Final line up for Media Democracy Day!

Please circulate far and wide, this is an important event for all of us working in, or concerned with, media, communications or social change.

Speaking For Ourselves: Media Democracy Day 2008

October 25th, 2008

Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street

12:00pm – 6:00pm

FREE

With media concentrating into fewer and fewer hands, and Internet Service Providers quickly emerging as online gatekeepers, a public forum on media issues like Media Democracy Day takes on a new sense of urgency.

MDD 2008 includes a series of exciting panels, workshops and speakers.

Confirmed speakers include:

*Rex Weyler - World Renowned Author and Co-founder of Green Peace
*Deborah Campbell - Award Winning Independent Journalist
*David Beers - Publisher – The Tyee
*Michael Tippett - Co-founder of Nowpublic.com
*Marika Swan - Redwire Native Youth Media
*Charlie Smith - Editor of the Georgia Straight
*Robert Hackett - professor at SFU and author of "Remaking Media"
*Andrea Hayley - president of the Epoch Times Vancouver
*Robert Scales – CEO of RainCity Studios
*Dawn Paley – The Dominion Newspaper
*Gurpreet Singh - Broadcaster on Radio India, freelance columnist for Surrey Now, freelance reporter for South Asian Post
*Matt Thompson - Campaign Strategist for FreePress, Co-Founder of SaveOurNet.ca
*Kate Milberry - Media and Technology Commentator
and many more!

Panels and Workshops include:
*Big Media Clamp Down: Taking stock and fighting back
*Free Your Computer, Free Yourself - Practical steps to get you on the
road to liberation with free and open source software
*Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination
*The Battle for New Media and Open Communication
*Community Organizing and Media
* Open Source Journalism

Full programme pasted below and more information at:
http://mediademocracyday.org/vancouver

Join the MDD Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/inbox/#/event.php?eid=85334255510&re...

Find info and tools to promote MDD here:
http://mediademocracyday.org/press08

AND!!!

*MDD Multi-Media Extravaganza After Party/Fundraiser: 9pm – 1am @
**VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE ***

*Address:*
1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC V5T 3C1

VIVO - 1965 Main Street, Vancouver (@ 3rd Ave West).

9:00pm

Media Democracy Day presents the multi-media artist Jackson 2bears and
guests! Inspired by electronic music and dj/vj culture, 2bears uses the remix as a tool for cultural critique, reflecting on issues of: racism, colonialism, discrimination, Indigenous subjectivity and Native stereotypes. These Live Cinema/Scratch Video remixes incorporate digital images as well as video and sound, with samples taken from film, television, the news and advertising and then cut-up, looped, and scratched to the rhythmic patterns of hip-hop breaks and drum n' bass sequences. There will be a bar at the event.

MC: Ifny - FreeGeek

more at: http://mediademocracyday.org/vancouver