Community Weblog - [ December 6, 2003 ]

"know the media, change the media, be the media"

"The "Two-Minute Media Revolution" is a campaign to demand that two minutes out of every broadcast hour be made available for advocacy messages that could come from anyone, on any topic."

"We, the undersigned, are troubled by the way information flows and the way meaning is produced in our society.

WE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE in what we are seeing, hearing and reading: too much infotainment and not enough news; too many outlets telling the same stories; too much commercialism and too much hype. Every day, this commercial information system distorts our view of the world."

To learn more about and/or sign the Media Carta, please visit www.mediacarta.org.

To learn more about the genesis of the Media Carta, please visit http://adbusters.org/magazine/51/articles/genesis.html.

"The pages of Al-Muajaha capture the confusion on the streets of post-war Iraq"
-Andrew Stern, from www.adbusters.org, Jan/Feb 2004

For the stories from Iraq Rupert Murdoch will never tell, please visit www.almuajaha.com.

"We are Everywhere falls somewhere between an activist anthology and a grassroots history, agitational collage and direct action manual. It traces the anticapitalist movements from their emergence in 1994 to the present, documenting the rise of an unprecedented global rebellion - a rebellion which is in constant flux, which swaps ideas and tactics across oceans, shares strategies between cultures and continents, gathers in swarms and dissolves, only to swarm again elsewhere."

"existence-resistance" photo by John Jordan

For information on the "irristable(sic) rise of anticapitalism", please visit http://www.weareeverywhere.org