[Wamvan] Fwd: Be a part of the story! Own your media!

[Tami Starlight]

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From: The Dominion <dru at dominionpaper.ca>
Date: Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:43 PM
Subject: Be a part of the story! Own your media!
To: dominion-notify at ftm.koumbit.org


*"I support the Media Co-op because it recognizes that comforting the
afflicted and afflicting the comfortable is an essential role for
journalism. It gives contributors the freedom to tell stories that other
media routinely ignore and to act as a voice for people who would otherwise
not be heard."*

*—Bruce Wark, Inglis professor of journalism, University of King’s College,
Halifax*


Hello Friends of *The Dominion* & Media Co-op!


Happy Membership Month!


I'd like to express *huge* thanks on behalf of the entire network to those
of you who continue to sustain this project. A special shout out to those
who joined the Co-op last week*—*thank you!* We're well on our way to
meeting our goal of 100 new sustaining members this
month!<http://www.mediacoop.ca/MMM_2011>


*If you haven't yet, join the celebration!** **Sign up
now!*<http://www.mediacoop.ca/join/sustainer>


I'd like to introduce the people who make the media we're celebrating this
month, and give you one more reason to become a sustaining member of the
Media Co-op.


>From the beginning, contributors have been the single strongest element of
this project, and today it's no different. In fact, the Media Co-op is
expanding exponentially with the establishment of four Locals, and radical,
independent news is erupting from the groundswell of new, locally-driven
contributors.


Every day, Media Co-op contributors bring together their work from across
Canada in a dynamic and collective vision of grassroots, independent news
for Canadians. The stories you read, listen to and watch on Media Co-op
websites and in our print publications are told thanks to the dedicated
effort of hundreds of volunteer contributors.


Every year, *The Dominion* publishes more than 150 original, independent
articles written by a base of over 60 contributors. The Media Co-op Locals
in Vancouver, Halifax, Toronto and Montreal produce hundreds more stories,
from investigative news pieces to analysis to photo essays and video
reports.


We believe, however, that as we depend on our contributors for fair,
consistent journalism, they should be able to depend on the Co-op for fair,
consistent payment. As a network, we recently committed to allocating 10 per
cent of the Media Co-op's core budget to contributors. We also want to build
an investigative fund, so our journalists can afford to cover particularly
critical stories in-depth and long-term.


We also believe that many people in our network can afford to give
$10/month o help achieve these goals (that's just $0.33 a day), and some can
give even more. Consider what this work is worth to you, and *imagine what
we could accomplish, together, with strong support to our contributors.*


*Be a part of the story!** **It's your media—own
it!*<http://www.mediacoop.ca/join/sustainer>


In solidarity,

Moira Peters

Editor, *The Dominion*


* Congratulations to Bill Evans in Sackville, New Brunswick, who won last
week's raffle prize of five one-year subscriptions—*Canadian Dimension,
This! Magazine, Maisonneuve, Upping the Anti* and *Briarpatch*!


** This week, if you join as a sustainer, you will be entered in a
draw<http://www.mediacoop.ca/MMM_2011_prizes>to win a DVD pack of
homegrown indy-films...
*yow*!

Roadsworth <http://films.nfb.ca/roadsworth/>

H2Oil <http://h2oildoc.com/home/>

VMC Best Of <http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/>

The Business of Gold in Guatemala <http://www.cinemapolitica.org/node/1876>


+++ If you think this work is important, please forward,
share<http://www.facebook.com/mediacoop>,
tweet <http://twitter.com/#%21/mediacoop>! +++

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*Tami M. Starlight*
Vancouver, Canada
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