[Imc] October 19-21, 2001: PLEASE REGISTER for the regional indymedia gathering.

[Sascha Meinrath]

OCTOBER 19th is also the opening day of the Regional Indymedia Gathering 
(October 19-21)-- we should make sure to keep Media D-Day on the front 
burner.

If you are planning to attend the summit, please register 
IMMEDIATELY:  http://che.onthejob.net/~sascha/imcregistration.html

This is REALLY important since we need to have an idea of how many people 
will be attending.  It takes 2 minutes and will help us immeasurably -- 
please do this right now (please!).

Thanks for your help.

--Sascha



At 11:06 AM 10/09/01 Tuesday, Paul Riismandel wrote:
>Adbusters is promoting this campaign 
>(http://adbusters.org/magazine/38/d-day.html):
>
>Media D-Day
>PARTY IN THE MEDIA BLIND SPOT
>It is 10:23 a.m. on October 19, 2001, and a TV editor pulls another press 
>release off the wire. What's this? "Media Democracy Day." A teach-in is 
>planned, a debate (ho-hum) - but wait-just-a-New-York-minute. There's also 
>a protest newspaper being illegally dropped in to the vending boxes of the 
>local daily. And two dozen people angry about media mergers plan to risk 
>arrest by locking themselves to the front doors . . . of a certain TV 
>station . . . today, at 10:30 . . .
>This is the beauty of Media Democracy Day, an international brainstorm 
>launched this year by Canadian activists: it's a media event that puts the 
>media's feet to the fire. So who will cover it? And how?
>For too long, activists have been the trained tiger in the mass-media 
>circus. Told that only the media-savvy make the primetime, we fine-tune 
>our performances and amp up our stunts; in return, we get a few 
>column-inches of ink or a glimpse of our banners on the evening news. 
>Meanwhile, the gatekeepers let slide a tidal wave of entertainment, 
>advertisement, jingles, journalism and pop analysis that props up 
>consumerism, boosts the "progress" economy, cheerleads corporate culture, 
>cranks up the spectacle, and never fails to remind us that oil company 
>CEOs care about the environment, too.
>The mainstream media has rested on its mythical claim "to comfort the 
>afflicted and afflict the comfortable." But it is the comfortable, while 
>the list of the afflicted includes every bench-warmer in consumer 
>democracy's elimination dance: all those troubled by media convergence; 
>any reporter who believes in "change from the inside"; advocates of 
>independent and public journalism; all small presses; every subvertiser; 
>all those with media-violence fatigue; anyone who believes airwaves and 
>bandwidth are a public trust; every activist demanding "the right to 
>communicate"; and each man, woman and child who can't find a damn thing 
>worth watching on the tube.
>It's quite a mob, and on October 19, it will begin to come together - the 
>first global party ever held in a media blind spot. Expect pranks and 
>jams, debates entitled "Should we still be talking to the mainstream 
>media?", and anxious reporters calling HQ for advice. The question that 
>day won't be whether the dog is wagging the tail or the tail is wagging 
>the dog. No, the question this time is whether we can get the dog to bite 
>itself on the ass.
>
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