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- Publishing a Directory
of Women's Media, updated on an on-going basis. Part
One: women's periodicals, women's media organizations, women's
publishers, and other media categories. Part Two: Women
Working Toward the Radical Restructuring of the Communications
System: Philosophy, Ideas, Actions. Available online (on the
WIFP website) and in print form.
- Publishing a booklet
series on restructuring world communications. Examples: Media
Democracy: Past, Present and Future edited by Julia Beizer,
Ann Keller, and Joanne Lipson (2002), The Media Technology
Road to Democracy and Equality (1995) and Media Without
Democracy and What To Do About It (1991) by Dr. Donna Allen
and What's Wrong With Mass Media for the Women Half of the
Population -- Re-building the System (1993), compiled by
Alison Hardin.
- Sharing philosophical approaches toward the
democratization of the communications media. For example: All
people should be able to speak for themselves. Emphasize fact
over opinion. Offer your ideas and experiences and let others
draw their own conclusions. Avoid attacks and name-calling. They
inhibit the free flow of communication. (Some of these philosophical
approaches are described on this website. See Philosophy on the
homepage.)
- Print Newslette available as PDF on website: Voices for Media
Democracy.
- Online newsletter Media Democracy Online. Available on the website.
- Extensive resources provided on the website,
including notices of media
events nationally and internationally.
- Accredited United Nations representation,
Department of Public Information, United Nations.
- Network among those interested in making
changes in the current communication structures, utilizing all
existing technologies. Link up with other organizations working
toward these changes. (See the WIFP Communication News page of the website
for information on these organizations.)
- Organizational affiliations include: Our Democracy, Our Airwaves
Coalition; National
Council of Women's Organizations; Media
Channel; Citizen's Communications Center Project, Institute
for Public Representation; Minority Media and Telecommunications
Council; and the Women's Network for Change. When we work
with women's rights organizations, we focus particularly on media
related issues.
- Conducts an active internship program the year around.
- Published Media Report to Women from
1972-1987 on what women are thinking and doing to make the world's
communications media more democratic, reported directly by women
themselves. Edited by WIFP founder Dr. Donna Allen and fully
indexed in 150 subject categories with annotations for each story.
- Published 15 annually-updated editions (1975-89)
of the Directory of Women's Media, edited by Martha
Leslie Allen, to increase communication among women nationally
and internationally in a variety of media forms such as periodicals,
music, film, art and others. Resumed publishing in 2001.
- Conducted seven conferences at the National
Press Club in the 1970s and 1980s on "Planning a National
and International Communications System for Women."
- Held two international satellite teleconferences
from the U.N. World Conference of Women of the U.N. Decade for
Women, in Copenhagen in 1980 and Nairobi in 1985.
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