ABSTRACT
Universalizers need media to aggregate and universalize activists and agendas as big as saving the world. Along with the educational system, the media represent one of the most important spaces where communities and movements can come together and build common messages and agendas. The new social media—indeed all media—are natural aggregators of issues. Creating and growing independent media—or "indies"—are crucial to universalizing resistance. As universalizing brings more people into movements, even the corporate media have to take note. Universalizers should target young journalists in old media, who are interested in their issues and have not been fully converted to system ideology; finding and cultivating these reporters is important to universalizing movements. The old media—run by large corporations—embrace the capitalist system, shrink the political discourse to reformism, and redefine the political spectrum in a way that defines the Left as liberalism and eliminates any discussion of alternatives to capitalism.
