Version en español en otro mensaje.
OURMedia member Sasha Constanza-Chock is currently in Cancun helping
organize the Tidal Wave. See his first article at
http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/newswire/display/90/index.php
CALL FOR GLOBAL SOLIDARITY WITH INDYMEDIA CANCUN FOR TIDAL WAVE
CONVERGENCE AND WTO COVERAGE
Summary: Indymedia Cancun is reaching out to all who are able to
financially support the Tidal Wave Convergence and the independent WTO
Coverage in September. This is crucial for the existence of alternative
coverage during this momentous event, which will further determine the
future of globalization and the WTO.
"We would like to mention that in the coming days there will be a very
important meeting in Cancun, Mexico. And we are not referring to the
meeting of the World Trade Organization, that body which commands the
new world war against humanity. No, we are talking about the meeting
which will have people from all over the planet, in order to repeat the
"no" to the exclusionary world of money and to affirm that another
world is possible. It is our understanding that there will be a meeting from
September 1 - 7 concerning alternative media and technology, and from
September 8-9, a campesino forum. And, on September 9, within a month,
there will be mobilizations in Cancun and throughout the world against
those who think they are the owners of the planet. In September, the
word of the Zapatistas will go to Cancun and to the planet, in the
method and manner which shall be decided."
Comandante Zebedeo, EZLN, August 9th 2003
(Ejercito de Zapatista Liberacion Nacional/ Zapatista National
Liberation Army)
This September will mark round two in the global struggle against the
World Trade Organization. After the WTO faced no resistance in
monarchical Qatar, the highest decision making body of the organization
is meeting for the 5th time in Cancun, Mexico. With conflicts raging
within the bureaucratic corridors of the WTO itself and the added
factor of world-wide and local mobilizations, there is the distinct
possibility that the organization might come to a collapse in Cancun.
The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org) was born at the
Historic Battle of Seattle and now, 4 years later, has become the
leading communication network for media activists worldwide. The global
Indymedia network has been an indispensable tool of solidarity among
activists fighting together against the same forces of domination.
Now, during this next historic meeting of the WTO in Cancún, México,
Indymedia is in need of solidarity from the global activist community.
As mentioned above by Commandante Zebedeo we will be hosting an
Alternative Media and Tech Convergence, called Tidal Wave, between the
1st and 7th of September. There has been a growing demand from social
justice organizations in Latin America to learn more about how media
systems works and can be made to benefit them. This voice has come most
audibly from those groups seeking to increase awareness about
alternatives to neo-liberalism. Realizing that the corporate media are
naturally predisposed to censoring views critical of the free market
system, this demand has been increasingly expressed as the desire for
the formation of a concrete alternative; a network of alternative
communicators that can disseminate the voices, views, and events of
popular struggles, on the local, regional, and international level. We
believe the convergence can consolidate much of the current knowledge
on alternative media and technological practices, and then impart this
knowledge to a broad set of communities and movements.
The Tidal Wave Convergence
( http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/feature/display/3/index.php )
will meet with other Indymedia activists arriving in Cancun to produce
accurate reporting of the many alternative forums taking place, the WTO
meetings themselves and the massive street protests against neo-liberal
policies. The Independent Media Center in Cancun (
http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org ) will be a resource spot for
all progressive media coverage of the ministerial and the concurrent
alternative forums.
Without your support and involvement the world will depend on corporate
coverage of the WTO in September. Help us break the dominant paradigm
to get the voices of the people out!
Please donate by going to the below address:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick
[log in to unmask]&item_name=Conve
rgencia%20de%20Medios%20/%20Alternative%20Media%20Convergence&item_number=2&
no_shipping=1
(or go to http://cancun.mediosindependientes.org/ and link to DONATE
at top right corner)
Or contact [log in to unmask] and/or
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independent media initiatives.
Can't make it to Cancun and have some time to lend? We also need
people to translate text, transcripts, and interviews. Contact email
above - we especailly need Spanish/Spanish translation, but any
Spanish/? speakers would be helpful as well.
IndyCancun
OURMedia/NuestrosMedios
a global network of activists, academics, and practitioners
working toward stronger alternative, community, and citizens' media.
Una red global de activistas y academic@s apoyando
los medios alternativos, ciudadanos y comunitarios
Contact: Clemencia Rodriguez
University of Oklahoma
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