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Event: Indymedia in Africa

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Event: Indymedia in Africa

By
Sean Jacobs

Early next year the 10th annual World Social Forum will be held in Dakar, Senegal. Indymedia activists plan to organize an Independent Media Convergence alongside the WSF. The main aim is to work with and train local media activists from over the continent during the WSF. There’ll be a fundraiser for the Media Convergence tomorrow night at Le Grand Dakar in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. AIAC’s Sean Jacobs will chair the panel. Details below.

December 12, 2010:

6 pm:
Panel Discussion: “Media activism and Social movements in Africa”
with Omoyele Sowore (Saharareporters), Sphinx (Indymedia Ambazonia/Cameroon), Mohammed Keita, (Committee to Protect Journalists), Jamie McClelland (Mayfirst / People Link). Chaired by Sean Jacobs (The New School).

8pm
DJ, Nomadic Wax

@ Le Grand Dakar Restaurant, 285 Grand Ave (between Clifton Pl & Lafayette Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11238, Phone  718.398.8900

By Subway take the G train to Classon
By Bus take the B38 to Grand Ave

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