Hi Sean and all,
In Brazil we dream about a day when will have
licenses like this at our TV, although we have community channels where all
organisations try organize themselves in order to show their
programs.
Wish you luck and more good news in the
future.
I have yet some materials about that Videazimuth
meeting (somewhere in my house). I´ll try to scan it when I´ll have more time...
I agree with you that today we have some areas of action that make
desirable an international association like this. Maybe it would be good to have
some people from Brazil at the meeting in Marseille. Gonna
try!
Best,
Adilson
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:14
AM
Subject: Re: (Engl)Thank you all for
Videazimut (and Kevin Howley) info
I too was at that meeting near Sao Paolo .
My
feeling is that there are signs that there is a need for an international
organisations around video and community TV. There is a
meeting in Marseille (see below)
Incidentally, I am chair of Dublin
Community Television (www.dctv.ie) and the good news is we were granted a
license on the 23 February last to broadcast, including a 'must carry' on the
cable operator, the first in Ireland after years of lobbying etc..
(The bad news in we have no money, no premises, no staff...)
Bye
Sean
INVITATION TO AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
OF FREE TELEVISIONS
FROM
MAY 6TH to 8TH 2006
IN MARSEILLE - FRANCE
On the occasion of the
Meeting of Non Profit and Alternative Media in Marseille (France) that take
place as part of the States General
Meeting for the Promotion of
Pluralism in Media and Information.
At last we have found an
opportunity to invite you to France for an
extensive workshop on
free tv, citizen and community tv, alternative
tv, public access tv,
educational tv, local tv, tv centered on people and social issues
...
TV channels are emerging all over the world as non profit, non
aligned, non commercial, activist responses to the established propaganda of
media wholly dependent on advertisers and industrial corporations. These
alternative channels promote free speech and production and present programmes
that are truly conceived to serve popular expression ...
Definitions
vary from country to country, but the basic conviction is always the same:
that free access to the audiovisual media is essential to democracy. Citizens
must have access to television in order to instate pluralism in the views
expressed through the news media as well as in the fields of art, creativity
in general, culture and communication. These are domains that cannont be ruled
by economic considerations alone, or democracy is just an empty
word.
We hope you will all be able to attend and contribute to the
debate on the concrete means to instate pluralism and further democracy. It
will also be an opportunity to meet, share experiences and get organised
internationally and get this movement for free local, regional, national and
international tv networks off the ground ... together, throughout the
world.
Attached to this mail, the Appeal for Pluralism that's
circulating in activist circles in France concerns all media, all those who
work in / for the media all those who use the media (not only free media).
This initiative hopes to open the debate on the media as widely as possible,
to the media, free media, but also to viewers and users of the media, that
free media hope to bring forward as the main actors of their
programs.
All the information concerning the preparation and
organisation of this meeting will be posted on the freetvnetwork mailing list
(dedicated to free tv : all participants have moderator status and can send
mails and enroll other members freely to all the other members of the
list). If you are not already on the list, send us a mail (to :
[log in to unmask] ) and we'll register you. Of course, if you want to
quit the list, you all have access to do so yourself or, if you prefer, you
can send us a mail asking us to unsubscribe you.
Don't hesitate to
forward this invitation to any other free media or
citizen /
activist groups you think may be interested. Let us know if they want to join
the freetvnetwork mailing list.
All questions, interrogations,
suggestions and contributions are
welcome. The meeting, that
we will all organise together, hopes to
provide an informal
structure to open debate and reflexion and to
answer as many
expectations of as wide a palette of representations as we possibly
can.
Looking forward to meeting you in Marseille. Until then, we wish
you
all the best (and lots of courage) with your respective
ongoing
combats!
A bientôt,
Manue and Michel
for
the Zalea TV team, Paris
Zalea TV - France
http://www.zalea.org
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THERE'S:
NO FREEDOM WITHOUT FREE MEDIA
NO
PLURALISM WITHOUT FREE TV
NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT AUDIOVISUAL DEMOCRACY
NO
ALTERNATIVE WORLD WITHOUT ALTERNATIVE TELEVISION
At 13:29
16/02/2006, Tracey Naughton wrote:
Adilson and all
What an
interesting reunion. I was also at the Videazimut meeting in Sao Paolo along
with many other names that still pop up in media activist circles. These
include Dirk Konig, sadly no longer with us.
FYI I also have a large
collection of VHS material that was sent in for the selection process for
the last Videazimut meeting, the final one in South Africa. It is a great
record of alternate and struggle video.
It will remain around as long
as I have cupboard space for
it.
regards
Tracey
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