[van-announce] Call for Participation: Media Democracy at the NW Social Forum

[jonathan lawson]

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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