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DEMOCRACYDAYS

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MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAYSNOVEMBER 11-13, 2011

Programme SnapshotFRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11:

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12:

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13:

o coincide with Remembrance Day, Media Democracy Days 2011 kicks o witha screening oWar Made Easy and a talk by renowned media scholar Dr. Sut Jhally onmilitarism, media, and war.

Where: Te Pacifc Cinmathque (1131 Howe Street)When: Doors open at 6:30 PM, the screening begins at 7:00 PM, and will

be ollowed by a Q&A session and reception at the Cinmathque.Cost: Entry is by donation, but seating is limited. Pre-registration via our

website (mediademocracyday.org) is recommended.

Day two o MDD is a rich program o panel discussions and keynote addresses.

Where: Vancouver Public Library Central Library (350 W. Georgia Street)When: From 12-5 PM

Who: Attendees are invited to take in plenary sessions eaturing the ounder oRabble.ca and celebrated Canadian activistJudy Rebick, renownedmedia scholar Dr. Sut Jhally, and flm scholar Dr. Peter Stevens. Te dayalso includes panels on the uture o journalism, an all-parties discussiono media policy, the new ace o unionism, inclusivity in diverse media,strategies or civic engagement, and aboriginal uses o media.

Cost: Tis event is ree and open to the public.

Join us at W2 Media Caf [111 West Hastings Street] following our Saturday programme for a post-MDD

reception. Free to MDD attendees. Begins at 6:30 PM.

What: Interactive workshopsWhere: SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Center or the Arts (149 West Hastings

Street) and W2 Media Ca (111 West Hastings Street)Who: OpenMedia.ca will host a workshop on creating an eective advocacy

campaign,W2 Community Media Arts will help participants build socialmedia tooklits to advance aboriginal media makers, CJSF andCFRO will tackle the basics o D.I.Y. radio, and the PacifcCinmathque will explore flmmaking as resistance.Te day will endwith a unique dialogue and coalition-building session, Mapping MediaMovements: A Launchpad or Action.

Cost: Tis event is ree, but pre-registration athttp://mddworkshops.eventbrite. com is strongly recommended.

Sunday evening, join Sound Therapy Radio for Media Democracy for Mental Health, a night of stand up

comedy and live music. 6-10 PM at Gallery Gachet [88 East Cordova Street]. Admission is free.


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1 MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAYS [NOV 11-13, 2011]

Welcome to:

On behal o the Media Democracy Days team, I am pleased to welcome you to thetenth anniversary o this community-oriented event. Its exciting or us to see howmuch the event has developed over the past decade through the growing support oindividuals and groups who care about the quality o our media, and our democracy.

In collaboration with the Campaign or Press and Broadcast Freedom, tradeunions, community organizations and concerned local individuals, the rst MediaDemocracy Day was held in 2001 as a venue to raise and spread awareness o theconcentration o media ownership in Vancouver and in Canada, and the threat to

the diversity o public voices this posed, especially in the political climate o earand authoritarianism unleashed by the then-recent 9/11 terror attacks. We soughtto explore options or both media practice and public policy that could help improvemedias contributions to democratic government, but also make the media themselvesmore accessible and diverse.

We could not have guessed how much widespread and sustained interest the event would draw. Since 2001, thousands o people have attended. Tis year, we have

expanded rom a one day conerence to a three-day event that includes a lmscreening and interactive workshops along with traditional panel discussions.

Notwithstanding dramatic changes in the media ecology in the past decade,democratization o media remains a pressing issue that needs our ocus. MediaDemocracy Day helps to provide that ocus. Its a dialogue that contributes tosupporting independent media projects, organizations and individuals dedicated toraising awareness and creating change.

We are thrilled to have keynote speakers Sut Jhally rom the Media EducationFoundation and Judy Rebick rom rabble.ca join our program this year along withother inuential producers, writers, scholars and journalists, activists and artists. Tecommitment o these individuals underlines the strength and scope o a genuine,diverse and growing social movement or media democratization.

We are pleased to have you join us during Media Democracy Days to collectively

pursue the three-pronged ambition: know the media, be the media, change themedia.

Robert HackettSchool o Communication, Simon Fraser UniversityFounding Member, Media Democracy Days

MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAYS 2011


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MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAYS 2011:

What You Didnt Know

Launched simultaneously in Vancouver and oronto in 2001, Media Democracy Day

responded to a growing global media democratization movement. Tis movementseeks to create a more participatory media system by supporting independent andpublic service media production, celebrating innovation and creating dialogue aroundthe politics and biases linked to our increasingly corporate and concentrated media.

Since the beginning, Media Democracy Days have operated as a orum to discuss theway in which our city, country and culture is being shaped by the media. Trough thesediscussions we have helped to develop alliances and strategies or democratizing the

media. Tis means using the media or democratic sel-governance; and reshapingthe media themselves to make them more accessible, accountable, representative.

In the past 10 years, we have worked to bring together citizens, academics, journalists,artists, activists, students, community leaders and policy makers into a dynamicdialogue on the state o the Canadian and global media systems. Tis annual event isabout the democratization both through the media, and o the media.

Now celebrating our 10th anniversary, Media Democracy Days core mission remainsthe same:

1. Know the media by engaging in critical, progressive, cross-cultural, andintergenerational media education.

2. Be the media by working directly with local media makers to producemessages that intervene in cultural and political lie.

3. Change the media by collaborating with community members tocreate progressive coalitions and actionable policy goals to reshapethe institutional context o communication.

o learn more, please visit:WWW.MEDIADEMOCRACYDAY.ORG

Follow us on witter:@MEDIADEMOCDAY

Join us on Facebook:MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY VANCOUVER


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OPENING RECEPTION KEYNOTE &

FILM SCREENING: War Made Easy

[Pacific Cinmathque, Friday, November 11, 6:30-10:00pm]

Help us kick o Media Democracy Days 2011 with Dr. Sut Jhally, Proessor oCommunication at the University o Massachusetts at Amherst and Founder o theMedia Education Foundation as our opening keynote address.

Tis keynote address will be ollowed by an exclusive screening o the documentaryWar Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death. Narratedby Sean Penn and based on the book by Norman Solomon, this documentaryreaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern o government

deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war ateranother rom Vietnam to Iraq.

Scheduled to coincide with Remembrance Day, this event is an opportunity to reectcritically on historical narratives and images o war, while seriously considering theenormous role played by our contemporary military-media-industrial complex inmanuacturing citizen support or war. A discussion period and reception will takeplace ater the screening.

INTRODUCTION: Stuart Poyntz is an Assistant Proessor

in the School o Communication at Simon Fraser Universitywhose research interests include the relationship o children and youth with media culture, public sphere theory, with specicconcern or the work o Hannah Arendt. Most recently, he is theco-author oMedia Literacies: A Critical Introduction.

DR. SUT JHALLY is a proessor o communication atthe University o Massachusetts at Amhearst. In 1991, Dr.Jhally ounded the Media Education Foundation (MEF) aterreceiving his PhD rom the School o Communication at SimonFraser University. As a non-prot organization, the MEF aimsto inspire critical reection on the social, political, and culturalimpact o American mass media. A world-leading media scholar,lmmaker and analyst Dr. Jhally brings tremendous insight to

the task o understanding the medias role in shaping our social identities throughgender and race, commercialism, violence and politics. He is the producer o manylms and videos, including Dreamworks: Desire/Sex/Powerand Hijacking Catastrophe:9/11, Fear & the Selling o American Empire. He is the author o numerous books andarticles on media, including Te Codes o AdvertisingandEnlightened Racism, as wellas an award-winning educator.


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JUDY REBICK is a well-known social justice activist, writer,educator and speaker, and is perhaps best known to Canadiansas a ormer president o the National Action Committee onthe Status o Women, Canadas largest womens group. She isalso the ounding publisher o rabble.ca, Canadas most popularindependent online news, and continues to blog and podcaston the site. She also contributes commentaries to a host onewspapers and magazines and is a requent commentator on

CBC radio and television. She has been a lielong activist and most recently helpedlead a ght against the intense police repression during the G20 in oronto.

Judy has just stepped down ater eight years as the CAW Gindin Chair in SocialJustice and Democracy at Ryerson University. Her most recent book is ransormingPower: From the Personal to the Political. Judys other books include en Tousand

Roses: Te Making o a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005) and Imagine Democracy(Douglas and McIntyre 2000).

OPENING PLENARY: Judy Rebick -

Ten Years of Transforming the Media:

From Rabble to Twitter

[Alice MacKay Room, Saturday, November 12, 12:00-12:45

INTRODUCTION: Dr. Kathleen Cross is a Lecturer in theSchool o Communication at Simon Fraser University and Chairsthe Media Democracy Day organizing committee. Her teachingand research interests include democratic communication, newsmedia analysis, and political campaigns and elections. She is also

the National Coordinator or the Global Media MonitoringProject, an international project ocused on gender representationin news media, and a co-director o NewsWatch Canada.


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CLOSING PLENARY:

Building Media Democracy

[Alice MacKay Room, Saturday, November 12, 4:15-5:00pm]

PETER STEVEN is the author oMedia in the About Canadaseries (Fernwood Publishing, 2011). Te book introduces major

issues acing Canadian media and Steven argues that we areacing a crisis o quality in most media sectors, despite a wealtho talent and abundant resources. He holds a PhD in Radio/V/Film rom Northwestern University, Chicago, and is Proessor oFilm Studies at Sheridan College, in Oakville, ON.

DR. SUT JHALLY is a proessor o communication at theUniversity o Massachusetts at Amhearst. Ater receiving hisPh.D rom the School o Communication at Simon FraserUniversity, Jhally ounded the Media Education Foundation(MEF), a non-prot organization that aims to inspire criticalreection on the social, political, and cultural impact o American

mass media. He is the producer o the lm Dreamworks: Desire/Sex/Powerand Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling oAmerican Empire. Jhally is the author o numerous books and articles as well as anaward-winning educator.

JUDY REBICK is the ounding publisher o rabble.ca,Canadas most popular independent online news, and continuesto blog and podcast on the site. She recently helped lead a ght

against the intense police repression during the G20 in oronto.Her most recent book is ransorming Power: From the Personalto the Political. Judy's other books include en Tousand Roses:Te Making o a Feminist Revolution (Penguin 2005) andImagineDemocracy (Douglas and McIntyre 2000).

MODERATOR: Dr. Robert Hackett is a proessor oCommunication at SFU. Bob co-directs NewsWatch Canada, amedia monitoring program at SFU, and has co-ounded severalcommunity-oriented media advocacy and education initiatives,including Media Democracy Day. His collaborative publicationsincludeExpanding Peace Journalism (2011), and Remaking Media:Te Struggle to Democratize Public Communication (2006).


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Alma Van Dusen Room, Saturday, November 12, 1:00-2:20pm]

Tis panel is Sponsored by the BC Federation of Labour

RESISTANCE & RENEWAL: Unions and

Public Opinion in a Crisis Economy

MODERATOR: Irene Lanzinger is a long-time union activistand teacher. She began her teaching career in 1978 and taughtin Vancouver and overseas. Irene was very active in the B.C. eachers Federation serving as president o the VancouverSecondary eachers association. Irene served as an Ocer o theB.C. Federation o Labour rom 2007 to 2010. Irene was elected

to the position o Secretary-reasurer o the B.C. Federation oLabour in 2010.

LORENE OIKAWA is the rst Asian Canadian vice presidentor the BC Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU),and was re-elected to her third term in 2011. BCGEU representsmembers who work in direct provincial government, and a variety

o sectors including community health, community social services,child care, post-secondary institutions, hotels, and the CanadaLine. Lorene has authored articles on a range o topics includinghealth care, poverty, human rights and more.

MIKE OLD is the communications director or the43,000-member Hospital Employees Union. He helpedthe union launch www.heu.org in 1998 and survived three

subsequent overhauls. Mike has also worked or CUPE andACRA -- and as a reelancer. Hes interested in how unionscan use social media to engage members.

VINCENT MOSCO is Proessor Emeritus o Sociology atQueens University where he was Canada Research Chair inCommunication and Society and member o the aculty unionexecutive. Since writing Labor, the Working Class, and the Mediawith Janet Wasko in 1983, he has carried out research and worked

to advance the interests o labor. His most recent book is Gettingthe Message: Communication Workers and Global Value Chains (withUrsula Huws and Catherine McKercher, 2010).


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THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM:Crisis & Opportunities


PETER KLEIN began his career as a radio reporter or NationalPublic Radio, covering the Bosnian war and the all o communismin Eastern Europe. In 1999 Klein joined CBS News 60 Minutes asa producer remains a contributor to the program. Klein joined theaculty o UBC in 2005, and in 2008 he launched the InternationalReporting Program, Among other prestigious awards, his 2010 classFrontline/WORLD documentary, Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground,earned him an Emmy or best investigative newsmagazine.

MODERATOR: Linda Solomon is the ounder and editor-in-chie o the Vancouver Observer, which was the winner o the 2010Canadian Online Publishing Awards or Best online-only articlesand took second place in Best overall online-only site. She is alsothe ounder and director o Te Vancouver New Media Foundationand is CEO o Observer Media Group. Linda was the recipient o theUnited Press International award or Best Investigative Reporting.

KAREN PINCHIN is the ounding editor oOpenFile Vancouver,a community-powered collaborative news website. She has reportedand edited or Te Canadian Press, Macleans and Newsweek, andreelanced or outlets including Te Globe and Mailand Te Walrus.

DAVID BEERS is ounding editor o Te yee. He has wonnational awards or his journalism in Canada and the United States,writing or Te Globe and Mail, Vancouver Magazine, Te New Yorkimes Magazine, Harpers, and many other publications. He editedthe Fate o the Strait environmental series or the Vancouver Sun, which received Canadas National Newspaper Award or SpecialProjects.

CHARLIE SMITH has been editor o the Georgia Straight orsix years. Beore that, he was the news editor at the Straight or 10years. He has also worked at CBC Radio and CBC V and taughtinvestigative journalism at Kwantlen Polytechnic University or seven years back in the days when it was known as Kwantlen UniversityCollege. Tese days, most o his writing appears on Straight.com, butsome nd its way into the print edition.


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INDIGENOUS CHOICES, INDIGENOUS

VOICES: Aboriginal Uses of Media

Peter Kaye Room, Saturday, November 12, 1:00-2:20pm]

DUNCAN MCCUE has been a reporter or CBC-V News inVancouver or over a dozen years. His award-winning news andcurrent aairs pieces are eatured on CBCs agship news show,Te National. Recent honours include a Jack Webster Award orBest V Feature, and in 2011, he received a Knight Fellowshipat Stanord University in Caliornia, where he designed anonline educational guide or reporters on covering indigenouscommunities. Duncan is Anishinaabe, a member o the Chippewas

o Georgina Island First Nation in southern Ontario

CANDIS CALLISON is an Assistant Proessor at the UBCSchool o Journalism where she teaches science journalismand media ethics. She holds a Ph.D. rom the Program inScience, echnology, and Society at the Massachusetts Instituteo echnology, and an MSc rom MIs Comparative MediaStudies Program. Candis previously worked as a journalist in

Canada and the US. She is a member o the ahltan Nation innorthwestern BC.

DON BAIN is the Executive Director o the Union o BritishColumbia Indian Chies (UBCIC), a non-prot politicaladvocacy organization dedicated to support the recognition oaboriginal rights and respect or aboriginal cultures worldwide.From the Lheidli enneh community outside o Prince George,

he graduated rom UBC with a degree in Anthropology, workedon his communitys raditional Use Study, organized UBCICsProtecting Knowledge Conerence in 2000 and worked in

Ottawa. For over ten years he has been instrumental in creating a media and onlinepresence or the UBCIC.

MODERATOR: Gunargie OSullivan has been plugging FirstNations arts and culture or 20 years. She started her communitybroadcasting experience by coordinating a radio play incollaboration with Spirit Song Teater Co. and Co op radio.Gunargie currently hosts When Spirit Whispers ,Te Speaker,Sne wayulh, Late Night wiIth Savages at www.coopradio.org(102.7FM) and one show or www.cjs.ca (90.1 FM) calledNation to Nation. She serves on two boards: Co op Radio and

the National Community Radio Association.


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MEDIA POLICIES FOR A DEMOCRATIC

FUTURE: A Multi-Party Panel


MODERATOR: A ormer Green Party school trustee withthe Vancouver School Board, Andrea Reimer was rst elected toVancouver City Council in 2008 and has championed a numbero policies over the last three years including the Greenest Cityinitiative, increasing childcare spaces in the City by 6% andestablishing Vancouver as a global leader in Open Data.

LIBBY DAVIES is Deputy Leader or the NDP. Her historyas a strong community activist or Vancouver began over 35 yearsago. She and her late partner, Bruce Eriksen, were key gures inthe ormation o the Downtown Eastside Residents Association(DERA) in 1973. In ten years o community organizing, Libbydeveloped her strong grassroots approach to working with

people and diverse communities.

DR. HEDY FRY was rst elected to Parliament romVancouver-Centre in 1993. From 1996 to 2002, she servedCanadians as the Secretary o State or Multiculturalism andthe Status o Women. As a leader in the Canadian MedicalAssociation, Dr. Fry was instrumental in initiating a range o

innovations. She is the current Federal Liberal Critic on Healthand Chair o Federal Liberal BC Caucus.

ELIZABETH MAY is an environmentalist, writer, activist,lawyer, leader o the Green Party o Canada, and MP or Saanich-Gul Islands. Elizabeth became active in the environmental

movement in the 1970s. She became an Ocer o the Order oCanada in 2005, was elected Leader o the Green Party in 2006,and in May 2011 became the rst Canadian Green elected toParliament. Elizabeths home is in Sidney, BC.

* Requests for a Conservative Party representative for this panel were declined


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ALICE MACKAY ROOM ALMA VAN DUSEN ROOM

12:00-12:45

First Nations Welcome

Opening Keynote Speaker:Judy Rebick

Introduction: Dr. Kathleen Cross

Closed

1:00-2:20

The Future of Journalism: Crisis &Opportunities

Panelists: Peter Klein Karen Pinchin David Beers

Charlie SmithModerator: Linda Solomon

Resistance and Renewal: Unions andPublic Opinion in The Crisis Economy

Panelists: Dr. Vincent Mosco Lorene Oikawa Mike Old

Moderator: Irene Lazinger

2:

30-4:00

Media Policies for a DemocraticFuture: An All-Party Panel

Panelists: Libby Davies (NDP) Elizabeth May (Green) Hedy Fry (Liberal)

Moderator: Andrea Reimer

Lost in Translation? Challenges ofInclusivity in Diverse Media

Panelists: Alden Habacon Winnie Hwo Lilavati Levine

Moderator: Ajay Puri

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5-5:00

Building Media Democracy Plenary

Panelists: Dr. Sut Jhally

Judy Rebick Peter Steven

Moderator: Dr. Robert Hackett

Closed

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12Schedule at a Glance

Vancouver Public Library

Join us at W2 Media Caf [111 West Hastings Street] following our Saturday

programme for a post-MDD reception. Free to MDD attendees. 7-11 PM.


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PETER KAYE ROOM

Closed

12:00-12:45

Indigenous Choices, IndigenousVoices: Aboriginal Uses of Media

Panelists: Duncan McCue Candis Callison Don Bain

Moderator: Gunargie OSullivan

1:00-2:20

ShitHarperDid, SlutWalk &LeadNow: New Directions in Civic

Engagement

Panelists: Cam Dales Katie Raso ria Donaldson

Moderator: Phillip Djwa

2:30-4:

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Closed

4:15-5

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SATURDAY

CONTINUED

SUNDAY,

NOVEMBER 13SFU Woodwards [149 W. Hastings]

& W2 Media Caf [111 W. Hastings]

12:00-1:30

Running a TransformativeOnline Campaign

Lindsey Pinto & Reilly Yeo oOpenMedia.ca

Woodwards Room 2205

12:00-1:30

The New Frontier is

Interactive

Irwin Oostinde oW2

W2 Media Caf

12:00-1:30

DIY Radio Basics

Sarah Buchanan oCJSF andBrady Marks oCFRO

Woodwards Room 4390

12:00-1:30 Mediated Violence

Liz Schulze of the PacifcCinmathque

Woodwards Room 4955

1:45-3:00

Mapping Media Democracyin Vancouver: A Launchpad

for Action

Woodwards World ArtsCenter


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LOST IN TRANSLATION? Challenges

and the Future of Inclusivity in

Diverse Media

Alma Van Dusen Room, Saturday, November 12, 2:30-4:00pm]

MODERATOR: Ajay Puri is an advocate or evidence-baseddecision making and community empowerment. For the pastten years, he has been volunteering, working and providingscientic research to improve the lives o many marginalizedpopulations including at-risk youth, visible minorities, sexworkers, and people suering rom mental health and addic-tions. Ajay leads the Ethno-cultural Health Network.

ALDEN E. HABACON is an accomplished diversityand inclusion specialist. He is the Director, InterculturalUnderstanding Strategy Development or the Universityo British Columbia (UBC) and previously the Manager oDiversity Initiatives or CBC elevision. He is the Publisher o

Schema Magazine, and the co-ounder o the Asian CanadianJournalists Association in Vancouver.

WINNIE HWO was an award winning journalist who hasextensive experience in Chinese language media and mainstreammedia. She then joined the David Suzuki Foundation a year agoto campaign or Clean Energy and Climate Solution. She wasthe news and current aairs director or Fairchild elevision,Canada West and has won ve Jack Webster Award or her workthere.

LILAVATI LEVINE is a youth dedicated to social change.She believes that anyone can change their world with poetry,lm, music, photojournalism and journalism and has spent the

last 3 years using these tools o media to export her messages tothe world she lives in. As a young woman o colour, she has seenand experienced the eects o oppression in her lie and the liveso those around her. She is co-creator o the YouthMADE lm,I Am Here.


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SHITHARPERDID, SLUTWALK &

LEADNOW: New Directions in

Civic Engagement

[Peter Kaye Room, Saturday, November 12, 2:30-4:00pm]

MODERATOR: Phillip Djwa, MFA, is a creative artist anddigital media producer. He has worked on a wide range olm, technology and online communications projects towardspromoting social change. Prior to 2000, Phillip worked or 10 years as a composer or dance, lm and theatre. His work wasinternationally recognized at Sundance. Since 2000, Phillip has ledstrategy and innovative web projects at Agentic Communications,a Vancouver-based social change web design agency.

CAM DALES: Cam Dales is interested in the way that peoplesocialize and organize themselves online, and how it aects howthey do those things ofine. He has a degree in communicationdesign rom Emily Carr University, was a co-ounder oshitharperdid.com, and is the Art Director and a Strageist at

ruthFool Communications.

TRIA DONALDSON is an experienced organizer who has worked on a variety o issues - rom Aboriginal rights, access toeducation, childcare, anti-racism and the environment. She is the

Communications Coordinator at Leadnow.ca, a national onlineadvocacy organization responsible or the "Vote Mob" phenomenonduring the last election. ria currently works or the WildernessCommittee as the Pacic Coast Campaign, where she works oncampaigns ranging rom orestry to sh arms to coal mining.

KATIE RASO is a shameless agitator. She is also one o adozen organizers behind Vancouvers SlutWalk. A long timecommunity activist, Katie has contributed to messaging andmobilizing or social justice campaigns across Canada. Tese

experiences helped give shape to the SW Vancouver mediacampaign that included dozens o interviews, and ralliedthousands o supporters.


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INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS:

Sunday, November 13[SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings Street &

W2 Media Caf, 111 W. Hastings Street, 12:00-3:00pm]

RUNNING A TRANSFORMATIVE ONLINE CAMPAIGN[Woodwards Rm 2205, 12:00-1:30pm]

Learn the basics o running a campaign online. Well coverthe key elements o being a megaphone or citizen voices:alerting citizens about an important issue (working withboth traditional and social media); encouraging them totake action (i.e. clearly explaining the threat and making it

personal); and ensuring decision-makers know and care. Bring examples o successulcampaigns you know o or have been involved with, as this will be a peer-learningsession. Led byLindsey Pinto and Reilly Yeo oOpenMedia.ca

Join speakers and hands-on workshop acilitators to get up tospeed on current social media tactics and visions. Tis workshopincludes a mix o peer training and social media sotwareintroductions, strategies to reach targeted audiences with multi-platorm productions, and ways to establish deeper engagementwith audiences. Learn rom progressive journalists, First Nations

lmmakers and ethnic media activists on how technology can strengthen our voiceswhile reaching broader audiences in the hyperlocal and global communities. Led byIrwin Oostindie, Executive Director o W2.

THE NEW FRONTIER IS INTERACTIVE: Advancing

Progressive Storytelling & Journalism with

Multi-platform & Social Media Tools

[W2 Media Caf, 12:00-1:30pm]

Space is limited or these workshops and participants are encouraged topre-register to reserve their space. Tere is no cost to participate. You canpre-register at: mediademocracyday2011.eventbrite.com


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Tis brie, action-oriented workshop is intended to provide a platorm or participantsto move through inspiration to collaboration and eective and ocused action. Usinga city map o crowdsourced resources, this acilitated session will identiy priorityissues mapped by conerence participants, locate existing projects and organizationsto avoid duplicating our eorts, oer support in setting up communities o practice,and share strategies and tactics or keeping the work alive. Facilitated byKatie Raso(biography available on page 13) and Amanda Gibbs.

[World Arts Centre @ SFU Woodwards Goldcorp Centre for the Arts1:45-3:00pm]

MAPPING MEDIA DEMOCRACY IN VANCOUVER:

A Launchpad for Action

MEDIATED VIOLENCE [Woodwards Rm 4955, 12:00-1:30pm]

DIY RADIO BASICS [Woodwards Rm 4390, 12:00-1:30pm]

With much research, controversy and discussionabout the violence rie in todays mass media,there is little that helps us to understand

how to process the brutal, explicit and numbing images that surround us. Teirnormalization, and our ongoing appetite or violence, beg the question: why are weso hungry or mediated gore, terror and torture? Join us or an interactive workshop

that explores the purposes, meanings and impacts o violent media through criticalanalysis and dialogue. Led byLiz Schulze o the Pacifc Cinmathque.

A hands-on introduction to accessing and creatingindependent radio in its many orms, including campus/community radio, podcasting, online streaming, pirate radio

and live broadcasting rom the eld. Participants will discoverthe pros and cons o each method, and why independentradio is uniquely suited to those with a Do-It-Yourselmentality. I you have a keen interest in non-commercial

and non-traditional radio, but dont know where to start, this workshop is or you!Participants will also get to set up their own live remote broadcast rom the site. LedbySarah Buchannan o CJSF and Brady Marks o CFRO/Co-op Radio.

AMANDA GIBBS is a public engagement specialist,

communications strategist and acilitator with 15 yearsexperience supporting organizations working on issues rangingrom civic participation and arts and culture to social justice andenvironmental change. http://www.publicassembly.ca


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CiR 101.9FM is the broadcasting Voice o UBC. Itsa student run, community supported and nationallyrecognized radio station that has been giving a voice toUBC students and the Vancouver Community since1937. @citrradio

Tis years Media Fair is a trade show-style exhibition o local, alternative, non-

commercial and innovative media production. Our goals are to bring together anumber o diverse communities involved in media advocacy and education, andto help promote the cause o media democratization to a much wider public. Teollowing organizations will be present at this years Media Fair:

MEDIA FAIR

[VPL Promenade, Saturday, November 12, 12:00-5:00pm]

With a circulation o over 100,000, Adbusters is anot-or-prot, reader-supported magazine addressingthe impacts commercial orces have on our physical

and cultural environments, and motivates social actionaround these issues to change the way we live in the21st century inormation age. @adbusters

One o the most recognizable human rightsorganizations in the world, Amnesty International is aglobal movement o people committed to the promotionand protection o human rights. We ocus on reedomo expression, through conventional and social media

outlets, as well as advocacy on behal o press reedom, journalists, and other media proessionals who havebeen threatened or imprisoned around the world.@aicanadamedia

Art Treat is a non-prot online publication devoted topolitical art and cultural policy. We discuss art that seeksto interpret, inuence or reect upon society; showcaseartists who inspire social change and discuss policy in

terms o culture. @artthreat

Te Canadian Centre or Policy Alternatives is anindependent, non-partisan research institute concernedwith issues o social, economic and environmental justice.Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one o Canadas leadingprogressive voices in public policy debates. Tey publishthe CCPA Monitor, a publication on the oreront omany progressive struggles in Canada. @ccpa


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Using online space and mixed-media storytelling, CoopCulture's mandate is to enrich Canada's dialogue oncultural diversity. @coopculture

Te Council o Canadians is Canadas largest citizensorganization, working to protect Canadian independenceby promoting progressive policies on air trade, clean water,energy security, public health care and other issues o socialand economic concern to Canadians. @vancocdns

One o the world's best-known environmental action

organizations, Greenpeace International is backed byan international membership o nearly 3 million, withregional oces located throughout the world.@greenpeaceca

Published by CiR 101.9FM out o the Universityo British Columbia, Discorder magazine has beenproviding Vancouver with vibrant, dynamic, andengaging coverage o the citys independent music scenesince 1983. @discordermag

Gen Why is a community building production groupthat uses public art, media, workshops and events toengage society in new orms o civic participation.@genwhymedia

Associated with the grassroots movement to launch TeCorporation lm, Hello Cool World is an alternative adagency whose mandate is: Ideas to audiences; audiencesto action; action to outcome. @hellocoolworld

SFUs campus radio station gives voice to local artists,activists, cultural inuencers, and media makers through

its diverse and entertaining programming. @cjs

By telling local stories at street level, and puttingdistribution in the hands o community members,Megaphone makes media or change. @megaphonemag


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OpenMedia.ca is a national, non-partisan, non-protorganization working to advance and support an openand innovative communications system in Canada. Teyare best known or coordinating the 'Stop Te Meter'campaign earlier this year, a campaign widely recognizedas the biggest online citizens' campaign in Canadianhistory. @openmedia_ca

Out In Schools engages youth through lm in thepromotion o saer and diverse learning environments,ree rom homophobia and bullying. Trough cinemaand social dialogue, they oster community engagementaround issues acing the queer community. @outinschools

Pacic Cinmathque is a non-prot lm societybringing Vancouver the essential cinema experience. Forover teen years, our education department has oeredscreenings and workshops in critical media literacy,digital lmmaking and lm education. @thecinemateque

Pull Focus is Vancouver's only non-prot lm school,empowering students to raise social awareness through

thought provoking documentary lms. Students aretaught to write, produce, lm and edit broadcast-qualitymini-documentaries that can be used as outreach andpromotional lm material or charities/non-prots whocan't aord it. @pullocuslms

Te United Nations Association in Canada's Multimedia+ Multiculturalism Project has partnered with SchemaMagazine to coordinate, develop & deliver the Me InMedia (MIM) project. Te goal o MIM is to inspiredialogue around the inclusion o ethnic diversity in the

multimedia landscape.

Peace it ogether unites youth rom opposing sides o a

conict to engage in a month-long program o dialogueand lmmaking. For the past seven years Peace it ogetherhas ocused on the Israeli/Palestinian conict and has runthree dialogue & lmmaking programs as well as onedialogue & outdoor adventure program. @peacelms


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Since 1962, the BCCLA has been an active and

prominent deender o civil liberties and human rightsin Canada. Tey provide community education on civilrights and liberties, advocacy in action, public policy andjustice programs. @bccla

Te Mainlander is Vancouvers go-to publication or

independent, analytical and progressive coverage omunicipal issues. We aim to provide historical perspective,economic and political analysis, and critical journalism. We strive to create a orum or those aected by localissues, but oten have their voice drowned out by largermedia. @mainlandernews

RangiChangi Roots is a non-prot organization seeking tobring the green movement and cultural communities togeth-er. We work to build bridges between diverse communitiesthat work on human rights and climate issues. @rangichangi

Ricepaper provides a unique and vibrant outlook on

contemporary Asian arts and culture in a Canadiancontext. Tey are committed to creating a orum orinclusive, representative and progressive dialogue orthe diverse interests o Asian Canadians. Tey strive toconnect the local, national, and global community bychallenging how Asian Canadians are perceived anddened. @ricepapermag

Te Indo-Canadian imes is a high quality Punjabi weeklynewspaper that has served Canada or over 34 years. It isthe oldest and largest circulating Punjabi newspaper inCanada. Apna Roots is a bi-weekly, English newspaper

serving the Indo-Canadian/South Asian communitysince 2001. Te Punjab Di Awaaz is a Punjabi weeklynewspaper serving the Punjabi community residing inBritish Columbia and Metro Vancouver. Tis paper isast gaining popularity with the Punjabis or the daredevil editorials, investigative news and articles printed inPunjab Di Awaaz.

Tis year, rabble.ca celebrated its 10th birthday as aleading non-prot, independent media organizationdedicated to providing platorms and perspectivesunavailable anywhere else in Canada. rabble is built onthe eorts o progressive journalists, writers, artists and

activists across the country - it's news or the rest o us.@rabbleca


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Te Vancouver Observer is creating a new mainstreamor media by bringing Vancouverites together via theircoverage o culture, city, lie, people and politics. With260+ contributors they are one o the highest rankednews sites in the city. @vanobserver

Tis mural entitled Sumasx Efect: UBC and Friendship

House Mural Project depicts the First Nationscommunities o Prince Rupert, BC, was designed by a19-year-old aspring Nisaga'a artist and includes over500 photographs taken over 4 years. Its a starting pointor a longer-term interactive multi-media piece byJennier Wolowic, UBC, and Te Friendship House oPrince Rupert. Tis mural will be on display on Saturdayat the VPL.

Te Vancouver local o the national Media Co-opnetwork is the city's only reader owned, grassrootsindependent news source. We launched as an openpublishing website where we post stories, videos, imagesand more rom the streets o resistance. @vanmediacoop

W2 Media Cae is a media centre in Vancouver's DES. W2 provides access to multiplatorm broadcastingequipment, training, production and distribution support

to promote social inclusion, breaking the digital divide,crosscultural dialogue and redress. @w2woodwards

Founded in 1973, VIVO Media Arts Centre isVancouver's oldest media arts access centre whose visionis to directly support independent artists, community-based producers and activists to develop and exchangetheir skills and ideas.

Te yee is Canadas leading independent online newsmagazine. With eisty, in-depth coverage o politics,social and environmental issues and arts and culture, wepublish award-winning journalism vital to our democracy.Founded in 2003, the yee is a must-read or the straightgoods on whats happening in BC and beyond. @thetyee

Schema Magazine oers a reection o pop-culture andidentity or interculturally-minded individuals shapedby the sensibilities o 1.5-, 2nd- and sometimes 3rd-generation, mixed race, transnational and urban livingCanadians between the ages o 18 and 35. Schema isn't

a magazine or people "caught between cultures" but,instead, or "cultural navigators" who wish to share theirmovement through complex cultures within society.@schema_magazine


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