Death of Civil Liberties? No! Venezuala shows us how...
Al Giordano | 11.06.2002 19:29
Venezuelans show us what it really means to be under attack by vast capitalist pressure driven by greed...
June 11, 2002
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Dear Colleagues,
The Trade Union at Venezuela's largest newspaper, El Nacional, released this
historic statement yesterday through its Executive Council, serving warning
to the Media owners that "we will no longer allow ourselves to be used" in
the ways that occured during the attempted coup d'etat last April in
Venezuela:
http://www.narconews.com/venezuelamedia1.html
It says, in part:
"It was made abundantly clear from the disastrous image of those days of
disinformation, in which the majority of employees, reporters and
journalists put our lives on the line only for media owners and board
members to decide not to publish anything and hide from the public the
serious events that were taking place in the streets, while mainstream TV
channels aired old movies as if nothing was happening. We all must assume
those days of confusion, tensions, interests, and mistakes with courage and
rectify with deep sincerity. No more manipulation. We workers say firmly and
responsibly that we will not accept such behavior again."
- Venezuelan Media Workers Statement
Caracas, June 10, 2002
To my knowledge, this is the first time anywhere in the capitalist world
that media workers have risen up so coherently against the simulators of the
mass media. It serves as a model for the task that all of us who are media
workers must begin to undertake.
It also serves as concrete evidence, as we begin Immedia Summer 2002, that
the revolution against Media is alive and well (a fact that, understandably,
may not be evident yet to many within the United States and the developed
world, because it comes from below, and from the outside in).
We await further instructions from headquarters, the only one that we obey:
Civil Society.
from somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/
narconews@hotmail.com
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Please Distribute Widely
Dear Colleagues,
The Trade Union at Venezuela's largest newspaper, El Nacional, released this
historic statement yesterday through its Executive Council, serving warning
to the Media owners that "we will no longer allow ourselves to be used" in
the ways that occured during the attempted coup d'etat last April in
Venezuela:
http://www.narconews.com/venezuelamedia1.html It says, in part:
"It was made abundantly clear from the disastrous image of those days of
disinformation, in which the majority of employees, reporters and
journalists put our lives on the line only for media owners and board
members to decide not to publish anything and hide from the public the
serious events that were taking place in the streets, while mainstream TV
channels aired old movies as if nothing was happening. We all must assume
those days of confusion, tensions, interests, and mistakes with courage and
rectify with deep sincerity. No more manipulation. We workers say firmly and
responsibly that we will not accept such behavior again."
- Venezuelan Media Workers Statement
Caracas, June 10, 2002
To my knowledge, this is the first time anywhere in the capitalist world
that media workers have risen up so coherently against the simulators of the
mass media. It serves as a model for the task that all of us who are media
workers must begin to undertake.
It also serves as concrete evidence, as we begin Immedia Summer 2002, that
the revolution against Media is alive and well (a fact that, understandably,
may not be evident yet to many within the United States and the developed
world, because it comes from below, and from the outside in).
We await further instructions from headquarters, the only one that we obey:
Civil Society.
from somewhere in a country called América,
Al Giordano
Publisher
The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/ narconews@hotmail.com Subscribe for free alerts of new reports:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscribete gratis para alertas de reportajes nuevos en Español:
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Al Giordano