The OpenMedia.ca Network
Organizations in the Campaign For Democratic Media Network:
• BC Association for Media Education
Formed by a group of teachers and media professionals, the British Columbia Association for Media Education was issued its certificate of incorporation as a non-profit society by the British Columbia Registrar of Companies in August 1991. See their brochure here.
• Briarpatch Magazine
Fiercely independent and (often irreverent) news & views, Briarpatch Magazine delves into today’s most pressing challenges from a radical, grassroots perspective, aiming always to challenge, inspire and empower its readers.
• Canadian Association of Campus and Community Television User Groups and Stations (CACTUS)
CACTUS stands for the Canadian Association of Campus and Community Television User Groups and Stations. CACTUS is an online resource and meeting place for campus and community television volunteers, producers, station managers, advocates and activists.
• Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) was established at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in the fall of 2003. It is the first legal clinic of its kind in Canada.
• Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
With more than half a million members across Canada, CUPE represents workers in health care, education, municipalities, libraries, universities, social services, public utilities, transportation, emergency services and airlines.
• The Center For Information Awareness (CFIA)
The Center For Information Awareness(CFIA)is a registered non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness to world events and situations by providing free access to world reporting and promoting alternative channels of information.
• Council of Canadians
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.
• CMG/CWA Canada
The Canadian Media Guild is a democratic trade union, duly recognized and certified under federal and provincial labour legislation. We currently have nearly six thousand members, all of whom work in the Canadian media.
• Community Media Education Society (CMES)
C.M.E.S. exists to promote neighbourhood television. We have three goals: participation, public access, and independent administration of the community channel.
• Democracy Watch
Democracy Watch's website is the #1 citizen organization website in the world listed when you search the Internet using Google.ca and the search words "democracy" or "government ethics" or "honesty in politics" or "bank accountability" or "corporate responsibility".
• The Edmonton Small Press Association (ESPA)
Although the term 'small press' usually applies only to projects of a printed or 'self-published' nature (e.g.: 'zines'), the ESPA defines 'small press' as almost any independent creative venture that includes the 'documentation' of visual media, literature, photography, web-based/media arts, or any combination thereof. We also encourage film/video and musical/performance projects, as we recognize both the importance of these mediums as viable cultural expressions, and the similarities between independently 'publishing' books and independently 'publishing' music, film and videos.
• Koumbit
Koumbit is a Montreal-based non-profit organisation established in 2004 whose primary activity consists of developing and hosting web sites for other non-profits, as well as helping them appropriate emerging information technology tools. Its founding principles are based on participatory economics, social justice and free/open source software.
• Media Action
Media Action envisions a media environment, which respects and reflects people in all their diversity, celebrates their capacity and contribution, and nurtures rather than erodes their self-esteem and opportunities. Media Action promotes gender equity through media analysis and action.
• Megaphone Magazine
Megaphone is a Vancouver street paper that is sold by homeless and low-income vendors. Vendors buy the paper for 50 cents and sell the magazine to customers by donation. All money from the transaction goes into the pocket of the vendor. Megaphone's mission is to provide opportunities and a voice for socially excluded people while helping inform people in Vancouver about issues that affect their communities.
• National Campus-Community Radio Association (NCRA)
The National Campus and Community Radio Association is the non-profit national association of organizations
and individuals committed to volunteer-based, community-oriented radio broadcasting.
• NewsWatch Canada
NewsWatch Canada undertakes independent research on the diversity and thoroughness of news coverage in Canada's media, with a focus on identifying blindspots and double-standards.
• Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC)
PIAC is a non-profit organization that provides legal and research services on behalf of consumer interests, and, in particular, vulnerable consumer interests, concerning the provision of important public services.
News and views from voices across Canada - from veteran reporters, to citizen journalists, to you. Articles, blogs, podcasts, video.
• Ruth & Henry Goodmand Fund for Social & Ecological Justice
The Ruth & Henry Goodman Fund for Social & Ecological Justice is a family fund that assists those organizations who are working to create a more just and equitable world.
• Sasquatch Newspaper
The Sasquatch is a non-profit, independent Saskatchewan newspaper with a commitment to promoting the public interest and fostering democratic debate.
Straight Goods is a watchdog working for Canadian consumers and citizens. The purpose of Straight Goods is to help you save money, protect your rights and untangle spin with investigative reports, features, forums, archives, and links to many others who share our values.
• The Tyee
The Tyee has attracted some of the best journalists in B.C. who have broken many important stories. We've published viewpoints banished from corporate media and shined a light on corners of the province Big Media ignores. We've provided a showcase for young talent and a forum for readers who post their opinions after our stories. We're your independent daily online magazine reaching every corner of B.C. and beyond.
• The Vancouver Observer
The Vancouver Observer is an online platform for bloggers, writers, reporters, photographers and filmmakers. It offers an infrastructure that utilizes professional editors, designers and open-source developers to create a platform that publishes Vancouvercentric news and features all day.
• VUE Weekly
100% independent news and entertainment weekly based in Edmonton, Alberta.
• W2
W2 is a community media arts centre in Vancouver, BC that will officially open Spring 2010. W2 will feature a 150-capacity performance space, community TV studio, FM radio station, gallery, social enterprise café, letterpress studio, telepresence and mobile media programs, and more.
• World Association of Christian Communication (WACC) North America
We are from Canada and the USA, a community of professional journalists, media makers, communications officers, and other media professionals who share a commitment to build a communications environment that is open to all and founded on respect for human dignity.
