[van-announce] reminder: come to Own Your Media! An Invitation - Thursday March 27 - 6 pm sharp - Harbour Centre

[Naava Smolash]

***please forward***

Own Your Media!*
- an invitation -*

*"The media is the place where we have a discussion with each other. We
can't know everyone individually. We do it through the media. When the
kitchen table that we all sit around is controlled by a very few, they are
deciding who comes to the table, and that can determine the decisions that
are made, when we go to war and when we don't."*

-         *Amy Goodman*


Do you know more about American Idol's Top 24 than about the people in Fort
Chipewyan dying of rare cancers?  Are you aware that peep toe shoes are the
hottest thing this spring, and oblivious of the fact that the minimum wage
in oil-rich Alberta is actually the lowest in Canada?  Did you hear plenty
from American and Israeli politicians when the border between Gaza and Egypt
was broken in January, and nothing from the Palestinian women who made it
happen?

Corporate-owned media serves its own interests by reporting stories that
benefit its owners, shareholders and advertisers.  If media is to serve the
people – to report stories that are important to our lives – it needs to be
controlled by the people.

*The Dominion* (dominonpaper.ca) provides accurate, critical news coverage
on events, policies and movements in Canada.  It is also a multi-stakeholder
coop, owned and operated by its readers and journalists.    **

*The Dominion* is now taking Canadian media to the next level.  With a
comprehensive five-year plan, *The Dominion* aims to build an independent
news cooperative that will challenge the corporate press in Canada – and
publish the stories you need to know about.

*Own Your Media!  Building a Grassroots News Cooperative*
Thursday, March 27 at 6pm sharp
Harbour Centre, Room 1425
515 West Hastings St., Vancouver


*Find out what Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and John Pilger
say about The Dominion!*
dominionpaper.ca/coop/endorsements