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6th Annual Conference: HOPE to ACTION
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Hunter College

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2 November events!

Election Night Media Justice Mixer

In partnership with GoLeft.org

When: Tuesday November 4, 2008 (Election Day) from 5-7pm
Where: The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street (btw. Bank and Bethune Streets)
Click here for directions: http://brechtforum.org/directions

What: Election Day Media Justice Mixer:
The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and Brecht Forum will host a
conversation with refreshments and music on the role of the media in this year's election coverage. No matter who wins this election the fight for media justice continues. Let?s discuss what?s happening beyond the ballot box. Location: Brecht Forum. Refreshments will be provided.

Attend the Mixer and receive a free drink at the Live Elections Result party to follow at THE CENTER.

Join us for Election Day Activities All day Long!
Tuesday, November 4th from 12:30pm to 12:30am

We're pulling people together for community as we entertain, learn,
and wait in anticipation for the Election results.

Day of Activities Include:

12:30pm Screening of ?Head of State? with Chris Rock and Bernie Mac.
GoLeft.org wraps up their ?Hollywood Take on Politics? series with the
showing of Chris Rock?s hilarious send-up of the democratic process in
Head of State. Location: Brecht Forum

3:00pm Youth and the Vote
Global Action Project will host a video screening that explores issues
facing young people. The screening will be followed by a youth-led
conversation on the election and how youth concerns were addressed and
what needs to happen to ensure issues that are important to youth are
not ignored post election. Location: Brecht Forum

5:00pm Media Justice Mixer**
The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and Brecht Forum will host a
conversation with refreshments and music on the role of the media in
this year?s election coverage. No matter who wins this election the
fight for media justice continues. Let?s discuss what?s happening
beyond the ballot box. Location: Brecht Forum

6:30pm Live Election Results Coverage
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center invites you
to visit and watch the election results. Cheering, hissing and
uncontrollable clapping is welcomed. Cash bar. Food available.
Location: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

**Attend the Mixer and receive a free drink at the Live Elections
Result party to follow at THE CENTER.

Locations:

Brecht Forum
451 West Street
(btw. Bank and Bethune Streets)

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
208 W. 13th St. (btw. 7th and 8th Avenues)

*The Brecht and The Center are about a 5-minute walk from each other.

Workshop 11/11/08: Documenting Struggle: Three Radical New York
City Archives


Please join the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and our partners
Radical Reference for the 3rd installment of the "Make this NetWORK"
workshop and networking event series - to help build the skills and
collaborations
needed for our communities to communicate and organize effectively.

Tuesday, November 11
7pm
Brecht Forum
451 West St (between Bank & Bethune Sts)
NYC
$5-$15 donation to support Radical Reference
free food/cash bar

Workshop Description: Documenting Struggle: Three Radical New York
City Archives

Join Radical Reference for a look at some of the ways libraries and
other institutions are preserving the people's history! Archivists
and activists will present parts of their collections and discuss how
their work keeps the struggle alive.

Presenting organizations:
**In recent years there has been increased attention to the period of
contemporary art history of which ABC No Rio is a part. No Rio
Director Steven Englander was part of the Art Spaces Archives
Project's panel "Activist Arts Organizations of the 1970s and 1980s"
at the College Art Association's 2006 conference.

Records in ABC No Rio's archive includes documents related to the Real
Estate Show and other "founding" documents; meeting minutes and
planning/production notes; publicity and promotional materials; artist
files; grant requests; correspondence; financial and legal documents;
and documentation of events and activity.

**Developed by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) with the
generous support of the Arcus Foundation, OutHistory.org is an
innovative experiment in community history-making. The site consists
of several layers: curated exhibits by scholars in various historical
fields, contributions by the public, discussion boards, and an
ever-growing archive of primary documents and secondary sources.
OutHistory.org is open to any registered user who wants to share
research, documents, citations, essays, memoirs, images and even sound
files.

**Jonathan Ned Katz, the initiator and director of the project, is an
independent scholar and the author of four books on the history of
sexuality and intimacy.

**Lauren Gutterman, the Project Coordinator for OutHistory.org, is a
Ph.D. candidate in NYU's History Department where she is focusing on
gender and sexuality in the 20th century US.

**Donna Davey and Peter Filardo will be representing the Tamiment
Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University.
Founded in 1906, the library and archives form a unique,
internationally known center for the study of labor history and
progressive politics.

Archives, manuscript collections, photographs, books, and pamphlets
document the history of labor, socialism, communism, anarchism, and
utopian experiments. The collections also include important materials
relating to the women's movement, the cultural left, the history of
labor law, and the struggles for civil rights, academic freedom, and
civil liberties.

**The Brecht Forum's own Annette T. Rubinstein Reading Room will also
be introduced.

The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition (NYCGMC) www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org
The goals of the NYCGMC are to strengthen and unify the networks of local grassroots media makers to better serve the communities of New York City .

**This program is made possible with support from the North Star Fund and the Citizens Committee for New York

Click here to read about past networking events.
Click here to read recent NYCGMC newsletters and reports on our events.

The Fifth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference:

Media Justice in our Communities

  • View panel descriptions from the 2008 Conference
    And check out the 2008 program schedule

  • Learn about the 2008 Conference theme and the 2008 Conference Coalition Partners


    • Click here to read recent NYCGMC newsletters

    Make this netWORK Events

  • Thursday March 29th, 2007 Hosted at the offices of the North Star Fund.

    • The Fourth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference:

    Media and Movements Beyond Borders

  • To listen to workshops from the 2007 NYC Grassroots Media Conference click here
  • Post-Conference Wrap up & How to Continue the Conversations Started at the Conference
  • About the Conference
  • Workshop Schedule
  • Film Screenings
  • Art Exhibition
  • Organizations Who Have Endorsed the Conference


    • The Third Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference

  • To watch videos/listen to workshops from the 2006 NYC Grassroots Media Conference click here
    • To visit the website to find out more about workshops, speakers and organizations represented at the event, please click here.
    • To continue the conversations started at the 2006 conference, visit our web forums for each workhshop here.

    Make this netWORK Events


    NYC Grassroots Media Conference 2005 April 13-14 at New School University


    NYC Grassroots Media Conference 2004 February 27-29 at New School University


    RNC Independent Media Center August 04

    Visit these sites and watch/listen to the coverage from the RNC-IMC