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| =Santa Cruz Independent Media Summit= | | =The truth emergency: How to sustain journalism that speaks truth to power= |
| =Raw list of goals=
| | '''Notes from Bill Densmore's panel appearance at the Jan. 25-27, 2008 Santa Cruz Independent Media Strategy Summit will be posted here by midnight on Jan. 27, 2008''' |
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| ==Build a large, effective movement==
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| *Collective intelligence
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| *It's really not that hard: Just wake up!!!!
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| *Clarifying news we are struggling for; clarify who, what we are struggling against
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| *Unify and officialize
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| *Build/grow the movement by giving individuals something meaningful to do -- to feel invested in, and part of a movement.
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| *Establish a model that can sustain its independence ... financially, politically.
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| *Create collectively a hierarch of needs for activisits to be efffect with social change.
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| *Be more "bottomline."
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| *Unify through diversity -- "Global" agreements we have in common, i.e., earth charter org. / including spiritual perspective
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| * We are all ''one'' human family.
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| *Shift from things to people
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| *Pull together other diverse causes into one huge movement -- not to address various symptoms -- but to address the
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| underlying cause: corporate rule/elite rule.
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| *Create a movement to (a) empower the people -- especially women and youth (b) to disempower the corporate paradigm and (c)
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| to empower alternatives
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| *Build an unstoppable movement by formulating a vision, a strategy and an inspiring name.
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| *Shft from things to people
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| *Connect union community and students power.
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| *Collective intelligence
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| *Leave your ego at the door
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| *Treat the audience (and ourselves) as adults
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| *The MoveON.org example: Let's put our energy where benefit is maximized
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| *There will not be justice in civilization until psychadelics are respected
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| ==Build personal skills==
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| *Don't be shy / let people know what you think / react out loud visibly
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| *Caring
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| *empathy
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| *Just wake up!
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| *The best defense against logic is denial
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| *Leave your ego at the door
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| ==Independent media / create alternative media network==
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| *Create a unified alternative daily newspaper -- at first online and later in print. Do it now.
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| *VNR -- Create organization for the production of video news releases for progressive organizations/events.
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| *Making known a local crisis with state and national implications (ie., Santa Cruz & Monterey populations are just the
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| beginning) Example: Aerial spraying of populations with pesticides for light-brown apple moth.
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| *Free website offer for you -- visit EmpowerTheUN.org
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| *Loosely knit media distribution and action network with centralized communications hub
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| *Develop a well-funded progressive infrastructure to formulate and disseminate policies that respond to progressive values.
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| *Join forces! indy TV, newspapers, bloggesr, radio, all work together
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| *Create partnership between generations (parents/kids) to circulate truth in "peer-to-peer" networks
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| *Since we can't have systematic change without a movement, et's begin to organize the launch of the mass movement that will
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| bring this change
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| *Do a high-quality viral video featuring the X-Files-type investigation of 9/11 with Moldre and Scolly-type characters who
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| research each aspect of 9/11, all done as closely stylistically to X-Files as possible. It should be a instant hit and debunk
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| much much of the debunking. It creeates an entertaining way to get this info out -- in a non-threatening way.
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| *Create a "censored and distorted" website where users can print out weekly 8-10 new sheets of the top nationally censored
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| stories. Users across the country can use this site to print out news sheets for their own cities with their own contact
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| information.
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| *Progressive Wire -- Open to change where open wire, a WOW story. The INN (idea below) plus vetting . . . a published
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| codebook and a PW stamp from blogs (not issue websites)that follows the codebooks of websurfers (or add above to AltWire).
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| *Use phone-tree chains or email to call papers etc. to pressure editors to publihs unshown ect. stories / op-ed
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| pieces/letters to the editor
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| *Create a network of all independent media to come together to help each other, share stories and be a force comparable to
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| MSM.
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| *Creating an infrastructure -- a "boots on the ground" distribution/publicity network for films, newspapers etc.
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| *Community intranet (bypass internet)
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| *Use funny "viral videos" to spread ideas/truths, human, special issues
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| *Citizen journalism, boggers / consensus vetting (group) / categorization (news, opinion, forums) / new network transmission
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| / comment read extent / widest possible audience / with info/news, analysis, opinions, discussion forums, coordition
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| strategizing, actuion, retrospection.
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| *Look at term for "alternative" media that isn't a negative definition defined by what it's not.
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| *Goal: All stories/blog entries end with links for background, how to take action, how to communicate with representatives,
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| leaders, decision makers
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| *Develop stanards and practices for legitmacy
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| *organize the means by which we distribute accurate information
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| *political fact checking (with clearinghouse)
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| *begin organizing the next conference -- the next steps -- soon
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| *Experiment with architytpes -- imagine if pop music sang about progessive issues.
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| *People and species right to a sustainable ecology must trump corporate right to exist
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| * Let's make good use of our media culture's obsession with celebrity, and have a news site where guest celebrities read and
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| report the news -- the ''real'' news.*Work for and ecourage efforts to build a national network to compete with corporate
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| media
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| *Create The Peoples Foundation -- fund indy media channels
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| *Learn to monetize our independent media networks
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| *Cross promotion
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| *Create "circuit" for films and discussion, with community and local involvement
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| *Infuse our current strucutre/netowkr with unform meaning.
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| *Link to other progressive film sites, authors
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| *New mantra! Abandon corporate media, advance citizens' media
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| *Create an independent, progressive, TV station/network of professional quality and national reach to compete with corporate
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| TV. Goals and values to provide the truth about important U.S. and world events, to education and entertain with progressive
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| programming, that promotes fairness, non-violent conflict resolution, coooperatin, the best characteristics of humanithy for
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| love, understanding, compassion, and agaisnt exploitation, racism, sexism, degredation and all forms of discrimination, etc.
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| Programming -- a mix of news, eduaiton and entertainment using exposes, investigative journalism in a way that gives hope for
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| change -- sample programming 6 a.m.-8 a.m. news, 8 a.m.-10 a.m. talk shows 4 p.m.-6 p.m. news, 6p.m. 7 p.m.-- education
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| etc. funding: Use as much low budget items as possible -- movies, already produced programs etc. , viewer suppoorted fund
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| drives, membership subs, commercials. governance -- have board representing major constitutents, yout, labor,
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| small/progressive business, woemn, blacks, Latinos, environmentalist etc.
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| *Have people use their strengths by becoming organized along skill ines: public events, films etc./intergroup liasons / tech,
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| pr, jouranalism/writing/ monetary, reptilian arts (how the other side thinks), strategize, public faces
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| * New mantra: bandon corporate media, davance citizens' media.
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| ==Reduce consumerism==
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| *Along with truth actions in 11th of every month / no bouying of anything on the 11th of every month
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| *Blacklist Wal-Mart
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| *Reduce, reuse recycle. Less consumption will topple the machines!
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| *truth in advertising? How about truth in campaign promises?
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| *Congreess is obliged to honor the will of their constitutents
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| ==Build Collaborative group skills==
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| *Make all goals: "SMART" -- specific, measurable, attainable, realistics, timey
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| *Don't sut tell people the problems. offer ideas for action steps they can take at the end of each story.
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| *Learning the difference between a goal and a stupid comment.
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| *This goal board is pathetic!
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| ==Build real democracy==
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| *Treat the audience and ourselves as adults
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| *Equality
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| *illegalize secret societies for those in public office
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| *To reclaim democracy and use it to guide our vision, actualize
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| *horizontal power
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| *radical equality / horizontal integration / transcend hierarcy
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| *consistently, relentlessly challenge the frames, the assumptions, the iomissions, the terms ("war" in Iraq), ("illegal"
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| alliens, etc.)
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| *Impeach
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| *end represssion
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| *to learn how to break down the "military industrial congressional complex" and the whole power elite structure/paradigm
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| *Democracy defined: one person: one vote / traceable paper balot / no political as allowed on broadcast media (as a
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| requirement for bandwidth licensure, free and equal primetime to all candidate
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| s).
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| ==Work through schools==
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| *Develop curricula -- hidden history, detecting propaganda, cutting through disinfo
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| *Basic logic and argument/fallacies taught in the 7th-12th grades
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| *Enjoy genuine communications
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| *Schools -- get the cops out, get the military recruiters out, stop the surveillance in schools
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| *articulate what real democrcy is ... by drawing out real life stories of progressive values
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| *values education
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| *Meet your neighbor. Talk about what moves you.
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| *Help people understand how the media (especially corporate media) works in including creating "media literacy" as part of
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| standard curriculum.
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| ==Build womens' voice==
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| *End patriarcy
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| *Sexist jokes from the progressivepanelists are not funny -- they insult women
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| *Healing centers for womena dn others so whole people can create a whole new beautiful world --
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| Preention-complimentary-integration
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| *Women voice and women's wisdom need to be heard -- to reach it support family now
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| ==Include underrepresented voices==
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| *Lift the voices of the silenced -- include youth, immigrant and ethnic communities in the discussion and the movement
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| *Create allies in issues of social jsutice across categories of race, class, gender, culture and particularly religious and
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| political affiliante (i.e., create Common Ground.
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| ==Message discipline==
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| *Establish a language that enables dialog with all people
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| *Be like Colbert & Jon Stewart! make some of our issues entertaining and canonical.
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| *Watch our words: occupation not war, survivor not victim, corporate not mainstream media, explosion not collapse, electrion
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| fraud not vote fraid, "U.S. occupation following illegal war."
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| *Create a bridging language that will not alienate and polarize. Explose the fact that we are all one human family
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| *Develop a series of questions to ask that would help people understand -- what is happening?
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| *Establish a new and accepted political lexicon for media. Redefinie old terms so that the is no more emotional baggage.
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| ==Build local community==
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| *Connect unions community and students power
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| *community
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| *empowre throgh small conscious actions
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| *celebrate our strengths
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| *please talk to students, include! Youth and your family and community
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| *join/create a center for peace and justice in your community
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| *Help people understand how the media (especially corporate media) works in including creating "media literacy" as part of
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| standard curriculum.
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| *Honor conservus and each other
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| *Unity -- bilding conditions
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| *Develop links, bridges between people -- coaching for community building
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| *Work toward community ownership
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| *reaching public: 3 truths: the public will shift its ear and support toward a movement that is positive, nonviolent,
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| creative, fun, open-eharted, visionary, rooted in community, respectful of its members and generous.
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| ==Expose CIA mind control==
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| *Let's ban all mention of the CIA's role i media
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| ==Expose untruths==
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| *Expose the war-media scam
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| *Expand awareness of conflict of interest -- especially politicians profiting from military actions.
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| *Expose corporate media falsehood
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| *Expose the foundational lies/myths about 9/11 and the elections, that are preventing progress in many important areas
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| *The doubling of the power of the CPU every nine months continues to give people the tools to create both an atomic and
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| molecular ecologically restorative vision for our rather rare civiliczation in a magnetic bottle and to anayze and correct
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| the mechanisms that have allowed, for example, 5 recent state frauds that are scientifically verifiable -- JFK murder, apollo
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| moon hoax, OKC bombing, 9/11 reichstag fire, Palestinian ethnic cleansing
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| *Crack the 9/11 myth
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| *Impeach Bush/cheney and throw out theneo-cons and other bottom feeders
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| *Abolish the G8, IMF/WB, Federal Reserve ....
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| *Eliminate secret government
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| *Reinstate the constitution and bill of rights
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| *kill corporate personhood
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| *Finish off all
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| *Free trade institutions, into FTAA, CAFTA, NARTA, bilateral agreements
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| ==Reform government media policy==
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| *Bring bag Fairness Doctrine
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| *Take back the FCC
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| *Abolish ads in first 15 minutes
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| *No advertising toward kids -- 'hey Madison Ave., leave those kids alone!'
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