Media contact list

[Maya Face]

Hi,
Just wanted to clarify that there are two existing groups: Media (tech and communications) and press (dealing with outside media). Our press group could definitely use more energy overall, and collaboration with the other media team.
I've attached a media contact list for anyone who'd like to use it.
Could someone please explain exactly what proposal was passed at the GA?
Thanks!
Maya

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Liz Reid <lizr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I wasn't at GA last night, but this is the last I knew:

Wednesday night the media team was working on a press release into the wee hours of the morning. This press release corrected the misinformation about an all-out media ban.  My understanding was that it would be brought to GA as a proposal before it was made public.  Matt was texting me throughout the GA last night and said it passed, and that you were advocating for it.  Am I misunderstanding something here?

At the media meeting, we also discussed how to deal with the press, having liaisons and press passes, etc. We need to merge with the press team and then split up into smaller groups. There was a suggestion that these groups be tech/web, creative media (video, photo, audio, writing), and public relations.  Looks like the two groups are doing some of the same work, so I think we definitely need to join forces in order to use our time and resources more efficiently.  Perhaps we should also merge the two email lists too. Or designate them for different purposes. Like "media" could be for the media we create, "press" could be for PR/dealing w/ outside media, and "web" could be for web/tech.

Liz

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, krystof <mano...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Liz.

You're welcome.  :)

I can get you lists of press people if you want those. You should join this group occupyoak...@googlegroups.com and see if they have a list they made...
I think you would be a good press wrangler :)

Whats the press release you reference?

-k

PS: I love the idea of an ocupodcast.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Liz Reid <lizr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Occupy Oakland Media Team Clarifies Situation
http://www.bayreporta.com/occupy-movement/occupy-oakland-media-team-clarifies-media-situtation

Roughly 500 Show Up at Occupy Oakland Protest
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/east_bay&id=8386607

Occupy Oakland: Society Must Be Defended From Rats (Opinion)
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2011/10/occupy-oakland-society-must-be-defended-rats-opinion

Freed American Hikers Speak to Occupy Oakland
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_19135928

Freed U.S. Hikers Speak at Occupy Oakland
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/10/18/freed_us_hikers_speak_at_occupy

Danny Glover, Cornel West Speak at Occupy Protests as MLK Memorial is Dedicated in D.C.
http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2011/10/17/danny_glover_cornel_west_speak_out

I primarily focused on rounding up positive or at least neutral news stories.

When is the press release going out? Do we still need to compile a contact info list? I can work on that today, though I'd rather work on the Occupodcast.

P.S. Krystof, Matt M. told me that you were integral in helping to reach consensus on the press release, and for that I thank you. I couldn't be there last night so I'm glad it went through.

Liz

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:24 AM, krystof <mano...@gmail.com> wrote:

can we use this thread to compile a list (title and link) of media that has been produced,
independent and otherwise, so that I can get them up on the site?

media includes:

online articles / blog posts / etc
picture galleries
videos
mainstream media tv reports
newspaper articles
 
thanks
-k

_______________________________________________
Occupyoakland_media mailing list
Occupyoak...@lists.hackbloc.org
https://hackbloc.org/mailman/listinfo/occupyoakland_media

[Kevin Seal]

Thanks, Caitlin.

I can email this out to the contact list Maya shared with us unless there are any objections.

My only tweak is a grammatical copyedit:
"Do not recording personal conversations and meetings without the express permission of those involved."
to
"Do not record personal conversations and meetings without the express permission of those involved."

If nobody objects before midnight tonight, I'll send it out at midnight.

Best,
Kevin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

Here is the text that was passed by GA

STATEMENT TO ALL MEDIA COVERING OCCUPY OAKLAND

We agree with Occupy Wall Street that corporations "purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media."

The mainstream media’s inextricable ties to corporate interests drive them to lie to protect profits. This undermines the discourse we have begun in occupations across the country and the world.

Due to this conflict of interest, we have set the following requirements for all media.

• All media and those with professional recording equipment will check in at the Media Tent, located in the Southeast corner of Oscar Grant Plaza.
Do not photograph or film people who are sleeping, receiving medical treatment, or have requested that you refrain from recording them.
Do not enter the kitchen, kid zone, or medic spaces as this disrupts their function.
• Do not recording personal conversations and meetings without the express permission of those involved.
  
We encourage you to document the General Assembly, the primary stage for public gathering and discourse, held daily at 7pm in the amphitheater.
Make an effort to report on a diversity of voices and opinions; the media team is happy to help.

[Kevin Seal]

I feel uncomfortable about it too; glad to hear I'm not the only one.  Were any of you at the GA that approved this?

Kevin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Josh Wolf <h...@joshwolf.net> wrote:

It was approved by the GA, so it should probably get sent out. But I do know that some people expressed concerns that imposing these as rules is not anarchistic and is also unconstitutional so I feel highly uncomfortable with it being sent out.

Josh

Sent from my iPhone

[Kevin Seal]

I very much wish more of us had been at that GA -- and that more of us on these committees had known about this proposal before it went before GA. 

Placing restrictions on reporting in a public park is unconstitutional.

Below is personal opinion:

From a public communication perspective -- keeping in mind that this is a battle for the rest of the 99% to either join us or turn against us -- this is self-defeating.  Strategically, this will likely just engender more inaccurate and antagonistic reporting.

Attached is the media contact list; I feel too uncomfortable with this to send it out myself, especially knowing that others share these concerns.

Respectfully,
Kevin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

I was at the GA. It was presented by myself, Christophe and Sean. It was passed by the GA. I  think it should be sent out ASAP.
Caitlin

[Kevin Seal]

The wording change to "guidelines" helps.  And I agree that we should abide by the process and respect the GA's decision to send it.  Thank you for respecting my choice to recuse myself from being the sender -- and for reading my opinion on the strategic pros and cons.  My hope is that these media people don't respond antagonistically, accuse us of hypocrisy, or resort to more covert means of coverage.

Kevin

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

Post script:
if it would make more of us more comfortalbe, we could change the wording from "we have set the following requirements". to "we have set the following guidelines".
Caitlin

 

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

Kevin,

This is no longer a regular "public space", it is an occupied square. We are preventing the police from entering, we are banning violent people from sleeping here, and we are setting rules for media. We are not banning media, we are restricting them from being abusive and  disrespectful.

It is not unconstitutional to restrict filming to protect people's privacy.   There are many valid reasons why people do not want to be filmed, and the GA has decided that it is more important to protect the people here than to allow corporate media to film whatever they want. This will actually protect media folks from people being very angry at their insensitive, aggressive and abusive behavior, to say nothing of the lies they have been perpetrating about the camp, and their refusal to cover even the most basic "news" about the camp, for example, that we are feeding hundreds of folks a day on donated food and labor.

The text was written collaboratively by  members of the committee and it follows the basic guidelines we came up with in our committee meeting. Before we proposed it, I ran it by a dozen or so people who were around the camp, including alternative journalists. Though there were a few objections, by and large people thought it was a good and strong statement.

We should abide by the process and respect the General Assembly decision, but I respect your choice not to send it out.

Regards,
Caitlin

[Kevin Seal]

I think the media has the potential to turn far more antagonistic, actually.  They're on a course toward fairer reporting on us in recent days, but I predict how some writers might respond to a list of 'restrictions.'  I can easily envision pull-quotes asking, "So in this revolution the freedom of the press is curtailed?" 

I fully agree that this is an extraordinary collective experience, and I think the media has been slow to recognize that.  Oakland's camp grew large very, very quickly compared with other cities, and I think most of the media in this area is just starting to awaken to the scope, inclusiveness and positivity of this.  I agree also that today's march  helped tremendously with that message of support.

Kevin

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:42 AM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

Can other folks weigh in on changing to "guidelines"?


I honestly don't think the media can be much more antagonistic than they have been, (though a couple recent news items are a little more favorable, maybe the tide is turning. ) I believe guidelines will force them do better news.

The occupation is  truly an  extraordinary collective experience, a bold new experiment in how to create a better world. I  don't think we have much to lose by being firm with media, even if we don't really have a way to enforce it. 

I suspect the media will have to change their tune when they realize how vast our support base is, and that people will realize that they are lying and misrepresenting. I think the huge march today, organized in just a few days,  is a good message of our support. For what it's worth, I have had many conversations with passers-by at the camp, asking what they think of the media representation. Most of them say they don't believe what the media is saying.....

Caitlin

--
Kevin Seal
--
http://listn.to/griddle

[Tara Stroud]

Hey Kevin, et al,
 
Perhaps this has been sorted out by now, I can't even bring myself to read the rest of the thread without commenting first. I have been a member of the press group from the beginning and involved in writing the first 3 press releases that were picked up and widely distributed by the press, yet I ask for an invitation to the media google group and have still to be accepted into that group. Also, due to injury, I have not been able to attend the GA's, although I'm feeling better now, so look out for me!! So I suppose I didn't get the memo that said that the occupy movement belonged only to anarchists. I'm a socialist, so apparently I'm part of the 1%? I do realize that some may be hurt by the fact that rw scum Andrew Breitbart had his operatives take some "less than flatering" video of some of the occupiers, it hurts, I know. This is why I, personally, have not consented to any interviews. I want to make sure that when I am I have my ideals and my thoughts clearly articulated in my head before I put them on film. It is with this that I ask you to lick your wounds, learn from your mistakes and move on. Eliminating or trying to control the press is a limit on free speech and we should hold a mirror to ourselves before we get to uppity and thus fail. Or perhaps, this has been floating around, at least I've heard it, that these may be agent provocatuers trying to disemble the movement, or co-opt for negative connotation.
 
I do not begrudge anyone there personal feelings/politics. I, for one, want to stay on message. Kevin, I commend you for not sending it out based on your convictions. I agree. This is not a movement specifically for Generation Y, Gen X has a big part in this, its our first movement too!! Today at the march, ALL generations were participating. Let's remember that we are in this together, stop leaving most of us out!
 
This feels like childbirth, there will be pain and discomfort, but if we do it right, in the end we have a beautiful new life!
 
Peace out brothers and sisters,
 
Tara

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

 

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From: cman...@csumb.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:57:09 -0700
Subject: Re: [Occupyoakland_media] Media contact list
To: kgs...@gmail.com
CC: h...@joshwolf.net; tar...@hotmail.com; jw...@joshwolf.net; armilla...@gmail.com; occupyoak...@lists.hackbloc.org; occupyoak...@googlegroups.com

Kevin,

This is no longer a regular "public space", it is an occupied square. We are preventing the police from entering, we are banning violent people from sleeping here, and we are setting rules for media. We are not banning media, we are restricting them from being abusive and  disrespectful.

It is not unconstitutional to restrict filming to protect people's privacy.   There are many valid reasons why people do not want to be filmed, and the GA has decided that it is more important to protect the people here than to allow corporate media to film whatever they want. This will actually protect media folks from people being very angry at their insensitive, aggressive and abusive behavior, to say nothing of the lies they have been perpetrating about the camp, and their refusal to cover even the most basic "news" about the camp, for example, that we are feeding hundreds of folks a day on donated food and labor.

The text was written collaboratively by  members of the committee and it follows the basic guidelines we came up with in our committee meeting. Before we proposed it, I ran it by a dozen or so people who were around the camp, including alternative journalists. Though there were a few objections, by and large people thought it was a good and strong statement.

We should abide by the process and respect the General Assembly decision, but I respect your choice not to send it out.

Regards,
Caitlin
 

[Kevin Seal]

Hi Desi,

For several days, Tara and I were replying to the Hackbloc list but not receiving any msgs from it.  I thought we had both requested  but we still needed to apply.   Merely a missing step in the process.

Tara, could you go to the Hackbloc site and request being added to the list of recipients?  I did that a few days ago, and now I'm seeing all of these msgs.

Desi, you rock with that Etherpad!  Great news that we already have some donations for media team requests.

Kevin 

On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Desiree Delaluna <ddel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tara, 

   I was under the impression that we no longer use the google media group. Only Hackbloc. If you are replying to that list then aren't you already on it? 

Guys is the google groups still functional?

--
M. Desiree' Gonzalez

510-393-8904

[Tara Stroud]

Kevin & Desi, I did request to join 3 or 4 days ago and have not been accepted. Can you send the entire link so that I can try again? Thanks!

 
Tara
 



 

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

 

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From: kgs...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:55:41 -0700

Subject: Re: [Occupyoakland_media] Media contact list

To: ddel...@gmail.com
CC: tar...@hotmail.com; cman...@csumb.edu; jw...@joshwolf.net; armilla...@gmail.com; occupyoak...@lists.hackbloc.org; occupyoak...@googlegroups.com

[Kevin Seal]

Hi Tara,

I had to re-send my request too.  Here's the link:
https://hackbloc.org/mailman/confirm/occupyoakland_media/d5136e1a9e72459b0a1bb1d3a5f7e8dd5d680597

I'll be at Oscar Grant Plaza all day today, with my son -- please come say hi if you see me.  I'm dressed in this Jello Biafra shirt (photo attached).

Kevin

[Maya Face]

Hey all,

I support the statement and whatever was passed by the GA, but I think it would be a very bad idea to send that statement to everyone on that contact list. That list is a slightly out of date list of media contacts that usually cover environmental causes, and there's a lot on there that aren't covering the occupation, and aren't interested in covering it. It makes sense to use it when we are trying to get more coverage and spread press releases around, but beyond that I don't think it makes sense. What we really should have been doing all along is making an up-to-date list of all of the journalists that are covering the story and their contact info---its still not too late if anyone wants a project! But that's besides the point. 

I propose:

Having the guidelines available at the media tent, and given to any media people who show up. And if any media people get in touch we can send them a copy. 

I think it would be good to have a friendly explanation about why these guidelines exist.

 

Has anyone talked to Kat Brooks (one of our current media contacts) about any of this?

btw we still need a longer and fresher list of people that can be interviewed by the media.

Maya

[Tara Stroud]

FYI - Article about occupy oakland in Mother Jones, worth the read!
 
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/10/right-wing-attack-on-occupy-oakland

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln

 

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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:37:47 -0700

Subject: Re: [Occupyoakland_media] Media contact list

From: armilla...@gmail.com
To: kgs...@gmail.com
CC: tar...@hotmail.com; ddel...@gmail.com; cman...@csumb.edu; jw...@joshwolf.net; occupyoak...@lists.hackbloc.org; occupyoak...@googlegroups.com

[David]

btw, the resolution is on the OO website: http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/10/statement-to-the-media-passed-in-general-assembly/

there has also been a small poster in front of the Media tent with the gist of the message for a couple of days

peace,
david

On 10/23/11 11:37 AM, Maya Face wrote:

Hey all,

I support the statement and whatever was passed by the GA, but I think it would be a very bad idea to send that statement to everyone on that contact list. That list is a slightly out of date list of media contacts that usually cover environmental causes, and there's a lot on there that aren't covering the occupation, and aren't interested in covering it. It makes sense to use it when we are trying to get more coverage and spread press releases around, but beyond that I don't think it makes sense. What we really should have been doing all along is making an up-to-date list of all of the journalists that are covering the story and their contact info---its still not too late if anyone wants a project! But that's besides the point.�

I propose:

Having the guidelines available at the media tent, and given to any media people who show up. And if any media people get in touch we can send them a copy.�

I think it would be good to have a friendly explanation about why these guidelines exist.

�

Has anyone talked to Kat Brooks (one of our current media contacts) about any of this?

btw we still need a longer and fresher list of people that can be interviewed by the media.

Maya

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Kevin Seal <kgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Tara,

I had to re-send my request too.� Here's the link:
https://hackbloc.org/mailman/confirm/occupyoakland_media/d5136e1a9e72459b0a1bb1d3a5f7e8dd5d680597

I'll be at Oscar Grant Plaza all day today, with my son -- please come say hi if you see me.� I'm dressed in this Jello Biafra shirt (photo attached).

Kevin

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Tara Stroud <tar...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Kevin & Desi, I did request to join 3 or 4 days ago and have not been accepted. Can you send the entire link so that I can try again? Thanks!

�
Tara
�



�

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.� Abraham Lincoln

�

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From: kgs...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:55:41 -0700

Subject: Re: [Occupyoakland_media] Media contact list

To: ddel...@gmail.com
CC: tar...@hotmail.com; cman...@csumb.edu; jw...@joshwolf.net; armilla...@gmail.com; occupyoak...@lists.hackbloc.org; occupyoak...@googlegroups.com

Hi Desi,

For several days, Tara and I were replying to the Hackbloc list but not receiving any msgs from it. �I thought we had both requested �but we still needed to apply. � Merely a missing step in the process.

Tara, could you go to the Hackbloc site and request being added to the list of recipients? �I did that a few days ago, and now I'm seeing all of these msgs.

Desi, you rock with that Etherpad! �Great news that we already have some donations for media team requests.

Kevin�

On Oct 23, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Desiree Delaluna <ddel...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tara,�

� �I was under the impression that we no longer use the google media group. Only Hackbloc. If you are replying to that list then aren't you already on it?�

Guys is the google groups still functional?

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Tara Stroud <tar...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hey Kevin, et al,
�

Perhaps this has been sorted out by now, I can't even bring myself to read the rest of the thread without commenting first. I have been a member of the press group from the beginning and involved in writing the first 3 press releases that were picked up and widely distributed by the press, yet I ask for an invitation to the media google group and have still to be accepted into that group. Also, due to injury, I have not been able to attend the GA's, although I'm feeling better now, so look out for me!! So I suppose I didn't get the memo that said that the occupy movement belonged only to anarchists. I'm a socialist, so apparently I'm part of the 1%? I do realize that some may be hurt by the fact that rw scum Andrew Breitbart had his operatives take some "less than flatering" video of some of the occupiers, it hurts, I know. This is why I, personally, have not consented to any interviews. I want to make sure that when I am I have my ideals and my thoughts clearly articulated in my head before I put them on film. It is with this that I ask you to lick your wounds, learn from your mistakes and move on. Eliminating or trying to control the press is a limit on free speech and we should hold a mirror to ourselves before we get to uppity and thus fail. Or perhaps, this has been floating around, at least I've heard it, that these may be agent provocatuers trying to disemble the movement, or co-opt for negative connotation.

�

I do not begrudge anyone there personal feelings/politics. I, for one, want to stay on message. Kevin, I commend you for not sending it out based on your convictions. I agree. This is not a movement specifically for Generation Y, Gen X has a big part in this, its our first movement too!! Today at the march, ALL generations were participating. Let's remember that we are in this together, stop leaving most of us out!

�

This feels like childbirth, there will be pain and discomfort, but if we do it right, in the end we have a beautiful new life!

�

Peace out brothers and sisters,

�
Tara

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.� Abraham Lincoln

�

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From: cman...@csumb.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 00:57:09 -0700
Subject: Re: [Occupyoakland_media] Media contact list
To: kgs...@gmail.com
CC: h...@joshwolf.net; tar...@hotmail.com; jw...@joshwolf.net; armilla...@gmail.com; occupyoak...@lists.hackbloc.org; occupyoak...@googlegroups.com

Kevin,

This is no longer a regular "public space", it is an occupied square. We are preventing the police from entering, we are banning violent people from sleeping here, and we are setting rules for media. We are not banning media, we are restricting them from being abusive and� disrespectful.

It is not unconstitutional to restrict filming to protect people's privacy. � There are many valid reasons why people do not want to be filmed, and the GA has decided that it is more important to protect the people here than to allow corporate media to film whatever they want. This will actually protect media folks from people being very angry at their insensitive, aggressive and abusive behavior, to say nothing of the lies they have been perpetrating about the camp, and their refusal to cover even the most basic "news" about the camp, for example, that we are feeding hundreds of folks a day on donated food and labor.

The text was written collaboratively by� members of the committee and it follows the basic guidelines we came up with in our committee meeting. Before we proposed it, I ran it by a dozen or so people who were around the camp, including alternative journalists. Though there were a few objections, by and large people thought it was a good and strong statement.

We should abide by the process and respect the General Assembly decision, but I respect your choice not to send it out.

Regards,
Caitlin

�

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Kevin Seal <kgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I very much wish more of us had been at that GA -- and that more of us on these committees had known about this proposal before it went before GA.�

Placing restrictions on reporting in a public park is unconstitutional.

Below is personal opinion:

From a public communication perspective -- keeping in mind that this is a battle for the rest of the 99% to either join us or turn against us -- this is self-defeating.� Strategically, this will likely just engender more inaccurate and antagonistic reporting.

Attached is the media contact list; I feel too uncomfortable with this to send it out myself, especially knowing that others share these concerns.

Respectfully,
Kevin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:39 PM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

I was at the GA. It was presented by myself, Christophe and Sean. It was passed by the GA. I� think it should be sent out ASAP.
Caitlin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Kevin Seal <kgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

I feel uncomfortable about it too; glad to hear I'm not the only one.� Were any of you at the GA that approved this?

Kevin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Josh Wolf <h...@joshwolf.net> wrote:

It was approved by the GA, so it should probably get sent out. But I do know that some people expressed concerns that imposing these as rules is not anarchistic and is also unconstitutional so I feel highly uncomfortable with it being sent out.

Josh

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 22, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Kevin Seal <kgs...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks, Caitlin.

I can email this out to the contact list Maya shared with us unless there are any objections.

My only tweak is a grammatical copyedit:
"Do not recording personal conversations and meetings without the express permission of those involved."
to
"Do not record personal conversations and meetings without the express permission of those involved."

If nobody objects before midnight tonight, I'll send it out at midnight.

Best,
Kevin

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Caitlin Manning <cman...@csumb.edu> wrote:

Here is the text that was passed by GA

STATEMENT TO ALL MEDIA COVERING OCCUPY OAKLAND

We agree with Occupy Wall Street that corporations "purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media."

The mainstream media�s inextricable ties to corporate interests drive them to lie to protect profits. This undermines the discourse we have begun in occupations across the country and the world.

Due to this conflict of interest, we have set the following requirements for all media.

• All media and those with professional recording equipment will check in at the Media Tent, located in the Southeast corner of Oscar Grant Plaza.
Do not photograph or film people who are sleeping, receiving medical treatment, or have requested that you refrain from recording them.
Do not enter the kitchen, kid zone, or medic spaces as this disrupts their function.
• Do not recording personal conversations and meetings without the express permission of those involved.
  
We encourage you to document the General Assembly, the primary stage for public gathering and discourse, held daily at 7pm in the amphitheater.
Make an effort to report on a diversity of voices and opinions; the media team is happy to help.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Maya Face <armilla...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
Just wanted to clarify that there are two existing groups: Media (tech and communications) and press (dealing with outside media). Our press group could definitely use more energy overall, and collaboration with the other media team.
I've attached a media contact list for anyone who'd like to use it.
Could someone please explain exactly what proposal was passed at the GA?
Thanks!
Maya

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Liz Reid <lizr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok, I wasn't at GA last night, but this is the last I knew:

Wednesday night the media team was working on a press release into the wee hours of the morning. This press release corrected the misinformation about an all-out media ban.� My understanding was that it would be brought to GA as a proposal before it was made public.� Matt was texting me throughout the GA last night and said it passed, and that you were advocating for it.� Am I misunderstanding something here?

At the media meeting, we also discussed how to deal with the press, having liaisons and press passes, etc. We need to merge with the press team and then split up into smaller groups. There was a suggestion that these groups be tech/web, creative media (video, photo, audio, writing), and public relations.� Looks like the two groups are doing some of the same work, so I think we definitely need to join forces in order to use our time and resources more efficiently.� Perhaps we should also merge the two email lists too. Or designate them for different purposes. Like "media" could be for the media we create, "press" could be for PR/dealing w/ outside media, and "web" could be for web/tech.

Liz

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:15 PM, krystof <mano...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Liz.

You're welcome.� :)

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-k