Amira Hass, the award-winning Ha'aretz newspaper columnist, brings the hardships and repressions experienced by Palestinians to her readership in Israel every week. As a resident and correspondent reporting from the West Bank, she is in a better position than most Israeli journalists to paint an accurate picture of life there. She has been on a Canada-wide speaking tour and will appear in Toronto tonight. For more information, click here.

DocumentCloud is a tool that enables the annotating, organizing, and sharing of documents amongst journalists.

The content a user uploads to DocumentCloud remains private until that user chooses to make it publicly accessible. Currently, DocumentCloud's public catalog contains transcripts, testimony, legislation, reports, memos, meeting minutes, correspondence, court filings, etc.

http://www.documentcloud.org/

Following Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, journalist Oiwan Lam founded InMediaHK. InMediaHK's establishment was a reaction to the perceived contraction of Hong Kong's public sphere under Chinese rule.

http://www.inmediahk.net/

http://twitter.com/inmediahk

Australian-born Julian Assange is the editor-in-chief of the website WikiLeaks. A hacker in his youth, Assange later became a computer programmer.

To date, Assange has been the recipient of numerous awards and nominations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange

Mark Crispin Miller is a Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and a well-known public intellectual. His writings on film, television, propaganda, advertising and the culture industries have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers the world over, and on his blog News from Underground (markcrispinmiller.com). He is the author of several books, including Boxed In: The Culture of TV (1998); The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder (2001); Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney’s New World Order (2004) and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform (2005).

Bolivian investigative journalist Cecilia Molina will excavate and elucidate on the stories and experiences of the men, women and children of Bolivia's mining industry. Canadian journalist Dawn Paley will speak on how these experiences are connected to policies espoused by the Canadian state, including bilateral free trade agreements,diplomatic support and legal loopholes to accountability.

This is a free event.