[CIMC-work] Public Forum on the Fight Against Big Media (fwd)

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

Um, this is big.

I've just posted this to the newswire; it was just finalized this
morning.  I called Hugo Rojas to confirm that this is legit, and indeed it
is and we're clear to hype this.  (I've posted a notice to this to the
newswire.)

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org

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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:41:07 -0600
From: Hugo Rogas <hrojas2270 at hotmail.com>
To: Chicago Media Action <cma at chicagomediaaction.org>
Subject: Public Forum on the Fight Against Big Media

Join us Monday afternoon and learn more about the fight against big media!

Artists Billy Bragg, Tom Morello, Lester Chambers, Mike Mills and Boots 
Riley will join together with Common Cause President Chellie Pingree and 
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Director Lori Wallach to host a panel 
discussion on Monday, November 10, 2003 at 1:30PM at the HotHouse, 31 E. 
Balbo in Chicago. 
This event complements a 13-date tour featuring Bragg, Morello and Chambers 
(of the Chambers Brothers).  The Tell us the Truth Tour includes concerts and 
awareness raising on current media reform and trade issues, including the 
upcoming Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) summit in Miami (Nov. 19-21). 
With support from unions, environmental, religious and media reform groups - 
including the AFL-CIO, Citizens Trade Campaign, Common Cause, Free Press and 
the Future of Music Coalition - this tour will be the loudest, angriest, 
funniest and most effective challenge to corporate domination of the public 
discourse in recent history.  


What:  Tell us the Truth Panel Discussion

Agenda: Chellie Pingree, President, Common Cause; Lori Wallach, Director, 
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch; Tom Hansen, Mexico Solidarity Network; 
Billy Bragg (musician); Tom Morello (musician); Lester Chambers, The Chambers 
Brothers (musician); Mike Mills, R.E.M. (musician); Boots Riley, 
The Coup (musician)

 When: Monday, November 10, 2003;                1:30-3:30PM

Where: The HotHouse; 31 E. Balbo 

For More Information contact Hugo Rojas of Common Cause / Illinois 
at 630-268-2428

A complete Tell us the Truth Tour itinerary as well as more in-depth 
information is available at www.tellusthetruth.org