o
Throw a party or fundraiser for an independent local radio station,
public-access TV station, 'zine, movie theater, bookstore, community or
youth media center.
o Talk back to your media: call a talk show or write an op-ed or letter to the editor to critique or praise them. Mention Media Democracy Day and the duty of media to serve the public.
o Dedicate a music performance, community radio program, shelf in an
independent bookstore or a film screening to Media Democracy Day.
o Write to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress to demand that media policy serves the public interest: visit www.democraticmedia.org, www.aclu.org, www.eff.org and www.alliancecm.org to learn about current media policy issues and send a letter using their online forms.
o Monitor your local news coverage to help in the campaign for media democracy. Contact Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting to help: <phart@fair.org> or (212) 633-6700 ext. 304
o Talk back to your media: call a talk show or write an op-ed or letter to the editor to critique or praise them. Mention Media Democracy Day and the duty of media to serve the public.
o Dedicate a music performance, community radio program, shelf in an
independent bookstore or a film screening to Media Democracy Day.
o Write to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress to demand that media policy serves the public interest: visit www.democraticmedia.org, www.aclu.org, www.eff.org and www.alliancecm.org to learn about current media policy issues and send a letter using their online forms.
o Monitor your local news coverage to help in the campaign for media democracy. Contact Peter Hart at Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting to help: <phart@fair.org> or (212) 633-6700 ext. 304
"Everyone
has the right to the freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes
freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and
impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
Article 19
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
classroom.
o Make posters, stickers or signs about Media Democracy: visit
www.subvertise.org, www.adbusters.org or www.mediachannel.org for ideas.
o Take action: stage a protest or demonstration to demand better news
coverage of an issue you care about; make a creative direct attack on a newspaper, billboard, or broadcast station.
o Tell everyone it's Media Democracy Day. Have conversations about freedom of speech; media concentration; racism, sexism, classism, anti-environmentalism, militarism in the media; the power and potential of independent and community media; the commercialization of all media; censorship, surveillance and the threats to privacy and dissent..
o Find or create a group working on a specific media issue you care about. Get involved!