Jeff Smith’s June 2005 column for Recoil has been posted in the commentary section of the site. In this column, Jeff addresses how media justice is the civil rights movement of the 21st century:
Some 2,500 media activists, Indy media producers, authors, academics, bloggers, zine makers and media critics came together for 4 days of speeches, workshops, caucuses and conspiring, all in the cause of media justice. Held in the hometown of Joseph Pulitzer, this gathering demonstrated that media justice was not a marginal issue for social change, rather it was an essential element for all efforts to create a more just world. Whether your issue was the US occupation of Iraq, the criminalization of the poor, violence against women, the hyper commercialism in our schools, access to the internet or censorship the conference had something for everybody. More importantly, the conference was predicated on trying to build a movement that would not only challenge corporate media, but would develop policies and practices that made media a richly diverse mechanism for empowering individuals and communities.
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