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INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS WIN VICTORIES, by Dorothy Kidd

 

The convergence of activists on the recent World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle signaled not only worldwide concern about the effects of globalization, but also the emergence of a well-organized and increasingly sophisticated network of internationalist media campaigners based both in and outside the media world. While the Internet plays a significant role in linking far-flung participants and disseminating information, these grassroots activists are not reliant on computer connections. They’re using a variety of old and new media–face-to-face communications, leafletting, and street art, along with radio, video, and websites–to organize with social justice movements at every level. Continue reading INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS WIN VICTORIES, by Dorothy Kidd