We are en route from Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco, LA, Oakland, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Madison, and Nevada City. Partners from all eight New Routes projects will convene in Washington, DC for the kick-off conference of a 3-year project to improve the lives of US immigrants through community media. Read More
1st Annual Membership Meeting Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1, 2007 Chicago, IL Welcome to the exciting first meeting of NCIHC membership at large! Read More
CPEHN is committed to improving access to health care and eliminating health disparities by advocating for public policies and sufficient resources to address the health needs of communities of color. Find out more about the organization's policy agenda, register for its statewide advocacy conference on June 7, 2007, and find data and resources on communities of color at the CPEHN Web site.
Moderator Helen DeMichiel of NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture) leads this panel discussion about locally produced media rooted in geographic communities engaged with building those communities and linked to existing historical cultural centers. Panelists include Louis Massiah, Scribe Media Center, Loris Ann Taylor, Center for Native American Public Radio, Fred Johnson, UMass-Boston gives an overview of community media nation-wide and
Pamela Colby of Minneapolis Telecommunications Network.
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Moderator Cynthia Carrion of MNN Youth Channel heads up this panel of youth media producers including Hana Georg, Radio Rootz, Dulce Mora, RadioArte, Paul Billingsly, YO! Youth Outlook, and Machlyn Blair of Appalshop.
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Moderator Juana Ponce de Leon, Director of Independent Press Association leads a discussion that provides US-wide context for the rise of ethnic media. Panelists include Sarwat Husain, Al-Ittihad News talking about the influence of ethnic media on advertising, Vivian Merchant of the bilingual newspaper La Prensa Latina that plays an advocacy role in the Memphis, TN area, and Kevin Weston of New America Media.
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"If we lose the future now, we’ll never get it back"--Bill Moyers. View two 30 minute videos of the Moyers keynote address along with audio of all the sessions from the January 12-14, 2007 Media Reform Conference in Memphis, TN. Read More
Roberto Lovato of New America Media sets the tone for this wide-ranging discussion of the immigration rights movement and the media: history, globalization, the blogosphere and language. Joining Lovato is Erubiel Valladares Carranza, technical director of low power radio KPCN in Oregon and Deepa Fernandez, WBAI-FM morning host and director of a media training center for immigrants and youth in New York City. Download this mp3 from the Media Reform Conference Web site.
"If we lose the future now, we’ll never get it back"--Bill Moyers. View two 30 minute videos of the Moyers keynote address along with audio of all the sessions from the January 12-14, 2007 Media Reform Conference in Memphis, TN.
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