Today focuses on acts of empowerment & solutions by and for women and generating our own media. This can occur through social media, twitter (I'm still not tweeting), blogs, zines, and other retro formats such as newspapers.
From TTBT:
"Search for creative, innovative, groundbreaking initiatives taking place near you, and let the world know. Share it as a tweet to @takebackthetech and let's create our own Twitter paper on
http://paper.li/
See today's activities for a creative media list to get stories and messages across to our groups as well as larger groups, such as:
1) search local, national, and global media on issues important to you, solutions, and then share via tweet #takebackthetech
2) write politicians and newsmedia again and again. use the monthly reminder service given in the actions for this day
3) make your own headlines on these issues and solutions through tweets or a tweet newspaper aggregator as discussed in the actions
My own suggestion....share this TBTT day-link (and others) with all the media people that you have friended on facebook and other networks. This can bring local, national, and international attention to causes, issues, and solutions.
My recent favorite headline comes c/o The Daily Star in Bangladesh, 30 Nov 2010.
Youth held for nuisance on Facebook
A young engineer was arrested yesterday for harassing a female university student on the social networking site Facebook.Arrested Aleem Uddin, 28, an assistant engineer of Western Marine Shipyard in Chittagong, hails from Noakhali.
Police said Aleem had opened a fake account of the victim, whom he termed his former girlfriend, on the networking site two months back.
He started posting indecent pictures and abusive words using the profile.
Getting verbal complaints from the victim a few days back, Kotwali police started tracing the fake account and other accounts of Aleem and his friends on the Facebook. The crime busters found the allegations to be true.
On receiving a written complaint from the victim on Sunday, a team from Kotwali Police Station raided Lalkhan Bazar crossing in the port city and arrested Aleem yesterday around 1:00am.
The girl, a Chittagong University student, filed a case with Kotwali Police Station accusing Aleem under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act and ICT Act yesterday morning...
go to original article to read more
Well done for the Chittagong female student who filed the complaint and for the arrest by the police. I hope that justice will be served in this case and that the Daily Star will follow up on what happens with this case....a failing of Bangladeshi and other media that only report sensational news with little or no coverage over time.
We need more attention to such solutions for mis-use of social media such as harassment, stalking, posting false info-photos as well as courageous people who stand up against such behaviors and bullying.
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