Media Reclamation Project

In this email:
1) Wed Feb 27, 12-3pm: CHUO fundraising auction
2) Thurs Feb 28, 6:30pm: Media Matters meeting
3) Fri Feb 29, 7pm: Eyewitness reports on Haiti today
4) Thurs Mar 6, 7pm: Dominion Paper tour event

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This email is part of a regular series of media-related updates for the Ottawa area, from Media Matters, an action group of OPIRG-Ottawa. Please forward this on to anyone who might be interested. To be added to the list, email mediamatters@canada.com
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1) Wed Feb 27 from noon to 3pm: CHUO Fundraising Auction
At the Agora in the Unicentre, University of Ottawa

As part of the station’s fundraising efforts (their funding drive starts March 28), CHUO 89.1 FM is holding a bidding auction featuring items from local businesses. This includes gift certificates for music stores, for restaurants, things like ski passes, and a lot more. The auction is open to students as well as anyone else who can make it to there between noon and 3. For more info, phone 613 562-5965 or email info@chuo.fm

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2) Thurs Feb 28, at 6:30pm: Media Matters meeting
OPIRG-Ottawa office, 3rd floor, 631 King Edward Ave.

Just a reminder for all currently active or interested volunteers to come out to our meeting and discuss future plans and initiatives. Social theatre? Critical thinking and media literacy? A speaker event? Long-term planning? and any other ideas are welcome.

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3) Fri Feb 29, at 7:00pm: Four Years Later – Eyewitness Reports on Haiti Today
Haitian Community Centre of Ottawa, 876 Montreal Rd. (between Aviation Parkway and Blair Road)
Second floor of shopping plaza building, entrance in middle
Accessible from OC Transpo bus route #2

This event marks the 4th anniversary of the February 29 2004 coup d’etat that overthrew Haiti’s democratically elected government. It is organized in solidarity with the “Third International Day in Solidarity with the People of Haiti”, alongside events and actions in 36 cities around the world. All three speakers will be addressing the question of the current situation in Haiti, the role of ‘Canada’ in Haiti (government, corporate, and NGO), and opportunities for strengthening a movement of genuine solidarity with the Haitian people. Featuring three speakers:

Darren Ell – A photographer and independent journalist based in Montreal, Darren spent almost three weeks in Haiti in January 2008. He will offer a combination of photographs, video, and spoken commentary on his contact with trade union organizers, health care providers, and other grassroots movement activists.

Raymond Dubuisson – An independent radio journalist and organizer with the Haitian community organization CHORHA (Canado-haitiens de l’Outaouais pour la Reconstruction d’Haiti), Raymond spent several weeks in Haiti in September and December 2007.

Jean Saint-Vil (Jafrikayiti) – An independent radio and print journalist, and a co-founder of the Canada Haiti Action Network, Jean traveled to Haiti in July 2007. He has spent recent months working on models for extending economic solidarity to Haiti that do not reproduce the relations of dependency and paternalism that characterize existing government and NGO-controlled “aid”.

* Language of presentations will be a combination of English and French, with questions and discussion encouraged in Creole, French and English (informal translation to be provided as necessary)

Presented by Kozayiti/Ottawa Haiti Solidarity
Contact info: Kevin Skerrett (613) 864-1590

http://www.canadahaitiaction.ca

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4) Thurs Mar 6, 7pm: Own Your Media tour – Dominion Paper
Jack Purcell Community Centre, RM 201

The Dominion (http://dominionpaper.ca) provides accurate, critical news coverage on events, policies and movements in Canada. It is also a multi-stakeholder coop, owned and operated by its readers and journalists. The Dominion is now taking Canadian media to the next level. With a comprehensive five-year plan, The Dominion aims to build an independent news cooperative that will challenge the corporate press in Canada and publish the stories you need to know about.

You are invited to attend a presentation, where you will be given the opportunity to Own Your Media!

BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
Indymedia – Ottawa, EXILE INFOSHOP, OPIRG-Carleton, CKCU 93.1FM, CHUO 89.1FM