Mark Taylor-Canfield

        ​Mark Taylor-Canfield

 

Independent Journalist, Blogger, Author, Actor and Musician 

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​Mark has volunteered as an activist to advocate for the rights of the

poor and disabled.​ He works to promote media democracy, civil and 

human rights.

 

​MTC is also committed to educating people about tech & media literacy,

social networking platforms, new media, and independedent D.I.Y. music

& multi-media production.

 

Mark has provided testimony for the Federal Communications Commission,

Seattle City Council, and various non-profit agencies.  

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JOURNALIST 

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Mark Taylor-Canfield blogs published @ Huffington Post,

Blogger and Daily Kos.

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Mark's News and Culture Show is called "The MTC Report".

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His Youtube channel - MTCTVMEDIA.

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He's a weekly guest commentator on The Jeff Santos Show  broadcasting nationally from Boston on the Revolution Radio Network.

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He is Contributing Editor for Democracy Watch News.

You can link to his articles for that news organization here at Oximity.

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MTC is also Associate Editor for The International Collaborative Media

Alliance.

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MTC is a guest columnist at The Capitol Hill Times, and an author at

Truthout.

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His writing has been published @ The ​​​​​​​​​​Seattle Times,​​ CounterPunch, Alternet, Op-ed News, Oximity, Crosscut, ​

India First Post, Open ​Salon, The Canadian, Washington Free Press,

Tablet, Tentacle, The Evergreen, Seattle Star, BuzzFlash, Medium, etc.

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He's a member of the group Progressive Radio Northwest.

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Mark Taylor-Canfield writes film reviews and political articles for

The Seattle Star and he edits his own online newspaper "Global News Feed".

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MTC has been a reporter for Free Speech Radio News on the Pacifica Radio Network. He also served on the FSRN Steering Committee.

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Mark began his journalism by volunteering for the original Seattle

Independent Media Center. He hosted experimental programs on the

Seattle IMC's "Radio X".

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More information on Mark Taylor-Canfield is available at Internet Archives .

 

Mark Taylor-Canfield's portfolio/biography is posted at Muck Rack. 

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MUSICIAN 

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Mark is also a musician and member of two Seattle alternative rock bands:  ​

"The Galaxy Machine" and "The Revel Saints".

 

Here's a link to The Galaxy Machine's music video "Harmony Wine".

 

The band won an award from a Toronto music magazine and one of

their songs ("Sun Gods") was chosen for a compilation CD to raise funds

for breast cancer research. Part of the donations from the CD went to the foundation set up by Sir Paul McCartney in memory of his wife Linda.

 

Some of the other artists on the benefit CD, "Hope Is The Answer", include Ritchie Havens and Robert Fripp. The CD was produced by Grammy award winner Steve Zuckerman.

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Mark Taylor-Canfield records and produces electronic music mixed with

samples as "DJ MTC". He has also composed and performed live film sound

tracks.

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He was a member of the critically acclaimed Seattle music group Lucid. 

The band recieved airplay on KEXP and was featured in US & European

music magazines. 

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Mark served as a member of the board of directors for the Northwest CyberArtists, a group of maverick tech and interactive multimedia artists

in Seattle. MTV reported on the activities of NW CyberArtists and their exhibit/performance at the legendary Speakeasy music/theater venue -

one of the first internet cafes in the US. 

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Mark Taylor-Canfield served as resident composer at the Univeristy of Washington's computer music center.  His musique conrete compositions

were honored in France by the International Institute for Electro-Acoustic Music. 

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He traveled to Europe to see his  piece "Third Dream From The Center of the

Left Eye" presented at an international music festival and competition in Bourges, France. Mark's composition was on the program of music during a concert at a beautiful and Renaissance palace - the famous Palais Jacques

Coeur in Bourges, France.  Legends tell of alchemists leaving secret 

arcane messages hidden in the stonework of the mysterious structure.  

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MTC's field recordings have been included in CD compilations including

a release by The Phonographers, a Seattle based field recording

and performance group which has presented concerts at the 

University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery.

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He's performed music as a solo artist at the world famous Pike Place Market,

and at art galleries and music venues throughout the Northwest including

the Washington Center for the Performing Arts., Capitol Theater,

Jewel Box Theater, Nectar, Hummingbird, El Corizon, etc. His multimedia art installations and sound experiments have been featured at galleries and performance spaces such as Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), On the

Boards, OK Hotel Gallery, Phantom Realms Gallery,  INArtsNW,  JEM Studios

and the NW CYberArtists and Washington Composers Forum.  

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Mark has also composed and performed soundtrack music for many silent

films including  Alice In Wonderland,  as well as movies based on Frank

Baum's books, and films directed by D.W. Griffith  and George Melies . 

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ACTOR 

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MTC is also an actor who has performed in various theater productions including plays by William Shakespeare, David Ives and Tom Stoppard.

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Mark was a member of the cast of "All In The Timing"  which won an award: "Best of The Seattle Fringe Festival". As a result of this this success

the theater company performed the play at The Seattle Repertory Theater 

at Seattle Center located near the city's most famous piece of architecture:   

the Space Needle.

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He has also acted in independent films, played a Greek priest in a History Channel series and was an extra in movies including "Life Or Something

Like It" with Angelina Jolie and "Battle In Seattle" with Charlize Theron,

Woody Harrelson and Andre 3000 from Outkast.  

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Mark is currently starring in a film noir style radio theater series as his own copyrighted character "Nick Savage, Private Eye" based on his

original novel set in Seattle circa 1947. MTC also writes some of the scripts

and produces the audio plays.

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MTC IN THE MEDIA ​
 

Mark's activism and music have been covered by ​CBS News, National Public Radio, Associated Press and ​The Washington Post.​​ ​​He's been interviewed

on BBC about international issues including the Occupy Wall Street

movement​. ​

 

MTC is a regular guest on many national talk shows.​ ​

​​​He's been on the air with:

 

Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!), Thom Hartmann, Ed Shultz, David Sirota,

Mike Papantonio, Nicole Sandler, Brad Friedman(BradBlog), Norman

Goldman, Mike Malloy, Leslie Marshall​, Brad Bannon, Mike Newcomb, Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornell West, Jeff Santos, KIRO Radio with Dave Ross, Filter

Free Radio with Jacob Dean, KUOW with Bill Radke, Bob Kincaid's Head On

Radio Network, J​​ohn Carlson, KBCS (Seattle), KBOO (Portland), WAMU (Washington DC), WBAI (NYC), KPFK (Los Angeles), WBUR (Boston), et​c.

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​Mark gave public testimony on the negative effects of corporate media consolidation during a hearing with the ​Federal Communications

Commission​.

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​In 2012 Mark won a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against the Washington

State Patrol. Federal District Court Judge Robert J. Bryan ruled that his First Amendment Constitutional rights had been violated when he was illegally detained and banned from covering protests at the state capitol in

Olympia. Mark was represented by one of the oldest law firms in Seattle:  

Keller-Rohrback.

 

​An important legal victory for freedom of the press!

 

Through his activism, journalism and music MTC has met or talked with:

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Former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, US Senators Bernie

Sanders, Bill Bradley and George McGovern, Former Secretary of Labor

Robert Reich, Members of the US Congress Keith Ellison, Jim McDermott

and Pramila Jayapal, Governors Jerry Brown and Christine Gregoire,

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson, ​​​​​​ Seattle Mayors Charles

Royer, Greg Nickles,Ed Murray, Jenny Durkan and Ron Sims, a dozen

different Seattle City Council members including Kshama Sawant, Peter Steinbrueck and Nick Licata, Author Gore Vidal, Composers John Cage, Lou Harrison, Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Karpen and William Shottstaedt, US Presidential Candidates Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson , Bernie Sanders and  

Ralph Nader, ​Artists Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Yoko Ono, Former Secretary of Agriculture Jim Hightower, War Resister Lt. Ehren Watada, Activist/Political Representative Tom Hayden, Civil Rights Attorney William Kunstler, Democracy For America  Founders Howard and Jim Dean, Journalist Daniel Ellesberg, National Lawyers Guild President Marjorie Cohn, ACLU Senior Policy Analyst Chris Saghoian, Fimmaker Michael Moore, Singer Eddie Vedder, ​​​Activist/Musician Michael Franti, Rainforest Activist, 

Julia Butterrfly, and Occupy Wall Steet Activist Dorli Raney, Astronomers Jill Tarter, Eugene Shoemaker and Michael Carr, Musicans Loreena McKenitt, ​​

Keiji Haino, Jello Biafra, David Johansen from the New York Dolls, Buzz

Osborne of The Melvins, Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States

of America, Sir Mix-a-lot, Andre 3000 from Outkast, Chuck D of Public Enemy, The Ventures, Deerhoof, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Mavis Staples, Canadian punk band D.O.A., Japanese artists Seksua Robo and singer/songwriter

Louden Wainwright III​.

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Mark has also been able to meet or talk with some of his

favorite journalists:

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Amy Goodman, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Greg Palast, Jeremy Scahill, ​Aaron Glantz, ​Geoff Parrish, Arun Gupta, Lee Fang, John Nichols and Jeffery

St Claire.

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​​As an independent journalist, Mark Taylor-Canfield has interviewed:

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​​Presidential Candidates Jill Stein and Rocky Anderson, Peace Activists 

James Yee, Lt. Ehren Watada and​ Colonel Ann Wright,​​ Mahatma Ghandi's Grandson Arun Ghandi, Ray McGovern, Icelandic Activist/Musician HordurTorfason and Pirate Party MP Birgitta_Jónsdóttir , Artist Alex Grey,Musicians Buffy St Marie and Sieji Haino, ​Former National Lawyers

Guild President Marjorie Cohn, Tibetan Buddhist Llamas, US Congress

woman Pramila Jayapal, Congressman Jim McDermott, Seattle City Council members Nick Licata and Kshama Sawant, the punk band D.O.A., etc.

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​​​Mark has spent time traveling and doing research projects in France and

the UK. He was a guest at the  ​Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique in Bourges, France where his music composisitions

recieved recognition and were were presented ​in concert at the beautiful 

Palais Jacques-Cœur 

 

Mark wrote a "Declaration of Independence from Wall Street" ​​ for the

US Occupy Wall Street movement.

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His monthly syndicated column was entitled,

"Weapons of Mass Distraction"​.

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​In his spare time Mark has created an animated political

satire cartoon series: "Occupy London!" (Watch @YouTube)

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He is a founding member of the public interest civil rights group the Committee For Local Government Accountability. He's co-author of two reports on civil rights and free speech, which have been forwarded to the Center For Constitutional Rights at Rutgers University.

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 Press Bio For Mark Taylor-Canfield:​

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​Mark is an independent journalist in Seattle. He's a reporter

for Free Speech Radio News on the Pacifica Network. Mark

blogs at Huffington Post and Daily Kos. His articles have

been published by The Seattle Times, CounterPunch,

Truthout, Alternet, Op-ed News and Crosscut. In 2012 Mark

won a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Washington

State Patrol after being illegally detained and banned from

the state capitol while reporting on a sit-in protest. He got

his start in journalism at the Seattle Independent Media

Center. Mark has spent time in France and the UK. He testified

before the FCC on the negative effects of corporate media

consolidation. His monthly syndicated column covers human

rights and freedom of the press.

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Mark has been a member of the board of directors for Northwest Cyber

Artists, a collaborative group of tech artists who have organized festivals

and performances at the Center On Contemporary Art (COCA), OnThe

Boards,the Segue-way, etc.

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When Mark was in high school he won a National Scholastic Writing Award. 

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Links:​

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democracywatchnews.org, demcracycast.libsyn.com

twitter.com/dwatchnews, ​​filterfreerado.com  fsrn.org  freespeech.org 

interoccupy.net​​ thomhartmann.com  lesliemarshallshow.com normangoldman.com  ​mikemalloy.com  jeffsantosshow.com bbcworldservice@bbc.co.uk   thegalaxymachine.com xray.fm

galacticembassy.com  brad@banncr.com indymediaweekly.com revolutionradionetwork.com mikenewcomb.net wegoted.com 

bradblog.com  smileyandwest.com   radioornot.com democracynow.org 

ringoffire.com  davidsirota.com​​ aclu.org nlg.org guardian.co.uk rsf.org

hrw.org ccrjustice.org tlpj.org amnesty.org​ gandhiinstitue.org cpj.org 

rcfp.org rsf.org. spj.org​ aeinsten.org nicolesandler.com progressiveradionorthwest.com nwprogressive.org 

facebook.com/dwatchnews kbcs.org radioornot.com 

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MTC's Websites: 

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Mark Taylor-Canfield's Youtube Channel - ​

MTCTVMEDIA​

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​Huffington Post  -

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/mark-taylorcanfield

Capitol Hill Times  - http://www.capitolhilltimes.com/Content/

Opinion/Opinion/Article/Seattle-This-is-what-democracy-

looks-like/9/540/4681

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Seattle Star  - http://www.seattlestar.net/author/mark-taylor-canfield/

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Truthout  - http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/47755

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Oximity - https://www.oximity.com/user/Mark-Taylor-Canfield-1

 

​Facebook  - https://www.facebook.com/mtaylorcanfield​​

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SoundCloud  - http://soundcloud.com/mark-taylor-canfield​​

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​Daily Kos  - www.dailykos.com/blog/Mark Taylor Canfield​​

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Twitter  - https://twitter.com/MTaylorCanfield​​

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Blogger  - http://mtcbog.blogspot.com/

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Mark's Online Newspaper - "Global News Feed" ​

http://paper.li/MTaylorCanfield/1351325124#​

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​Tumblr  - http://www.tumblr.com/blog/marktaylor-canfield

Pinterest  - http://pinterest.com/mtaylorcanfield/pins/​​

Stumbleupon  - http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/MTaylor-Canfield

MuckRack   - https://muckrack.com/mark-taylor-canfield

​Reddit  - http://www.reddit.com/search?q=mark+taylor-canfield

Last FM  ​-​         http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Taylor-Canfield        

Fandalism  - www.fandalism.com/marktaylorcanfield/bpF2

Reddit  - http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkTaylor-Canfield/​​

Linked In  - www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-taylor-canfield/2/761/2

​​MySpace  - www.myspace.commarktaylorcanfield

Google  - https://plus.google.com/118398523204337058001/posts?hl=en-US​​​

​Bambuser  - http://bambuser.com/channel/MTC3000

​  Storify   - http://storify.com/mtsea/journalist-mark-taylor-canfield-wins-

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Vimeo  - http://vimeo.com/50338811

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