<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">From: </span><b class="gmail_sendername" style="font-size:12.8px">Nadia Bellardi</b><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px">&lt;<a href="mailto:nadia.bellardi@icloud.com" target="_blank">nadia.bellardi@icloud.com</a>&gt;</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px;word-wrap:break-word"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" style="font-size:14px">Press release </font></b></p><div><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><i style="font-size:14px">March 21^st, 2017</i></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:14px">Media – in all their forms – play a crucial role in the shaping of identities, in the promotion or inhibition of dialogue, solidarity and recognition. Which strategies and tools can empower counter-narratives and challenge mainstream perceptions of refugees, of migration, of marginalized groups in general?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial">The <a href="http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/" target="_blank">Media against Hate</a> campaign invited professional journalists, community media practitioners and media students in Europe to document how their daily work helps fight discrimination and counter hate.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" style="font-size:14px">Participants from across the European Union sent their videos, including Italy, Germany, Poland, Spain, Greece, Austria and Czech Republic. Entries were evaluated for originality, impact, clarity of message, cinematography and educational potential. The <a href="http://europeanjournalists.org/mediaagainsthate/video-contest-meet-the-jury/" target="_blank">jury</a> commented that “It was difficult to choose, as contest entries demonstrated countering hate and discrimination from a variety of well-informed and relevant perspectives.”</font></p><div><br class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" style="font-size:14px">On the <b>International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination</b>, March 21^st 2017, the <a href="http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/" target="_blank">Media against Hate</a> campaign is happy to present the selected<b> “Favourite 5” </b>videos:</font></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://youtu.be/q0YG6MbeRP8" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Stereotypes</a><span style="font-family:arial"> by</span><span class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">Theofanis Kolli<wbr>as, Solomon</span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://youtu.be/Xy5oKQqjAX8" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">I am a humanist. Hate is not for me</a><span class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">by Prof.</span><span class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">Urszula Doliwa and students, University of Warmia and Mazury</span></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://youtu.be/rt4QN8kjgQM" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Amir</a><span class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">by Francesco Conte, Termini TV</span><span style="font-family:arial"> </span></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://youtu.be/8Z-0h7Dx9bs" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Okto goes loud</a><span style="font-family:arial"> by Melanie Schiller, Okto Community TV</span></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="https://youtu.be/xBb2Th3e4Vk" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Najib</a><span class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">by</span><span class="gmail-m_4824223356769926568m_-7055847837718163528MsoHyperlink" style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">Michal Majzner with Refugee stories / We Can / Umweltzentrum Dresden</span></span></li></ul><div><a href="http://solomon.gr/" target="_blank" style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial">Solomon</a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial"> are a group of people with different backgrounds that, through media, aim to promote an alternative perspective of the local community. The core team consists of talented people who live in Athens, Greece and originate from many countries. One of their projects is the </span><a href="http://solomon.gr/inclumedia-lab/" target="_blank" style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial">Inclumedia Lab</a><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:arial">, where tandems of im/migrants who are willing to become journalists or used to work as journalists in their home countries pair up with local students of journalism. </span><br></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial">The video “I am a humanist. Hate is not for me” was produced by a group of students of the </span><a href="http://www.uwm.edu.pl/en/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Faculty of Humanities</a><span style="font-family:arial"> at the University of Warmia and Mazury, in Olsztyn, Poland. The students of the Department are studying history, philosophy, journalism, philology or international relations and are thus called “humanists”. The second Media against Hate international </span><a href="http://europeanjournalists.org/mediaagainsthate/media-literacy-workshop-2/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Media Literacy workshop</a><span style="font-family:arial"> will take place in Olsztyn on their wonderful academic campus, on June 8</span><sup style="font-family:arial">th</sup><span style="font-family:arial"> and 9</span><sup style="font-family:arial">th</sup><span style="font-family:arial"> 2017.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://termini.tv/en/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Termini TV</a><span style="font-family:arial"> is “the only online channel in the world specialized in narrating life stories from train stations”. They explore the edge between travel and migration, travelers and migrants. Francesco Conte is also one of the mentors of the Council of Europe </span><a href="http://www.coe.int/en/web/diversity-accelerator/in-brief" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Div-A Diversity Accelerator</a><span style="font-family:arial"> project.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><a href="http://okto.tv/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Okto.tv</a><span style="font-family:arial"> is Vienna’s community television station, training over 1000 volunteers yearly as video journalists, moderators and studio producers, and engaged for an inclusive and intercultural society.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial">Michal Majzner is an industrial project engineer and civic activist. He has co-founded several volunteer initiatives, including Prague Maidan, “President, leave!” and Refugee Stories (“Příběhy uprchlíků”). </span><a href="http://pribehyuprchliku.cz/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Refugee stories</a><b style="font-family:arial"> </b><span style="font-family:arial">records refugees’ stories for a Czech audience, t</span><span style="font-family:arial">hrough volunteer visits to nearby </span><a href="http://visegradrevue.eu/back-in-dresden-a-return-to-normalcy/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Dresden</a><span style="font-family:arial">. The core of the project is built upon the </span><a href="http://www.we-can.cz/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">We Can</a><span style="font-family:arial"> </span><span style="font-family:arial">organisation, in cooperation with </span><a href="http://www.uzdresden.de/de/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Umweltzentrum Dresden</a><span style="font-family:arial">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial">The producers of the “</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ6U_zQ7XENxjCoHwbxOACUbw4DILWJHp" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial">Favourite 5</a><span style="font-family:arial">” videos will be invited to participate to the Media against Hate workshops in 2017 and to the final conference in March 2018 – where they will meet their jury.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:14px">Two more videos received an “honourable mention” for the educational intent of the producers (Vincenzo Agosto and Gustavo Gomez).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family:arial;font-size:14px"><br></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14px"><b style="font-family:arial">Follow the campaign activities at #MediaAgainstHate </b><b style="font-family:arial"><a href="http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/" target="_blank">www.media<wbr>againsthate.org</a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><font face="Arial" style="font-size:14px">The project is financially supported by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) Programme of the European Union, and co-funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (U.S.) and the Media &amp; Internet Division of the Council of Europe.</font></i></p><div><br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;word-wrap:break-word"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica;font-size:12px;line-height:normal"><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">==============================<wbr>=</span></div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">Nadia Bellardi </span></div><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">CMFE ‘Media against Hate’ coordinator</span></div><div><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">email: <a href="mailto:mediaagainsthate@cmfe.eu" target="_blank">mediaagainsthate@cmfe.e<wbr>u</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);text-align:-webkit-auto">twitter: @cmfe_eu </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);text-align:-webkit-auto">#MediaAgainstHate</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0);text-align:-webkit-auto"><a href="http://www.mediaagainsthate.org/" target="_blank">www.mediaagainsthate.org</a></span></div></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">==============================<wbr>=</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div>\\<div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Community Media Association<br><a href="http://www.commedia.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.commedia.org.uk/</a><br><a href="http://twitter.com/community_media" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/community_media</a><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation</a><br><br>Canstream Internet Radio &amp; Video<br><a href="http://www.canstream.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.canstream.co.uk/</a><br><a href="https://twitter.com/canstream" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/canstream</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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