Media EmergenC

Media EmergenC, a conference organized by the San Diego Independent Media
Center to promote, strengthen and build democratic media organizations,
will incorporate performance, street action, workshops, speakers and
forums October 6-9 to raise a voice of opposition against the increasing
corporate control of our media.

Are You Having a Media Emergency?
Be a part of the movement for change! Media EmergenC –

Driving home from work you switch from one radio station to another, only
to find yourself listening to the same song at a different point of play.
That same evening you turn on the local news and when you find the first
five minutes filled with pieces on violent crime you change the channel,
to see the same picture of the same missing/shot/escaped teenager staring
back. Turing off the television you pick up the newspaper. The headlines
on the front page read like cheers and jeers for the presidential
candidates and you wonder whether there is hope of finding reliable
information on issues that matter to you. You are having a media
emergency.

Media EmergenC, a conference organized by the San Diego
Independent Media
Center to promote, strengthen and build democratic media organizations,
will incorporate performance, street action, workshops, speakers and
forums October 6-9 to raise a voice of opposition against the increasing
corporate control of our media.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), an organization
with
considerable lobbying power in Washington D.C. which represents owners of
media broadcasting outlets, will bring its annual conference, the Radio
Road Show to San Diego October 4-8. The NAB was a major force behind the
FCC’s deregulation of media ownership guidelines and continues to lobby
for the ability of a relatively few corporations to control a majority of
the media outlets available to the American public.

While the NAB works to stifle the increasingly few independent
voices in
the mainstream media, Media EmergenC will provide four days of events
exploring the current state of mainstream and independent media in the
United States, protesting the suppression of information and conservative
bias present within the corporate media, and sharing skills, information
and ideas to strengthen existing and build new networks of democratic
media organizations.

Join Media EmergenC for three evenings of discussion, performance
and
protest, followed by a full day of speakers, workshops and connecting with
democratic media activists and organizations.

To find out more about Media EmergenC, how to get involved, or to
register to attend, please visit www.mediaemergenc.org or contact
Jonathan Snapp-Cook or Kyla Calvert at EmergenC_Outreach@yahoo.com.

The San Diego Independent Media Center is part of The Independent
Media
Center, a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of
radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a
love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world,
despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the
efforts to free humanity.