Workshop Schedule


Session 1: 10am - 11:30am

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  • On Public Access and the State of Media: Policies That Affect Us All
  • Beyond Googling It: News and Government Information “Web 2.0” style
  • Podcasting 101: Creating Your Own Podcast
  • The New York City Streets Renaissance: Reclaiming New York City's streets from the automobile
  • Video for Change- Using Video as an Advocacy Tool
  • Anti-Oppression and Media
  • FUREE in the Streets: Media and Community Organizing in an Age of Gentrification
  • Critical Solidarity: U.S.-based Media Activists and Latin America
  • BGirls, Battles, & Breakin' Barriers: Young Women's Hip Hop Activism in Brazil and Beyond


Session 2: 11:45 - 1:15pm

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  • Talking to Mainstream Media
  • Solidarity, Not Charity: A Youth Media Workshop on Katrina
  • Media Policy for Media Makers
  • Artist Freedom Campaign (AFC)
  • Dead Trees: Small Magazines and Newspapers in the Digital Age
  • Slingshot Hip Hop: From Brooklyn to Palestine
  • Performance as Creative Resistance
  • Youth Media Makers: Creating Change
  • Stitch for Senate
  • The Story of Daily Life: Connecting people through video collaboration
  • Radicalizing the Familiar: Props for Action


1:15 - 2:00 - LUNCH BREAK

  • Youth under 21 are invited to join us for free pizza and activities in the Youth Lounge.
  • Photography as Advocacy - Lunchtime Talk


Session 3: 2:00 - 3:30

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  • Combating the Stereotypes and Misperceptions of Black Women in the Media
  • We are all in Darfur - and Nairobi, Abidjan, Johannesburg, Lagos, Kampala. The African perspective.
  • Prometheus Radio Project and the global community radio movement
  • Software Freedom and the Organic Internet
  • The impact of mainstream media ownership on the ethnic press in New York
  • Uplifting Community Voices … Responding to Audience Demand: An International Perspective on Violence & Communication
  • Hip-Hop Sustains
  • Grassroots media as the voice of migrants
  • NODE 101 - learning how to make a videoblog
  • DIY Animation Crash Course
  • Styles of Expression: Tellin' Your Story
  • Art & Activism: the NYC Ghost Bike project


Session 4: 3:45 - 5:15

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  • Grassroots Media and Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards Development
  • Listen Up! Youth Debate Concerns over Internet Filters, Social Networking, Sex Ed & Free Expression
  • Engaging workers through media
  • New York's Wireless Future
  • Crossing the Border: Hip Hop liberation, revolution and resistance
  • Black-Oriented Radio and Media Reform
  • Journalism, propaganda and truth: discussing the dilemmas
  • Our World Our Mic: Creating Youth Radio Documentaries with Radio Rootz
  • Youth exploring the Root Causes of Migration
  • Mind over Media
  • US Social Forum 2007 - Exploring Media Opportunities