Check out the Web site www.revitalizedemocracy.org/index.html to learn more about how grassroots groups are mobilizing to do something about what they condemn as "corporate power and propaganda run amok."

"All over the U.S. groups of citizens are organizing meetings, discussions, conferences, protests, Web sites, initiative campaigns and other efforts focused on a common problem: corporate power's subversion of American democracy," according to the group PR Watch.

The Democracy Revitalization Project is hosting its inaugural conference in Duluth, Minnesota, July 28-30.