FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Innovative Town Halls to be Streamed to National Live Audience

Town halls will use the Internet to save the Internet

Toronto, ON – June 3, 2009 - SaveOurNet.ca is launching a series of Open Internet Town Halls in Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver to engage citizens in discussions about the future of the Internet. Through live video streaming, the first town hall will be available to a national audience on theREALnews.com, rabble.ca, TheTyee, Beyond Robson, p2pnet, StraightGoods, Michael Geist, The Georgia Straight, Now Magazine, Raymi the Minx & Sass, SaveOurNet.ca.

People from across Canada are encouraged to watch and engage with the first Open Internet Town Hall meeting by visiting any of the following websites at 7:30pm on Monday June 8th:theREALnews.com, rabble.ca, TheTyee, Beyond Robson, p2pnet, StraightGoods, Michael Geist, Raymi the Minx & Sass, SaveOurNet.ca

Viewers will be given the opportunity to take part in the discussion through live real time online chat available at each of the participating websites.

The town hall events will bring together web innovators, entrepreneurs, civil society leaders, cultural workers, and citizens to discus the future of the Internet in Canada.

The Future of the Internet: Access, Openness, and Inclusion
A Town Hall Discussion

***Open Internet Town Hall Meeting (TORONTO)
Monday June 8, 2009, 7:00pm – The Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen St. West)

Speakers include:
Mark Surman – Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
Olivia Chow – Member of Parliament (NDP)
Steve Anderson – Co-founder, SaveOurNet.ca
Rocky Gaudrault – CEO, Teksavvy Solutions Inc.
Derek Blackadder – National Representative with CUPE
Raymi the Minx of http://raymitheminx.com/ & Sass of http://zucket.com/

(Moderator)Geraldine Cahill - TheREALnews.com

Special Guests:
* Jesse Brown – Search Engine * David Skinner – Communications Professor, York University * Kim Elliot – Rabble.ca * Mark Kuznicki – remarkk consultant * Dan O’Brien – ACTRA * Ben Lewis – Canadian Federation of Students * Wayne Mcphail - w8nc

Live Music afterwards by:
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REGISTER TO RESERVE A SEAT: http://saveournet.ca/toronto


***Open Internet Town Hall Meeting (Ottawa)
Wednesday June 10, 2009, 7:00pm – Ottawa Public Library Main Branch (120 Metcalfe St)

Speakers include:
Michael Geist – law professor at the University of Ottawa where he is Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, blogger
Charlie Angus – NDP MP, Heritage and Culture
Rocky Gaudrault – CEO, Teksavvy Solutions Inc.

Introduction by Steve Anderson – Co-founder, SaveOurNet.ca
Discussion Facilitator: Marita Moll – TeleCommunities Canada

Special guests:
*Jacob Glick – Canada Policy Counsel, Google Canada, * Mike Gifford – founder of Open Concept Consulting Inc * Leslie Regan Shade – Communications Professor, Concordia University * Graham Cox – Canadian Federation of Students
David Fewer - Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)

REGISTER TO RESERVE A SEAT: http://saveournet.ca/ottawa

***Open Internet Town Hall Meeting (Vancouver)
Saturday June 20, 2009, tbd – Session at Vancouver ChangeCamp, BCIT Downtown Campus (555 Seymour St)

Speakers include:
Jacob Glick – Canada Policy Counsel, Google Canada
Rocky Gaudrault – CEO, Teksavvy Solutions Inc.
Steve Anderson – Co-founder, SaveOurNet.ca
**More to come…

REGISTER TO RESERVE A SEAT: http://vanchangecamp.eventbrite.com/

****SaveOurNet.ca Internet Dance Party (Vancouver)
Saturday June 20, 2009, 6:00pm – 2:00am – Gallery Gachet.

Canada's FIRST live Internet Dance Party: SaveOurNet.ca is hosting an Internet Dance Party as both a fundraiser for SaveOurNet.ca and the official after party for VanChangeCamp http://vanchangecamp.eventbrite.com/

6:00pm - 8:00pm - Social & Film Screening / 8:00pm - 2:00am - Internet Dance Party

Special Guests:
Quest Poetics feat: Mello Black, Mario Vaira, & DJ Hayze
More guests to be announced soon!

ONLINE REGISTRATION: http://internetdanceparty.eventbrite.com/

For more information contact:

Steve Anderson
Co-founder
SaveOurNet.ca
(604) 837-5730
steve@democraticmedia.ca

or

Jacqueline Cusack McDonald
Director
SaveOurNet.ca
(778) 840-3749
jacqueline.democraticmedia@gmail.com