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[Tony]

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>>Need Help for Media-Activist Manual
>>Call this : a Call for Action !
>>
>>We invite Practising Media-Activists, whatever your media or 
>>experience, to Contribute. To a Media-Activist Manual (MAM).
>>SEND US EXPERIENCE, CRITIQUE, SUGGESTION
>>
>>/Why Now ?/
>>Because lots of Otra Mundistas are moving these days in the LowLands !
>>
>>D14 will be the culminating point of half a year of protests 
>>against European capitalist globalisation. D14 takes place in 
>>Brussels during the "summit" at the end of Belgium's Presidency of 
>>the European Union.
>>
>>We, as media-activists, take advantage of this Moment to gather as 
>>much of Media-Activist Experience as we can during the protests of 
>>Sept.22 (Liege), 0ct.19 (Gent) and Dec.14 (Brussels) and make them 
>>available for all those who'll be working as media-activists in the 
>>future.
>>
>>/MAM : What ?/
>>This Media-Activist Manual will consist of a true Manual, Printed 
>>on Paper, together with a MAM-Website.
>>
>>/MAM : Three Parts /
>>The MAM'll contain three chapters
>>#1 The Media-Activism Experience
>>txtwriting/html/video/interview/audio/sound system/entartâge 
>>(see:Bill Gates)/flyer and so on
>>you name it/and then turn it into a new Activist Media !
>>#2 Function-ing of Corporate Media
>>analysis and critique, based on writings of Serge Halimi, Ignacio 
>>Ramonet, Ben Bagdikian, Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, Robert 
>>McChesney and YOU, if you decide to send us your opinion
>>#3 Media-Activism
>>Frequently Made Observations ("Media-making is incompatible with 
>>Activism"/"You should be balancing sources" / "You people ask the 
>>right questions, but give the wrong answers" / "Amateurs ! 
>>Professional journalism is ten times better" and so on..)
>>should get Smart Answers
>>
>>/Editors /
>>Allthough the MAM is not an IndyMedia-initiative, the 
>>Collectors-Editors (han Soete, Timothee "LadyRedKitten" Genot, Raf 
>>Custers) want to build this manual on the collective 
>>IndyMedia-energy.
>>We have all been collaborating with IndyMedia-Belgium since its 
>>start in June 2000. We also throw in our professional backgrounds 
>>as web- & graphic designer & journalist.
>>The Antwerp based publishing house EPO ( one of the very few 
>>remaining leftist publishers in the World) wants to print the book 
>>in Dutch and probably French. Contacts with editors in Italy and 
>>elsewhere have been established. Anyone who wants to translate the 
>>texts in English, Deutsch... FEEL FREE !
>>
>>/Deadline /
>>December 2001
>>
>>/Contributions & Suggestions to :
>>han@skynet.be
>>raf.custers@euronet.be
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