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Start: Mar 2 2008 - 12:15pmEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 1:45pm
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This panel brings together activists from some of NYC’s most innovative community organizations which have pioneered the use of video as a tool for affecting social change and mobilizing their constituencies. Panelists will show examples of their work and distribution strategies from community access TV to film festivals and social networking sites. This workshop is sponsored by MNN.
The Self-Advocacy Association of New York State, Inc. (SANYS) is a not-for profit, grassroots organization run by and for people with developmental disabilities. Our goal is to help create a person-centered and person-directed system of supports. To further this goal, the SANYS executive board supports self-advocates and self-advocacy groups regionally and statewide. SANYS encourages them to speak for themselves individually and collectively.
FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment is a women-led, grassroots collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, empowering, and mobilizing ourselves to create viable community alternatives to, and impact public policy around the destructive, profit-driven prison industry.
Since its inception in February 2003, Esperanza’s membership base has grown to 550 Latinos from East Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. In addition to community organizing campaigns, Esperanza now offers a youth group, children’s tutoring, legal referrals & advice, and workshops on job skills, leadership development, nutrition, cancer prevention, mental health, parenting skills, and domestic violence.
Ivettza Sanchez, who has worked in MNN's Community Media Department for more than four years. In that capacity she teaches video production and post-production classes to Manhattan community groups. She is also one of the pioneers of the videoblogging movement, in particular bringing media justice themes to the videoblogging community. Contact her at Ivettza@MNN.org