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[damian kahya]

Dear all,

I am trainee journalist on a course in Cardiff. Along with a friend i'm 
researching a story on the movement.

Our research will last months but to begin with we are planning to attend 
the 'stop the war' protests and meetings in london over the next week. We 
spoke to Rachel at the reclaim the future meeting a few weeks ago and she 
suggested that we could work together during the demo and share material, 
i'm writing to ask if this is possible and who we should contact.

To sum up what we're trying to do. The plan is a half hour radio documentary 
which we're aiming at both yourselves and radio 4's 'on the record 
programme'.

The reason for trying to do something aimed at the 'mainstream' media is to 
counter the myth of political apathy, to show that while participation in 
institutional politics may be low there is massive participation in politics 
and protest outside institutions and to show what those who seek to work 
outside the 'mainstream' are up against.

We hope to challenge the limited way in which the media has so far tackled 
this kind of protest. Classics such as a wide angle of protest zooming to a 
narrow angle of violence or talking heads with Naomi Klein and Tony Benn 
spring to mind. Even the anti-war protests are likely to be portrayed 
entirely as a traditional 'vietnam' style protest, which is not telling the 
whole story and thats why we want to start with them.

To do this we hope to speak to as many people involved in the movement as we 
can between now and june, show what drives them and how demonstrations and 
non-violent protests are organised without political parties or traditional 
organisations. We also hope to show the diversity and invitable 
contradictions within the movement.

Though the piece will certainly not be sycophantic it aims at journalism 
which allows the voices of those involved to tell the story. Though it uses 
the mainstream media we believe that there are corners where good research 
based journalism is still showcased irrespective of the bias of the 
organisation and our training school has some contacts with Radio 4. That 
said it is still an independent piece, radio 4 would certainly have no say 
over its content or editing.

We hope to work with you as much as possible. Though neither of have been 
involved in the movement up till now both of us feel linked to it through 
freinds and family and this story is partly a personal effort to learn more 
and contribute something to indy-media.

We want our listeners to understand the causes of protest,  how widespread 
it is and how non-violent protest actually works not how it is portrayed as 
working i.e. riots and battles with police.

hope to speak to some of you soon my mobile number is below,

thanks,

Damian

Damian Kahya
07974563869




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