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| Name | Medias and Press International Group of Action vs WTO-Cancun |
| Web address | www.omcmexico.org |
| Email | medios@omcmexico.org |
| Address | Medellin 33
Mexico, D.F.
Mexico |
| Phone | (52) 55-55-33-64-75 |
| Description | A JOINT MEDIA STRATEGY TO DERAIL WTO, CANCUN 2003
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From September 10 to 14, 2003, will take place in Cancún, Mexico, one
of the most important meeting of the world's economic powerholders:
the 5th Ministerial of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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The Social Movements of the world are mobilizing and organizing various
actions in order to impose their social agenda. As this was the case in
similar Summits and Counter-Summits, one terrain of struggle in Cancun
for organisations to derail the WTO will be towards medias and public
opinion, giving therefore its whole meaning to the right of expression and
the right of all to information.
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The "Medias and Press" International Group of Action, an open
coordination space which operates at different levels (Cancún, Mexico,
International), was formally created during the Hemispheric and Global
Assembly against the Free Trade Area of the Americas FTAA and the
World Trade Organization WTO, held in Mexico City on May 11-12, 2003.
It operationalizes an integrated strategy that seeks to "Build a
communication process in order to contribute to derail WTO and FTAA
and to give visibility to the peoples' alternative proposals".
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Among many activities, the Group channels many of its efforts to pull
together in Cancún the Communications and Medias Alternative Center,
(CACME) with all the infrastructure this implies, and also facilitates a social
convergence process between social organizations' press people and
between independent and alternative medias.
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The challenge of the media strategy is to break down the corporate
medias disinformation circle, and to promote a collective effort to
maximize our abilities to reach public opinion. To that effect, the strategy
is putting forward two streams of action:
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I- Build the conditions in Cancún for the convergence and positioning of
independent medias, therefore facilitating a real, first-hand and alternative
coverage of events.
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II- Spin in corporate mass medias through coordinated press work in
Cancún, the social agenda of movements and organisations, and the
meaning of their protests and alternative proposals.
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Any support, through funding or donated equipments, will be appreciated. Thank you! |
| Areas of Work | trade and trade-related issues
media and communications
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