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Community Media 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." Local Democracy News SourcesNews sources for updates on participatory democracy efforts around the world. Community Wireless ResourcesResources for communities pursuing municipal wireless. NewsEmbedding Military Propagandists into the News MediaDate: May 1, 2008READER: Chicago News Coop will challenge TribuneDate: October 22, 2009Take ActionLocal control of cable is under attacksource: Your local community cable stationState Preemption of Community Cablesource: Hear Us Now Consumers UnionEventsSummit for Community Wireless NetworksThe 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. Democracy 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. National Summit for Community Wireless Networks
Publications & TalksVIDEO: Manski, Farsetta, Alexander Gray on Extending Democracy(May 1, 2009)Progressive Magazine's Panel Discussion: EXTENDING DEMOCRACY Ben Manski, Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the U.S.A"The task . . . is to facilitate the growth of an aggressive democracy movement in the United States." NICHOLS & 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. |
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