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

[Joanna Chiu]

So exciting! I will email out the list of other action ideas we brainstormed last month at the social, too. 

A few people have also suggested alternating meetings with the third Wednesday of the month. Do people think that would work? 

Joanna 

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Natalie Hill <nhill10 at gmail.com> wrote:

> from our good friend, wikipedia:
> 
> Mutiny is a conspiracy 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 among members of the military against their superior officer(s), but can also occasionally refer to any type of rebellion against an authority figure.
> 
> 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:
> WAM! is a community, full of awesome feminists with feminist energy, who want to get together and DO STUFF!
> we all have critiques of media in all its forms
> 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..... 
> 
> MONDAY MEDIA MUTINY!!!
> 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)
> 7-9PM ish
> rhizome cafe
> (we will send out an alert if this location isn't available. probable alternate location: cafe deux soleils on the drive)
> 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); actions against local MRAs; spoofs of especially offensive and sexist magazines (eg. Fresh).
> 
> 
> 
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