Reclaim OUR Media Workshop comes to Ashland
wes brain, 04.01.2004 20:19
Taking OUR Local Mass Media Back From Large Corporations: We the People Are More Powerful Than We Dare to Believe.
Monday, January 12th 7:00-10:00pm
Paul Cienfuegos in Ashland!!
SOU Stevenson Union, room 319.
Paul Cienfuegos, a grassroots community organizer since 1977, is founder of Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County 
http://www.duhc.org/index.html , a nonprofit dedicated to dismantling corporate rule and invigorating democratic processes.
Paul co-wrote the successful ballot initiative which led to the formation of the City of Arcata Committee on Democracy and Corporations, and currently chairs this committee.
This workshop, where participation is encouraged and non-activists also urged to attend will:
*Discuss what minimum standards should be required from our local corporate media institutions;
*Dare to contemplate that we citizens actually have the right to insist on such standards;
*Envision how local residents in communities across the country could be meeting - across the ideological spectrum - to begin to identify common ground issues;
*Explore the historical and legal precedents that provide strong support for such a movement to succeed; and
*Begin to design creative tactics and strategies to take our local corporate TV and radio news stations and newspapers back via mass democratic action.
$5-10 (sliding scale, no one turned away). HURRY! Due to the nature of the workshop, space is limited. Contact Wes Brain to attend, 541-482-6988, 
brain@mind.net.
*Note* Paul's workshop is being offered from Vancouver B.C. to Ashland, Oregon - a cascadia road show.
Here is a Portland IMC post about the workshop
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/277660.shtml
e-mail:: brain@mind.net