The Fifth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Speaking Truth to Power: MEDIA JUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITIES

Co-Sponsored by Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College/CUNY


Download Conference Information Packet (PDF) here.

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.

Sunday | March 2nd 2008

Hunter College, 68th Street and Lexington Ave | West Building

(Southwest Corner, enter from street or directly from 6 train)

9am–6pm


Wheelchair Access:

Enter at 69th street between Lexington and Park Avenue entrance via the wheelchair accessible ramp from the subway. You will see a set of 6 glass doors, with the ramp on the left. Enter into the lobby of the North building on the south side of the street.

For more information please call 917.523.1045 or
email info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org

JOIN US for the Conference AFTER PARTY!!

Place: Mo’s Caribbean Bar and Grill
Location: 1454 2nd Ave. at 76th St.
Time/Phone: 6pm/212.650.0561
½ off drinks after 7pm
21+ only please

Please bring your business card to Mo’s or make-your-own business card at Mo’s and enter it in our lottery to win some goodies!!!!!!!!!!!!

Download Flyer Here

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