Journal of the mental environment
Media Carta
Reclaim your mental environment
When will we reach the breaking point? Our minds have become a virtual dumping ground of pollutants — manipulative ads, distorted news, untold violence, spin and hype. We can cope with the media onslaught to a degree. But all signs suggest that the cumulative effects of this toxic culture — on our stress levels, our moods, our relationships, our worldviews, even our mental health — could become one the most pressing issues of our generation.
This online activist network — 30,000-strong — is working to rethink our broken media system. We invite you to join by signing the Media Carta manifesto.
Media activism is still in its infancy and is currently fragmented into dozens of different agendas. Over the coming months and years, we’ll be exploring ways to pull together these disparate threads.
We consider Media Democracy, Media Justice and especially Mental Environmentalism to be groundbreaking narratives that could gel our activism into a full-fledged movement — a movement on par with feminism, civil rights and environmentalism.
We hope you’ll join us in changing the way information flows and how meaning is produced in our Information Age.
Recent Posts
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A Flowering of Meaning
The international audience finds it's own media, free from western bias.
Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:58 am
by Sean Condon
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Murder on an epic scale
Over 200,000 people died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but no Western journalist witnessed the aftermath and told the story.
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:08 am
Posted by Abdul
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Historic Victory Over Comcast for Media Activists
The FCC has ordered Comcast to stop secretly blocking legal Internet traffic. Get all the gory details here.
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:03 pm
Posted by Paul
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Action Updates
A Legal Action for Media Democracy
Adbusters Media Foundation has filed an appeal against the recent decision by the B.C. Supreme Court allowing Global Television and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to continue censoring citizen-produced TV ads.
Adbusters Demands Access to Airwaves
On Monday, February 18, Adbusters lost its court battle against two of Canada’s television networks that refused to sell airtime for its commercials.
