Ways to get involved with Northeast Citizens for Responsible Media:

1. Join us: Sign on to Northeast Citizens for Responsible Media’s web site www.re-media.org. We’ll keep you informed of the latest events, actions and issues which affect your airwaves, your media, and your democracy.

2. Join the battle at the FCC which is presently considering the changes it will be making to the media ownership rules this summer! This is extremely important because as explained in more detail under Fight the FCC: Don't Let Government Steal More of The Public's Airwaves(see Home Page Top Menu), if the FCC and Congress don’t hear from the public in the millions, the existing media system, in which the government gets to distribute propaganda as if it were news, will start looking good in comparison. We will be planning workshops, a public forum, and are urging people to write letters to the editor (see Sample Letters to the Editor under Fight the FCC). Support Congressman Hinchey’s efforts to hold the FCC responsible and accountable to We the People.

3. Take our one minute survey on our web site, www.re-media.org,.and send to all your friends to take the survey. The survey will tell us what radio and television stations you can receive in your area which don’t carry Democracy Now!. so we’ll know where to direct our efforts towards getting Democracy Now! aired on those radio and public access and cable stations throughout our communities. Volunteer to help bring independent media, like Democracy Now! to more stations.

4. Speaking Engagements/ Forums/ Panel Discussions – Help spread the word and generate support while we enlighten our neighbors in your geographic area. We are looking to organize throughout the Northeast, from Orange County up to the Canadian Border. Bring forums like Sounding the Alarm For Freedom (see archives) to your area; work on other forums spreading independent media – issues which corporate media won’t tell you: stolen elections, destruction of the Constitution, global warming, to name a few. Our forums will focus on a particular issue while always rasing awareness of how the U.S. media system contributes to our inability to be a self-governing people and hence the decline of democracy and how we must fight back to change the corrupt government policy which is responsible for what is no longer a “free press”.

5. Work on our Media Film Series -We’re planning a series of Community Film Series with Discussions, to be held all over the large geographic area we represent. These will involve small groups of people screening informative films about the media's complicity in the war; or the media's failure to tell the truth about the massive and increasing theft of the last few elections; or our current series What Corporate Media Doesn’t Want You to Know about state of the art propaganda techniques employed to deceive us about critical issues. These smaller settings will enable community discussion and hopefully engage us on a deeper level. Some of the screenings will be larger and include an appearance by the director. Help bring a community discussion film series to your area.

6. Computer skills – We could use someone(s) with computer skills and data entry to volunteer to help us with the website.

7. Work with others focusing on local media – monitoring what’s reported and what’s not; monitoring the bias; developing relationships with local media to get them to be more responsible; educating them about the kind of information and analysis we’d like to see more of; targeting specific issues which need coverage, etc.

8. Promoting Media Education – To encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation. We need to bring this information to our citizens and would like to start working with public schools and colleges on media literacy.

9. Press – Communicating with the press, getting us coverage, press releases or conferences.

10. Increasing Diversity in membership – We’re a pretty white bunch of older middle class people- but with a little work we don’t have to be. We need to reach out to the various groups of people who live in our communities, all of whom are invisible as far as corporate media is concerned.

11. Building community radio and low power FM stations – Low Power FM radio, or LPFM for short, refers to 10 to 100 watt, nonprofit radio stations with a reach of only a few miles. Because LPFM stations are noncommercial and reach a small broadcast area, they hold great promise to offer truly community-driven and locally-oriented programming. LPFM stations add diversity to the airwaves and allow for a greater range of debate and local programming than corporate radio can offer.