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    77'''Palestine''' The majority of my international work in 2011 took place on-the-ground in Palestine. I worked with a member organization Stop the Wall to build up their media, technology, and communications strategy to include youth, increase in international solidarity work, and social media. Through this relationship, MF/PL gained three key memberships from Palestine: Stop the Wall, General Federation of Trade Unions in Palestine (PGFTU) which is the largest union in the West Bank and Gaza, and the BDS National Committee (BNC) which is a membership organization comprised of hundreds of grassroots and civil society organizations around the world that support the Palestinian call for boycott, sanctions, and divestment against apartheid Israel.
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    9 Future work may include developing a media youth program with Stop the Wall and other collaborating organizations, involvement in the first, global social forum on Palestine to be held in 2012 in Brazil, and MF/PL's sponsorship and involvement in three major fact-finding delegations to Palestine and Israel in 2012 (unions, Indigenous groups, and churches).
     9Future work may include developing a media youth program with Stop the Wall and other collaborating organizations, involvement in the first, global social forum on Palestine to be held in 2012 in Brazil, and MF/PL's sponsorship and involvement in three major fact-finding delegations to Palestine and Israel in 2012 (unions, Indigenous groups, and churches). My travel and work stipend while in Palestine was provided by Stop the Wall.
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    1111'''World Social Forum''' At the beginning of 2011, me and other MF/PL staff and volunteers helped organize and attend the WSF in Dakar, Senegal. In preparation for the next WSF in 2013, I was asked to work with the WSF communications secretary to develop a working plan for the communications of the 2013 forum, to be held either in Tunis or Cairo. Preparation for this document also included an inter-commission meeting of the International Council in Diyarbakir, Turkey in September 2011, which followed a regular IC meeting in May 2011 in Paris, which I also attended on behalf of MF/PL. My attendance at both of these meetings was funded by the Communications Commission of the WSF IC.
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    1717Future work in this sector is highly dependent upon funding for travel, but we have very strong ties to the People's Summit that is planned to coincide with Rio +20 to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil this spring, including some preparatory meetings that are happening in New York City in December 2011 and March 2012.
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    19 '''International Policy''' The annual Internet Governance Forum was held in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2011. I attended this meeting for one day and was able to meet face-to-face many of our collaborating organizers from the Association for Progressive Communications and Access Now. Access Now is also a group which MF/PL has been working more with on Internet policy issues, such as the letter that I helped them draft to the eG8 participants back in May 2011 in hopes that more civil society organizations would be invited to participate. Additionally, an Italian group asked for MF/PL's signature on a similar letter to be submitted to the eG20 in November 2011. While many other important international policy documents have been endorsed by MF/PL, the other which included collaborative feedback worth mentioning was a letter to congress against SOPA, which was subsequently signed by nearly 60 organizations.
     19'''International Policy''' The annual Internet Governance Forum was held in Nairobi, Kenya in October 2011. I attended this meeting for one day and was able to meet face-to-face many of our collaborating organizers from the Association for Progressive Communications and Access Now. Access Now is also a group which MF/PL has been working more with on Internet policy issues, such as the letter that I helped them draft to the eG8 participants back in May 2011 in hopes that more civil society organizations would be invited to participate. Additionally, an Italian group asked for MF/PL's signature on a similar letter to be submitted to the eG20 in November 2011. While many other important international policy documents have been endorsed by MF/PL, the other which included collaborative feedback worth mentioning was a letter to congress against SOPA, which was subsequently signed by nearly 60 organizations. MF/PL funded the change fees for extending a layover I had already scheduled through Kenya.
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    2121Future work may include working with the APC and Access, and other peer organizations, to help draft and edit policy, research, and campaign documents, as well as utilizing an announcement list for MF/PL members to endorse policy documents as well. It is perhaps more long-term work to use policy and research as a way to conduct "inreach" with MF/PL members. Taking steps forward with policy work may also include membership with CSISAC, a sub-committee of the OECD on Internet society, ICANN, or ECOSOC, in order to gain membership with the UN as an NGO.
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    23 '''National Policy''' There is a great deal of overlap between national and international policy work simply by the nature of Internet governance. However, there are two important developments so far this year related to national policy work: MF/PL's membership in MAG-Net and MF/PL's participation in the National Rural Assembly in June 2011. MAG-Net is a coalition of media and technology organizations in the United States that campaign around national policy issues. Hilary was our main point-person for this application, which was accepted in September 2011. The National Rural Assembly is an interesting mix of progressive policy groups who recognize the traditional disadvantage of rural places, which includes access to the Internet.
     23'''National Policy''' There is a great deal of overlap between national and international policy work simply by the nature of Internet governance. However, there are two important developments so far this year related to national policy work: MF/PL's membership in MAG-Net and MF/PL's participation in the National Rural Assembly in June 2011. MAG-Net is a coalition of media and technology organizations in the United States that campaign around national policy issues. Hilary was our main point-person for this application, which was accepted in September 2011. The National Rural Assembly is an interesting mix of progressive policy groups who recognize the traditional disadvantage of rural places, which includes access to the Internet. My participation in the National Rural Assembly was funded by the National Rural Assembly organizing committee.
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    2525While few lasting relationships have so far materialized from the rural policy work, future work in this geographic sector is fundamental to our national outreach strategy and our work with Indigenous groups.