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The Media Democracy Legal Project has grown from the work of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC) and the Cultural Environment Movement (CEM), working with lawyers from the National Lawyer’s Guild and other legal professionals, in conjunction with the Media Alliance of San Francisco.
Serving on the Board of
the Media Democracy Legal Project:
The Rev. Paul Sawyer, Pasadena
Robert Alpern, UUJEC, Sonoma County
Dorothy Patterson, Oakland
Glenn Terrones, Los Angeles
Dan Fiske, Los Angeles
Dr. George Gerbner, Philadelphia
Paule Cruz Takash, Los Angeles
Our Legal Team includes:
Jonathan Lubell, Manhattan
Alan Korn, San Francisco
Glenn Terrones, Los Angeles
Our Project Administrator is:
Henry Kroll, San Francisco
Our Advisors Include:
Ben Bagdikian, * Dean Emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
Liane Casten, Chicago Media Watch
Dan Fiske, * National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals
Dr. George Gerbner, Cultural Environment Movement
Pam Kelly, Director, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC)
Paul Kurtz, * Council of Secular Humanists
Joan Levin, Chicago Attorney
Mark Lloyd, * Director, People for Better TV
Dr. Robert McChesney, * Univ. of Illinois
Ward Morehouse, Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
John Nichols, * Political Editor, The Nation
Jeff Perlstein, * Executive, Media Alliance
Professor Peter Phillips, * Project Censored
Jo & Nick Seidita, * Alliance for Democracy
Norman Solomon,, * FAIR
Dr. Jerold Starr, * Founder, Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
*listed for identification purposes only
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For "We the People" to govern ourselves a free, democratic, diverse broadcasting is imperative, as provided in the 1st and 14th Amendments.
Democracy is stretched thin when very few for-profit conglomerates control the flow of mass communications.
The Media Democracy Legal Project is preparing to file a ground breaking case that constitutionally challenges the present broadcasting monopoly.
Our case asks
for this constitutional remedy:
That our publically-owned airwaves must be democratically managed with a much larger decentralized public broadcasting sector, justly financed by commercial users limited to 50% of the public airwaves. Public interest and fairness rules for broadcasters must be reinstated.
Our mission:
To use constitutional legal process to attain democratic governance of our publicly owned airwaves in accordance with the democratic ideals of our U.S. Constitution.
The Media Democracy Legal Project is engaged in building the popular political movement necessary for the creation of diverse, democratic broadcast communications.
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