SFLR mini-documentary to screen

Radio Takeover (10 min) plays before Radio Revolution (70 min)
Sat. May 15th at 7:30pm at the Women's Building (3543 18th St. btw.
Valencia and Guererro in the Mission)


About the film: Radio Takeover is the story of unique voices on the radio
dial and the community effects of FCC enforcement and media consolidation. The San Francisco Liberatio Radio collective was a low power community station broadcasting without a license for over a decade. Although SFLR had applied for a license twice, in October, 2003 the Federal Communications Commission raided the station and seized their equipment. The FCC has prohibited them from further broadcasts and threatened them with large
fines and possible seizure of the Hatch residence - the place where SFLR
had been broadcasting from. Lawyers from the National Lawyers' Guild and
the Center for Democratic Communication have filed a claim with SFLR
against the FCC, challenging the contitutionality of the siezure of radio
equipment. The SFLR collective had a hearing before a San Francisco Federal Court on April 30, 2004, and we will have an update on their situation at the screening.

For more info about the film go to: http://www.stanford.edu/~serenad/

For more info about the SF Docfest go to: http://www.sfindie.com/