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2008 NYC GRASSROOTS MEDIA CONFERENCE
Join us at the 2008 NYC Grassroots Media Conference as we seek to define our understanding of and relationship to Media Justice as a community, and explore how we can not only envision an ideal world, but make this vision a reality.
Sunday | March 2nd 2008
9am–6pm
Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Ave | West Building
(Southwest Corner, enter from street or directly from 6 train)
For more information please call 917.523.1045 or
email info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org
STOP THE UNFAIR POSTAL RATE HIKES FOR SMALL PUBLICATIONS!
“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
— Thomas Jefferson, Jan. 16, 1787
Join the campaign to stop the rate hikes!
In March 2007, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the body that regulates postal policy in the United States, voted to drastically hike postal rates on small and independent periodicals.
The new rates — based on a plan submitted by Time Warner — shift the burden of postal costs from magazines like Time and People with large circulations and heavy advertising onto smaller magazines like The Nation, Foreign Affairs, Commentary, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among many others.
Read about how Time Warner Rewrote Postal Policy here.
As a result, these smaller publications — a vital source of political opinion and ideas, particularly in the realm of foreign affairs and U.S. foreign policy, as more and more news outlets close their foreign bureaus — are facing crippling rate increases that may force many of them to make significant cutbacks or even go out of business.
Now it’s up to you to tell your Congressperson to reverse the unfair rate hikes and save these important publications.
Visit http://www.freepress.net/postal to learn more and join the fight!