ABSTRACT
Media skills are significant weapons in this age of mass rapid communication and represent significant aspects of contemporary movements against global governance practices. Repeated media coverage of angry, black-clad, balaclava wearing youth demonstrating in the streets during global economic summits and political party conventions have suggested that anarchism is something akin to delinquency or even, in the more overheated reporting, terrorism. The portrayal of anarchists and anarchism by mainstream media raises questions regarding access to 'worldwide multimedia communications networks' in this post-Gulf Wars world of media manipulation. Mainstream media reports have depicted anarchists as anti-modern Luddites out to stop the flow of progress and human development. For TAO organizers the so-called 'new economy' has been marked chiefly by processes of glocalization. TAO wanted to push against that closing window by opening up source code and access, securing any and all worker owned and operated access, and cultivating an internationalist network based on mutual aid rather than profit.
