Category Archives: Editorials

The Launch of the Mandril Cultural Center (MCC)

The Mandril's Face, Spring 2011

Maas-Media is proud to announce the recent launch of Maastricht’s Mandril Cultural Center (MCC). Squatted in 2009, the building received its name Mandril by a Dutch satirical magazine Mandril – maandblad voor mensen which existed in the years 1948 until 1953, of which a box of unique copies were found in the attic. Thanks to the [...]

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Participatory Editorial

The driving force behind “Creating Waves” was the wish to expand the number of voices that create Maas-media’s message as well as the ears that are receptive to it. In order for the maas-mediamorphosis to take place, we wanted to establish a face to face connection that we deem necessary for the formation of an [...]

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Editorial III

Dear Reader,
 
welcome to the World Community of Migrants…
…that you are part of yourself! This Maas-Media issue is about migration. Discussions among Europeans about migration tend to convey a sense of urgency. Western nations states apparently are on the fringe of something dramatic. Either of exploding from the latest influx of migrants or of imploding from [...]

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Editorial II

Dear Friends,

More than two months since the publication of the inauguratory issue of the fabulous grassroots media initiative that is Maas Media, we are finally back with the much anticipated second issue, as we step into the second decade of this new century. Needless to say, in these last two months, several highly significant events [...]

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Editorial I

Dear Friends,
To adequately start this first edition, we thought that we should give you a brief introduction to who exactly we are and why we think it is necessary to initiate this project. It is primarily important to understand that we are not professionals, and that we therefore count on your feedbacks and proposals to [...]

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