FWD: Tidal Wave Cancun

sorry to steal from ntime, but for thoe not reading
that list, + in the interest of reaching more
people…

Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 07:13:20 -0400
From: [email protected]
Subject: <nettime> Tidal Wave Cancun

Convergence of Alternative Media into Cancun
Tidal Wave Cancun

Our partners of Indymedia Chiapas
<http://chiapas.indymedia.org> (who
participated in the forum Nuestros Medios ("Our
media") in
Barranquilla,
Colombia have a proposal of creating a Convergence of
Alternative Media
into Cancun, after contacting with representatives of
groups such as
AMARC
<http://www.amarc.org/>, Global Indymedia
J<http://indymedia.org>,Greenpeace
<http://greenpeace.org/>, Paper
Tiger
<http://papertiger.org/>, Deep
Dish<http://deepdish.igc.org/>,
Prometheus
Radio <http://prometheusradio.org/>, people of the
campaigns CRIS
<http://lac.derechos.apc.org/wsis/cris.shtml> and WSIS
<http://lac.derechos.apc.org/wsis/> .

The proposal begins as this:

1) Create a convergence of alternative media during
the ministerial
conference of the WTO in Cancun, 10-14 September 2003,
which would
include
2 steps:

a) Interchange of technology, ideas, experiences,
knowledge between
those
people involved (for example, pirate radio teaching
the using of waves,
how to build them, etc)

b) Capacity Building Networking for the people of the
civil society who
are interested in learning, initializing or grow up
their communication
strategies for their own movements and activities.
The firsts days of
the
network would chase the target of sharing our
habilities and knowledge
into the people who has not have the opportunity if
entering directly
in
the media topic, but have realized the necesity of
this for their
organizations and popular groups of developing
communication
initiatives.

- - The first step after the networks would be,
becoming the knowledge
shared for making the coverage on the next days of
movilizations and
forums by their own perspectives, now knowing how and
where they can
publish and archive their informations and
productions.

c) The preparatives for the spacing of the alternative
media would be
similar to the networks, in which hte coverage would
be done on the
next
days.

2) As part of the convergence of alternative media, it
has been started
to
discuss the relevance and importance of the
ministerial agreements that
they will do about the "audiovisual" and the
communications of the
"society of the information" que days after the
happenings on the WTO
in
Cancun will be the topic in the PrepCom3
<http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/2002/pc3/>. It is also
proposed to call
people to Reclaim the Airwaves by the alternative
radios. The proposal
is
to begin with joining and discussing the ideas by the
media, interested
in
creating the convergence, with those who will go into
Cancun and/or
those
who will stay in their cities to cover the
simultaneous mobilizations
to
Cancun <http://espora.org/cancun03/


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