Campaign for Democratic Media

May Day Ottawa: Solidarity Against Austerity

Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 11:30am

Location

Confederation Park

Elgin and Laurier

Ottawa,, ON

Canada

45° 25' 15.9024" N, 75° 41' 35.0268" W

See map: Google Maps

Solidarity Against Austerity is a newly formed network of community, student, labour, peace, environmental, and anti-poverty organizations, which is organizing to stop the cuts to our public services and defend workers rights.

May Day is a commemoration and active civic engagement that takes place on International Labour Day, whereby we remember the struggles of workers across the world who have fought and continue to fight for fairer wages, better working conditions, and equal economic opportunities. This day, is for all members of Canadian society.

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"The year the media died" (A parody video)

Following on the success of the Wall Street Meltdown parodies, L. McDuff wrote Mad Avenue Blues. The video takes a popular song and substitutes industry-specific lyrics. Mad Avenue Blues is about the media/advertising world and the impact to the traditional models brought about by the accelerating migration to digital.

Sung to Don McLean's "American Pie", this 19 stanza song was written and produced in just one day.

Mad Avenue Blues was produced for non-commercial amusement purposes only and is not intended to offend any people or companies appearing in the video. All images were found on the internet and are the property of their rights owners.

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Media democracy activists in Vancouver host forum on money and media

rabble staff

| May 27, 2009

Media Democracy Day organizers in Vancouver are planning a number of events in the coming months to examine the media landscape in this country. Tonight, a public forum at VIVO Media Arts Centre (1965 Main St.) looks at 'Where's the money in media?'

With newspapers being shuttered across North America, CanWest's losses piling up and a concentrated media environment crying out for financially sustainable alternative voices, the question of money and media is being urgently discussed across the country.

rabble columnist Wayne MacPhail recently weighed in with a column on 'The new cost of news.'

Sign the Quality News Manifesto

Paul D. Boin

| February 24, 2009

On January 25 the CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRATIC MEDIA launched a quality news manifesto/campaign to pressure the CRTC and our elected officials to protect and improve the quality and diversity of news in the Canadian media landscape. This initiative/manifesto already has 863 electronic signatures. Please read the Manifesto below and consider SIGNING THIS MANIFESTO.