[mobglob-discuss] Fw: [van-announce] Call for Participation: Media Democracy at the NWSocial Forum

[Paul Browning]

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From: jonathan lawson 
To: van-announce at lists.resist.ca 
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 5:27 PM
Subject: [van-announce] Call for Participation: Media Democracy at the NWSocial Forum


Call for Participation: Media Democracy programming 
at the Northwest Social Forum, Oct 14-17, Seattle

NEXT PLANNING MEETING: Thurs.Aug. 26, 7pm @ 911 Media Arts, Seattle
EMAIL SIGNUP: http://lists.nwsocialforum.org/lists/info/mediademocracy


Dear friends,

The Northwest Social Forum (www.nwsocialforum.org) is coming soon, and MEDIA is one of the numerous themes that participants wil be focusing on at this broad-based, multicultural event. Media makers, activists, independent journalists, watchdogs, culture jammers, community broadcasters, political artists, poets and pirates are invited to come from across the Northwest to help plan workshops and other events. Together let's envision and create a post-Bush media landscape. ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, and ANOTHER MEDIA IS POSSIBLE. 

Some organizations are already planning workshops on local cable organizing, media literacy and low-power FM. There is interest in other topics, including communications rights, media justice, media diversity and independent media, to name a few. Others may not have a particular plan of their own, but want to offer their creative collaboration.  

Our next meeting: Groups planning media democracy events for the NWSF will hold our next planning meeting on Thurs. Aug.26, 7pm, at 911 Media Arts (www.911media.org) in Seattle. At this working meeting: we will share and discuss concrete proposals for workshops, lectures and other events, share resources, discuss collaborations and funding possibilities, and hopefully emerge with some idea of what our media democracy summit or programming track might look like within the larger social forum.

Program proposals: The NWSF workshop application deadline is Friday, Sept. 10. Download the form at www.reclaimthemedia.org/toolkit/NSWFworkshopproposal.pdf. In order for us to coordinate our media democracy planning together, please share your programming ideas with us as well. Write up your idea for a workshop, lecture, film screening or other event, along with the resources you can provide or would need provided. Be as detailed as possible, but incomplete ideas, brainstormed speaker lists, or invitations for collaboration are certainly welcome. Please prepare for the Aug. 26 meeting by sending your group's ideas to our email list (join the list at http://lists.nwsocialforum.org/lists/info/mediademocracy). 

To our friends from Alaska, BC, Idaho, Oregon, Montana and eastern Washington--please send your proposals to the email list before the meeting on the 26th. We especially want to welcome folks planning to attend the Social Forum from outside western Washington. 

Please get in touch with any questions you may have!

Jonathan Lawson
Reclaim the Media
206.709.0558
www.reclaimthemedia.org

PS: this media planning group is not handling press outreach or publicity for the NWSF as a whole. If you are interested in helping with publicity, please get in touch with Laura McLeod through the NSWF office (206-448-7348 x 342). Also, to date there is no organization planning to host an onsite media center with computers and Internet access. We hope one or more organizations will step forward to take this on!

Quick info:
Northwest Social Forum site: www.nwsocialforum.org
NWSF media democracy planning list signup: http://lists.nwsocialforum.org/lists/info/mediademocracy
NWSF general info list signup:  http://lists.nwsocialforum.org/lists/subscribe/news
Reclaim the Media's weblog for NWSF media democracy planning: www.deepmedia.org

Articles on the World Social Forums (model for the NWSF):
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-6-91-1670.jsp
http://www.futurenet.org/29globalhope/fkorten.htm 
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