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<font size=3>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. <br>
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If you are planning to attend the summit, please register
IMMEDIATELY:
<a href="http://che.onthejob.net/~sascha/imcregistration.html" eudora="autourl">http://che.onthejob.net/~sascha/imcregistration.</a><a href="http://che.onthejob.net/~sascha/imcregistration.html" eudora="autourl">html<br>
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</a>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!).<br>
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Thanks for your help.<br>
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--Sascha<br>
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At 11:06 AM 10/09/01 Tuesday, Paul Riismandel wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Adbusters is promoting this
campaign
(<a href="http://adbusters.org/magazine/38/d-day.html" eudora="autourl">http://adbusters.org/magazine/38/d-day.html</a>):<br>
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Media D-Day<br>
PARTY IN THE MEDIA BLIND SPOT<br>
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 . . .<br>
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?<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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