[applause] >> thank you very much, janine jackson. i hope people watching on c-span or lifestream will take some of your thoughts and apply to the local media, which is more accessible to local tv, radio, newspapers. go down and see the editors and producers and talk to reporters rather than just withdraw and be disgruntled. my pleasure to introduce the next segment on small claims court. all of our hall came to our attention when he was a law student at austin college. he wrote a large article on the obstruction to third-party candidates to get on the ballot and other obstacles. somehow he thought that a two-party duopoly more vigorously than ever before in our history. they undermine the democracy and so they came to washington and became a lawyer frightening ballot access restriction and the parties to reduce competition to themselves by keeping certain party candidates off the ballot and draining the resources in keeping him off the debates and a whole variety of ways confronting them with political bigotry and discrimination for

janine jackson, welcome. >> should i use this? aha. i did not write those books. i contributed to those books and was happy to do so. i'm very honored to be here today in support of my, well, in combination in working with my childhood hero, ralph nader and i wanted to say first of all, to those of you who are here today certainly for those of you who are watching, if our question is what can we do about the media, and i think that's our question, you've already answered the first part. you've already provided the first part of the answer which is to inform yourselves independently of it. you know? i'm speaking now about corporate media because that's the power that needs breaking through. so going to events, talking to people, reading a wide range of things, joining clubs, reading things from different countries and different perspectives, all of this allows you to talk around the dominant media, right? and provides you facts and stories that you can use to check the information that you're getting from there. so i wish it were splimper. i wish i had a magic key,