Jay has over ten years of experience as a propaganda critic, professional documentarian, vlogger, blogger, author, youth worker, social justice campaigner, and social entrepreneur in Britain and North America. Director/producer of the feature-length film Escape from Doncatraz and author of Pissing in the Mainstream, he has utilised his skills and experience in devoting himself to information, dialogue, debate, and democracy at grassroots level – organising and hosting social justice events such as film festivals and concerts, speaking on podcasts and radio shows, using social media to promote local businesses in his area, and delivering workshops, all with his trademark acerbic wit, warmth, and values.
In this exclusive, entirely original, one-of-a-kind book, media activism's current force, Jay Baker, goes against the overwhelming waves of mainstream radio, television, and print, and sticks it to... More > the damned dam of blocked information, explaining exactly why everything's gone wrong, and how we can make it right.
Baker challenges the academics, the government, the green movement, the middle classes, Kalle Lasn and Adbusters, and defines a brand-new vision for activists' alternative media movement, in the end deciding that - far from countercultural drivel and piss - the mainstream needs oxygenating by a waterfall of alternatives from a raging river of rabble rousers.< Less
In this exclusive, entirely original, one-of-a-kind book, media activism's current force, Jay Baker, goes against the overwhelming waves of mainstream radio, television, and print, and sticks it to... More > the damned dam of blocked information, explaining exactly why everything's gone wrong, and how we can make it right.
Baker challenges the academics, the government, the green movement, the middle classes, Kalle Lasn and Adbusters, and defines a brand-new vision for activists' alternative media movement, in the end deciding that - far from countercultural drivel and piss - the mainstream needs oxygenating by a waterfall of alternatives from a raging river of rabble rousers.< Less
Over the years, media activist Jay Baker has been a working class man using methods outside the system to challenge authority and the corporate press it has influence over.
This book contains a... More > compilation of his many weblogs and some never-before-seen contributions with revolutionary revelations that will shock and amuse you.
In a time of banned protests, DNA databases, ID cards, CCTV cameras and police states, until the next piece of anti-terror legislation, you can still read this book. Enjoy it while you can, then pass it to a friend before you can be arrested for owning it!< Less
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