Membership Month 2012 Prizes

May 2012 has seen tremendous support for the Media Co-op, with dozens of new members joining across the country. We've also received amazing support from existing members and allies in helping us reach out to new members and extending our network, in our local communities and across the country.

Part of this support has been the donation of some incredible prizes for people who sign up as sustainers this month.

While May has proven frutiful, we still need your help to meet our goal of signing up 60 new monthly sustainers by the 31st.

Today we're excited to announce that if you sign up as a sustaining member of the Media Co-op by June 4th you'll be entered into a draw for prizes from our wonderful partners.

Sign up as a sustainer at $15/month or more and be entered in a draw for these awesome prize packs!

Enter the Draw and Join the Media Co-op today!

Matt Forsythe gift pack

Matt Forsythe is an award-winning comic book artist, illustrator, blogger and web consultant. He has been published by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Simon & Schuster, Drawn & Quarterly, Walrus Magazine, and The Dominion. Matt is also a founding editor of the illustration blog, Drawn.ca - winner of Best Canadian Weblog award at SXSW and one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites of 2006. http://comingupforair.net

This week, sign up as a Media Co-op sustainer and be entered in a draw for:

A signed copy of Forsythe’s latest best-seller, JINCHALO (left). 120 pages of wordless comics – and a companion to his first book, ojingogo. This book was inspired by Korean food and folk tales, Super Mario Brothers 2 and a painting Matt found in Siberia of a bird walking around wearing a very small hat.

A signed copy of his new beautiful new print celebrating the ongoing popular resistance in Quebec, Casseroles!(right)

Not a member of the Media Co-op yet? No problem! Join here.

 

Win a signed copy of Dru Oja Jay & Nik Barry-Shaw’s Paved With Good Intentions

Dru Oja Jay is a co-founder of The Dominion and the Media Co-op and the co-author of Offsetting Resistance, a critical report on Environmental NGOs. Nik Barry-Shaw is an activist, researcher and writer in Montreal.

This week, sign up as a Media Co-op sustainer and win a copy of:

“PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS: Canada’s Development NGOs on the Road from Idealism to Imperialism”, written by Nik Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay, raises important questions about these organizations and their development projects: Just how “non-governmental” are organizations that get most of their funding from government agencies? What impact do these funding ties have on NGOs’ ability to support popular demands for democratic reforms and wealth redistribution? What happens when NGOs support a repressive regime? What happens when NGOs bite the hand that feeds them?

Not a member of the Media Co-op yet? No problem! Join here.

 

Cinema Politica gift pack

Cinema Politica is a Montreal-based media arts, non-profit network of community and campus locals that screen independent political film and video by Canadian and international artists throughout Canada and abroad.  Cinema Politica is committed to supporting alternative, independent, and radical political film and video, and the artists who dare to devote time, passion and resources to telling stories from the margins. Cinema Politica is the largest volunteer-run, community and campus-based documentary-screening network in the world.

Join in this final week of Membership Month, and new sustainers get the chance to win these great documentaries:

RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Join filmmaker Brett Gaylor and mashup artist Girl Talk as they explore copyright and content creation in the digital age. In the process they dissect the media landscape of the 21st century and shatter the wall between users and producers. Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil's Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow also come along for the ride.

Not a member of the Media Co-op yet? No problem! Join here.

 

Parabola Films gift pack

Parabola Films was founded by Sarah Spring and Selin Murat in order to bring critical filmmaking voices to a broad audience. Parabola Films is committed to supporting artists with a unique vision for discussing social change and cinema, and looks for collaborators who are passionate about storytelling.

For this final week of Membership Month, we're offering new sustainers the chance to win these great documentary works:

H2Oil : H2Oil , directed by Shannon Walsh, follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. With hope and courage H2Oil tells the story of one of the most significant, and destructive projects of our time.

À St-Henri, le 26 août: An official selection at Hot Docs. Immortalized by novelist Gabrielle Roy and filmmaker Hubert Aquin, Montreal’s popular St-Henri neighbourhood is brought to life again through a contemporary chronicle shot in the spirit of classic cinéma-vérité.

Not a member of the Media Co-op yet? No problem! Join here.

 

Alternative media gift pack: The Dominion and Briarpatch

The Media Co-op definitely isn't alone in our mandate to bring radical, grassroots, independent news and information to Canadians. This week, all new sustainers who sign up at $15/month or more by June 4 will be entered into a draw for a subscription gift pack that includes in addition to your Dominion subscription, a one year subscription to the Briarpatch and a Media Co-op T-shirt.

Briarpatch is a contemporary issues magazine with a chip on its shoulder and a fire in its belly. Fiercely independent and frequently irreverent, Briarpatch tackles today’s most pressing problems from a radical, grassroots perspective. Publishing bimonthly,Briarpatch conspires to provoke, inspire and empower its readers in their efforts to build a better world.

Already a subscriber? Don't let that discourage you – if your name is drawn, you can gift your new subscription to a friend and help spread the independent media love!

Not a member of the Media Co-op yet? No problem! Join here.