-audio@indymedia.org
 http://radio.indymedia.org

1. The World Social Forum in Potro Alegre, Brazil
2. The World Economic Forum and protests in New York City
3. The Nato Security Summit and protests in Munich
4. Additional Programming from India, the UK, San Franscisco and Seattle, amoung others.

The World Economic Forum
Some very important people are missing from the headlines and the stories of
the world's most influential economic institutions like the International
Moneary Fund, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Free Trade Area of
the Americas. The real players--corporate representatives--meet for the
World Economic Forum (WEF) this year in New York City with minimal remote
press access. Teach-ins and protests planned in New York City get to the
heart of corporate globalization and US economic power.
 http://www.weforum.org
 http://www.anotherworldispossible.com

The World Social Forum
Also missing from the headlines are the alternatives devised by grassroots
organizations and the world's non-elites. Set to happen at the same time as
the WEF is the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a conference
exploring such alternatives to an increasingly standard corporate agenda.
 http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/eng/index.asp

The Nato Security Conference in Munich
This annual meeting brings together the government officials and the military
of NATO and the EU. Much of the coalition behind the military coalitions
that brought us the wars in Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Iraq are forged in
conferences like this security conference. The last few months have seen
military coalition involvment from Japan and Germany unprecedented since
WWII. European activists are planning to bring their message held by most of
the world: not to expand the "War on Terrorism" to more countries.
 http://www.carneval-against-nato.de/
 http://www.anti-nato.de.vu/

During our broadcast, Stations can:
1. Stream the live broadcast any time
2. Download audio highlights from the live stream for broadcast; or
3. Download produced MP3 programs giving background, updates, headlines,
stories and wrap-ups.

The live internet stream will begin on January 31st and last through
February 4th from stations in Seattle, San Fransisco, Vermont, New York,
Munich, Porto Alegre, and India.

To View a Schedule of the Broadcast please go to  http://www.Protest.Net/drop/

To rebroadcast the Stream link to one of the following url's:
 http://freeteam.nl:8000/drop
 http://waag.org:8000/drop
 http://www.autistici.org:8000/drop
 http://radio.uk.solpsists.org:8000/drop
 http://radio.us.solpsists.org:8000/drop

For archived mp3's of the broadcast go to  http://radio.indymedia.org/drop/archive.html

Some portions of the stream may be in Portueguese, Spanish, French, or
German.

If you have any questions about playing the WEF/WSF broadcast, please email
 imc-audio@indymedia.org

For more detiails, go to:
 http://radio.indymedia.org

Since the WTO protests in Seattle, 1999, the Independent Media Center (IMC)
has been covering the voices of those critiquing these global
institutions and their impact on democratic structures, then streaming it
over the internet. Likewise, the IMC will produce live breaking coverage of
the forums and protests in Brazil, New York, and Munich. Hundreds of media
activists will be calling in reports, conducting phone interviews and
collecting audio on the front lines, in workshops, and at teach-ins.

For more about the IMC, go to:
 http://www.indymedia.org
 http://www.indymedia.org/about.php3

See also Microradio.net for more infromation about live web streaming:
 http://www.microradio.net