Own Your Media - Vancouver

“The media is the place where we have a discussion with each other. We can't know everyone individually. We do it through the media. When the kitchen table that we all sit around is controlled by a very few, they are deciding who comes to the table, and that can determine the decisions that are made, when we go to war and when we don't.”

- Amy Goodman

Do you know more about American Idol’s Top 24 than about the people in Fort Chipewyan dying of rare cancers? Are you aware that peep toe shoes are the hottest thing this spring, and oblivious of the fact that the minimum wage in oil-rich Alberta is actually the lowest in Canada? Did you hear plenty from American and Israeli politicians when the border between Gaza and Egypt was broken in January, and nothing from the Palestinian women who made it happen?

Corporate-owned media serves its own interests by reporting stories that benefit its owners, shareholders and advertisers. If media is to serve the people – to report stories that are important to our lives – it needs to be controlled by the people.

The Dominion (dominonpaper.ca) provides accurate, critical news coverage on events, policies and movements in Canada. It is also a multi-stakeholder coop, owned and operated by its readers and journalists.

The Dominion is now taking Canadian media to the next level. With a comprehensive five-year plan, The Dominion aims to build an independent news cooperative that will challenge the corporate press in Canada – and publish the stories you need to know about.

Own Your Media! Building a Grassroots News Cooperative

Thursday, March 27 at 6pm

Harbour Centre, Room 1425

515 West Hastings St., Vancouver

More info:

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/tour08

Find out what Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky and John Pilger

say about The Dominion!

dominionpaper.ca/coop/endorsements