Media Reclamation Project

in this email:

1) Nov 20 review
- recap
- call for feedback
- prize winner: report online
- audio online
- more info on speakers’ media
2) Next meeting
- want to get involved?
3) Future plans
- movie night at OCP
- workshop at Peterborough conference
- printing of anarchist newspaper

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1) NOV 20: BECOMING A CITIZEN-JOURNALIST

We would like to thank all for helping make this event a success. Based on the number of programs we handed out, we had approx 65 people at the event.

At this point, we would like to ask you for feedback: please tell us what you liked, what you thought could have been approved, and also any suggestions you have for future events or projects (read the rest of this message to see what we’ve already got planned). You can email us (just click ‘reply’) or phone at 613 230-3076 (you’ll most likely be speaking to an OPIRG staff person).

We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Elizabeth Lapointe for being the first person to publish a report of the event on to ottawa.indymedia.org – she wins a one-year subscription to the Peace and Environment News paper. The report can be read at http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2007/11/6217.shtml – please feel free to add your own comments.

Also, the three speeches are now available online, at http://spacesplacesandfaces.ca/?page_id=65 … this is courtesy of the good folks at Spaces, Places and Faces (radio show on Thurs 7am-8am, CKCU 93.1 FM)

And if you’re interested in seeing or hearing more from our speakers, you can find Giacomo Panico’s website (which includes podcasts of his radio show) at http://www.giacomopanico.com/ … and if you’d like to find out where to pick up copies of The Spectrum, email spectrum@storm.ca

2) MEDIA MATTERS NEXT MEETING AND GETTING INVOLVED

We are having our next meeting on Tuesday Nov 27 at 10:30 am, at OPIRG’s offices, located on the 3rd floor of 631 King Edward (north of Somerset).

We will be debriefing the Nov 20 event, as well discussing future projects (keep reading…)

If you are interested in getting involved, feel free to come out to our meeting, or if you can’t make it, please contact us. We can work to set up a meeting time that will work with your personal schedule. We would love to have more people participating in the work we’re doing!

3) FUTURE PROJECTS

One thing we are organizing is a showing of the movie “Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (A Little Bit of So Much Truth)”, a movie about the community in Oaxaco, Mexico taking over the media in 2006. More information about the movie is available at http://www.corrugate.org/un_poquito_de_tanta_verdad/un_poquito_de_tanta_verdad

This movie would be part of the winter line-up of Ottawa Cinema Politica, a weekly series of film screenings that happens every Friday evening (while classes are on) at the University of Ottawa (?in MacDonald Hall?). To get on OCP’s weekly email list, contact dgr@uottawa.ca (say you were referred by Media Matters!). To see a listing of the films, visit http://www.cinemapolitica.org/ottawa

Another thing we are looking to set up is a session at the Building Solidarity conference happening in at Trent University in Peterborough, on Feb 9-10 2008. We will be submitting a proposal for a workshop about organizing independent community media and communication (deadline is Nov 30).

A third project we are looking at is the support of printing and distribution of a new Ontario-wide anarchist newspaper, Linchpin. This is a project of Common Cause, a newly-formed anarchist organization looking to join people across Ontario. The first edition of the paper has just been released, and there is a meeting on Wed Nov 28 to discuss organizing an Ottawa group of Common Cause, and what to do locally with the Linchpin paper. To start with, Linchpin will be distributed as a .pdf file, but also has a website, http://linchpin.ca

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Thanks for your interest, support and time!
Please contact us (hit ‘reply’) if you have any input at all – we’d love to hear from you.

Carmen, Greg and Sarah
the Media Matters team