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To all Boston area progressives, <br>
<br>
I'm writing to invite you to the first public action of the
new Boston Media Reform Network - the Boston Rally to Make Fox
History - tomorrow, August 4th, in front of the Mass. State
House at 12 noon. <br>
<br>
It's a simple action, we're planning to have a few speakers
talk until about 12:45, then picket the nearby Fox 25 branch
studio for a while. <br>
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Our overall goal is to start pushing for Congressional
hearings on the accelerating News Corp. (the parent company of
Fox) scandal in the UK - where the media conglomerate has
started admitting to criminal behavior like illegally hacking
into the cell phones of thousands of public figures and
private citizens, and a number of its top executives have been
arrested. Since that scandal is now spreading to the US, and
News Corp. is already under investigation by the Department of
Justice and the FBI, we think it's important to demand action
from Congress that could lead to the end of News Corp. ...
with sufficient public pressure, of course. <br>
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But we're also holding the rally to discuss some of the many
ways that News Corp.'s many media properties - especially Fox
News - have been run as a open propaganda operations for the
hard right-wing, and used their power and influence to
viciously attack grassroots movements for democracy, social
justice and human rights. Thus distorting our democratic
process itself. <br>
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Please check out our Facebook event page for more details, and
- if you like what you see - invite your Facebook friends to
attend <br>
<br>
Here's the link <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100661030035817">https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=100661030035817</a>
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If you're part of any kind of progressive organization or
community group or union, be sure to try to turn out fellow
members and staff to the rally, too. <br>
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Another great thing you can do is to tweet the Facebook event
to all your Twitter followers - and be sure to put the #bmrn
and #makefoxhistory hashtags somewhere in your tweet; so we
can track it ... <br>
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Here's a sample Twitter message <br>
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Join us at the Boston Media Reform Network's 8/4 Rally to Make
Fox History! FB event page <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://is.gd/TYcyAK">http://is.gd/TYcyAK</a> #bmrn
#makefoxhistory <br>
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And if you'd like to get active in our network, please be sure
to join our announce-only email list. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://groups.google.com/group/bosmediareform-announce">http://groups.google.com/group/bosmediareform-announce</a>
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The campaign against News Corp. is only one of the many
projects we're working on. If you've got problems with the way
cable access is under threat, or the digital divide, or the
power of the telecoms, or the way broadcast licenses are
handed out to major corporations, or the possibility that PBS,
NPR and Pacifica could be defunded, or the general lack of
diverse and democratic media in the United States - or you'd
just really like to see some legal Low Power FM stations in
this area - then we're probably working on it already. Join
us. <br>
<br>
And make it up to the rally tomorrow. It'll be fast and fun
and totally worth doing. <br>
<br>
Cheers, <br>
<br>
Jason Pramas <br>
Boston Media Reform Network <br>
and <br>
Open Media Boston <br>
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