About Us
“Half a dozen megacorporations already control the bulk of all planetary information flows. Global capitalsim sustains itself with a massive internal machinery of propaganda. At stake is the ability to shape our own consciousness, our own future … So long as most of our communication channels remain in corporate hands, significant social change is impossible.” – Kalle Lasn, Adbusters
We are an action group of OPIRG-Ottawa (Ontario Public Interest Research Group) in Canada. It is a volunteer group made up of both students from the University of Ottawa, and members of the greater Ottawa community. We were founded in the fall of 2007.
The purpose of the group is to:
- support independent media
- work for media reform
- educate around media issues
Contact us:
- mediamattersottawa(at)gmail.com
- (613) 230-3076
- c/o OPIRG/GRIPO-Ottawa, 631 King Edward Ave. 3rd floor, Ottawa ON, K1N 7N8
A brief history of our initiatives / action:
- ongoing – sending periodic email updates on various media issues to an electronic mailling list of interested people (email us to get on the list!)
- April 2008 – launching this blog, featuring both an archive of updates and also static pages providing various media-related resources
- Fall/Winter/Spring 2007/2008 – supporting the start-up of Ottawa printing and distribution of the provincial Linchpin.ca paper
- February 15, 2008 – screening of the movie ‘A Little Bit of So Much Truth’ as part of the Ottawa Cinema Politica series
- February 09, 2008 – facilitating a workshop on ‘Organizing around Media and Communication’ as part of the Building Solidarity conference in Peterborough, Ontario
- November 20, 2007 – putting on an event entitled ‘Becoming a Citizen-Journalist’ featuring three engaging speakers (listen to the audio of the talks)
- October 20, 2007 – hosting an information table at the Imagine Ottawa Social Forum event
Live and let live my friends, live and let live