(Montréal, Wednesday, May 19, 2003) – Wednesday June 4, 2003, CMAQ (Indymedia Québec) is hosting its yearly benefit concert at Café Campus. For the second year in a row, CMAQ presents an exceptional line-up of artists, including Loco Locass, the Marmottes Aplaties, Muzion, Les Zapartistes, Arseniq33, Syncope, DJ Dexter X and others. The evening will be hosted by Saleema Hutchinson (from the NGO Équiterre) and Frédéric Savard (of Les Zapartistes). These artists will entertain and engage the public with the goal of promoting media democratization and the emergence of alternative media in a climate of intense media concentration that compromises the diversity of voices represented.

CMAQ is a collective that brings together over forty active volunteers in Montreal, Québec, and Saguenay, and that works to reclaim the means of citizen communication. CMAQ is a non-profit organization that is a member of the Indymedia network. Above all, it offers a platform for open publishing on the www.cmaq.net website, where citizens publish, day after day, journalistic information relating to social justice issues and struggles in audio, video, and written formats.

This benefit concert will help support four of CMAQ’s projects: popular education workshops promoting media literacy, the launch of a coalition of independent media in collaboration with over fifteen media partners, and the CMAQ discussion Salons, which take place twice a month at Café Chaos, and lastly, the establishing of a caravan that would travel the province with the aims of informing Quebecers on the dangers posed by the current media landscape, and of promoting alternative, free, participatory communication.

Be the media! Participate in the Indymedia movement!

June 4, 2003, at Café Campus, 57 Prince-Arthur E.
Doors: 19h30
Show: 20h00
Tickets: 15$
Pre-sale : Membres of the CMAQ collective ; l’Oblique ; Café Rico ; Radio Centre-ville ; and through Admission.

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For more information:
Frédéric Dubois
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