Media Reclamation Project

Mid-year media update June 29, 2009

~~ This update is pretty much a grab-bag of different media issues/stories, with a video towards the end, followed by a ‘take-action’ item. Happy browsing! ~~

* From Honduras, where a military coup took place early Sunday morning:
>> Honduran army smothers media after coup:
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/06/from-reuters-honduran-army-smothers.html
>> Journalists arrested and beaten by Honduran coup forces…
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/06/urgent-update-553pm-telesur-journalists.html
>> … then released after international pressure
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/06/update-635pm-telesur-and-associated.html

* The Globe and Mail workers have voted for a possible strike soon …
http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN2940003820090629
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5g65ZPtG1Pl_Smi9Dg6FtFZtiZG0Q
… and so here’s some inspiration for them, regarding Le Journal de Quebec:
http://rrj.ca/issue/2009/spring/785/

* In the media and communication, there’s a need for more than just the truth:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/29-2

* Argentine community media fights for access and legal reform:
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21715

* How the media misrepresents the fight of Indigenous in Peru to save Amazon:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-gibler/indigenous-protest-and-st_b_214901.html

* The media persecution of Michael Jackson
http://counterpunch.org/reed06292009.html

* The mainstream media and twittering on Iran
http://counterpunch.org/bratich06252009.html

* Big business aiding the Internet crackdowns in Iran and China (are we next?)
http://www.alternet.org/media/140894/big_business_is_aiding_the_internet_crackdown_in_iran_and_china_–_will_the_technology_be_used_on_americans_next/

VIDEO

* Antonio Lopez on ‘Mediacology’
http://www.ecoversity.org/tv/tv-antonio_lopez.html

TAKE ACTION!

The Ottawa Public Library’s suggestion form for library acquisitions is at:
https://www.biblioottawalibrary.ca/forms/formindex_e.cfm

Some possible requests you could make to support Independent Media that aren’t currently carried by the library include, under the ‘Magazines’ category,
>> The Dominion www.dominionpaper.ca
>> Upping The Anti journal www.uppingtheanti.org
and whatever else you feel might be good! (you’re allowed 5 requests per month, and they only want book requests published in the past 2 years)