PeaceLink partecipa al Forum Mondiale Sociale di Porto Alegre (Brasile)

[Alessandro Marescotti <a.marescotti@peacelink.it>]

PeaceLink terra' un workshop nella giornata di sabato 2 febbraio, alle
ore 14.
GRASSROOT MEDIA AGAINST MAINSTREAM MEDIA: EXPERIENCES OF SOCIAL
ACTIVITIES BASED ON INFORMATION SHARING. 
Person responsible for workshop: Francesco Iannuzzelli
e-mail: francesco@href.org
Organization: PeaceLink 
Thematic area: THEMATIC AREA III : BOLSTERING CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE
PUBLIC REALM 
Thematic issue: HOW TO ACHIEVE DEMOCRACY IN THE MEDIA 
Summary/ aims of proposed workshop:
In the information age, the groups of social activist are learning to
produce news, articles, bulletins and websites that can reach people
directly, at low costs and without the intermediation of mainstream media
and press agencies. There are many experiences in which the production of
free information is the main field of social action for a group of
volunteers. This workshop is promoted by "PeaceLink"
(www.peacelink.it)
an italian net-based organization that since 1991 produce informations
about peace, human rights, social justice and ecologism, demonstrating
that not only a different world, but also different information is
possible, by focusing on people and troubles forgotten by the commercial
media. We would like to promote a workshop for sharing our experiences
with the ones of other people, groups and organization involved in the
process of constructing the "global village" of social
information as an alternative to the "globalized village" of
the media corporations. We would like to discuss also of the political
issues related to censorship, restrictions to press freedom and speech
freedom, governmental control and filtering of informations, social use
of cryptography.