[Wamvan] Mark your calendars - Monday Media MUTINNNNY! January 21

[Natalie Hill]

from our good friend, wikipedia:
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> *Mutiny is a conspiracy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)> among
> members of a group of similarly situated individuals ... to openly
> oppose, change or overthrow an authority to which they are subject. The
> term is commonly used for a rebellion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebellion> among
> members of the military against their superior officer(s), but can also
> occasionally refer to any type of rebellion against an authority figure.*

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You, dear WAMmers, are invited to join us as we rise up and overthrow the
authority that is the media, with our mutinnnnnnyyyyyyy!!!!

Here's the deal:

   1. WAM! is a community, full of awesome feminists with feminist energy,
   who want to get together and DO STUFF!
   2. we all have critiques of media in all its forms
   3. most of us enjoy one of the following: DIY projects, together-ness,
   rhizome cafe, laughs and feminist discussion.

At the WAM! social in December, Joanna introduced the idea of the WAM! Van
community getting together on a regular basis to do small-ish, easy to
implement resistance-based actions.
I've been told everyone at the social had tons of great ideas.* We loved
all of them!

While we work on ways to make those ideas happen, we (the few WAM! core
members) wanted to offer something right away;
a way for us to get together, take action, and at the same time, conspire
ways to make all these other ideas get the momentum they need to take off.

therefore, we are tickled with excitement to introduce to you.....
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MONDAY MEDIA MUTINY!!!*

   1. every third monday of the month (january 21, feb 18, march 18, etc..)
   (we are open to doing it on different days! let us know if non-mondays
   work better for you)
   2. 7-9PM ish
   3. rhizome cafe
   (we will send out an alert if this location isn't available. probable
   alternate location: cafe deux soleils on the drive)
   4. cool DIY feminist action related act

MMM #1 - JANUARY 21:

*DIY RAD FEMINIST STICKER MAKING EXTRAVANGANZA!!*


   - we will supply the sticker-making stuff
   - bring your emotions (rage, glee, anything in between), your ideas,
   and any other supplies you may wish to cut up and incorporate into a DIY
   sticker (old magazines, for example, may interest some people)
   - we will all get together and make stickers with whatever messages we
   want on them, and then go out into the world and stick away!

You can make generic anti-sexist stickers to put on bus shelter ads,
specific stickers to put on A-frames outside specific stores
(cough*AmericanApparel*cough*),
stickers aimed at curbing fatphobia, or anything in between. Whatever
sticker you wanna make, we wanna help you do it.

Mark your calendars - *the first Monday Media Mutiny event is 2 weeks from
today, January 21.* Reminder to come!

Stay tuned...

- WAM! Van core

*Your ideas! (we'd love to talk more about making them happen): petitions
against sexist restaurant ads; anti VAW flashmobs; promoting local March
8th events; media literacy workshops; a collaborative, personal
stories/gender/media book project; watchdog activism related to sexist
coverage of the upcoming BC election; coordinated support for women
filmmakers and feminist films (VIFF is doing well); a 'girlcott' (opposite
of boycott) of media and organizations doing gender justice well; positive,
empowering sticker campaign (like About Face <http://www.about-face.org/>);
actions against local MRAs; spoofs of especially offensive and sexist
magazines (eg. Fresh).
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