Media Reclamation Project

In this email:
1) Next Media Matters meeting – Thurs Feb 14 @ 6pm
2) Upcoming MM film – Fri Feb 15 @ 7:30pm
3) Homelessness marathon on CHUO 89.1FM Wed Feb 20
4) Report back on Feb9 MM workshop
5) Call-out for support, ZMag
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Please pass this email on to anyone you feel might be interested!
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1) Next meeting – Thurs Feb 14 @ 6pm

After a rather successful turnout at our previous meeting (2 already involved volunteers and 3 new people), we are having another meeting this week.

Our previous meeting had a lot of discussion and questions regarding the issues we find important, and we decided that we’d each do some reflection and/or research and come back with some firmer ideas for possible actions we might want to take.

Feel free to join us on Thursday at 6pm at the OPIRG office, 631 King Edward St 3rd floor.

If you can’t make this meeting, either due to the date/time or due to the inaccessibility of the 3rd floor, but would like to make future meetings, please contact us and we’ll work to have a better fit for future meetings … mediamatters@canada.com

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2) Film screening – Fri Feb 15 @ 7pm doors, 7:30pm start

The Film ‘Un Poquito de Tanta Veridad’ (=A Little Bit of So Much Truth) – info at http://www.cinemapolitica.org/films/205

MacDonald Hall Auditorium (MCD 146), 150 Louis Pasteur St
University of Ottawa Main Campus

Discussion hosted by Media Matters following the film

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3) Homelessness Marathon on radio – Feb 20 @ 7pm – 1am

CKUT’s 6th annual radio marathon on the issues of homelessness and poverty – details at http://ckut.ca/homeless.html

This event is being broadcast across Canada on various community radio stations, including in Ottawa on CHUO 89.1FM from 7pm through 1am (the full programming from 5pm through till dawn the next morning will be available online from http://ckut.ca – there is also a toll free phone number to call in to participate)

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4) Report back on Feb 9 Media Matters workshop in Peterborough

The workshop – and the entire conference – was a success!

11 or 12 people participated in the workshop, and most if not all did contribute through comments and questions. An outline of the workshop is available online, with comments posted regarding some of what was covered, at http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2008/02/6810.shtml and includes a link to the handout for the workshop, http://ottawa.indymedia.org/media/2008/02//6811.pdf

Feel free to add your own comments – and look forward to the possbility of a workshop in Ottawa in March as part of U of O’s Social Forum !?!

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5) ZMag could use your financial support

ZMag/ZNet/ZCom is a well established, very useful and very successful independent media website, magazine and activist resource. If you haven’t heard of it yet, now would be a good chance to check it out – http://zmag.org/

Now in it’s 20th year, ZNet is issuing an urgent call-out to build a solid base of financial support for it to be able to successfully grow and fill the need for it’s type of work in the activist / media community. Check out the website to find out more and see if you might want to support them – http://zmag.org/