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Media Democracy Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material. ~ Naomi Klein
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. ~ Robert McChesney
"Who will tell the people?" Read here for news and ideas regarding the movement for media democracy in the United States. Organizing ResourcesSAVE THE NEWS: Toward a National Journalism Strategy"If current trends continue, America could soon embark on an unprecedented social experiment by becoming the first advanced democracy to leave wide sectors of society and entire geographic regions without a fully functional, professional press." NewsWILSON: What should Feds do for journalists?Date: June 17, 2010READER: Chicago News Coop will challenge TribuneDate: October 22, 2009CENSORED: Secret control of presidential debatesDate: November 1 , 2009Take ActionPut a People-Powered Internet Firstsource: Free PressSave Net Neutrality!source: SavetheInternet.com and Free PressLocal control of cable is under attacksource: Your local community cable stationEventsDemocracy Track at the U.S. Social ForumThe Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles. U.S. Social Forum II(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary! Extending Democracy w/The Progressive, Manski, Farsetta, Gray, Wellstone(May 1, 2009 - May 2, 2009)Major speakers include Robert Redford, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein, Barbara Ehrenreich, Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the editorial staff of the Progressive Magazine. Liberty Tree's Ben Manski, together with various members of Liberty Tree's Board of Directors and Board of Advisors -- John Nichols and Robert McChesney, among them -- will also be speaking at this exciting event. Publications & TalksNICHOLS & MCCHESNEY: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again(February 5, 2010)Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown. NICHOLS, MCCHESNEY: The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers(March 18, 2009)John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney were the founders, with Josh Silver, of Free Press, which has launched a campaign to save the news. Their book, Saving Journalism: The Soul of Democracy, will be published by New Press in the fall. MANSKI: The New U.S. Democracy Movement(October 9, 2008)If the people are generally progressive, and the system is the problem, then a movement to establish rule by the people – a democracy movement – could be the solution. |
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