Thank you all for the amazingly fast turn-around. Took me all day to catch up with your leads! :-) below what I've collected. I was not planning on doing a major research project, but I hope that ourmedia can be a space for collective memory. Strikes me that too much of our history is not archived anywhere... project idea: an our media movements archive, with newsletters (print and e-mail), websites, oral history, video library etc. I think CIMA is starting to do this a bit for the US movement, and CRIS people are pretty good about recording their history, there are probably a number of institutions/researchers doing this kind of work.... Everybody, save your newsletters, mailing lists, etc., tell your stories! BTW, looks like Isis-International Manila, a major information resource for feminist communications movements, is on hard times... My colleagues went there recently and they had lost most of their funding, had to cut down on staff.... ----- Videazimut *VIDEAZIMUT pretty much collapsed, though many of us lament that, around 1998, must have been past 1998, they still had a conference that year... * Alain Ambrosi is a good person to get more information from. (Tracey, Bruce) * Regina Festa - as I know - the last president of Videazimut. (Adilson) *http://www.namac.org/article.cfm?id=2&cid=21&aid=86&num=3 Article by Hye-Jung Park (ca. 1997) * Right to Communicate Virtual Conference co-organized by Videazimut http://commposite.uqam.ca/videaz/about/about_videazimuten.html (Archived by gabi as html 3 levels deep) * videazimut old site no longer available on way back machine (net archive) * Videazimut article in WACC Media Development journal ca. 1996 http://www.wacc.org.uk/de/layout/set/print/content/view/full/1389 * From: Aliza Dichter,CIMA: I recently did some research on media advocacy coalitions of the 1990's which included Videazimut. According to my oral history research, just at the time when the Secretariat was moving to South Africa they lost their primary funding, and without paid dedicated staff, it was too hard for the main organizers to keep up, given the demands of their own home organizations. The paper is " Together, We Know More: Networks and Coalitions to Advance Media Democracy, Communication Rights and the Public Sphere 1990-2005" http://www.ssrc.org/programs/media/publications/Dichter.10.final.doc ---> recommended reading for all interested in the American Media Reform/ Media Democracy Movement !