Towards An Ecology of Information The Immediast Approach 0. Participating in the proliferation, crosspollination, and consolidation of counter-commercial print, audio, visual, modem, activist, and correspondence media. 1. Documenting the basic sources, dynamics, and effects of corporate and State media control. Exposing methods of mind control, behavior modification, and image embedding. 2. Openly discussing tools and methods that strengthen immunization and freedom from deceptive, disinforming, and subliminal media exposures. Upgrading public media literacy to decode, produce, and broadcast in all communications media. 3. Open cultural expressions, education, networking, and resistance. 4. Reclaiming public sovereignty of the airwaves. 5. The liberation of all public space from government, corporate, and business messages. 6. Public takeover of all airborne commercial broadcast media and the creation [of] public production libraries. 7. Liberation as glasnost: the emergence of democratic public communications and media networks. "The Immediasts envision liberating changes in public access and cultural freedom. We draw from the powers of public domain and personal freedom to counter the systematic penetrations of commercial media into individual privacy through public space." Creating Public Production Libraries An Immediast Project If literacy measures people's ability to read and write, people living in information societies are media illiterate-- unequipped to decode the effects of media on intelligence and intimacy and unable to write in the language of broadcasting. While the media's ecology of coercion assuages public desire to participate in the media by emphasizing the bottom-line significance of public polls, Gallop & its pathetic epigones merely totalize a few public neurons into the status of a collective brain. How many of your comrades and kin have ever participated in a Gallup poll, anyway? Public seizure of all commercial broadcast media establishes what public production libraries nurture: liberation from advertising, the decommodification of public attention, the upgrade of public intelligence, the development of media literacy, the documentation of public productions, facilitated cultural expression, the termination of covert State action, violence, propaganda, and media control, and the inviolable ground for a public media and open state. Such are the aims of all Immediast plans and projects. Public production libraries will be built in sisterhood with the public libraries that now exist. Within each production library will be the facilities to produce print, audio, visual, and database material. "Librarians" will serve as technicians, maintenance, and repair people. Production libraries will give people a larynx through which to speak. The media seized, corporations silenced, and the State under relentless scrutiny, we will reconnect and celebrate who we are.