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