Media Reclamation Project

New term – next meeting September 12, 2008

Welcome to the newly-added people to our list, most of whom signed up during Univ of Ottawa’s Alt 101 week! Remeber to check our website at http://mediamattersottawa.org

To keep the momentum going we are looking to have our first meeting of the term, sometime next week – tentatively Wed Sept 17, at 6pm, at OPIRG-Ottawa’s offices: 631 King Edward, 3rd floor (above the Fulcrum). If enough people can’t make it on Wed but would come to a Thurs meeting, same time, we’ll change the date – so please RSVP!

We can talk about the upcoming events we have in the planning stages, including the possibility of a launch party for the Dominion (http://www.dominionpaper.ca/)’s upcoming special issue dedicated to Mining. Other possibilities are: setting up an ongoing (monthly? twice a month?) self-organized, self-educating series of discussions (with speakers?) on media literacy, media issues, and media creation; becoming a campus club (which would mean, amongst other things, free use of rooms on UofOttawa’s campus – we need at least 12 UofOttawa students to sign up as ‘potential members’ to become a club); and more.

And in the meantime, here are some media tidbits to keep you interested:

Report on police actions against media, protesters at Republic National Convention (includes links to videos):
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/09/05-2

Take back CKLN 88.1FM (community/campus radio station in Toronto):
http://takebackourradio.blogspot.com/

What’s happening to journalism?
http://zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/18692

Stop Porn Culture:
http://stoppornculture.org

New Michael Moore movie, being distributed free online:
http://slackeruprising.com/