[Radmedia] minutes - june 4

[Franklin Lopez]

Hey yall I'm going to be driving all day Sunday so I wont make the meeting.

See yall in vanshitty

F

sent from an android phone with a really crappy keyboard so excuse the
barbarous spelling
On Jun 5, 2011 3:42 PM, "Naava Smolash" <naava.smolash at gmail.com> wrote:
> *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.
>
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>
> *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
>
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>
> *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
>
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> *Next Meeting: next Sunday June 12, 11 am at Isaac's *
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