[IMC-US] personal reprtback for indy folks about theNationalCOnference on Media Reform.

[Sakura Saunders]

Hi all,
I agree with the critiques of the conference that have already been voiced, 
so I will make my comments short. I think that a good way that we could 
engage the media reform 'movement' is by making them aware of what our media 
reform priorities are, from a media justice perspective. For example, we 
could encourage them to use their resources to build community wireless 
networks, as they did in Urbana-Champaign, or get them to sponser networking 
amongst community radio stations, as they will at the Grassroots Radio 
Conference this August. We could also emphasize that securing the 
soon-to-be-vacated analogue tv spectrum for unlicensed use is a better use 
of their lobbying might than fighting media ownership limits.
I don't believe that Free Press can be reformed into a media justice 
institution, but there are reforms that can foster greater access to media 
production and localism, ideals that are supported by the Indymedia network. 
Free Press has many resources, but, judging by their inability to see the 
connection between a police oversight committee and media reform....they 
don't have a clue.
-Sakura
SF Bay Area Indymedia volunteer

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"Believing that they possess consciousness, men have not exerted themselves 
very much to acquire it." - Nietzsche, The Gay Science
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