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This manual is a practical guide for making change. Here is a sample of the chapters found in the handbook:

1. Activism Works
The record is clear, and we detail some of the successes that prove the power of people working together can accomplish great things.

2. How the Public Broadcasting Service Works
What do CPB, PRI, NPS, PBS, and NPR have in common? Find out in the chapter that tells you how the public broadcast bureaucracy works. You and your community can use this information to get the programming you deserve.

3. Starting a CIPB Local Chapter
Everyone is an organizer with the presence of the desire to make things better and the tools to make change. Here are the basic methods of working together and activating people.

4. Negotiating with the Station
Getting what you want is outlined in a step-by-step process.

5. Using the Media to Make Change
Here's the recipe for making your own waves. With the guidance of this chapter you can step right up to the podium of your press conference with confidence.

6. Know Your Rights
Take advantage of the rights you have and let the regulations work for you.

7. Proposal for the Future: A Public Broadcasting Trust
Get public broadcasting off the public dole and out of the corporation's pockets for good by restructuring public broadcasting funding. Here's how.

The manual ends with a Resource Guide which includes over 70 entries of programs, services, organizations and publications designed to promote media democracy in your community.