Friday October 18th @ Associated Newspapers

Early morning 'Media Circus' at this major corporate media company on October 18th - bring cameras, videos, audio kit and your notebook and ask the corporate media workers about the media machine - open invitation also to all media who support issues of media democracy...

Time: 8.45am-10am
Location: Associated Newspapers
(Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, Metro)

Northcliffe House
2 Derry Street
London W8 5TT

The offices are on Derry Street in Kensington. (Nearest tube: High Street Kensington) Turn right once you leave the tube station and Derry Street is the first turn on the right.

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- Free outdoor film screening of the Indymedia European NewsReal on the day it launches + other radical film shorts @ South Bank near NFT - 8pm

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October 19th

The Anarchist Bookfair ( http://www.anarchistbookfair.org) on Saturday 19th October will come under the banner of Media Democracy Day as a community media and information event.

Film screenings will run most of the day and two sessions organised by Indymedia will be dedicated to media issues

(11am- 1pm) - Independent Media Laboratory: a chance to catch up with the uk's independent and alternative media groups and discuss strategies for the future + Mainstream Media On Trial: debate on the UK's mainstream media and the issues central to Media Democracy Day, including a discussion of how corporate media repeatedly fails to accurately cover large scale protests + Looking ahead to Media D Day 2003 and beyond to Geneva, December 2003 and the UN World Summit on Information Society.

All are invited...

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Other Media Democracy Day Events:

Lancaster:
October 18th
Kinematograph @ The Gregson, Moor Lane 8pm - Free launch day screening of European NewsReal + "Globalisation and The Media" Plus the first meeting of Lancaster Independent Media Centre.
More info:  info@nephridium.org

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Manchester:
October 22nd
BeyondTV Manchester @ The Font - New Wakefield St 8pm
European Indymedia NewsReal Launch and Media Democracy Day Event
Featuring :
*Launch of European Newsreal Project
*Indymedia Manchester presentation
*No to War films
*Live link up with All FM Under the Pavement Radio show.
*Music and Vjing from the Phush Collective
*Special speakers on Anti Militarism.
Launch of the European Newsreal Project which will be Screened for the first time in the North on the 22nd of October. These are UNCENSORED films made by people who do their research and don't pretend to be "impartial". It's a very new, fresh and hands on approach to media. We thing you'll like it! - @ The Font, New Wakefield St., 8:00 PM.

We are also starting up an Independent Media Group in Manchester to help out running the UK indymedia site (http:// uk.indymedia.org). Come down to find out what it's all about and how to get involved.
More info:  http://www.beyondtv.org/pages/event_page.php/20

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For a list of Media D Day events worldwide including demos, actions, and discussions see:
 http://www.communicationism.org/mediademocracyday.org/actions.html

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Reclaim The Media!

 http://www.mediademocracyday.org
 http://www.mediademocracyday.org.uk