[Imc-midwest-regional] Media Democracy Day -- a good time for a gathering?

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Oh, I could definitely be there, with toys....

-wxm

>===== Original Message From Sascha Meinrath <sascha at ucimc.org> =====
>Hi all,
>
>Media Democracy Day is on Friday October 18, 2002 (more info is below).
>How does that weekend (Friday the 18th-Sunday the 20th) look for folks in
>terms of holding the Second Annual UCIMC Indymedia Gathering?
>
>I mean, how perfect would that be???  If we can nail down the date, it'll
>allow us to start planning, doing outreach, and getting the word out.
>
>All thoughts welcome and encouraged,
>
>--Sascha
>UCIMC
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:10:11 -0700 (PDT)
>From: alien8 <alien8 at ziplip.com>
>Subject: [Imc-info] Media Democracy Day -- Indymedia participation
>
>CALL FOR INDYMEDIA PARTICIPATION IN MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY (MDD) - 18 OCTOBER 
2002
>
>This is a discussion document for circulation around local IMC's.
>
>
>MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY: BACKGROUND AND VISION
>
>Media Democracy Day is an occasion to push for and promote a media system 
that informs and empowers all members of society. It offers an opportunity to 
create and link grassroots media and build alternatives to the present media 
monopolies. It will connect existing pockets of critical and creative media 
projects with broader social movements.
>
>The rapid concentration of ownership in and commercialisation of the mass 
media is making them less and less a space to freely exchange information, and 
more a channel to distribute the news and views of political and economic 
elites. The products and processes of print, broadcasting and mass online 
media are addicted to advertising. Mainly owned by a handful of national and 
international corporations, they are unable to communicate the broad range of 
perspectives in our communities. Instead, they are a crucial force fo
>r shaping people's perceptions of the world in accordance with the views of 
society's elites.
>
>Media Democracy Day may be called Media Freedom Day by some, Reclaim The 
Media Day by others, Media Action Day by others... The names are 
interchangeable, the issues are the same all over the world. The day will 
focus on:
>
>* Promotion - of alternative, independent and community media
>* Education - how the corporate media shapes our world, and how it limits 
democracy and autonomy
>* Protest - against a corporate media system based on commercialisation and 
exclusiveness
>* Change - for a more accountable, accessible and community-led media
>
>It could include public events to promote grassroots alternative media, 
debates, workshops, conferences, film screenings, skill sharing, joint print 
publications, internet/fm radio, street theatre, subvertising, pickets, poster 
parties, media stunts, spoofs and pranks...
>
>It could be a perfect occasion for grassroots media groups to gettogether, 
meet each other, plan longer-term campaigns, create strategies to promote 
non-corporate media, and work on building a network to enable a collaborative 
response to the World Summit on the Information Society in 2003 (see 
www.itu.int/wsis/index.html and www.crisinfo.org).
>
>
>INDYMEDIA PARTICIPATION
>
>Media Democracy Day could mobilise....
>local radio, pirate radio, art collectives, small newsletters, media 
monitoring groups, academic groups, the whole bunch of alternative media 
groups, journalist unions, protest and direct action groups, online campaign 
groups, community initiatives, etc etc
>... and IMC'istas everywhere!
>
>Indymedia is a global network with a large reach into different social 
movements, campaigns and media projects.  By supporting Media Democracy Day 
Indymedia as a global network can have a huge impact on the spread of ideas 
and debates around media issues on a worldwide level. As such, Indymedia is 
ideally placed to act to promote and network the idea of Media Democracy Day. 
In addition, Indymedia could benefit from the increased networking and 
collaboration with other media initiatives around Media Democracy Day.
>
>We would like to propose that Indymedia groups consider to..
>- discuss Media Democracy Day within their groups
>- promote the day on their sites (features, upcoming events list, etc.)
>- plan actions for the day
>- organise conferences and gatherings of alternative media
>
>
>GLOBAL COLLABORATION
>
>We propose to revive the global imc mediapolitics email list to discuss and 
work on this project:
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/mediapolitics
>
>At present there is no website that is collecting information from around the 
world about MDD (although there are a couple of small sites up now). Indymedia 
people may want to
>- set up a non imc site to collect global info and call for participation ?or 
feed their info into existing pages
>- create a special Indymedia site just for this issue which would need to be 
administered by a global working group
>- create a separate section within Indymedia.org as a place to collect info 
and updates, also to be adminsitered by a global team of imc people
>
>
>For more background on the issues:
>http://www.americanresurrection.com/Media.htm
>http://www.mediatank.org
>http://www.mediageek.org/
>http://www.reclaimthemedia.org
>http://www.mediawatch.ca
>http://www.IMPACS.org
>http://www.democraticmedia.org
>http://www.mediachannel.org/news/indepth/fcc
>http://www.fair.org/media-woes/policy.html
>http://www.iwantmedia.com/consolidation.html
>
>
>In solidarity,
>a few people in IMC UK
>
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