Posts filed under social justice

August 13, 2010

Support your local independent radio: subscribe to 4zzz

This weekend 4zzz’s annual subscription drive starts. Pledge your subscription and support the continuing voice of independent radio and local music on our airwaves. 2010: A Zed Odyssey Exhibition As part of this year’s Radiothon and 35th Birthday celebrations, 4ZZZ will once again partner with the Bleeding Heart Gallery to present an exhibition of epic [...]

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Pacific Media Association launched

Excerpt: The Pacific Media Association (PacMA) was formed in Apia, Samoa, yesterday at a meeting of media representatives from around the Pacific region. The new organisation’s stated goals are to promote and defend the values of media freedom, ethics, good governance, and to provide training for all media in the Pacific region. One of the [...]

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Protect the Coral Sea

The Talisman Saber joint US-Australian war games are the largest military operation outside of a war zone. They take place in the NT and Shoalwater Bay in central Qld, but much of the activity occurs in the oceans off the coast of Queensland: The Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea. Friends of the Earth [...]

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April 20, 2010

Declaration affirms right to “freedom, peace and security”

This week the New Zealand government issued an historic recognition of the native Maori’s rights under the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. New Zealand had been one of only four countries to vote against the declaration — along with Australia, Canada and the United States — when it was adopted in September [...]

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June 10, 2009

Censorship, self-censorship and dissent

When you set out to tell the truth about things in the media, you are bound to ruffle a few feathers. One of the biggest complaints independent journos and the reading public have against the mass media is the tendency to censor and self-censor so as not to offend the advertising-base (the other of course [...]

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