| Joost van Beek on Wed, 28 Apr 2004 06:41:15 +0200 (CEST) |
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| <nettime> Sign the European Manifesto for Minority Community Media |
I hope nettime-l, with all its media activists, is an appropriate medium to post this at - apologies for any cross-posting. *** European petition campaign 'European Manifesto for Minority Community Media' *** Sign the European Manifesto for Minority Community Media & support your (local) media! Surf to http://www.multicultural.net/manifesto/petition.htm and add your name to the hundreds of media professionals and organisations, minority organisations and activists, politicians and concerned individuals who already signed. The manifesto supports and underlines the importance of minority community media and calls for recognition of the role this sector plays in Europe. The initiators aim to get as many signatures as possible by 29 April 2004. The campaign will culminate in the presentation of the manifesto to Pat Cox, the current President of the European Parliament, on that day, ahead of the upcoming European elections. (Nevertheless, after April 29th, individuals and organisations will still be able to sign the manifesto, as lobby activities will be undertaken to the new European Parliament as well.) The European Manifesto and the campaign are an initiative of Online/More Colour in the Media (OL/MCM) and the transnational network of national platforms of minority community media. The full text is available in twelve languages on http://www.multicultural.net/manifesto/ Some background: Since 2002, the European network Online/More Colour in the Media and partner organisations like Cospe, Mira Media, NORDSAM and Indvandrer TV have been bringing together local minority media and organisations running national platforms of such media. Over the course of several workshops, these established a transnational network, which this year launched the "European Manifesto to support and underline the importance of minority community media". With the Manifesto, the signatories ask for political recognition of the role these media play in providing their audiences with essential information, providing a platform for dialogue within the minority communities and between the minority and the majority communities, and in so doing helping ethnic minority communities to participate as equal citizens of their country of residence. They are requesting measures to support minority community media in dealing with the challenges they face. Over 700 organisations, media and individuals have already signed the European Manifesto. We are now sending out a "last call to sign" before the Manifesto and the signatures are presented to Pat Cox, though we will keep on collecting signatures after that, too, as lobby activities will be undertaken to the new European Parliament as well. -- __________________________________________ Online/More Colour in the Media (OL/MCM) Postbus 672, 3500 AR Utrecht, The Netherlands [email protected] http://www.multicultural.net Tel. : +31-(0)30-2399035 Fax. : +31-(0)30-2302975 __________________________________________ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]