Media Sovereignty Act Campaign

Urgent Call For Trade Union Members !!

Are YOU or someone you know a Trade Union Member?

The Media Sovereignty Campaign is looking for local trade union branch members who would be willing to submit the Media Sovereignty Act to their local branches for endorsement for submission to the Regional and National Trade Union and TUC Conferences.

We will be running out this campaign to all parties, trade unions, etc.

A Leadership Challenge Is Likely After The May Elections

But with a Labour leadership campaign suddenly even more likely post-May, it is a unique moment now to raise the pressure within the Labour movement to create momentum to encourage any potential leadership contenders to now promise that they would implement such an Act.

The summary text of the Act is on the home page.

The Mandelson scandal exposes the urgency of reclaiming our media ownership from the authoritarian billionaires who have hijacked our media and politics.

Yes We Can!

The Media Sovereignty Act:

  • Bans foreign ownership of UK media[1].
  • Bans the concentration of UK media ownership, e.g. by the super-rich and large corporations[2].
  • Distributes media ownership across all sections of UK society[3].
  • Protects people from media abuse by requiring all relevant media to be members of their statutory regulator.
  • Requires all think-tanks covered in the media to report their donations in real time.

Actions You Can Take

  1. Submit the Media Sovereignty Act to your local Union brancj and request their support.
  2. Share a link to the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign on your social media.
  3. Share a link to the Ban Foreign Media Ownership petition on your social media.

Please email ch@mediasovereignty.org if you have submitted the motion. Let us know what the result of the vote was, if one was taken.

Appendix Definitions

  1. British-owned means owned only by UK-domiciled persons or by a UK-headquartered company, all of whose owners or shareholders are only UK-domiciled persons. ↩︎
  2. The term ‘media’ covers national press, broadcasters and social media. ↩︎
  3. This would be done by imposing a Media Sovereignty Levy on large international social media corporations to help fund independent, local and co-operative-owned media organisations.  ↩︎