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An Evening with Robert McChesney: The Golden Age of Propaganda! Understanding and Reforming Today’s Media

Thursday, April 7, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PT)

Boston, MA

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Experience the inspiring keynote oratory of scholar, reformer, and legend Robert McChesney on the evening of April 7, following the ACME conference, and the night before the National Conference for Media Reform.

 

“The problem we face with a hyper-commercial, profit-obsessed media system is that most of what it produces is propaganda, which is a lousy way to create citizens.

A solution is real media education that doesn't just make people more informed consumers, but active citizens who understand how it all works.”

-Robert McChesney
award-winning author of ten books
about media, democracy and culture

 

Following the keynote will be a networking reception featuring the noted folk band, the Phineas Gage Project.

This talk is the culminating event of a daylong conference, but ACME is inviting the general public as well. A donation of $5 is requested, but not required.

 

When & Where


Arlington Street Church
351 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116

Thursday, April 7, 2011 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PT)


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ACME: Action Coalition for Media Education



We live in the most heavily mediated society in world history. Powerful media tools—print, radio, television, the Internet—can bring a rich diversity of information into every home and school. Yet just a few multinational corporations (Big Media) own much of the media that shape our 21st century culture. Independently-funded media literacy education plays a crucial role in challenging Big Media's monopoly over our culture, helping to move the world to a more just, democratic and sustainable future.

Free of any funding from Big Media, ACME is an emerging global coalition run by and for media educators, a network that champions a three-part mission:

1. Teaching media education knowledge and skills - through keynotes, workshops, trainings, and institutes - to children and adults so that they can become more critical media consumers and more active participants in our democracy;

2. Supporting media reform - No matter what one's cause, media reform is crucial for the success of that cause, and since only those who are media-educated support media reform, media education must be a top priority for all citizens and activists;

3. Democratizing our media system through education and activism.