[Nettime-bold] Rome 16-03-02: RECLAIM YOUR MEDIA!

[paolo columbo <pacolum@tin.it>]

''Every individual has rights to the freedom of opinion and expression,
including the right not to be molested for his opinion and the right to seek,
receive and spread informations and ideas through every media and with no
concern for barriers''.
(Art. 19 of the Universal declaration of Human Rights)

Today this basic right is under attack

The threat of obscuring the frequencies of Radio Onda Rossa, a community
radio in Rome,
The searches in the supposed sites of Indy Media, the ones damaging the
Democratic Jurists in Bologna and many other media activists present in Genoa
are clear signs of an intimidatory and repressive strategy against the ones
that, because of their engagement, guarantee public spaces of communication,
critique and expression of dissent.

But these are not the last facts of a series of provocative and authoritarian
acts.
These acts have the objective of re-establish political control over the
information that's not homologated to the radio-television mono-logic, as
proved by the sharing logic of the RAI nominations, the tricky law on conflict
of interests, the pressure on the journalists themselves and the last inquires
on the online editorial headings used as a pretext.

We have enough of this!

Because we think that defending the right to free and polyphonic information
means defending the freedom to learn together, to cooperate and to create
social networks.

Defending the right to free information means defending the right of all
citizens to actively and critically take part in the social and political
life.

To make this happen, it is necessary that everyone can access the
information tools.
Communication, that is the base to exercise democracy, should be plural and
not conditioned.
Communication has the aim to inform and engage all citizens in the
decision-making processes and choices that concern us all.

That's why we invite all media workers, media and political activists,
grassroots groups, the all citizenship, to take part at the demonstration on
the 16th of March.

For the defense of the freedom of opinion, information and communication
For the freedom of all.

Italy-Indymedia www.italy.indymedia.it
Radio Onda Rossa www.ondarossa.info

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