Here’s a schedule for the 5th Annual NYC
Grassroots Media Conference: Speaking Truth to
Power: Media Justice In Our Communities, Sunday |
March 2 at Hunter

It promises to be a stimulating day for journalists,
film makers and media mavens

Opening Plenary 9:45am - 10:15am

Session 1: 10:30am - 12:00pm
  * Video Games for Social Change Workshop-
    Tiltfactor Research Lab. The panelists are
    Hunter Professor Mary Flanagan and Hunter
    students Suyin Looi, James Bachhuber, and Angela
    Ferraiolo
  * Media criticism as a Tool in Media Justice
    Campaigns- FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In
    Reporting)
  * The 2008 Grassroots Media Election Guide-
    Radical Reference
  * With My Voice: Youth Video Making-Arts Engine
  * The ABCs of Child Labor in Ghana: How Journalism
    and NGOs are Making a Difference-Reporters
    Without Borders
  * Using Media to Change Policy- CIAD
  * News for Underserved Neighborhoods- Hunt's Point
    Express, Norwood News, The Point, Northwest
    Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition. Organized by
    Hunter professor Bernard L. Stein, whose
    students are the staff of The Hunts Point
    Express
  * Be Del.icio.us! A Roundtable Discussion on the
    Role of Open Source and Free Software in
    Grassroots Campaigns- Marymount Manhattan
    College
  * Curation as Lens of Activism: Interactive Tools
    & Media Approaches- Listen Up!, POV, Urban
    Visionaries
  *  Activist Art Past And Present- Groundswell
  * A Platform for Community Media
Session 2: 12:15 - 1:45pm
  * Art, Advocacy, Media, and Direct Action:
    Complementary Strategies for Making Change on
    the Streets of NYC- The Street Memorial Project,
    Transportation Alternatives, StreetFilms.org,
    and Time’s Up!
  * 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 theGulf
    Region and NYC- Sarah Lawrence College
  * The Art of Struggle: Hip Hop and Freedom-
    Movement in Motion
  * Growing the Media Justice Movement: Building
    Funding, Capacity and Peer Support Resources-
    The Funding Exchange's Media Justice Fund,
    Social Science Research Council, North Star
    Fund, Chica Luna Productions, People's
    Production House
  * Media Justice Through Participatory Media
    Making: Indypendent Reporting Workshop- NYC
    Independent Media Center and the Indypendent
The schedule includes a full day of film screenings
by independent media makers and the following
workshops. For more info, visit: 
www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org

The event is co-sponsored by Hunter’s Film and
Media Studies Department