GMC schedule of workshops
Film Screenings (all day)NYC Grassroots Media Film Screenings Grassroots Meda Conference Organizers Download: FilmSched08_FINAL.pdf
9:45 - 10:15 - Morning AddressNYC Grassroots Media Coalition and Partner Organizations opening address on conference theme: Media Justice in Our Communities GMC organizers and partners
10:30 - 12:00 - First Session of PanelsMedia criticism as a tool in media justice campaigns FAIR, Center for Media Justice
Be Del.icio.us! A Roundtable Discussion on the Role of Open Source and Free Software in Grassroots Campaigns. Marymount Manhattan College
Using Media to Change Policy Coalition of Institutionalized Aged and Disabled (CIAD)
With My Voice: Youth Video Making Arts Engine, Inc.
Video Games for Social Change Workshop hunter college, Tiltfactor Game Research Lab
Radical Reference Presents: the 2008 Grassroots Media Election Guide Radical Reference
The ABCs of Child Labor in Ghana: How Journalism and NGOs are making a difference. Reporters Without Borders
News for underserved neighborhoods The Hunts Point Express
Curation as Lens of Activism: Interactive Tools & Media Approaches Learning Matters Inc., Listen Up!
Groundswell Workshop: Activist Art Past And Present Groundswell
A Platform for Community Media Connecting.nyc Inc.
12:15 - 1:45 - Second Session of PanelsArt, Advocacy, Media, and Direct Action: Complimentary Strategies for Making Change on the Streets of NYC Time's Up!, Transportation Alternatives, Street Films, Street Memorial Project
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 and the 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 Media Justice Fund of the Funding Exchange, The North Star Fund, The Social Science Research Council, People's Production House and ChicaLuna Productions
Media Justice Through Participatory Media Making: Indypendent Reporting Workshop The Indypendent - Newspaper of NYC Independent Media Center
Video as an Organizing Tool: Lessons from the Field Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Center for Digital Democracy, Name.Space and WiFi-NY, Common Cause
Media strategies for everyone Workers Independent News, Queens Community House
Beyond the Box: The Future of Video Distribution Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Center for Digital Democracy, Name.Space and WiFi-NY, Common Cause
Handala takes aim: Textile design for social justice AWAAM
Slingshot Hip Hop, from Brooklyn to Palestine: Writing a Radical Curriculum in Public High Schools PEP (Palestine/Israel Education Project)
1:45 - 2:45 - Lunch2:45 – 4:15 - Third Session of Panels2008 Presidential Elections: Through the lens of ethnic press New York Community Media Alliance, Irish Echo, Nowy Dziennik (Polish Daily News), Bangla Patrika
Reporting from the streets: Workers Redefine Media Justice People's Production House
Media Essentials 101 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Digital Storytelling Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Eyes Right -- on the Web Political Research Associates
On the Fly - Conducting Interviews on the Street Paper Tiger TV
Geo Girls: Citizen Journalism The Lower Eastside Girls Club
Who's in Control? Mind over Media Workshop MNN 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
“Alternative Voices on the Internet: Managing the News Online” Radical Reference
4:30 – 6:00 - Fourth Session of PanelsW.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
Organizing the Organic Internet May First/People Link
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
From Myspace to Media Justice: Teaching Youth the Tools of Journalism IndyKids
Educators Strategy Session: Connections Between Media Justice and Visual Literacy Brooklyn Museum, Youth Views and POV
Getting Started on Your Documentary Film Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College
The Power of Montage Global Action Project
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