* From Honduras, where a military coup took place early Sunday morning:
>> Honduran army smothers media after coup:
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/06/from-reuters-honduran-army-smothers.html
>> Journalists arrested and beaten by Honduran coup forces…
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/06/urgent-update-553pm-telesur-journalists.html
>> … then released after international pressure
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/06/update-635pm-telesur-and-associated.html

* The Globe and Mail workers have voted for a possible strike soon …
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN2940003820090629
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g65ZPtG1Pl_Smi9Dg6FtFZtiZG0Q
… and so here’s some inspiration for them, regarding Le Journal de Quebec:
http://rrj.ca/issue/2009/spring/785/

* In the media and communication, there’s a need for more than just the truth:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/29-2

* Argentine community media fights for access and legal reform:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21715

* How the media misrepresents the fight of Indigenous in Peru to save Amazon:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-gibler/indigenous-protest-and-st_b_214901.html

* The media persecution of Michael Jackson
http://counterpunch.org/reed06292009.html

* The mainstream media and twittering on Iran
http://counterpunch.org/bratich06252009.html

* Big business aiding the Internet crackdowns in Iran and China (are we next?)
http://www.alternet.org/media/140894/big_business_is_aiding_the_internet_crackdown_in_iran_and_china_–_will_the_technology_be_used_on_americans_next/

VIDEO

* Antonio Lopez on ‘Mediacology’
http://www.ecoversity.org/tv/tv-antonio_lopez.html

TAKE ACTION!

The Ottawa Public Library’s suggestion form for library acquisitions is at:
https://www.biblioottawalibrary.ca/forms/formindex_e.cfm

Some possible requests you could make to support Independent Media that aren’t currently carried by the library include, under the ‘Magazines’ category,
>> The Dominion www.dominionpaper.ca
>> Upping The Anti journal www.uppingtheanti.org
and whatever else you feel might be good! (you’re allowed 5 requests per month, and they only want book requests published in the past 2 years)

rabble.ca has Nima Maleki following what is going on and providing updates. these include links to other sources as well as direct summaries of what is going on. it’s a good place to follow events and keep on top of things:

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/nima-maleki/2009/06/iran-post-election-news-regularly-updated

We have a bunch of stuff for you this time round:

- input on direction for Media Reclamation Project
- events
- resources
- online course
- news and analysis

Happy reading!

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INPUT

last update we asked for your input. we had a number of responses; the two Media Democracy Day T-shirt winners are Mahdi and Carol. here are the ideas for what we might want to focus on – it may be a good idea to have a meeting sometime soon too. if you’ve got any more thoughts please do not hesitate to contact us!

.1. Push against the myth of humanitarian intervention that the media is being used to disseminate. For example, Sudan is in the cross-hairs. There is a humanitarian problem there, but the claims of genocide are totally false. The “usually characters” that are crying foul about Darfur are actually the ones funding and arming the fighting.

.2. Work to educate the public about “the Ottawa Declaration on Haiti” which is a matter of public record that our government helped coordinate the ousting of Haiti’s democratically-elected government. ALmost the entire Haitian community knows this. If we work to debunk media misinformation in regards to Haiti we will get a lot of support from a wide coalition of people. The Haitian community is very active and it would probably build us a lot of bridges. It is well documented too.

.3. Setup some sort of study or forum on the cuts for public broadcasting and the push towards privatization. Why is it being done? Privately owned media has always been very good at filtering the news and much better at doing it than state owned media. In fact in most countries the TV channels are affiliated exclusively by a political party or elite group. This is a very important topic. We could set up a study, fact finding mission, work with the CBC (not for them), then compile are practical findings into an analyses — some of it will be boring and some of it wont — and then based on this set up a strategy to warn the general public, setup protests, and build an information campaign. It might sound removed from reclaiming media space, independent media and activism, but its the building blocks for complete activism! Making CBC and Radio-Canada truly independent too are also important.

.4. Looking at ways at not only developing alternative media, but pushing the alternative media and views in the mainstream media. Bringing anarchy to them!

.5. Working on studying underground media, like the type the French Resistance use to secretly print or the African Congress Party use to print during the Apartheid-era in South Africa. This is very important, cause you never know what tomorrow will bring. The civil liberties we take for granted can disappear any minute. No one thought that Trudeau would send the military into Quebec during the FLQ Crisis, but it happened.

.6. Public talks, panel debates and films (e.g. I loved “a little bit of so much truth” through Cinema Politica).

.7. I’m less interested these days in the idea of independent media as giving everyone their own microphone (the internet does a good job of that through blogs etc) than I am in finding and making high quality independent media that’s well researched and communicated. It can still include personal stories, absolutely. But they should be framed in a way that shows real engagement with and understanding of the issues involved. There’s a lot of unsubstantiated ranting on both left and right; both undermine the messages they’re trying to promote.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
- May 29 (online) and June 10 (Ottawa)

MAY 29, 7:45-9:45pm
Countdown to Copenhagen: Live from the Floe Edge
on Isuma TV
http://www.isuma.tv
>> Countdown to Copenhagen is Isuma’s six-month internet campaign to promote the importance of Inuit knowledge and human rights in the global discussion of Climate Change. Monthly webcasts on IsumaTV from May to November will culminate in Live From the Floe Edge, ten days of daily internet streaming hosted by Zacharias Kunuk live from his arctic wilderness hunting camp during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, December 7-17.
>> The series will launch with a live webcast on Friday May 29, featuring Siila Watt-Cloutier, Inuit climate activist and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, speaking on Inuit, Human Rights and Climate Change live from Iqaluit, Nunavut to a worldwide audience.. The program leads off at 7:45 pm EST with the World Premiere of Tungijuq, Isuma’s new 6-minute video starring Inuit jazz and throat-singing sensation, Tanya Tagaq. At 8 pm Siila Watt-Cloutier delivers the 9th annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Lecture, introduced by John Ralston Saul, The Right Honorable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, Isuma’s Zacharias Kunuk and The Honourable Ann Meekitjuk Hanson, Commissioner of Nunavut.

JUNE 10, 7-9pm
***Open Internet Town Hall Meeting (OTTAWA)
Michael Geist (law professor at the University of Ottawa where, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, blogger)
Charlie Angus (NDP MP, Heritage and Culture)
Rocky Gaudrault (CEO of Teksavvy Solutions Inc.)
Bill St. Arnaud (Chief Research Officer for CANARIE Inc.)
Steve Anderson (Co-founder of SaveourNet.ca)
REGISTER TO RESERVE A SEAT:
http://ottawanet.eventbrite.com/

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RESOURCES

The New Strategy + Training Manual from smartMeme
Re:Imagining Change – An Introduction to Story-based Strategy
By: Doyle Canning & Patrick Reinsborough
http://smartmeme.org/change
Re:Imagining Change is an interactive and accessible resource guide to smartMeme’s story-based strategy tools and methods. Download 60 pages of ideas, analysis, case studies, and strategies to change your campaign, your community and your world.

The Dominion / Media Co-op is looking to coordinate coverage on the 2010 Olympics. To add your ideas for critical Olympics coverage and read what others have written, visit: http://mediacoop.ca/olympics/coverage

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ONLINE COURSE

“Mediacology: Media networks, deep ecology and the dream of the planet”
$120, July 20 – August 30
http://evolveracademy.com/
Instructor: Antonio Lopex, author of Mediacology – http://mediacology.com/the-book/
>> New theories of ecological cognition and the rapid evolution of the social Web are combining to fulfill the dream of a “noosphere”: globally interconnected human consciousness. Fulfilling this reality requires tools and practical understanding so that we can consciously evolve and fulfill humanity’s ecological potential to synchronize the human dream with that of Gaia. This course combines theory and practice through a unique combination of ecoliteracy and media literacy techniques that enable us to harness tools of media technology to fulfill our evolutionary potential and build a sustainable society.
>> See videos of Antonio Lopez speaking, at http://www.ecoversity.org/tv/tv-antonio_lopez.html

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NEWS AND ANALYSIS

Tamil protests: Media rears its racist head
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2009/05/sunday-morning-10-am

Neocon group calls for military strikes on media
http://www.truthout.org/052309Y?n

How we talk about the environment …
http://www.alternet.org/environment/140138/how_we_talk_about_the_environment_has_everything_to_do_with_whether_we%27ll_save_it_

Wall St and the media are trying to make us forget who started the financial crash
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/140123/wall_st._and_the_media_are_trying_to_make_us_forget_who_started_the_financial_crash/

The myth of parasitical bloggers
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/18-7

The left-wing media fallacy
http://www.zmag.org/zspace/commentaries/3872

The new cost of news: different models of journalism
http://rabble.ca/columnists/2009/04/new-cost-news

Beyond MoveOn: Using the Internet for real change
http://counterpunch.org/stauber04282009.html

Cyber command and cyber dissent
http://counterpunch.org/elizalde05082009.html

The Salvia Divinorum phenomenon on YouTube
http://www.realitysandwich.com/divine_voyeurs_salvia_youtube

Profile of 2-Cent, media group from New Orleans
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21545
or see the actual 2-Cent website at http://2-cent.com

so the Media Reclamation Project aka Media Matters stands at a bit of a crossroads: we need to let OPIRG/GRIPO-Ottawa know by the end of the month if we plan to continue doing stuff. we haven’t really done much, not even have a meeting, since our Media Democracy Day event in October

so, we’re asking you now, to give us some input: what can you see us doing in the next year? do you want to get involved? where would we be most effective in directing our efforts?

please email us with a response if you’ve got something to share.

and to reward you for participating, we have two t-shirts (size ‘m’ in red) from Toronto’s Media Democracy Day event, that we’ll give away to two people who respond

if you don’t have any ideas for the future, you can still get a chance at a t-shirt by emailing us with some feedback on one or more things you’ve learned from our sendouts and/or events in the past

!! PLEASE DO RESPOND !!
>>>> mediamattersottawa@gmail.com
>>>> (or just press reply)

and in addition to that, we’ve got a lot of content for you today, to keep you informed and inspired on media issues and activism

all the best, from Media Reclamation Project

~~~~ Canadian content ~~~~

Wayne MacPhail on how newspapers failing online by going around unionized journalists
http://rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2009/04/features/major-newspapers-online-failure-result-anti-union-intentions

Linda McQuaig on what’s wrong with our newspapers:
http://www.rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2009/04/features/linda-mcquaig-whats-wrong-our-newspapers
or
http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/needs-no-introduction/2009/04/linda-mcquaig-whats-wrong-canadas-newspapers

~~~~ Media resource / analysis ~~~~

The Mind Managers
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21084

~~~~ Media initiatives ~~~~

Huffington Post Investigative Fund
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/announcing-the-launch-of-_b_180543.html

Pacifica Radio at 60 years
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/15-1

~~~~ Stories in the Media ~~~~

Pirates in Somalia
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html

Homelessness in America
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/137045/%22people_shouldn%27t_have_to_live_like_this%22%3A_the_real_story_behind_%22tent_city%22_–_and_how_the_media_get_it_wrong/?page=1

Wall Street and the economic crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/04-0
and
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2009/04/02/have-the-media-learned-anything-from-the-crisis/

Using anonymous sources
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/19-0

Right-wing attacks on Obama
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/04/14
and
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/136834/right-wingers_are_desperately_trying_to_destroy_obama%2C_and_the_cowardly_corporate_media_are_helping_/

~~~~ Media in crisis ~~~~

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20983

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/27-0

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/27-6

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/580452

http://rabble.ca/columnists/why-big-media-bad-journalism

~~~~ Miscellaneous media news ~~~~

http://www.freepress.net/newsroom/

Here is a campaign from Avaaz.org to raise a public outcry and get support – not cuts – for CBC. Sign up and spread the word if you feel the same way!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_cbc/

Here’s some of what they’re saying:

Dear friends,

Our government is forcing the CBC to drastically cut 800 staff and programming. We urgently need a massive public outcry to Save the CBC: Sign the petition!

Canada’s media networks have all been slammed by the recession. But the government is reportedly considering bailouts for its friends at private companies CTV and CanWest, while forcing the CBC to drastically cut 800 staff and programming.

Our CBC is a national treasure, and a pillar of public-interest journalism in a country whose media is owned by a few large firms. We won’t hear an outcry from their media outlets, and the CBC is too principled to use its megaphone to make the case for itself. We are the only voice the CBC has.

We urgently need a massive public outcry to Save the CBC, click below to sign the petition. The government is weak and falling in the polls and enough outrage can make the difference. Parliamentarians have promised to deliver the petition directly in the House of Commons, and we’ll even fly a plane and banner over Parliament Hill with the message! Sign now, and forward this email to everyone who might care about this:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_cbc/

But first:
- if you are a University of Ottawa student (or maybe even if you’re not) and want to learn some journalism, the English student newspaper – The Fulcrum – is offering training sessions at 1:00pm on most Fridays, from now all through March. For more info, give them a call 613-562-5261 or http://www.thefulcrum.ca (their offices are located directly below the OPIRG/GRIPO-Ottawa office, 631 King Edward).

And second:

we’ve got some ‘oldies but goodies’ for you. these are three interviews done by Derrick Jensen, on different topics related to media. keep this email for when you’ve got some reading time, and when you do check out these links:

1998: George Gerbner, on ‘Telling Stories and Television’
http://www.derrickjensen.org/gerbner.html

1999: John Stauber, on ‘The Secret Battle for the American Mind’
http://www.derrickjensen.org/stauber.html

2000: Robert McChesney, on ‘Free Press For Sale’
http://www.derrickjensen.org/mcches.html

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And now for the love:
(‘a message from our sponsors’ **)

The season of love is upon us.

We know the open Internet, with all it’s innovative services, is the real love of your life. So why not go ahead and show how much you care, make the Internet your Valentine this year.

Show you love for the Internet:

1. If you haven’t already, send a comment to the CRTC urging them to save your Internet/valentine: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/crtc_submission

2. Watch and share THIS video prepared by SaveOurNet.ca: http://saveournet.ca/content/love

3. Set your Facebook status, Twitter status or email signature to: “I heart the Internet: http://saveournet.ca“

4. Email 3 of your friends and tell them to Save Our Net:
http://www.unionvoice.org/your_media/join-forward.tcl?domain=your_media&r=_pqAbqFqfy_3

Maybe you have your own way to express your love for the Internet – send your expressions and ideas to saveournetcanada@gmail.com

Don’t be shy now…

Love the Internet at: http://SaveOurNet.ca

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** no, the Media Reclamation Project doesn’t actually have sponsors (other than OPIRG/GRIPO-Ottawa) but there are other organizations and initiatives that have similar priorities, and we like to pass on stuff from them

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and here’s one more message from Steve Anderson, who sent us the previous SaveOurNet message:

SAVE ONLINE FREE SPEECH

We have helped propel Net Neutrality from an obscure issue into a national effort to secure open and equal access to the Internet for all Canadians. NOW is the time to let the CRTC know where YOU stand on Internet freedom: http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/n7qAbqF1iPFM/

Your submissions to the CRTC will be considered in the “traffic management” hearings held later this year. Please take a few
seconds to send your comments to the CRTC before the February 16th deadline: http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/n7qAbqF1iPFM/

We must convince the CRTC to stop big telecoms from controlling our access to the Internet. Bell, Rogers and other large ISPs cannot be allowed to continue serving their own interests by “throttling” Internet traffic.

The decisions made by the CRTC will signal Canada’s digital destiny. Your submission could make the difference in whether we have a closed gatekeeper Internet or open online access and innovation.

Remember that you must make your submission before Feb. 16. Please take a few seconds to tell the CRTC that you alone should
control your Internet surfing. http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/n7qAbqF1iPFM/

We’ve come this far; it’s time to stop Internet throttling for good!

–
Find me on Facebook:
http://FacebookSteve.com

Find me on Twitter:
http://SteveOnTwitter.com

See my Democratic Media Blog:
http://medialinkscolumn.com

Canadian Media News:
http://democraticmedia.ca/news

Job cuts hurt quality of journalism
http://www.straightgoods.ca/2009/ViewBrief.cfm?Ref=3
from the Canadian Association of Journalists

Turn off the Canadian media, please [about Isreal-Gaza]
http://www.rabble.ca/news/turn-canadian-media-please
Justin Podur is a Toronto-based writer. His blog is www.killingtrain.com, where this piece originally appeared.

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Some more commentary and analysis on the media situation with regards to the Israeli military operation in Gaza:

Israel is losing this war
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/12-4
by Uri Avnery, who is a peace activist, journalist, writer, and a founding member of the independent peace movement Gush Shalom http://zope.gush-shalom.org

What You’d Know About Israel If You Watched Al Jazeera TV
http://www.alternet.org/audits/118080/what_you%27d_know_about_israel_if_you_watched_al_jazeera_tv_/
by Shane Bauer, New America Media http://www.newamericamedia.org/

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and another piece from Jesse Freeston, this time about local content (an interview with University of Ottawa professor Denis Rancourt, tenured but soon to be fired?)
http://rabble.ca/news/dismissing-critical-pedagogy-denis-rancourt-vs-university-ottawa

Things have really erupted in Gaza, where Israel has launched an attack on the densely-packed, sealed-in population of 1.5 million.

Here is a commentary piece by Robert Fisk about the Israeli policy of keeping reporters out of Gaza:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/05-6

You may recall that in January of 2008, Speaker George Rishmawi, founder of the International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC), visited Ottawa and spoke at Carleton University. IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine. You can follow detailed coverage of the Israeli assault on Gaza at the IMEMC website:
http://imemc.org

As you will find upon visiting the site, the IMEMC is one of many worthy media projects requiring funding from individual donations to stay in operation. Another such project is The Real News Network (TRNN), at:
http://therealnews.com

The Real News Network also has coverage of what is happening in Israel-Gaza, as well as of other situations.

One such TRNN video is of the situation in Greece, a report produced by a media activist with Ottawa Indymedia ties, Jesse Freeston:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cknzlqQvDzs

Another TRNN video reports on the situation in Barriere Lake, 3 hours North of Ottawa. This report was put together by Lia Tarachansky, another activist with Ottawa Indymedia ties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jD13jXHUPI&feature=channel_page

** Note: On Wed Jan 7, there is a demo in support of the Barriere Lake community and specifically to demand the freedom of traditionally selected chief Benjamin Nottoway, who you can see being arrested in Lia’s video. The demonstration takes place at 12 noon at the Department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada in Hull/Gatineau, and then march to the Hull detention centre where Nottaway is being held prisoner; the demo will feature speakers from the Barriere Lake community, as well as Elizabeth May, NDP parliamentarians, union leaders, and representatives of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation. More info at: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/8677.shtml

And last but not least, the latest edition of the Linchpin paper is now out. You can find the paper online at www.linchpin.ca, or:
http://linchpin.ca/collections+/+Anarchist-movement+/+Linchpin-Issue-7

It features an article by Media Reclamation Project activist Greg Macdougall, on the topic of Environmental Justice, based on content from the Organizing For Justice conference held in November:
http://linchpin.ca/collections+/+Environment+/+Environmental-Justice-working-together-transformative-change

Best wishes for 2009!

Second, people have been amazed at the headlines and articles featured in ‘the NY Times’ these days (or should we say in 2009? :) see http://www.nytimes-se.com/

Thirdly, Rabble.ca has relaunched their website. Check it out: http://rabble.ca

Fourth, American Public Media, the largest operator of public radio stations in the States, has put out an interactive game that allows you to play president and see if you can balance the U.S. budget: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero ** Hint: if you can’t seem to balance your budget, click on ‘taxes’ and try repealing the Bush tax cuts.

Fifthly, here’s an awesome article on the history of independent media and what it can teach us for today’s media activists: http://www.counterpunch.org/cohen11132008.html

Last, but not least, we wanted to inform you of a big story that you might not have heard of if you weren’t plugged in to the right channels. The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente wrote a very troubling column defending – and going beyond – Dick Pound’s comments where he called Native people ‘savages’; Dick Pound has since apologized, but Wente hasn’t, and the Globe and Mail issued a statement defending her statements. A Facebook group was started almost immediately after the publication of her column, calling for her firing, and over 3000 people are now members of that group. The group’s initiators continue to suggest ‘actions of the day’ to keep the heat on the G&M editors and management: the latest is to contact G&M editor Edward Greenspon and ask him: what the Globe’s official policy is with regard to printing hate speech. Do they tolerate it in certain instances? What kind of hate is not acceptable in their pages? Do they have any plans to change this policy? … and then to post any responses to the Facebook group page.

Here are the links:

Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=45016000567

Activist press release on the situation, and G&M’s statement on the response to the published column: http://ottawa.indymedia.org/en/2008/10/8477.shtml

Response to Wente’s column, by Ben Powless
http://rabble.ca/news/what-wente-wrote-was-really-dumb-226e-and-also-racist

Original article by Wente
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081024.wcowent25/BNStory/specialComment/home

Poster for Oct16 1/4-page flyer for Oct16

Two local independent media / activism groups will be celebrating Media Democracy Day this year with a public event on Thurs Oct 16 at 7pm. This will take place in room 359 of Fauteux Hall at the University of Ottawa.

The event will feature two speakers, Joanne St. Lewis and Greg Macdougall, as well as the showing of a short film entitled ‘The Indypendent’ by Amy Wolf. The themes of the evening are media democracy and media justice, the importance of media activism, and the role of the media in the two current election campaigns.

Joanne St. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Ottawa. She is the first and only Black woman to be elected to serve as a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. She is co-founder of The Real News Network, and the recipient of the 2008 DreamKEEPERS’ Life Achievement Award from the Canadian Martin Luther King Day Coalition.

Greg Macdougall is currently producing the Rabble Rouser, a weekly print edition of Rabble.ca’s online election coverage. He is also involved in the provincial Linchpin newspaper, and part of the local Media Matters activist group. He has previously been part of the following independent media initiatives: Ottawa Indymedia; Ontario Indymedia; Kitchener-Waterloo Blind Spot newspaper; University of Waterloo Imprint student newspaper; Media Watch action group.

‘The Indypendent’ focuses on the NYC Indymedia newspaper of that name. Amy Wolf is a media professional, activist and artist who works with the New York Independent Media Centre (Indymedia) and The Indypendent. An editor of The Indypendent, Arun Gupta, recently made headlines as the initiator of the callout that sparked protests on Sept 25 across America against the Wall Street bailout.

This Media Democracy Day event is being organized by Media Matters and the Ottawa Independent Media Centre (Indymedia).

Contact:
Greg Macdougall – 613 656-5498
mediamattersottawa@gmail.com

Links:
The Real News Network – http://therealnews.com
The Rabble Rouser – http://rabble.ca/about_us/about_us.shtml?x=75411
The Indypendent - http://www.indypendent.org/
Media Matters – http://mediamattersottawa.org
Ottawa Indymedia – http://ottawa.indymedia.org

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