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Declaration of Madrid: Education and The Media
Posted on February 11, 2005
Have you read about our Just Media Project? Media reformers around the world are recognizing that having in order to have a just media, we must have a media literate populace. On February 9, 2005 engaged and enthusiastic citizens in Mardid, Spain joined in a call to action for media literacy and put forth The Declaration of Mardid: The Bay of Five Winds
They declared:
The undersigned, individuals, representatives of bodies, institutions and social organisations, parents' associations, consumer and user associations, teachers, experts in the field of communication and education, and the citizenry in general
We hereby make public the following Declaration of Madrid, about Education and the Media, known as The Bay of the Five Winds, in the hope that new educational winds will blow through our society of information and communication to the benefit of us all.
Madrid, 9th February 2005
PS1. Only if each member of the society becomes aware of the importance of this matter will a ray of hope be glimpsed on the horizon. This is why we ask you to join this Declaration of Madrid about Education and the Media, known as “The Bay of the Five Winds”.
PS2. After the reading of this Declaration of Madrid, on 9th February 2005 in Madrid, we are planning to read it and make it known in Cairo (Egypt, March 2005), Brussels (Belgium, European Parliament and EC, April 2005), New York (USA, June 2005) and in other cities around the world, coinciding with the celebration of events related to “media literacy”.
Read the entire declaration