CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Download Film Schedule for day here (pdf)
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 year’s conference theme: Media Justice in Our Communities
Session 1: 10:30am – 12:00pm
Video Games for Social Change Workshop
- 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, New York Solidarity Coalition for Katrina/Rita Survivors
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 Aim: 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
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