Black Krishna on CKLN - PJD - Part 3 - Aug 10, 06
Black Krishna on CKLN Radio - Prisoners Justice Day - Part Three - Media Arrogance and Ignorance - August 10, 2006
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Story behind the song
Less than 1% of people who are in conflict with the law are violent offenders. Most of the others are there for economic crimes, and we're suffering at the hands of a system being increasingly designed to fail and make us all less safe. The media needs to cover that in order for the rest of society to be aware of the problem and pressure our "leaders" to correct it.
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I don't hate cops.
I really, really, really don't.
And...
I don't think anyone else should either.
It's neither productive nor compassionate.
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They are being dehumanized against us, and are being given new training and weapons to suppress populations desperately in need of a positive change.
They don't want to do this any more than the soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq want to go from house to house grabbing every male (and many females) and throwing them in "secret prisons" to be tortured, and we have to help them stop.
They still live here, they have homes and friends and family here, they eat and drink at the bars and restaurants here, and their kids go to school here.
They don't want to turn their respective cities into an oppressive Orwellian nightmare, and they don't want to be fired and replaced with soldiers who are easier to propagandize 24-7 on military bases - as happened in New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina.
We have to talk to them and work with them on a daily basis to keep them from turning into an occupying army, and we have to help them avoid setting the stage for a Martial Law takeover of society.
No one wants that, and everyone wants our respective police, soldiers and intelligence agents to do the best and most ethical jobs they can to maintain a peaceful and free society.
Please help them help us.
Peace, (NOW!!!)
BK
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The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom represents a common front of readers and viewers, those working in the media industries, and labour and community groups concerned about the increasing concentration of media ownership in Canada.
We are active in promoting greater diversity of media ownership, enhancing the rights of media workers to report freely, and monitoring key developments in the news and information industries.
http://www.presscampaign.org/
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In a society increasingly dominated by the "second-hand" experience offered by the media, how we define, interpret, and understand our world and our place in it is largely dependent upon the information and experiences transmitted by the mass media. Citizens depend upon the media to understand and evaluate public policies and social events. Ideally, the news and information we receive should help us learn about the world, debate our responses to it, and reach informed decisions about what courses of action to take.
But today, profound changes are rapidly reshaping the press and broadcasting industries in Canada and abroad -- changes that if left unchecked threaten to undermine the basic democratic right of citizens both to speak and be heard. The increasing concentration of media ownership in fewer and fewer hands, the under-funding of public service broadcasting, the emergence of trade and investment regimes that restrict the ability of nation states to enact progressive media policies, the rising commercialization of news and information, the growth of public relations and advertising, and the commercial exploitation of the new communications technology all threaten to limit the accountability of the media, the diversity of views given public expression, and the ability of citizens to access the news and information we need to participate in and make informed decisions about our social and political affairs.
Mediasauras: attack of the media giants
Just as the media are becoming even more pervasive and powerful in shaping the perceptions of peoples around the world, what we see, hear and read is falling under the control of fewer and fewer corporations.
In fact, the potential reach and power of the leading media corporations is greater now than at any time in the past because of two related movements -- concentration and conglomeration.
In Canada, for instance, the concentration of media ownership in the newspaper industry has progressed at an alarming pace. In 1970, the Special Senate Committee