[Wamvan] Great opportunity to influence journalism industry

[JJ]

All of those dates work for me except May 31st with preference given to the first three. 

Jennifer

> On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:25 PM, Natalie Hill <nhill10 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey y'all,
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> I want to invite all of you to be a part of something really cool, something that allows us to:
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> a) get together and re-energize our feminist and WAM! energy
> b) work together to curate our valuable insights and wisdom, and
> c) contribute to something tangible, a toolkit that has the power to impact the ways Canadian journalists report on rape and sexual assault.
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> ** at the bottom of this email is a list of dates for a workshop. please respond with which ones work for you! **
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> First, the background: Last year a group called femifesto produced a document called "Reporting on Sexual Assault: A Toolkit for Canadian Media". femifesto defines itself as a Toronto-based, grassroots feminist collective that works to shift rape culture to consent culture. Here's the link to the toolkit and the femifesto website.
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> The cool part is this: The creators want feminist across Canada to provide their insights to make the toolkit even better. They are asking people to contribute their ideas by August 30, 2014. After gathering up the input, they will revise the kit and re-release it on November 25, 2014.
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> Hopefully the toolkit will be shared and integrated into a variety of news-producing environments. I met today with Jarrah Hodge, and a few lovely folks at the Sexual Assault Support Centre at UBC, and we have some very exciting plans for ways to share the toolkit with journalists and student journalists early next year. More on that to come later...
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> For now - 
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> How many of you would be interested in getting together for one 2-3hr long meeting to brainstorm and gather up our collective feedback on the toolkit?
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> We assume Saturdays are the safest..... What date works best for you?
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> April 19
> April 26
> May 10
> May 31
> June 7
> June 14
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> If you're interested, please reply in this thread with the date(s) you like best. If more than one option works, please order them (preference #1, 2 and 3). 
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> Once we have a date nailed down, SASC has very generously offered to help us out with a venue. SASC is also organizing similar workshop with their volunteers to do the same thing in April. Between SASC and WAM!, we think we can contribute some great feedback to this project.
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> LET US KNOW!
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