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Press Gang is a collective which aims to share media skills with grassroots groups working towards social justice. We are activists who have been involved in media work for a wide range of groups, including Climate Camp, local anti-cuts groups, UK Uncut, Dale Farm Solidarity and many others.

There are lots of amazing activist media projects which enable us to make our own media – Indymedia, zines, VisionOn TV, local radical newsheets and many more. We really think activists should engage with and contribute to these projects. But it is also essential that we get involved in shaping the debate in the mainstream media- we need to exploit its power while acknowledging it’s limitations.

We formed Press Gang because although there are a lot of resouces on the internet about writing a press release, giving interviews and other essential skills, we felt that the collective experience and knowledge of many media-activists was nto being shared. Last year we produced the “10 Step Guide to a Hard Hitting Action Media Team” to address this- please link to it, distribute it and share it!

We hope to be able to give a range of media trainings to groups around the UK- get in touch with pressgang [at] riseup.net if you are interested.

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