Media Reform Conference | Weekly Top Ten

Our friends at freepress.net are holding the most important conference ever devoted to media, technology and democracy. The Common Dreams' team will be joining them in Boston in April and hope you can too. See you there! Change the Media. Change the World! Media Reform Is Coming to Boston! What: National Conference for Media Reform When: April 8-10, 2011 Where: Boston, MA at the Seaport World Trade Center Are better media the key to a better world? Think about it: From the printing press to the Internet to the iPhone, media have changed the course of history. News coverage affects every issue we care about, and technology is reshaping our communities, our relationships and our daily lives. A growing movement is demanding better journalism, more independent and community media, and the free and open Internet. Thousands of people who believe that reforming the media is critical to transforming the world will meet at the National Conference for Media Reform, a one-of-a-kind event for better media, technology and democracy. Featured speakers include Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig, Salon's Glenn Greenwald, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Democracy Now! hosts Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, grassroots leaders Rinku Sen and Malkia Cyril, as well as dozens of other media luminaries. Register now! Click here for more program, presenter and schedule information ______________________________________________ Common Dreams Most Read News & Views week ending March 3, 2011 Our Top Ten Headlines... Gov. Walker in Prank Call: 'This is Our Moment' Tempers Explode as Wisconsin Assembly Passes Bill Taking Away Union Rights Assange Can Be Extradited; Could Face US Death Penalty Rolling Stone: Another Runaway General as Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators Déjà Vu: Neo-Con Hawks Take Flight over Libya Gorbachev: The US Must Take Blame for Fanning Islamic Fundamentalism Shoppers Wary of GM Foods Find They're Everywhere Wikileaks: Bradley Manning Faces 22 New Charges, Possible Death Penalty Small Nuclear War Could Reverse Global Warming for Years Billionaire Brothers’ Money Plays Role in Wisconsin Dispute ______________________________________________ Our Top Ten Views... Corporate 'Education Reform': A Moment of National Insanity | Diane Ravitch Koch Brothers “Prank” No Laughing Matter | Mary Bottari How the Rich Soaked the Rest of Us | Richard Wolff The Plutocrat's Coup d'Etat, Their Republican Allies and Their Democratic Enablers | John Atcheson The Sole Remaining Stupidpower in the World | David Michael Green The Phony Budget Crisis: Forget Austerity, Tax the Rich | Ted Rall ‘Mad as Hell’ in Madison | Ralph Nader All-American Decline in a New World: Wars, Vampires, Burned Children, and Indelicate Imbalances | Tom Englehardt An Open Letter to Public Employees and Their Unions, From Formerly Unionized Private-Sector Workers | David Benjamin The “Deficit Problem” Isn’t Financial. It’s Political. | Robert Freeman Home About Us Donate Sign Up Archives www.commondreams.org You are subscribed to Common Dreams as . Click here to unsubscribe