[Radmedia] June 10 meeting notes

[dawn paley]

Thanks Isaac & everyone!

I wanted to throw in Leroy Moore Jr as a potential keynote, heard him  
at AMC last year it was great

http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=77

The suggested subhead was a weekend of radical & experimental west  
coast media. below are a couple other ideas

I'm back July 5 but will try and stay on top of minutes, etc.
abrazos
dawn
Radical Media Conference: Building Resistance on the West Coast

Rebel Media: A Weekend of West Coast Resistance

Rebel Ties: West Coast Resistance Media

Insurgent Media: West Coast Resistance

On 13-Jun-11, at 11:28 PM, isaac oommen wrote:

> Hey Nick - would you book the Seagall hall at SFU Harbour centre and  
> 2 lecture rooms and 2 classrooms if no one objects by Thursday?
>
>
> Isaac, Harjap, Lauriel, MaryAnn, Erin
>
>
> PLACE
>
> Har: The cafetaria at Britannia cannot be set up as needed.
> MA: And it's long and narrow.
> Har: Croatian Cultural Centre has neo-Nazi parties. So we have  
> Ukranian Hall, Russian Hall.
> Laur: We weren't sure the Ukranian hall was completely accessible.
> Isaac: Nic said Ukrainian Hall 500+400+250, or Harbour Centre for  
> free, WISE hall for $50/hr for the day not available at night.
> Harjap: VCC would have a harder time giving us the space.
> MA: There can't be food at Harbour Centre.
> Laur: Same at Martitime Labour Centre.
> Har: SFU is shitty but it might be the choice. Bonsor could be good  
> as well - $1200 or so.
> Laur: Harbour Centre has the same advantages of centrality.
> Isaac: The alternatives are WISE hall but nothing at night.
> Laur: But maybe have night events elsewhere?
> Isaac: Too complicated to have multiple venues?
> Laur: Not really.
> Har: We could use all of the big hall for tabling.
> Isaac: And have youth workshops so no childcare needed which HC is  
> not good with. And have classrooms for breakout rooms.
> Har: Rooms that work are Seagall Centre, the one next to Fletcher  
> Challenger (1700?) and the actual theatre.
> Laur: We need more than 25 capacity for at least one workshop room.
> Isa: So maybe get two lecture rooms and two classrooms? And we can  
> ask Dawn and Frank to object to HC if needed by 16th?
> CONSENSED: We book HC, unless there are any objections. Send any  
> alternative suggestions to the list by the 16th.
> Har: I'll look into Bonsor just for costs. We can cancel HC anyway  
> so let's book.
> ACTIOn: Isaac to ask Nick to book SFU HC.
>
>
> NAME
>
> All: Liking a weekend of experimental media [sic] as subtitle (check  
> the last notes for the full subtitle).
> Har: Something short can be attached as the title then.
> Leon: Unmedia, Unmediate.
> Har: Having the area in there is good.
> Isaac: But this can go into the subtitle.
> Har: Fault lines? (people liked this one)
> Laur: Send it to the whole collective.
> Har: Don't forget Radical Media Conf as well. We can decide later on  
> how short the title-subtitle is.
> CONSENSED: People can choose from the three above titles and the  
> ones we've brainstormed by the 16th over the list.
>
>
> KEYNOTE SPEAKER
>
> Leo: Riel and Lynn on a panel.
> Har: And Billie Blair.
> Leo: Dream speaker is someone from Santiago radical scene e.g. IMC  
> there.
> Har: Hoping some people from west coast will fund their way here. I  
> don't know if they would be the draw. A good panel might be an  
> alternative. Amy Goodman and Chompsky. We could even Skype people in.
> Isa: As'ad Abu Khalil or Arundati Roy for skypeing in.
> Laur: Actual media makers would be even better.
> Har: Maybe we could sub one keynote speaker for a nice panel.
> Laur: Shaka from Oakland who does Black August would be great. He  
> works with NYM and was in prison.
> Har: We could also look at the AMC and see if any name pops out.
> Leo: Puget Sound anarchists.
> Erin: INCITE Women of Colour would be good.
> Laur: Would be nice to bring a critique of activism into things.
> Har: Have critique of media projects that pretend to be progressive.  
> We don't have a key speaker but lots of panel ideas.
>
>
> WORKSHOPS
>
> Laur: Nick talked about fracking etc. the broad definition of media.
> Leo: Maybe we can have the workshops one after another?
> Laur: We have lots of ideas for these already.
> Leo: Workshops become overwhelming at a lot of conferences.
> Har: So Sunday can be an informal space for discussion of what  
> people heard.
> Leo: Space for mingling is good.
> Laur: I'd like more than 8 workshops.
> Har: Then I'm leaning towards booking Harbour Centre. Let's start  
> contacting people informally about who can come up for this. Think  
> of people in small-town BC: Neskolith Radio, Tree Frog Radio, Black  
> Ink, Just Seeds, stencilers and street media. A workshop on informal  
> knowledge e.g. ancestral storytelling would be great.
> Laur: I also would like a workshop on development of criminal forms  
> of knowledge.
> Leo: Roger Farr wrote about this.
> Har: Also a panel on movement internal communication and inter- 
> communication would be great.
> Leo: Think of the Wobblies, George Jackson Brigade.
> Har: Gaderites, Chinese community that organized againt head tax and  
> race riots.
> Leo: Oral tradition of communication would be good to see explored.
> Har: Language as well.
> Leo: Dustin Rivers is great for that. Dustin Johnson also.
>
> CONSENSED: Erin, Leon, Lauriel added to the listserv.
>
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