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As we do every month, the Media Co-op will pay two contributors for news features to be published in The Dominion. We prioritize solutions-oriented news pieces with a Canadian angle, including photo essays and video pitches.

Check out our writer’s guide for suggested topics and details about writing for The Dominion:

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The Dominion has a special budget – sponsored by Koumbit, a non-profit web development, website creation, graphic design and IT training organization – to pay for one article about technology and society per month (in particular, we’re interested in coverage of copyright, privacy, free software, and net neutrality). These articles are 5-800 words, payment is a flat $50, and they follow the same pitch process outlined below.

Everyone wants to read about themselves. The Media Co-op is no different: we want stories about co-ops! And we've got a lot of ideas to get you started:

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If you do not have a Media Co-op account (which you can also use to post photos, audio, video and stories directly...

The Dominion Newspaper Cooperative / Media Co-op is hiring a part-time administrator to communicate with the Co-op's membership.  The individual will work closely with the Media Co-op team in Montreal and be responsible for communicating with members about subscriptions, distribution, donations and sustaining. 

The position may expand to include bookkeeping and payroll in the near future, so experience in managing finances and working in Simply Accounting are an added bonus. 

The individual will also have the opportunity to learn more about other aspects of the Dominion's day-to-day operations by working with the editorial collective in the Dominion's Montreal office. 

The position is for 8 hours per week at a rate of $9.50 per hour with a start date in mid-September. If bookkeeping is introduced into the job description, hours will increase to 12 per week. 

Please send your resume and cover letter to info@mediacoop.ca with the subject line DOMINION ADMIN JOB no later than September 7, 2010.

Most people, even those of us who don't know squat about the mechanics of the global economic system, find the whole set-up of the G8 and G20 summits distasteful: economic big-wigs from the world's richest regions will descend next weekend into military zones built by our government, and these rich and powerful men (they're mostly men) will meet and make policies that will affect you, me, and the whole wide world.

Yuckier, though, is the content of those meetings. And certainly very, very nasty is the way in which the meetings shake down, with big decisions made in secret by a few powerful people who don't have to be accountable to – or even consider the needs and desires of – the rest of us.

In response to the G8 and G20, people do diverse and interesting things. They too gather at G8 and G20 summits, in huge numbers and from all over the world. They march in the streets. They dress up in funny outfits. They shout things like, "capitalism is broken," "smash the state," "Indigenous rights now," "we want climate justice," "we love our public services," and "no one is illegal." They organize their own summits and talk about the problems of poverty and homelessness, resource extraction and pollution, climate and migrant justice. They break windows and capsize mailboxes. They dance. They play games. They camp in parks and crash on each other's floors. They climb tall buildings and bridges and let loose big colourful banners. They yell at cops.

The people say they are doing these things to draw attention to the fishy things they notice about the G8/G20.

Fishy thing number one, they say, is the undemocratic nature of the G8/G20 meetings.

Fishy thing number two is the single-issue agenda of the G8/G20: to further the wealth of the wealthy.

Fishy thing number three is the public resources spent on having the meetings take place at all.

Why do people protest the G8 and G20? Let's take it from the bottom.

FISH #3: "SECURITY"

The really, really fishy thing about the fact that Canadians have blown their load on the G8 and G20 summits is what we've blown...