Eyewitness And Indymedia Style Reports Wanted From SPP Protestors

Posted on Thursday, August 16 at 12:30 by sthompson
Vive le Canada.ca is seeking indymedia style, eyewitness reports from anyone attending protests against the SPP. It's easy to post to Vive--just click on "contribute" in the top menu and fill out the form. Once our editors approve your submission (which we do only to weed out potential spam or hate speech) they will be posted to the front page. Vive will be updated several times a day until the SPP protests end on August 21. Alternatively you can simply email reports to susan.thompson@vivelecanada.ca and we'll post them for you. We can offer a huge amount of exposure for these reports, since Vive is well-established (having been around since 2003) and is consistently one of the top or the top Google result for search terms like "deep integration" and "SPP protests". We receive averages of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of hits a day. We are read by people across Canada and the U.S., including politicians and mainstream media reporters, and have received national media attention frequently in the past. We hope that during the SPP protests, we can be a vehicle to help counter the bias the mainstream media is likely to show and give a voice to those who are on the ground and witness to the events that take place, including everything from protest activities to turnout to police response. But it all depends on you! Post those reports to Vive, and let your voice be heard!

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  1. by Rural
    Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:13 pm
    May I suggest that those with the capability also take copious amounts of video of the protests so that we can SEE if charges of police OR protestor misbehavior or violence is warranted. Links to the video’s could also be posted here!

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  2. Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:21 pm
    Great suggestion! We also do have the ability to post pics in Vive articles.

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  3. Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:33 am
    " ... OR protestor misbehavior or violence is warranted."

    Just be aware that the police have been known to plant their own instigators into protest crowds to incite violence as an excuse to disperse the crowds, make arrests, and discredit the protesters, so keep a keen watch out for these guys and get them on camera if you can - then run like hell before they get you!

  4. Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:27 pm
    If you have video, upload to YouTube and send us the link. This has the added benefit of getting more visibility for your footage.

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