What about corporate control of media?

The corporate media are a powerful distorting force at the core of much of modern social dysfunction. They are, however, at a disadvantage. The lies that deny our humanity and misdirect our life energies must be constantly repeated. The truth has a far greater staying power because it aligns with our deeper experience and values, liberates us from the cultural trance, and builds our immunity to cultural manipulation.

We have many powerful channels for communication outside corporate media. Prior to Independence the British Crown controlled India's formal media. Yet Gandhi inspired and mobilized the Indian people from his rural Ashram relying primarily on the communications power of informal social networks. Gandhi and the people of India prevailed to gain their independence and set in motion the fall of the mighty British Empire. In the Philippines Marcos controlled the army and most of the media. The social networks were powerful. The people walked away and Marcos fell in a people power revolution in which scarcely a shot was fired. More recently the peoples and subject nations of the Soviet Union won their independence from a tryannical state that exercised far stricter media control than the control corporate interests exercise over the corporate media in the United States. . The blacks of South Africa had no media power and lived under the iron rule of a strong and brutal regime. Apartheid fell. In each instance the people walked away and the prevailing Empire collapsed

Compared to the subject peoples of India, the Philippines, the Soviet Union, and South Africa, we the people of the United States have a wealth of communication resources in the form of independent media, independent artists, our churches, schools, civic organizations, and most powerful of all the Internet. We need to develop our skills in using all these varied media channels.