Vancouver MDD 2008

Media Democracy Day 2008 festivities took place at the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia Street(map), on Saturday October 25th 2008 from 12 noon to 6 pm. Admission is free and open to everyone. See the full programme!

MDD included a series of exciting panels, workshops and speakers.

• Confirmed Speakers
• Media Democracy Fair
• Publicize MDD
• Full Programme!
• TAKE BACK THE MIC! Media Democracy Day Afterparty/Fundraiser
• Sponsors
• Media and Community Sponsors
• Become a Sponsor of MDD

*Rex Weyler - Co-founder of Green Peace
*Deborah Campbell - Award Winning Independent Journalist
*David Beers - Founding Editor of The Tyee
*Charlie Smith - Editor of the Georgia Straight
*Gurpreet Singh - Broadcaster on Radio India, freelance columnist for Surrey Now, freelance reporter for South Asian Post
*Michael Tippett - Co-founder of Nowpublic.com
*Robert Hackett - professor at SFU and author of “Remaking Media”
*Andrea Hayley - president of the Epoch Times Vancouver
*Robert Scales – CEO of Raincity Studios
*Matt Thompson - Campaign Strategist for FreePress, Co-Founder of SaveOurNet.ca
*Kate Milberry - Media and Technology Commentator (See her blog)

Our media democracy fair provides a chance for you to meet local media makers, technology innovators and civil society workers, including representatives from:

Adbusters
Antigone Magazine
Beyond Robson
CCPA
Co-Op Radio
CiTR
CJSF 90.1fm
Community Media Education Society (CMES)
ICTV
Council of Canadians
Campaign for Democratic Media
Epoch Times
Fair Copyright for Canada
Fearless Media/W2
Free Geek
Megaphone Magazine
Mozilla Foundation
No One is Illegal
NowPublic
People's Voice Newspaper
Rag Tag ProductionsSeriously Free Speech Committee
SFU CMNSU (Communication Student Union)
Spartacus Books
TheTyee
Vancouver Observer
VIVO Media Arts Centre

Want to help publicize MDD? Check our press page to find information and tools that you can use to spread the word: http://mediademocracyday.org/press08

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