My name is Mark Cooley. I am an artist, media producer and professor of art and visual technology at George Mason University, USA. I've recently begun a series of internet documentary and journalism programs entitled Calling America. The series covers various progressive events, issues and movements by setting up collective and participatory journalism platforms using new communications technologies. Please see the Calling America website at - www.flawedart.net/callingamerica

Call for Contributions
Calling America: Walk Out - May Day '07

Calling America is currently looking for contributors for an upcoming program on May 1. We wish to collect the voices of individuals who are participating in May Day strikes, walkouts, boycotts and similar actions to record their reasons for doing so and to act as reporters on May Day events. Calling America contributors will be delivering spoken word testimonies, stories and reports on May 1 via telephone from diverse locations. Contributions will form the basis of a collective audio blog which will develop live throughout the day on May 1 and afterwhich permanently archived on the Calling America web site.

Please reply to flawedart (at) yahoo.com if you wish to contribute to this project.

How to contribute to this project:

Call May 1 at any time of the day or night. Speak up
to 30 minutes. At the beginning of your call please
state your name (first name is fine) and location
(state and city).

dial: 1-214-615-6431

enter PIN: 172-831-030#

Press 1 to record and publish

Enter Blog ID 1008#

You can record a message up to 30 minutes in length.

When you are through recording press #

Follow prompts:
Preview, 1
Re-Record, 2
Save and Publish, 3
Delete, 4

Listen to Walk Out audio moblog entries @
www.flawedart.net/callingamerica/mayday/blog.html

Visit the Calling America site at
www.flawedart.net/callingamerica

Tips
Poor cell phone reception or background noise (like
wind) may result in lower quality recordings. Speak
clearly and directly into the mouthpiece for best
results.

Contact
Mark Cooley at flawedart@verizon. net

Please forward to others who may be interested in
participating. Efforts to translate and forward to
non-english speaking individuals is greatly
appreciated. All languages welcome to participate.


mark cooley
assistant professor of art
department of art and visual technology
george mason university