Tonight, you are cordially invited to go to the library and make some noise.

Between 6 and 9 this evening in the Seattle Public Library’s main auditorium, Seattle will have its only public-comment hearing about the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to remove restrictions on media ownership. The FCC’s proposed change would allow one company (and, consequently, one point of view) to control an unprecedented number of local news sources, including TV, radio and newspapers.

Tonight’s hearing affects you. Here’s how.

Six multinational corporations own most of what you see, hear and know. It’s called media consolidation, and it’s the reason why mainstream radio, TV and print media look the same, sound the same and bore the hell out of you.

Now the FCC might loosen the already lax legal reins on companies, allowing a single entity to own and control more local media than ever before. If media-ownership rules are scaled back, expect to see…more of the same: Small media outlets wither in the shadows of big-money media monoliths. Minority ownership dwindles. Genuinely local news coverage, and local public access to media, disappears. Media becomes a bullhorn for a few companies’ preferences and perspectives. Your voice and your views are not heard.

Learn more at tonight’s FCC hearing on media ownership—and make some noise. For more information, visit Reclaim the Media, one of the hearing’s co-sponsors.