Don’t you wish there was an archive of all the video and photos that were taken last spring during the Wisconsin Uprising? Well . . . there could be! There will be!
Informational Website Link: www.wisconsinuprisingarchive.org
WYOU Community Television to Launch “Wisconsin Uprising Archive”
Benefit Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at the High Noon Saloon, 5-8 p.m.On Tuesday, November 15th, grassroots organizations kick-off efforts to recall Governor Scott Walker. On the same evening, WYOU Community Television will fire up the public with the sights and sounds of the Wisconsin protests from early 2011and unveil the Wisconsin Uprising Archive.
A benefit for the Wisconsin Uprising Archive, a growing digital collection of still pictures, audio, video and printed media from the protests, is scheduled from 5-8 p.m., at the High Noon Saloon, 701 East Washington Avenue.
The evening will be a celebration of what the people of Wisconsin have accomplished thus far. Through videos, music and speakers, the uprising will be revived and spirits galvanized for the good fight of recalling Governor Walker. Cap Times Associate Editor, John Nichols, will preside as Master of Ceremonies, with music provided by VO5 Cheddarhead Revolution, DJ Nick Nice, the Solidarity Singers and the Raging Grannies. Featured speakers include State Senator Jon Erpenbach, Brenda Konkel from WYOU, Norm Stockwell from WORT 89.9 FM, Lisa Graves of the Center for Media and Democracy, and Matthew Rothschild from The Progressive magazine.
A $10 donation is suggested at the door.
The Wisconsin Uprising Archive is housed on the Internet and anybody may submit material.
Co-organizer of the Wisconsin Uprising Archive and Vice President of the WYOU Community Television Board of Directors, Luciano Matheron, said this important project will “inform future generations, provide materials for documentarians and scholars, and make sure that pundits and corporate mouthpieces do not rewrite history.”
For more information about the Wisconsin Uprising Archive and how to submit material, please visit the website, www.wisconsinuprisingarchive.org, or email archive@wyou.org.
