Sign the Petition to Keep Media and
Culture Out of the WTO!

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This September at the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Cancun, Mexico, the US Trade Representative will attempt to expand the WTO's power over Communications and Audiovisual Services. This includes film, radio, television, video, and music production, as well as media distribution services such as satellite, cable and broadcast.

The result could spell disaster for vibrant media systems worldwide: US regulations that favor media diversity, localism and the public interest could be attacked as "barriers to trade." Media ownership limits, as well as Federal and state programs that encourage diverse media, could be considered outright trade violations.

Please go to www.mediareform.net/global. Sign the petition. Pass it along to others concerned with media or global issues. The petition will be delivered to Congress shortly before the WTO meeting in mid-September.

A massive wave of public pressure is essential to move Congress to block Big Media's power grab at the WTO.

For more information, please go to http://www.mediareform.net/global

Thank you,
Robert McChesney
Free Press
Website: www.mediareform.net
E-mail: [email protected]

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