[van-announce] reminder: workshop on community organizing and media - this saturday at VPL!

[Naava Smolash]

****Please circulate widely to community organizers andgrassroots/independent
media makers***
***Apologies for cross-postings***

* *Workshop: Community Organizing and Media*

Are you part of a community group or movement that deals with the mainstream
media, and/or puts out your own independent media? Through a participatory
workshop with resource people, this session seeks to build bridges between
community groups working on social justice issues, such as indigenous
rights, migrant rights, the environment, poverty, women's rights, etc. What
do we have in common and how can we share strategies that are effective at
both shaping the corporate media, and at building connections between our
respective grassroots media networks? *For *community organizers andindependent
media makers from all backgrounds, this workshop focuses on challenges
andstrategies involved in:


   - *bridging our independent media networks* to increase our
capacity andcomfort level working together
   - making media and *accessing the existing independent media*
   - accessing/shaping/responding to the corporate media

*Resource People:*

*Dawn Paley* - The Dominion Newspaper contributing editor, active on Mining

*Gurpreet Singh* - Broadcaster on *Radio India*, freelance columnist
for *Surrey
Now*, freelance reporter for *South Asian Post*
*Marika Swan *- Interim Manager, Redwire Native Youth Media Society

*Adriana Paz*, Justicia for Migrant Workers, Canada-Bolivia Solidarity
Network, former independent journalist

*Sid Tan* - ACCESS TV producer on Shaw cable community channel and an
organiser for Chinese head tax redress movement

*Roberto Wohlgemuth**, Director,* Institute for Citizen Journalism


and *you*! everyone welcome!


Facilitator: Ifny Lachance, Free Geek Vancouver; writer, photographer,
community activist


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*Community Organizing and Media*

Saturday October 25, Media Democracy Day
*Vancouver Public Library, Pete Room*
This open discussion will go from *3:15pm to 5:30pm*

Free!

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for more info about this workshop and *to* *R.S.V.P*., contact: "Naava
Smolash" <naava.smolash at gmail.com>
(RSVP is not necessary but is preferred to help us know numbers to expect)

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