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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. InitiativesEvents- Democracy Day (June 5, 2008)
Liberty Tree is playing a leading role in organizing Democracy Day. Scheduled the day before the National Conference on Media Reform, Democracy Day is a major conference designed to build support among voting rights advocates, electoral reformers and movement organizations for a broader vision of democracy - Democracy Track at the U.S. Social Forum (June 27, 2007 - July 1, 2007)
The 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. - Summit for Community Wireless Networks (May 18, 2007 - May 20, 2007)
The summit is the largest gathering of wireless network developers, technology and policy experts, and community organizers working to build universal, low-cost broadband networks around the world. - National Summit for Community Wireless Networks
- An Evening With Zinn
America's greatest historian, Howard Zinn, speaks in Madison's historic Orpheum Theatre at 7pm, Thursday, October 5th. There's more: Join Zinn at 5pm, before his talk in a fundraising event for Liberty Tree, the Progressive, and the Havens Center in the Orpheum's Lobby Restaurant!
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