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The Internet is meant to empower people to build a help us build more connected and collaborative world. But, unfortunately, we’re at a tipping point: the digital revolution is increasingly threatened by out-dated businesses and governments who want to control it.

The open web is a place where we can work to solve the world’s problems. But, if we lose this, we could be faced with an Internet in which only a handful of powerful Big Telecom conglomerates and repressive governments shape our future.

We must pause and ask: which direction is the digital revolution really headed? We need to put the our communications systems back into the centre as a tool that connects people to decision-making, and our special guests have suggestions to accomplish this.

Join us in a conversation with leading thinkers on media reform theory Robert McChesney and John Nichols on how to avoid a “citizen-less democracy” and to talk about their new book People Get Ready: The Fight against a Jobless Economy. Help OpenMedia and Media Democracy Days fundraise our media reform work!





FEATURING:

ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or editor of twenty-three books. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He is the cofounder of Free Press, a national media-reform organization. In 2008 the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their “fifty visionaries who are changing the world.” He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

JOHN NICHOLS, a pioneering political blogger, has written the Nation’s Online Beat since 1999, is their Washington, DC, correspondent, and is a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times. He is also the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin, and a cofounder of Free Press. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and dozens of other newspapers, and he frequently appears on MSNBC, NPR, BBC, and other broadcast media outlets as a commentator on politics and media issues. Nichols lives in Madison, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC.





This fundraising event is taking place on the unceded and occupied Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people.





More info:

a. RSVP early! Online ticket sale ends on March 5. Tickets available at the door at $12 and $7 for seniors and students with student cards (cash or credit). No one turned away for lack of funds.

b. Accessibility info here.

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