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Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:52:53 -0500
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Hi all,

Attached is the latest issue of the Upstream Journal published by the Social Justice Committee, a Montreal-based NGO. The issue focuses on "communication for social change". Four articles are by members of the OURMedia Network.

Voices of dissent - Amy Goodman and independent media
The role of community radio as an alternative source of information
By Elvira Truglia

"Talking strongly" - Indigenous media in Australia
Protecting culture and language through media technology 
By Michael Meadows

Media poetics and cattle - Colombia community radio, language and power
Challenging cultural assumptions in cowboy country
By Clemencia Rodriguez


Container tech - Jamaican community retrofits shipping container into creative computing centre
Technology is made local and becomes a tool of empowerment
By Francesca Da Rimini

Enjoy!

Elvira

2. The latest Upstream Journal is now available


The latest Upstream Journal is now available, with a special focus on the role of communication for social change. 


Subscription only $5!

  


36 pages of "Canadian perspectives on global justice."

Voices of dissent - Amy Goodman and independent media
The role of community radio as an alternative source of information

Grafitti as social protest
Street art challenges social and political structures when other options are limited

"Talking strongly" - Indigenous media in Australia
Protecting culture and language through media technology 

Media poetics and cattle - Colombia community radio, language and power
Challenging cultural assumptions in cowboy country

Container tech - Jamaican community retrofits shipping container into creative computing centre
Technology is made local and becomes a tool of empowerment

Le grand saut technologique et la "nouvelle économie" - au secours des pays en développement?
La expansion technologique - est-elle adaptée à la situation fragile dans ces pays?

The World Bank doesn't have - and doesn't want - human rights standards in its projects
Despite changing opinion on their importance in development, the world's largest development institution has no policy on human rights

The financial crisis and the future for Canada's foreign aid
Will cuts join high food prices, falling remittances and low export earnings in reversing development gains?

For more information:

http://www.upstreamjournal.org/

http://www.s-j-c.net







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