http://venezuelanalysis.com/images/5444We once had anti-poverty programs here in the U.S. that were the pride of the nation: FREE college educations for all qualified students; government-funded pre-school for the poor; the goal (if not the reality) of quality public education for everyone; free legal services; free medical clinics. The TV/radio airwaves,
owned by the public (and still are) were considered public resources to be used for the public good--at least that was the ideal. Public access to the TV/radio airwaves was considered a MUST--it was required of every private vendor.
These policies promoting the COMMON GOOD have been dumped here--ravaged, looted, ended--but they are alive and well in the leftist democracies of Latin America. And here is one example of it, in Venezuela: the Alternative School of Community Communication, "Voces Urgentes" (Urgent Voices)--a government-funded collective that trains the poorest of the poor in documenting "their own productive, community, and cultural experiences."
http://vocesurgentesescuela.blogspot.com/ Projects like this are among the many things that our corpo-fascist media NEVER MENTIONS about the Chavez government--empowering the poor to understand and utilize modern communications technology; and, indeed, empowering poor communities to design WHATEVER projects they think are needed in their communities, which are then funded by the government but controlled by the local communities. Our corpo-fascist media NEVER MENTIONS the many ways that the Chavez government encourages grass roots community activism and
power to the people. This doesn't fit their absolutely false caricature of Chavez as a "dictator" and it is furthermore one of many things that they don't want us to even consider as better use of public funds than war and bankster bailouts.
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