MEDIA

DEMOCRACY
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NOVEMBER 6, 2010
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PROGRAM GUIDE
Media Democracy Day 2010
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MEDI A DEM OCRACY DAY 2010
SCHEDUL E AT A G L A N C E
time alice mackay room alma vandusen room peter kaye room promenade
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM Opening Keynote Speaker: Closed Closed Media Fair Opens
Tony Burman

Introduction: Robert Hackett

1:00 PM - 2:20 PM PANEL 1: CONCURRENT PANEL 1-1: CONCURRENT PANEL 1-2: Media Fair Open
Fox News or Democratic Communication? Global Protests and Media Controlling Creativity? Copyright
Media at a Crossroads • Cathryn Atkinson Issues in Canada
• Tony Burman • David Eby • Martha Rans
• Donald Gutstein • Irwin Oostinde • Hart Snider
• David Skinner • Isaac Oommen • Geof Glass

Chair: Steve Anderson Chair: Stuart Poyntz Chair: Meera Nair

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM PANEL 2: CONCURRENT PANEL 2-1: WORKSHOP 2-2: Media Fair Open
Spinning the Environment, Greenwashing Gender, Sexuality, and Violence: Media Engaging the Resistant Among
the Message Representations Us: Achieving Change Through
• Ken Wu • Amber Dawn Documentary and Journalism
• Colleen Kimmet • Mary Lynn Young
• Richard Littlemore • Marsha Newbery Facilitated by: Liz Schulze of the
Pacific Cinémathèque
Chair: Shane Gunster Chair: Kathleen Cross Introduction: David Murphy
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM PLENARY PANEL: Closed Closed Media Fair Closes at
Moving Toward Change: 5:00 PM
• David Beers
• Lori Macintosh
• Camyar Chai

Chair: Stuart Poyntz

Post-MDD Social + OpenFile.ca Launch Party: REMIXOLOGY 3, featuring Steve Pratt, Director of CBC Radio 3; moderated by Karen Pinchin, Editor of OpenFile.ca
Vancouver. A collaboration between Fresh Media, MDD, Vancouver Community Television Association, OpenFile.ca, and W2. This event is a fundraiser for the VCTA.
[W2 Storeyum, 151 W. Cordova | Doors 5 PM, Mr. Pratt begins at 7 PM | $7 Advance, $10 Door]
Media Democracy Day 2010
Speakers, panelists, and sessions
Opening Keynote Address: Tony Burman, Senior Executive of the
Americas, Al Jazeera English (Alice MacKay Room, 12:00 PM-12:45 PM)
As a 35-year veteran of the CBC, Mr.
Burman represents a strong belief in a
media system that fills a public service
mandate. His past projects include
serving as executive producer for The
National, producing many award-winning
documentaries for The Journal, and
working as chief news editor for CBC
Television. He was CBC’s editor in chief
from 2000-2007. In 2008, Mr. Burman
was appointed as the managing director for Al Jazeera English
(AJE), the English-language branch of the Al Jazeera network, an
organization celebrated for its democratizing influence on media
cultures around the globe. This autumn, Mr. Burman moved from
Doha, Qatar to his new position as AJE’s Senior Executive of the
Americas, based in Washington and Toronto.
AJE challenges dominant north-to-south media flows and gives
voice to the voiceless, particularly when covering conflict and
crises, and tells stories from behind civilian lines, instead of from
within the ranks of invading armies as CNN-style embedded
journalism does. As Josh Rushing, one of AJE’s hosts says, “CNN
films the launch of the missile. Al Jazeera films what happens
where it lands.”

Panel 1: Fox News or Democratic Communication? Media at a Crossroads

(Alice MacKay Room 1:00 PM-2:20 PM)
Recent controversies in Canadian broadcasting such as the about our national media policy framework? How do they reveal
attempted launch of Sun TV News (dubbed by many as Fox the unspoken biases of regulation and power in our culture? Most
News North), the purchase of CTV by Bell, and Shaw Cable’s importantly, how can alternative, innovative, non-corporate, and
acquisition of CanWest’s television holdings have raised serious public service media respond to a regulatory environment that
questions about the relationship between the media, political seems to be shifting to the right, both economically, and in spirit?
power, and persuasion in Canada. What do these debates tell us
Panelists:
• Tony Burman, Senior Executive of the Americas for Al Jazeera English and 35-year CBC veteran
• Donald Gutstein, Adjunct Professor of Communication at SFU, author of Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda
Hijacks Democracy
• David Skinner, Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at York University.

Chair: Steve Anderson, National Coordinator of OpenMedia.ca and media reform activist

Concurrent Panel 1-1: Global Protest and Media

(Alma VanDusen Room 1:00 PM-2:20 PM)
Ever since the Seattle WTO demonstrations in 1999, global
protests have become a part of the mainstream media’s image
bank. Whether covering the recent G20 protests in Toronto, or
opposition to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, the
mainstream media have, for most of the past decade, painted
citizen activism and engagement with the same brush. What are
the shortcomings of mainstream media representations of protest
and negotiation at global marquee events such as the G20 and the
Olympics? How are alternative and independent media re-writing
this story to make it more diverse?

Panelists:
• David Eby, Founder of PIVOT Legal Society and Executive Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
• Isaac K. Oommen, Editor member of the Vancouver Media Co-op
• Cathryn Atkinson, News and Features Editor for Rabble.ca, award-winning journalist
• Irwin Oostinde, Executive Director of W2 Community Media Arts

Chair: Stuart Poyntz, Assistant Professor at the SFU School of Communication

Concurrent Panel 1-2: Controlling Creativity? Copyright Issues in
Canada (Peter Kaye Room 1:00 PM-2:20 PM)
When details of the new Conservative copyright bill were have now been in consultations for nearly a year, but, if a revision
announced earlier this year, as expected, the proposed committee is not formed soon, many of the recommended
amendments fell into line with the spirit of the American Digital changes will die on the table. This panel will evaluate the
Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 2001 by favoring private proposed policy framework, explore the outcomes of the
interests and profit over a balance between fair public access and consultation process, and suggest regulatory avenues that inspire
protection and compensation for creators. These proposals creativity and protect the work of media makers and artists.
Panelists:
• Martha Rans, Legal Director of Artists’ Legal Outreach, Vancouver Project Lead for Creative Commons Canada
• Geof Glass, PhD candidate at SFU School of Communication, co-founder of Vancouver Fair Copyright Coalition
• Hart Snider, Filmmaker, documentarian, and video remix artist

Chair: Meera Nair, PhD in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, focused on fair dealing and copyright

Panel 2: Spinning the Environment, Greenwashing the Message

(Alice MacKay Room 2:30 PM-4:00 PM)
The language of environmental responsibility and green living How has corporate media, particularly in light of recent
has become commonplace in the mainstream corporate media environmental disasters, attempted to spin the story of stainability
in the past decade, and is often trumpeted most vocally by and ecojustice in their favor? How can media produced outside the
those organizations and corporations who are most in danger of corporate framework challenge the greenwashing pandemic? What
seriously harming and depleting our planet’s sustaining systems. general role does media play in the environmental movement?
Panelists:
• Colleen Kimmett, Environmental journalist with The Tyee
• Richard Littlemore, Co-author of Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming, named Book of the Year at the 2010
Green Book Festival in San Francisco.
• Ken Wu, Environmental activist and co-founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance

Chair: Shane Gunster, Environmental communication researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Concurrent Panel 2-1: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence: Media

Representations* (Alma VanDusen Room 2:30 PM-4:00 PM)
Despite the influence of the women’s and gay rights movements
of the mid-20th Century, which offered some hope for the
creation of a more equitable media system, much of our
contemporary media continues to construct a distorted view of
the world. It continues to reinforce the invisibility of women
and alternative sexual identities, to police the contours of
heteronormativity, and to project images of sexualized and
gendered violence. Further, women working within the media
industries continue to struggle with access to the meaning-making
discourses in our western world. What are the key battlegrounds
within the media landscape where this particular vision of gender
and sexuality needs to be combatted? What role do we, as media
makers and citizens, have in producing a more just media system
for all genders and sexualities?

Panelists:
• Amber Dawn, Program Director of Out on Screen and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival
• Marsha Newbery, Managing Director, Women in View and PhD Student, SFU School of Communication
• Mary Lynn Young, Director of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, recognized authority on gender and the media

Chair: Kathleen Cross, lecturer at the SFU School of Communication and national coordinator for the Global Media Monitoring
Project, a longitudinal multi-country research project that looks at gender in news.
* This panel is sponsored by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University

Full speaker biographies can be found on the last two pages

Concurrent Workshop 2-1: Engaging the Resistant Among Us:
Achieving Change Through Documentary and Journalism*
(Peter Kaye Room, 2:30 PM-4:00 PM)
Preaching to the converted has critically limited potential to based documentary strategies. Brainstorm with colleagues, learn
achieve change outside of a narrow community. This interactive new techniques, and uncover highly effective narrative and
workshop invites you to enter the minds of the unengaged, or psychological strategies to get new viewers beyond apathy and
even resistant, viewers so often alienated by fear- and attack- into activism.
Facilitator: Liz Schulze, Education Manager, Pacific Cinémathèque
Introduced By: David Murphy, lecturer on video production and communication for social change at SFU
Maximum Number of Participants: 30
*This workshop is sponsored by the Pacific Cinémathèque and the Centre for Policy Research on Science and Technology at SFU

Plenary Panel: Moving Toward Change: Final Thoughts on Media,

Democracy, and Social Change (Alice MacKay Room, 4:10 PM-5:00 PM)
In this closing discussion, attendees will have a chance to come makers, scholars, and activists, this panel will seek out and identify
together with their peers and our MDD exhibitors and speakers important sites of opportunity within our media landscape through
to hear reflections on the themes of the day. Led by some of a number of lenses including policy and regulation, artistry and
Vancouver’s foremost independent and alternative media creativity, and social justice and equity.
Panelists:
• David Beers, Editor of The Tyee, renowned journalist
• Lori Macintosh, Curricular consultant and volunteer with Out in Schools, and a Board Member with Out on Screen and the
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
• Camyar Chai, Theatre, opera, film, and television artist, and Arts Coordinator for the City of Richmond.

Chair: Stuart Poyntz, Assistant Professor at the SFU School of Communication

Media Democracy Fair: Get to know your local media makers!

(Promenade, 12:00 PM- 5:00 PM)
Access to Media Education Society: AMES works with a range of
community-based organizations to provide marginalized youth the resources and
training needed to represent themselves through media.
Amnesty International: One of the most recognizable humanitarian
organizations in the world, Amnesty has been a vocal advocate for press freedom
and the defense of journalists working and imprisoned abroad.
Ancient Forest Alliance: The AFA leads the charge in defending B.C.’s old-
growth forests through responsible, well-reseached environmental communication
and activism.
policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other
issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
Discorder Magazine: For 25 years, Discorder has been providing Vancouver with
vibrant, dynamic, and always engaging coverage of the city’s indie music scene.
Fair Copyright Coalition: The FCC is made up of Canadian creators,
consumers and ordinary citizens who believe that Canadian copyright law must be
fair and representative of the needs of all Canadians. They hold meetings, organize
events and help spread awareness about what copyright reform means to people in
all walks of life.

BC Civil Liberties Association: The BCCLA is Canada’s oldest and most Gen Why Media: Gen Why Media is a peer-produced, collaborative media
active defender of civil liberties and human rights. BCCLA provides community coalition that seeks to characterize the current paradigm shift driven by youth
education on civil rights and liberties, advocacy in action programs, and public culture. Gen Why was recently invited to showcase its work at TEDxVancouver,
policy and justice programs. taking place November 27th at the Kay Meek Centre.

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Through community outreach,
research, and excellent publications, the CCPA provides a counterbalance to the
neoliberal and Conservative policy element in Canada.
CFRO Co-op Radio: This year, Co-op Radio is celebrating its 35th
Anniversary! Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 102.7FM is a non-
commercial, co-operatively-owned, listener-supported, community radio station
located in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
CJSF Radio: SFU’s campus radio station gives voice to local artists, activists,
cultural influencers, and media makers through diverse and entertaining
programming.
Council of Canadians: The Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’
organization, working to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive
Hello Cool World: Most notorious for their ongoing association with the
grassroots movement to launch The Corporation film, Hello Cool World is a
network and campaign developer whose mandate is: Ideas to audiences; audiences
to action; action to outcome.
La Source: La Source plays a leadership role within Vancouver’s complex
intercultural communication network. Genuine in its wish to assist communities
of different origin to understand and communicate with one another, La Source
actively participates and sponsors major events throughout the city.
Megaphone Magazine: By telling local stories at street level, and putting
distribution in the hands of community members, Megaphone makes media for
change.
Momentum Magazine: Vancouver-based Momentum tracks cycling culture and
charts a course for sustainable community growth.
Open Government West: Open Government West is a network of open
government supporters and practitioners, working together to foster progress on
open government issues and technology throughout the US and Canada.
OpenMedia.ca: OpenMedia.ca is a national, non-partisan, non-profit
organization working to advance and support an open and innovative
communications system in Canada.
Out on Screen: Out on Screen, Out in Schools, and the Vancouver Queer
Film Festival devote themselves to raising awareness of the stories of the queer
community through cinema, education, and community engagement projects.
Pacific Cinémathèque: The Cinémathèque is Vancouver’s only film appreciation
and education institute. With a mandate of showcasing a diverse program of
essential cinema, this non-profit helps Vancouverites see the world differently.
Pirate Party of Canada: Started in 2009, the Pirate Party of Canada strives
to reform Canadian information laws to meet the needs of the new century by
advocating reform of copyright policy and the patents system, more respect for
privacy, net neutrality, open government, and digital sovereignty.
Pull Focus Film School: Pull Focus is Vancouver’s only non-profit film
school, empowering students to raise social awareness through thought provoking
documentary films.
Purple Thistle Centre: The Thistle is a youth-run arts and activism centre
offering a free drop-in community space with resources, classes and projects to
young people in East Van.
Speaker Biographies
Steve Anderson is the national coordinator for OpenMedia.ca (formally called
the Campaign for Democratic Media). He is a contributing author of Censored
2008 and Battleground: The Media and has written for The Tyee, Toronto Star,
Epoch Times, Common Ground, Rabble.ca, and Adbusters.
Cathryn Atkinson is the news and features editor for Rabble.ca and an award-
winning journalist. Her career spans 25 years in Canada and Britain. She has
written for The Guardian, The Observer, The New Statesman, Agence France-Press,
Elle, The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, CTV Online, and many other media
outlets. She has also shot photographs for The London Evening Standard, Reuters,
and AFP.
David Beers is founding editor of The Tyee. He has won national awards for
his journalism in Canada and the United States, writing for The Globe and Mail,
Vancouver Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, and many other
publications. He edited the “Fate of the Strait” environmental series for the
Vancouver Sun, which received Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Special
Projects.
Camyar Chai has worked in theatre, opera, radio, television and film since
1986. He has received several theatre awards, and has a couple of plays published
(including his latest, Ali and Ali 7: The Deportation Hearings), which have received
critical notice ranging from terrible to glowing. In the early nineties, Camyar
also founded Neworld Theatre, a mainstay of the Canadian independent theatre
scene that continues to tell stories that require us to examine the tension between
our capacity for compassion and our instinct for self-defence. Camyar is currently
working as the Arts Coordinator for the City of Richmond.
Kathleen Cross is a Lecturer in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser
University where her research interests include democratic communication, news
media analysis, gender in media, media theory (cultural and critical theory), public
opinion, and the analysis of political campaigns and elections. She also serves as
National Coordinator for the Global Media Monitoring Project, focused on gender
representation in media.
Amber Dawn is the programming director of Out On Screen and the Vancouver
Queer Film Festival. Her short films have played in over ten countries. She has an
MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is the editor of two queer anthologies.
Rabble.ca: Rabble.ca is a non-profit, independent media organization dedicated
to providing platforms and perspectives unavailable anywhere else in Canada,
built on the efforts of progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists across the
country—it’s news for the rest of us. Rabble.ca was recently nominated for two
Canadian online publishing awards
Ricepaper Magazine: Ricepaper provides a unique, vibrant, of-the-moment
outlook on new Asian-Canadian arts and culture.
Vancouver Media Co-op: The Vancouver local of the national Media Co-op
network is reader owned, grassroots, local and independent! They have an open
publishing website where they publish stories, videos, images and more from the
streets of resistance, and they also publish the Balaclava! a bi-weekly broadsheet.
Check them out at Vancouver.mediacoop.ca.
Vancouver Observer: The Vancouver Observer is creating a new mainstream for
media. Tying Vancouverites together through its coverage of culture, city, life,
people and politics, more than 260 contributors make it one of the highest ranking
news sites in the city.
VIVO Media Arts Centre: VIVO Media Arts Centre encourages and directly
supports the creation, production, exhibition, distribution, and appreciation of
media works by independent artists and alternative, community-based producers
and activists.
W2 Community Media Arts: W2 brings spaces to life with the arts and creative
technology in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. Their renovated space and
community media centre in the Woodward’s heritage building opens late Fall
2010.
Voted Xtra! West’s Hero of the Year in 2008, she is best known for representing
shameless, no-holds-barred queer sexuality, a theme throughout much of her
artwork and her community activism.
Donald Gutstein is an adjunct professor in the School of Communication
at Simon Fraser University and co-director of NewsWatch Canada, a media-
monitoring project. He has taught in the areas of news media, propaganda analysis,
and documentary research. His most recent book, Not A Conspiracy Theory: How
Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy (Key Porter), was published in October,
2009.
David Eby is Executive Director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and
an adjunct professor of law at the University of British Columbia. He is also
President of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and a research associate with
the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He has also done extensive work
with the Pivot Legal Society, a non-profit legal advocacy organization located in
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Geof Glass has been a professional software developer since 1991 and is a PhD
student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University where
he studies the online commons. He is concerned about copyright issues and
the federal government’s proposed copyright legislation, Bill C-32. He is also
the cofounder of the Vancouver Fair Copyright Coalition, one of over 20 Fair
Copyright for Canada chapters across the country.
Shane Gunster teaches critical theory and media studies at the School of
Communication at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Capitalizing on
Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2004) as
well as various articles in Cultural Critique, Television and New Media, Ethics and the
Environment, and more. He has recently completed work with the CCPA regarding
neo-conservative environmental discourse in Canada.
Colleen Kimmet is a Vancouver-based journalist who writes about science and
the environment for The Tyee, where she has authored columns on alternative
energy technologies, policy solutions to environmental degradation, and ocean and
river conservation. She is also an associate editor at Briarpatch magazine. Fiercely
independent and frequently irreverent, Briarpatch tackles today’s most pressing
problems from a radical, grassroots perspective.
Speaker Biographies Continued
Richard Littlemore spent 20 years as a writer and editor at some of Canada’s
most influential newspapers before turning to freelance journalism, consulting, and
speech-writing. His interest in climate change began in 1996, when he wrote the
David Suzuki Foundation’s first public information package on global warming.
Most recently, Mr. Littlemore co-authored Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny
Global Warming, which was named Book of the Year at the 2010 Green Book
festival in San Francisco.
Lori Macintosh is an educator, community activist, and scholar focused on issues
of media and diversity and youth media production. She is a curricular consultant
and volunteer with Out in Schools, and a Board Member with Out on Screen and
Vancouver’s Queer Film Festival. Lori is passionate about working with youth and
educators, and is committed to advancing knowledge about the ways in which
media can be utilized in schools and other educational settings.
David Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication at Simon
Fraser University and is interested in media production that is designed to advance
democracy and public debate. Other areas of research include the social impacts of
media and technology on the human condition, methods for using new media in
social research, and media literacy and analysis through the process of production.
Meera Nair holds a PhD from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser
University and currently teaches there. Her research focuses on copyright and
innovation. She has spoken frequently about the limitations and opportunities
within the system of copyright, and her work has been published in the Canadian
Historical Review and Global Media Journal. Her most recent work is “Fair
Dealing at a Crossroads” in a book addressing proposed changes to the Copyright
Act.
Isaac K. Oommen is one of the Vancouver Media Co-op’s editor members. He
specializes in print and photography, but is dangerously curious about video and
audio production. When he isn’t following global protests, he is a graduate student
at the School of Communication at SFU, and also works as a communications
coordinator.
Irwin Oostinde is Executive Director of W2: Community Media Arts Society,
which operates an artist-run centre that strives for cross-cultural dialogue, social
inclusion, and the breaking of the digital divide. W2 provides marginalized
communities with access to gear, training, and multi-platform production and
distribution. It is committed to community cultural and economic development in
the Downtown Eastside without displacement of low-income residents.
Stuart Poyntz is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon
Fraser University whose research interests include the relationship of children and
youth with media culture, public sphere theory, with specific concern for the work
Media Democracy Day Thanks...
The independent, alternative, activist, non-profit, public service, and innovative
media community that has made Media Democracy Day so dynamic and
productive over the past ten years
Our remarkable team of panelists, speakers, and workshop coordinators
The OpenMedia.ca and Fresh Media team for their advisory, administrative,
financial, community, and moral support
The Vancouver Public Library for co-sponsoring the event
Fresh Media, W2 Community Media Arts, the Vancouver Community Television
Association, OpenFile.ca, CiTR, Vancouver is Awesome.com, Net Tuesday, and
CJSF for co-hosting and co-sponsoring our social
The Vancouver Observer, Rabble.ca, and The Tyee for their official media
sponsorship
Mettlelurgy (Art of Amanda McCuaig) for our stunning graphics and artwork
of Hannah Arendt, and young people’s historical thinking, particularly in relation to
digital media technologies.
Martha Rans has been practicing law in B.C. since 1997 and has represented
artists in all disciplines, including painting, photography, architecture, sculpture,
textile, film, video, new media, animation, website design, graphic design,
theatre, and dance. She is the Vancouver Project Lead of Creative Commons
Canada as well the founder and current Legal Director of Artist’s Legal Outreach
(artistslegaloutreach.ca), a volunteer-run community clinic providing access to legal
information and free summary legal advice for artists and arts organizations.
Liz Schulze is the Education Director at the Pacific Cinémathèque. The
Cinémathèque was established as a film society almost four decades ago. Pacific
Cinémathèque is dedicated to advancing cinema as art and as a vital means of
communication. In that spirit, its Education Department offers film and media
education programs and resources for youth, teachers, and other community
members.
David Skinner is the Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at York
University. He has published a number of articles and book chapters dealing with
alternative media and media reform in Canada.
Hart Snider is an award-winning Vancouver filmmaker, most recently winning
a Best Picture Editing Leo in the Short Drama category for the 2009 Lisa Jackson
film Savage. He is also a video remix artist and so is particularly concerned with
the implications of Bill C-32, the latest proposed federal copyright legislation.
Hart is also currently working on a number of documentary projects including The
Basketball Game (NFB, animated short), Liberia ‘77 (Knowledge Network, feature).
Ken Wu is a prominent environmental activist in British Columbia, and co-
founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance. Over the years, he has been heavily
involved in campaigns to protect old-growth forests and wilderness areas in
such places as Clayoquot Sound, the Walbran Valley, the Elaho Valley, the South
Okaganan Valley, and the Whaleback Mountains. He served for ten years as
Executive Director and Campaign Director of the Victoria Wilderness Committee,
and also works to stop oil exploration and drilling off B.C.’s coast.
Mary Lynn Young is the Director of the UBC Graduate School of Journalism.
She is an associate professor and an award-winning academic and university
educator. She joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at the
University of British Columbia in January 2000. Dr. Young is also a recognized
authority on gender in the media.
The Media Democracy Day team would like to extend its deepest appreciation to
all the speakers and contributors listed above.
The Wilderness Committee for sponsoring our printing needs
Julia McDougall (Julia and her Piano) for performing at our opening reception
The students of CMNS 428 at Simon Fraser University and their instructor, David
Murphy, for graciously donating their semesters to providing MDD with excellent
video production and communication support
Jasper Sloan Yip, Yes Nice, and 41st and Home for donating their music to our
fundraising concert, made possible by contributions from The Railway Club,
Vancouver is Awesome.com, the First Weekend Club, Hello Cool World, Rain
City Chronicles, Rhizome Cafe, Babylon Buttons, Intersections Film Club, the
BC Book Publishers Association, and the Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition
CJSF Radio, Unbought and Unbossed, Granville Magazine, San Diego Media
Reform, Hello Cool World, Discorder Magazine, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver Queer
Film Festival, and the countless others who helped us spread the word online and
in the community