NYC Grassroots Media Conference

April 9-10, 2005

New School University
65 5th Avenue, NY
(212) 420-9045

This coming weekend, April 9th and 10th, hundreds of concerned media
makers,
youth organizers and community members will be converging on the New
School in
Manhattan to attend over 60 workshops led by more than 100 panelists
from NYC
organizations. Do-it-yourself (DIY) trainings, discussions and panels,
including: The Global Threat to Independent Press, Culture Jam 101,
Radiolab,
Hip-Hop is Political Everything Is, Video Activism, People Speaking for
Themselves: Community Organizations Taking Control of Media, Policy
for the
People: Threats and Opportunities for Community Media and Internet in
NY, How
to talk to mainstream media and many more. For a complete schedule
scroll to
the end of this email and read workshop descriptions on our website at
NYC Grassroots Media Conference.

Highlighting the power of NYC’s youth organizers the conference will
hold dozens
of workshops, screenings and youth led panels to support the important
youth
driven campaigns and provide the skills for youth to produce their own
media.

Young people from across the 5 boroughs are expected to come out to
gain
skills, meet one another, and contribute to the strong NYC youth media
community. Free lunch will be provided for youth attendants. Workshops
on how
to start your own web site, newspaper, radio program, make your own
video,
organize against police brutality and how to get involved in hip hop
activism,
use graffiti, painting and freestyle hip hop for social change, how to
advocate
for human rights, end racism and sexual violence in the media and more.

The NYC Grassroots Media Conference is being organized by Paper Tiger
Television
and NYC Indymedia, Global Action Project and Educational Video Center.

REGISTER NOW for discounted admission on our web site
NYC Grassroots Media Conference
or visit Bluestockings Bookstore at 172 Allen Street in Manhattan to
pay in
cash.

Registration Fees:

$20 (Registration before April 9, 2005)

*Last chance to register is at the opening night party Fri night,
REELSPEAK*

$30 Day of event registration

$8 Youth registration (under 21 years old)

$4 for groups of 3 or more young people. (So bring your friends!)

OPENING NIGHT PARTY! FRIDAY April 8:

"REELSPEAK" will feature live music and spoken word including: Chronic
Electronic Orchestra, G.A.ME The Hip Hop Union, DJ Tantrik and much
more.

ALL AGES WELCOME!

$10 General Entry

$5 for Registered Conference Participants (You can register in person
at the
party)

Produced by Brooklyn Media Lab

Dumba Queer Arts Collective

57 Jay Street (F Train to York Street)

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

NYC Grassroots Media Conference Workshop Timetable
** Subject to change, please check back as conference gets closer!**


Saturday, 10–11:30

Opening Plenary

Saturday, 11:45–1:15

1. Under Seige: Copwatch with The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

2. Digital Distribution: Building Youth Media Online

3. Web journalism for youth with Harlem Live!

4. How to run a Grassroots Press Campaign and Talk to the Press : Nan
Rubin

5. Much More Than a Reporter of News: Legal and Political Challenges
Facing
Grassroots Journalists

6. Raising Environmental Awareness through Multimedia Activities —
Green Circus

7. Video Activism — Brandon Jourdan

8. Agitate, Educate, Publish! Zine Making from Concept to Distribution —
Lauren
Jade Martin and Eleanor Whitney

9. The Portable Printing Press: A Hands-On Guide to Stencil-Making —
Visual
Resistance Collective

10. Get Psyched! Get Pissed! A Radical Cheerleading Protest Performance
workshop
with the NYC Radical Cheerleaders

11. Merchants of Culture: Decoding Culturally Specific Marketing:
Antonio Lopez

Saturday, 1:15–2:30

Lunch

(Youth are invited to join us in the youth lounge for free pizza)

Saturday, 2:30–4:00

1. Youth Media Film Festival

2. Superhero Storyboards (Pt 1) with Global Action Project

3. Calling all Youth, Get Involved, Get Heard! Radio Rootz, Radio
Solidarity,

4. An Inside Look at How Collectives Function: Paper Tiger Television,
May First
Technology Collective, Indepedent Media Center and Flux Factory

5. Developing Vision and Resistance: The Defining Role of Grassroots
Media:
Priya

6. A New York City Guide to Free Public Library Resources: Radical
Reference

7. Creative Networking

8. Produce a Segment with Dyke TV (Part 1)

9. People Speaking for Themselves: Community Organizations Taking
Control of
Media

10. Videoblogging 101: Posting Videos on the Internet for Free

Saturday, 4:15–5:45

1. Creative Politics: The Art of Hip Hop Freestyling: Movement in
Motion

2. Media Ownership and Consolidation with MNN Youth Channel

3. Super Hero Storyboards (Pt 2) with Global Action Project (Part 2)

4. A panel discussion on hip hop activism

5. Culture Jam 101: You Are A Thinly Veiled Threat —Reverend Billy,
William
Etundi Jr. and Swoon

6. Websites for Beginners with May First Technology Collective

7. Beauty and the Beast: Aesthetics in the Era of Global Activism

8. Raising Women’s Voices: Yolanda Shoshana

9. Produce a Segment with Dyke TV – (Part 2)

10. Youth Start-Ups: Make it Happen!

Sunday, 10–11:30

1. The Nuts and Bolts of Democracy Now! Production and Outreach

2. Hip Hop is Political, Everything Is . . . with G.A.ME The Hip Hop
Union

3. The Global Threat to Independent Press

4. Freelance for Independent Media

5. How to Write Grants Effectively: A Panel of Progressive Funders

6. PSA In A Day — Video Production for youth with Global Action Project
(Part 1)

7. Graffiti Workshop with Educational Video Center (Part 1)

Sunday, 11:45–1:15

1. Censorship and Racism in the Media

2. We Are New York City: Grassroots Movement Building with Print Media:
Amanda
Hickman and William Etundi Jr.

3. Out of Control Copyright

4. Accessing Government Information: Independent Press Association

5. Stayin' Alive: How Zines and Indy Mags Stay Afloat: Mandy Van Deven
– Altar
Magazine

6. Radicalizing the Familiar: Props for Action: (Part 1) — Not An
Alternative
Arts Collective

7. Policy for the People: Threats and Opportunities for Community Media
and
Internet in NY and What We Can Do About It: Liza Dichter

8. History of Radical NYC Media — Arun Gupta, Chris Anderson, Dee Dee
Halleck

9. PSA In A Day — Video Production for youth with Global Action Project
(Part 2)

10. Graffiti Workshop with Educational Video Center (Part 2)

11. Zine Reading — Bring your zine and read, or just come and listen.

Sunday, 1:15–2:30

Lunch

(Youth are invited to join us in the youth lounge for free pizza)

Sunday, 2:30–4:00

1. Accessing Government Information: IPA

2. Billboards for People: Using Murals in Organizing: Groundswell

3. Media rights.org film festival screening

4. Free103point9 Radio Lab

5. Owning Our Own: Creating People's Media and Rejecting Corporate
Systems
presented by R.E.A.C.Hip-Hop

6. Fact Checking and Research Skill for Independent Journalists —
Radical
Reference

7. Love, Labor, Loss — A Film-based Campaign to Improve Global Women's
Health:
Lisa Russell

8. An Introduction to Cinematic Storyboarding — Ghetto Film School

9. Youth Start Ups — Independent Press Association

10. Radicalizing the Familiar: Props for Action (Part 2) — Not An
Alternative
Arts Collective

11. Patriarchy is Malarchy — Educational Video Center

Sunday 4-6

Developing web tools for grassroots organizing — an open
discussion/caucus to
discuss building out NYC Activist resources through Compass for Change,
building the NYC Grassroots Media Coalition website and more.