[Radmedia] minutes - june 4

Sun Jun 5 13:42:54 PDT 2011

*RadMedia meeting minutes - June 4 2011*
*loreal *(sp?)*, isaac, nicholas, leon, naava, erin, dawn, frank* (via
vchat)

*Agenda: *
*1. recap/bring everyone up to speed
2 space
3. money/fundraising
4. Names  (included discussion about intended audience and goals)
5. workshops/speakers/keynotes/panellists*
*
1. Recap*
Dawn: *brief recap of last meeting* and goals (see previous minutes)
*bookfair style gathering* for september ~17-18, incl:
evening film screening/party
full day of bookfair/8 workshops/evening keynote
final morning brunch/social discussion

*broad definition of media* (posters to poems to ind. news to graffiti etc.
i.e. approach similar to Allied Media Conference)
*
basis of unity:* anticapitalist, anticolonial, antiauthoritarian, emphasis
on creating space for/about radical media (by whatever name).
*funding:* agreement established last meeting - no money contrary to these
values, and no money with strings: no foundations, ngo or academic
strings-attached funding, etc.

*2. Space*
Followup from last meeting:
*Maritime Labour Centre* is 1300, which is 500 more than anticipated - do we
still want it? it has good space for breakaway sessions and is big enough
and physically accessible; food would need to be catered.
Possibility of switching to Sunday for the full day, which isn't people's
first choice (might lead to lower attendance cuz people sticking around from
the anarchist bookfair a week earlier might need to travel sunday, and cuz
sundays are generally quieter), would impact the brunch plan the next
morning.
Undecided.  Exploring other options, will decide next meeting.

Desire to have location, name, dates finalized in time for fliering at the
AMC in third week of June.

Brainstorm of space options:
Vivo - small
Ukranian Hall
Harbour Centre (not ideal space - less socially comfortable space, and no
food allowed served inside, but physically accessible and could be free)
Britannia or a high school
outdoors (potentially shitty weather/complicated)
Kwantlen in Surrey or SFU Surrey
VCC
RayCam

Needed: large room for keynotes and bookfair, rooms for breakaway workshops
and childcare space (i.e. three small one large space or some combo). cost,
accessibility,  food

*TASK: *Leon will look into Kwantlen
*TASK:* Naava will look into Britannia
*TASK:* Nicholas will look into the other spaces on the list

*3. Money:*
Dawn shared draft budget (see separate email from Dawn)
possible support sources:
VMC - 2000 committed
TSSU & SJC
SFPIRG
VIPIRG
PGPIRG
Media Coop
CUPE 15
Council of Canadians

*Goal:* raise cost of conference beforehand from donations, make everything
no one turned away/sliding scale, be clear that those with incomes need to
use upper end of scale
all funds raised at door go towards next year.

discussion: options such as keynote speaker cash cow event (charge 10-20
bucks for large evening event to raise $ for rest of PWYC events,have some
free tix).
Preference for all PWYC.

*4. Names: *
brainstorm (some silly, some potential)

Probable Cause: first annual westcoast movement media conference
MMD (lol)
Radical Media Conference
Co-conspiracy conference
Allied West Coast
High Treason
Communique
Manifesto
Meme
Solidarity
Movement
A weekend of radical and experimental media
Pirate Signal
Media Anarchy Day
Overthrow Media Conference
Submedia Conference ;P
Bottom Up Media
Bottom Up Media Power (BUMP ;P)
Insergent     disruption    Slingshot     territories iconoclast
*rebel media    (got some likes)*
*Ignite: Media  (got some likes)*
Collude      graffiti      communities     grassroots
Graffiti: gathering revolutionaries and freedom in total insurrection
swarm   horde

*Discussion: pros and cons of putting words like 'radical' into name
itself*(as opposed to in workshop or event descriptions, and/or into
subtitle)

*discussion about intended audience*, who we want to attract

General sense that goal is to *create space for support of creation and
discussion of radical media* of many kinds, while being welcoming to people
who may not already be involved in radical media organizing/activism but who
may have the potential to be or share the impulse, whether or not they are
already familiar/comfortable with the language.

*discussion.* about internal/multiple *pros and cons of terms* like radical
and anarchist etc.

*General agreement* that we're not trying to draw on a reformist crowd or
cowtow to those limitations; we are also not seeking *only *to address those
who already consider themselves 'radical' - it's not only for those who are
already active but is also for reaching/radicalizing new folks in multiple
ways.

(i.e. there are problems with *not *using the language because we want to be
clear that this is what the event is for, not get shut down by reformist
expectations;
yet also choice of words is not just a question about alienating liberals -
may also have good/internally meaningful reasons why people who do identify
with and work using principles of radical and/or anarchist organizing use
other terms, such as movement building, community based, etc.)

desire to be clear and up front about what this event is about so as to make
space for genuine and direct challenging of the status quo, while also
meeting the desire to bring in people who are potentially wanting deep
systemic change/overthrow/transformation but who may be new to organizing or
not already familiar with terminology.

*Discussion about broadening what we understand as activism/organizing*, and
recognizing where the edges are: welcoming to people who make media/art/etc.
while articulating how making art/media/etc. is *part of* (movement
building/rebel/activist/organizing/anarchist/insurrectionary etc.) work, not
'on top' of or just describing it.

i.e. emphasis on art, media, etc. that understands itself as part of social
movement - this can work in many ways, including organizing that isn't just
about demos but still understands itself as
organizing/support/mutuality/solidarity - etc.

Can take many forms including creating independent news infrastructure,
childcare, food, art, poetry, graffiti, building relationships, etc. but is
not just 'about' or 'describing' organizing without being part of it.

Distinction between academics that *write about* social movements but
identify primarily with academic production, vs. those (ex: andrea smith,
INCITE!) that are directly involved and in relationship with radical
organizing etc.; similar discussion about artistic production.

*TASK: *all continue thinking about titles, brainstorm over this week, will
pick next meeting

*5. outreach/keynotes/workshops/speakers*
Agreement: emphasis on people making media (widely understood), not on
academics or 'experts'
West Coast focus (how far south?)

keynote brainstorm:
Incite! women of colour against violence  - Andrea Smith    - critique of
NGO industrial complex
Leroy (sp?) poet & media maker
Favianna Rodriguez

*
workshops:*
intention to put out a call for proposals for workshops/panels
only 8 workshop spots so will need to choose

*workshops and speakers free brainstorm:*
pirate radio - olympia and la - treefrog
phone hacking
stencilling
computer security
zine and bookmaking
graffiti
Indigenous workshop(s): i.e. offer riel, dorothy christian, dustin rivers,
or other allies space/sessions to organize as they want, consider
'indigenizing' the event
structural analysis of radical storytelling - i.e. encounters with cops
anarchists/sm and media
google alternatives/research
capitalism within anticapitalism
Moxi - on securitizing yr phone etc.
Joe Bowser
VHS Vancouver Hackspace
Someone from Santiago (chile)

*TASK:* all think about more *keynotes *to bring ideas to next meeting

*Next Meeting: next Sunday June 12, 11 am at Isaac's *

3. Money/fundraising/longevity for future years

4. outreach/panels/speakers/workshops
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.resist.ca/pipermail/radmedia/attachments/20110605/6aae28f4/attachment.html>