MEDIA RELEASE: Aotearoa Indymedia Convergence 2007: Building Alternative Media for Social Change
FROM: Aotearoa Independent Media Centre
DATE: 1st February 2007

The Aotearoa Indymedia Convergence 2007 will take place in Tamaki-Makaurau (Auckland) this weekend (2-4 February). Indymedia is a global network started in 1999 for the protests against the World Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle. In Aotearoa, the Independent Media Centre (www.indymedia.org.nz) has been active for 5 years.

"We will start with a film night on Friday, 2nd Feb, screening documentaries about the resistance of Tuuhoe and the aftermath of the 2006 Tongan riots" says indymedia activist Danyl Strype.

"On Saturday and Sunday we will have a range of workshop on media activism including photography, video skills and conducting interviews."

"The purpose of this event is to create space for a range of people involved in independent media in Aotearoa to meet each other and learn about each other's projects, shares skills, discuss issues affecting media freedom and access and brainstorm strategy and tactics for what we can do to make media that allow communities to share their stories rather than media that broadcasts the profit-motivated propaganda of corporations and their lackeys."

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Convergence Details:

Indymedia Convergence: Building Alternative Media for Social Change
Friday February 2nd - The Antidote #15
An evening of alternative political documentaries

Whose News?
Fuck the Corporate Media
Tuhoe: History of Resistance
Revolutionary Not Evolutionary: The Aftermath of the 2006 Tongan Riots

Where: Room Arts 716, on the 7th Floor of the Arts Building,
University of Auckland, Corner Symonds St & Grafton Rd
When: Films Start 7:30pm

Saturday and Sunday 3rd and 4th of February
Media Skills for Activists || Discussions on Media Freedom ||
Introduction to Non-Corporate Media Projects || Photo, Video, Writing,
Radio Workshops || Building non-corporate Media Alternatives ||
Two days of workshops, skillshares, project building, organising, and
planning. Discussions on the corporate media, censorship, the
potentials and pitfalls of the internet and the future of the Aotearoa
Indymedia Network.
When: 10am to 5pm.
Where: Unite offices, Level 12, Unite House, 300 Queen Street

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