[news] Mordecai Briemberg: Standing up to the Corporate Media Bully

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Alex Samur | Rabble

Last year, peace activist Mordecai Briemberg was served with a lawsuit by CanWest. The charge? Producing a fake edition of CanWest's Vancouver Sun, and infringing upon the company's trademark related rights in the process.

"It's a SLAPP [Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation] suit, an attempt to chill people, these kind of mechanisms that corporations use to silence criticism of the policies and practices that they engage in [are] very dangerous and increasingly used across the country and it's really necessary to fight against this in a public campaign..."  


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