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Scott Sanders has co-founded a number of media activist organizations including Chicago Media Action, and led efforts to constitute public community media centers with member elected boards and to increase diversity on non-elected public media boards. He also led campaigns resulting in the only FCC fine of a major public tv station concerning commercialism. He is a video documentarian and periodicals and technology librarian producing research for MMTC, MAP, and the University of Chicago, and author of articles for Truthout, Counterpunch, Z magazine, FAIR Extra!, and a number of daily newspapers.
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This is the second of two articles based on talks given at the USSF2010 workshop "Control of Public Media as a Social Justice Issue: Lessons from Latin America and the U.S." The workshop was organized by members of Chicago Media Action, La Voz de los de Abajo, Radios Populares, the Raices Collective of KUNM-FM, and the USSF International Soldarity Team to expand discussions about community governance of media.