We started a campaign on indiegogo.com donation site. We collected about $5000 . we need more
We rent a flat for studio near the Taksim Square.
Sendika.org and capultv will stay at this office/studio.
We have to spend some money for Internet TV equipments.
We need your help.
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we don’t have any connection Turkish and Kurdish community in Austria.
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Let’s build the media of the resistance together! www.capul.tv
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Let’s Build the Media of the Resistance Together!
Çapul TV has continued broadcasting live from Gezi Park since June 6th. Throughout this process, we have seen that the mainsteam media, which continues to be the only source of information for millions of people, has lost its legitimacy. This loss of legitimacy has been caused by:
- In Turkey, as is the case across the world, the forum for communication, or the dominant media, consists of media institutions organized for the acquisition of wealth.
- The information produced and distributed by this dominant media organized for wealth acquisition is beholden to the free market, is anti-labor, and refuses to provide socially beneficial information or relay the problems facing various segments of society.
- In Turkey, this reality includes the ruling party’s use of public funds to threaten and blackmail the dominant media.
- The media has become unable to execute its most basic function due to the complex relationships based on financial gain between the ruling party and the media barons.
Under such circumstances, alternative channels of communication like Çapul TV that broadcast freely from a variety of platforms using new communication technologies are of growing importance. Because alternative channels of communication:
- Ensure people receive the information they need to understand and provide meaning to their daily lives as accurately as possible without being filtered by the dominant media.
- Enable people to witness the experiences of those affected first-hand by issues the viewer has not yet experienced for themselves, but are of concern to them.
- Allow for first-hand accounts on all social events to be shared with large portions of society.Enable opposition media organizations sharing the same platform as the dominant media, opposition newspapers, and local media, which on a national scale have become dependent on the main stream media, to reach new and first-hand sources of news.
The workers of Çapul TV, which was viewed a million times in a single week, having considered the aforementioned circumstances and opportunities, and bearing in mind the insistence of their supporters, have made an exciting decision.
This decision is to make Çapul TV the permanent and continuous channel of the Gezi Resistance and all the other resistances we will need to prolong across Turkey until we attain the life of freedom, equality, and fraternity we long for!
Çapul TV is the TV station of an honorable resistance that will go down in history and will soon begin its permanent and continuous broadcast.
This broadcast will depend on a network of volunteer correspondents and will launch with an independent approach to broadcasting.
This broadcast will continue along the principles of “resistance broadcasting” that is initiated during the resistance of the Tekel laborers in Ankara.
This broadcast will be built with the lessons and experiences of live broadcast from the Gezi Park Resistance.
In other words, wherever there is a resistance, Çapul TV will be there to prevent that information from being censored or distorted by those in charge.
Everywhere and at any time, Çapul TV will be the witness of the resistance, will experience it and witness it, and will share and multiply what it has experienced and witnessed.
As Çapul TV will operate entirely on the principle of volunteerism, the station needs the support of friends and viewers for a few basic and technical requirements. We ask you to donate by by clicking or supplying the equipment listed above.
The struggle continues…
Thank you very much for your support and donations!
The Supporters and Volunteers of Çapul TV
RESIST FOLKS!