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What is the role of innovation in activist media cultures?: Civil Media Conference 2009

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At the beginning of November, Camp GF was busy at the Civil Media Conference in Salzburg, Austria. As an event which brings together media activists, community workers, policy makers, and scholars this annual conference is always a good opportunity to think about the role of technologies and strategies in media activist cultures and beyond. This year's topic was "innovation" and it got me thinking about feminist media communities. We had the opportunity to discuss these ideas in two panels, "Participatory Culture and Technology in on- and offline networks" (with Tea Hvala, Rosa Reitsamer and Sonja Prlic) and "Feminist Media Production in Europe" (with Trouble X, Sarah Diehl, Cristiane Tasinato and Nicole Niedermüller)- more info on these below. We also had the obligatory zine exhibition on show.

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Grassroots feminism web 2.0: An interview with Red Chidgey

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Grassroots feminism 2.0?

Want to make connections with grassroots feminist activists across borders and languages? Melanie Maddison talks to Red Chidgey about an online project that aims to help us do just that.

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When the seeds have been sown: Some publications from the GF project

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Hi everybody, just a heads up on some publications that have emerged from researching feminist media production in Europe through this platform and conducting interviews.

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"but you can't eat rights": Mamma Cash's guide to economic justice

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Mamma Cash is an international organization giving grants to women and transgender led projects. Here's an article by Gisela Dütting and Esther Vonk on why economic justice issues must be central to our feminist work. It covers what is meant by economic justice, why is it so urgent, and what the most important issues are. For them economic justice includes:

* equal rights, equal opportunity, equal wages
* fair working conditions
* economic independence and economic security
* economic participation
* mobility
* access to fairly paid work
* control over money and resources
* universal access to basic services
* sustainable and just economy
* an end to inequitable international economic relationships

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Media and Gender Politics at the Autonomous Womyn's Gathering, Vienna

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"Smash, smash, smash all the nations
We are the feminist generation
We mess up military bases
We destroy fascist nations
Bombs, Guns and Evolution
We're gonna make a Revolution
We wanna start an insurrection
We wanna find a new direction"
- Protest song at the Autonomous Womyn's Gathering, Wien

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MORE FEMINISTS IN THE MEDIA! Join WIDE's Friends in the Media Network!

WIDE invites journalists to join our ‘Friends in the Media Network’. This is a network WIDE is setting up to provide better access to information to journalists who want to report on women’s rights, development, economic and trade issues; are truly open to critical reflection and daring enough to ask the difficult questions and propose alternative approaches to existing dominant trade patterns in the economic mainstream.

By becoming one of WIDE’s Friends in the Media, you will gain access to:

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histérica fanzine

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histérica is a fanzine made by brazilian girls. the first issue was out this summer, it's 26 pages xerox. we interviewed: dominatrix, seminal punk feminist brazilian band, still playing. the lead singer, elisa gargiulo makes in brazil the very known lady fest brazil.
and we also interviewed allison wolfe, from bratmobile, that inpire us and everyone else.

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Red Dawns Festival: Queering solidarity and honoring militant historical memory

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"Festival Red Dawns does not advocate a further polarization of genders or "war of the sexes". Instead, the creativity and the mingling of the participants of Red Dawns question the boundaries we take for granted; the isolating boundaries that separate people regardless of our gender."
- Red Dawns festival website

Back in March 2009, I went to the queer feminist festival, Red Dawns/Rdeče zore in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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Zines: Scrambled documents for a choatic age?

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Everyone at Camp GF (Grassroots Feminism) is extremely busy at the moment, reading, writing, thinking, and ferreting for precious examples of grassroots media in Europe, so first of all, please forgive us for falling behind in blog entries.

We wanna share with you some of the places we've been and what we've been up to and how we think about contemporary feminist media. First up is the ZineFest! Red organized at the Women's Library in London at the beginning of the year.

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The European Women's Lobby 50/50 Campaign: Gender Audit Report in view of the European Elections June 2009

The European Women’s Lobby* (EWL) 50/50 Campaign for Democracy has been running since September 2008 and is supported by more than 200 prominent personalities in Europe. It aims to put gender equality at the core of European policies and to promote the equal representation of women and men in the European institutions, in particular in the European Parliament.

The 50/50 Campaign has newly published a Gender Audit Report of Electoral Lists and Political Programmes, in view of the European elections of 4-7 June 2009.

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