http://www.mediademocracynow.org An Invitation to Direct Action: Confront the Corporate Media in the Streets of San Francisco Join us in protesting the National Association of Broadcasters convention September 20-23, 2000 Help make history when media activists from all over North America converge on the National Association of Broadcasters' radio convention. >From Seattle and D.C. to Philadelphia and Los Angeles, people are mobilizing for social justice. Mark your calendars for the next historic confrontation -- four days in San Francisco beginning September 20. The National Association of Broadcasters is the WTO of the broadcasting industry. It spends millions of dollars every year lobbying to keep the airwaves out of the hands of the public. We can thank the NAB and the media giants that it represents for: * Putting out the trash that we call commercial radio and TV. * Stereotyping youth, people of color, and working class people. * Censoring and misrepresenting the issues that we care about-from homelessness and immigrant rights to the environment and labor. * Pushing for legislation like the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which legalized media monopolies, creating The Gap and Starbucks of the airwaves. * Engineering the giveaway of billions of public dollars by handing over the digital TV spectrum to the corporate media. * Fighting tooth-and-nail against grassroots media efforts like low-power radio that would bring hundreds of new voices and perspectives to the airwaves. See you in San Francisco! Bring your microradio transmitters, your dancing shoes, and your militant nonviolent attitude. Join Media Alliance, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Project Censored, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Micropower Radio Coalition, Global Exchange, Direct Action Network, Prometheus Radio Project, Civil Rights Forum on Communication Policy, Rainforest Action Network, and many other organizations in protest! DON'T MOURN THE MEDIA MONOPOLY -- ORGANIZE! Contact: Media Alliance * www.mediademocracynow.org * [EMAIL PROTECTED], 814 Mission St., Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94103, (415) 546-6334 -30- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN-ANNOUNCE: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network - Announcements -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20laamn-announce> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20laamn-announce> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20laamn-announce-digest> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=laamn-announce> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn-announce> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive3: <http://archive.tao.ca> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- <home.labridge.com/~laamn> | LAAMN | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
