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5th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Speaking Truth To Power: MEDIA JUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Sunday | March 2nd 2008
Co-Sponsored by Film and Media Studies Department Hunter College/CUNY
Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Ave | West Building
(Southwest Corner, enter from street or directly from 6 train. Wheelchair access: Enter at 69th street between Lexington and Park Avenue entrance via the wheelchair accessible ramp from the subway.)
Hours: 9am-6pm
To purchase tickets please visit www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
For the past four years, we've come together to explore the political dimensions of media and how it shapes our lives. By developing relationships between community and media organizations, the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition is working to re-imagine issues of access to, control of, and power over our media system. That means defining our struggle as a struggle for Media Justice.
Media Justice recognizes the need for a media that comes from, and is responsive to, the people, a media that addresses systemic marginalization and discrimination and that speaks truth to power. Media Justice asserts that our communities and airwaves are more than markets, and that our relationship to the media must be more than passive consumption. Media Justice recognizes that the form of our current media system is not
inevitable, but the result of an interplay of history, technology, power, and privilege. Media Justice seeks to integrate efforts to reform our media system with a social justice agenda, in order to create not just a better media, but a better world.
We invite you to join us at the 2008 NYC Grassroots Media Conference as we seek to define our understanding of and relationship to Media Justice as a community, and explore how we can not only envision an ideal world, but to make this vision a reality.
WORKSHOPS POSTED ONLINE! Schedule includes a full day of film screenings by independent media makers and the following workshops. Visit our website for more info: www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
Opening Plenary 9:45am - 10:15am
Members of the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and this year?s conference Partner Organizations will give an opening address and welcome attendees to this years conference theme: Media Justice in Our Communities
Session 1: 10:30am - 12:00pm
Video Games for Social Change Worksho
- Tiltfactor Research Lab
Media criticism as a Tool in Media Justice Campaigns
- FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
Radical Reference Presents: the 2008 Grassroots Media Election Guide
- Radical Reference
With My Voice: Youth Video Making
-Arts Engine
The ABCs of Child Labor in Ghana: How Journalism and NGOs are Making a Difference
-Reporters Without Borders
Using Media to Change Policy
- CIAD
News for Underserved Neighborhoods
- Hunt's Point Express, Norwood News, The Point
Be Del.icio.us! A Roundtable Discussion on the Role of Open Source and Free Software in
Grassroots Campaigns
- Marymount Manhattan College
Curation as Lens of Activism: Interactive Tools & Media Approaches
- Listen Up!, POV, Urban Visionaries
Groundswell Workshop: Activist Art Past And Present
- Groundswell
A Platform for Community Media
Session 2: 12:15 - 1:45pm
Art, Advocacy, Media, and Direct Action: Complementary Strategies for Making Change on
the Streets of NYC
- The Street Memorial Project, Transportation Alternatives, StreetFilms.org, and Time?s
Up!
Beyond the Box: The Future of Video Distribution
- Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Center for Digital Democracy, Name.Space and WiFi-NY,Common Cause
Forced Removal: How the People and the Media Fight for Their -Right to Return? to the
Gulf Region and NYC
- Sarah Lawrence College
The Art of Struggle: Hip Hop and Freedom
- Movement in Motion
Growing the Media Justice Movement: Building Funding, Capacity and Peer Support Resources
- The Funding Exchange's Media Justice Fund, Social Science Research Council, North Star
Fund, Chica Luna Productions, People's Production House
Media Justice Through Participatory Media Making: Indypendent Reporting Workshop
- NYC Independent Media Center and the Indypendent
Video as an Organizing Tool: Lessons from the Field
- FREE! Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment,Esperanza del Barrio,
Self-Advocacy Association of NYS
Media Strategies for Everyone
- Workers Independent News
Beyond the Box: The Future of Video Distribution
Art, Advocacy, Media, and Direct Action: Complimentary Strategies for Making Change on
the Streets of NYC
Handala Takes .. Textile Design for Social Justice
- AWAAM
Slingshot Hip Hop, from Brooklyn to Palestine: Writing a Radical Curriculum in Public
High Schools
The Palestine/Israel Education Project
Session 3: 2:45 - 4:15pm
2008 Presidential Elections: Through the Lens of Ethnic Press
- New York Community Media Alliance, Irish Echo, Nowy Dziennik (Polish Daily News),
Bangla Patrika, Sing Tao Daily
Reporting from the Streets: Workers Redefine Media Justice
- People's Production House
Alternative Voices on the Internet: Managing the News Online
- Radical Reference
Media Essentials 101
- GLAAD
Digital Storytelling
- Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Eyes Right -- on the Web
- Independent Journalists
On the Fly - Conducting Interviews on the Street
- Paper Tiger Television
Geo Girls: Citizen Journalism
- Lower East Side Girls' Club
Who's in Control? Mind Over Media Workshop
- MNN's Youth Channel
P.I.Y: Print It Yourself
- Misled Youth Network
Reproductive Freedom: Using Theater and Alternative Media to Activate Pro-Choice
Perspectives
- Words of Choice
Session 4: 4:30 - 6:00pm
W.A.R. (Women Armed and Ready)!: Defining the Reel Images of Women in Hip-Hop
- Hip Hop Association
Protest Radio
- free103point9
Emerging Voices in Queer Media
- LGBT Center, Queers for Economic Justice
Getting Started on Your Documentary Film
- Hunter Film and Media Studies
Organizing the Organic Internet
- May First/People Liink
No Justice, No Peace: People of Color Writing the Story
- Global Information Network
Fact vs. Fiction: Advancing the Truth in Today's Media Maelstrom
- Guttmacher Institute
The Power of Montage
- Global Action Project
From Myspace to Media Justice: Teaching Youth the Tools of Journalism
- IndyKids
Educators Strategy Session: Connections Between Media Justice and Visual Literacy
- Brooklyn Museum, POV