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The European Social Forum is coming to London between October 14 and 17, and the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting wants you to be a part of it.The ESF is a chance for activists to come together to engage in debate, organise action and build networks to strengthen our movement. It is a giant gathering for everyone opposed to war, racism and corporate power and for everyone who wants to see global justice, workers’ rights and a sustainable society.
The media, of course, plays a huge role in how the world is viewed, which is why the CPBF, together with the National Union of Journalists, will be running a series of seminars on the subject.
We have one seminar on the concentration of the media, which will look at how newspapers and broadcasters are being controlled by a shrinking number of global conglomerations and how these unelected chiefs of capital are exercising their power to dictate the global agenda to protect their own interests, rather than those of elected governments.
The session will be chaired by Jeremy Dear, the NUJ’s General Secretary, with speakers including Free Press editor Granville Williams and Jasmina Popovic, President of the Croatian journalists’ union.
On a similar theme, NUJ President Jim Corrigal will chair a meeting on public service broadcasting. Focusing on the importance of keeping the media free from state and commercial interference, the UK speaker is CPBF national council member Tom O’Malley.
The third seminar looks at how governments try to control the media in times of war through a mixture of propaganda and censorship.
Chaired by Paul Mackney, General Secretary of NATFHE, the UK speaker is David Miller, editor of Tell Me Lies and frequent Free Press contributor.
We have also contributed to a seminar on how governments manufacture terror to keep us in a state of frightened compliance. Human rights lawyer Gareth Pierce will be speaking.
Times for the seminars have yet to be confirmed, but why not book your place now and attend the whole event?
Registration costs £30, with the first 20,000 people receiving a free London travel card.
At a time when world leaders have been forced to conspire in ever-more isolated spots, the ESF is unashamedly vibrant and on the streets, connecting with people.
There are more details on the website (www.fse-esf.org) which will tell you how to become part of this amazing event that unites activists from all over the world in their desire to reclaim politics from the politicians and return democracy to the people.
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Last modified: Tuesday, October 19, 2004
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World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
The World Press Freedom Day rally is being staged by the National Union of Journalists at the NUJ head office, Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1 on Thursday May 2, 6pm-8pm.
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The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
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