The Learning Alliance Feedback has been excellent, critiques instructive, and we feel that the event accomplished much of what the planning committee and other colleagues set out to do. We would like to thank everyone who attended for not only coming, but participating so enthusiastically and actively, and for making this an inspiring show of interest, support and involvement in the movement to democratize media.
People are indeed sick and tired of corporate mono-culture.
We need to work harder to diversify this movement, to better reflect our collective vision and history, to reflect what it is that we are trying to do in community media and to get the mainstream media to do. We should be clearer and more consistent in what we in this movement mean when we use certain terms. Localism, community building, is the antidote to globalization and conglomeration. There are many people willing to do more work, engage in collective action. But there seems to a stasis in terms of movement building, when no concrete events or structures are offered.