[imc-christchurch] [Diary]Direct action training

[Leith McLean]

My computer ate the real Activist Diary for this week, or rather it somply 
melted and exiled me to an internet cafe. I'm sorry if you sent me something 
to put in and it's not here; I'm creating this week's Diary from memory.

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This Saturday is the People's Moratorium Enforcement Agency's direct action 
training workshops in Christchurch. People are coming from all around the 
country; join them at the Christchurch Environment Centre, 64 Kilmore 
Street, from 10am onwards (please bring a donation: the PMEA are touring the 
country and are fuelled by donated money and firewood).

Tonight, at 8pm on CTV, there's a documentary about media ownership in New 
Zealand. I've appended the big info sheet for anyone who wants more info or 
would like to order a copy.

Peace Week starts on August the 6th: the anniversary of the nuclear bombing 
of Hiroshima. There will be a commemorative lantern-floating ceremony from 
6pm, in Victoria Square.

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Just when you thought it was safe to Eat Media Lunch...

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Aotearoa Indymedia Auckland in association with PlaNet TV
PRESENTS the  DOCUMENTARY:  WHOSE NEWS?

A beginners guide to  the relationship between  Democracy and News Media 
Ownership in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Where:  CTV, Christchurch. UHF 53 (www.ctv.co.nz)
When:  Monday July 26th, 8.00 PM; Thursday July 29th, 11.30 AM

Help Non-Profit Media Makers out by ordering a VHS copy, rather than taping.
For VHS ordering information, contact:  bern at ihug.co.nz
Tel: 09 3765994
$15 non-waged / $20 waged / $75 institutions
http://www.gpja.pl.net/sub/Education/Other/Indymedia/Photos/WN.html

Whose News?  is a 25 minute documentary exploring the  relationship between 
News Media Ownership and the kind of News we have on offer in Aotearoa New 
Zealand.

Presented as a Current Affairs style documentary, the programme engages with 
the media forms of print, television, radio and internet.  Principle 
interviewees include:  Political Studies lecturer, Joe Atkinson;  Foreign 
Investment Commentator, Bill Rosenberg; and the Editor of Scoop, Alistair 
Thompson.

A key question raised by the documentary is:  What is the relationship 
between democracy and the function of news media in this country? This has 
implications for thinking further about local and global production of ‘The 
News?  Other topics engaged with include:  media ownership structures; the 
impact of de-regulation and commercialisation; censorship; editorial 
interests; media reporting of protest actions and the War on Iraq; the 
implications of the TVNZ charter; and the role of ‘alternative?media in 
Aotearoa New Zealand.

The documentary was produced through the voluntary efforts of the Auckland 
Documentary Collective, a not-for-profit group of media practitioners 
engaged with the development of community access media.   The Collective is 
associated with IMC (Independent Media Centre) Aotearoa, a network of media 
groups around the country who contribute to the maintenance of the Open 
Publishing Indymedia News Website:  www.indymedia.org.nz

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