Break the Blackout -- workshops & webcast

Hi everyone! You have probably all heard that this
weekend is the Break the Media Blackout Conference,
organized by KWRU and the Poor People’s Economic Human
Rights Campaign, with a little help from a lot of
other groups. Below is the full schedule, so far as I
know, along with some of the workshops that IMC folks
are participating in. To my knowledge, the detailed
schedule has not been posted yet, but there are many
other wonderful workshops – topics, without time, are
listed at the bottom of this message. Additionally, if
all goes as plans, portions of the conference will be
webcast over www.radiovolta.org – so check it out! 

Hope to see you there,
Amy


Saturday at 11am – Volta / Prometheus Radio Skills
Saturday at 2pm – Building Community Media Centers –
Room 519
Sunday at 9:30am – Roundtable Discussion on Grassroots
Print Publishing, Room 571
Sunday 11:15am – Learning to use the Indymedia Network
– Room 575
Sunday 4pm – trip to the 4134 Lancaster Ave. Media &
Organizing Space Open House

All workshops are on the fifth floor of the Ritter
Annex building of Temple University at the corner of
Broad and Cecil B. Moore.

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To:	[email protected]
From:	[email protected] 
Subject: [KWRU:] Join Us at The Break the Media
Blackout Conference This Weekend!
Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:53:14 +0000

BREAK THE MEDIA BLACKOUT: 
A CONFERENCE ON MEDIA DEMOCRACY  
& 
THE STRUGGLE TO END POVERTY

http://www.kwru.org/conference

Friday, October 4th  Prince Theater, Broad & Chestnut
Streets 
Philadelphia

7 - 10 pm Opening Remarks and Film Screening: Cheri
Honkala, Kensington 
Welfare Rights Union and Peter Kinoy, Skylight
Pictures & The Media 
College of the University of the Poor.

Saturday, October 5th Ritter Annex- 5th Floor, Temple
University, Broad 
& Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia

9:00 am - Registration 
9:30 - 10:45 am Plenary / Panel Discussion on the
Movement to End Poverty  
11:00 - 12:30 Workshops 
12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch Break 
2:00 - 3:30 pm Workshops  
3:45 - 5:00 pm Plenary / Panel Discussion on Media
Democracy  
7:00 -10:00 pm Film Screenings 

Sunday, October 6th Ritter Annex- 5th Floor, Temple
University, Broad & 
Cecil B. Moore Philadelphia

9:30 - 11:00 am Workshops 
11:15 - 12:45 Workshops 
12:45 - 2:15 pm Lunch Break 
2:15 - 3:30 pm Plenary / Panel Discussion on Building
Bridges / Working Together  
4:00 - Trip to 4134 Lancaster Media Space (optional)


WORKSHOPS WILL INCLUDE:

* Low Power Radio: Struggles by Communities to Get
Licenced - 
Prometheus 
Radio 
* Radio Skills- Radio Volta 
* Using the Internet as an Organizing Tool- Human
Rights Tech 
* Computer Security for Grassroots Activists- Human
Rights Tech 
* Documentation Using Disposable Cameras- Harvey
Finkle 
* Lessons Learned in the Fight to End Poverty-
Organizations from the 
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign 
* How to Make a Flyer- Kensington Welfare Rights Union

* Building a Community Media Center- Philly
Independent Media Center 
* How to Make Your Own Guerilla News- Guerilla News
Network 
* Web-Based Tribunals: Using Internet to Highlight
Economic Human 
Rights 
Violations in the U.S. - Kensington Welfare Rights
Union 
* Current Issues in Media Democracy- Media Tank 
* Feedback on Video Projects- George McCollough- DUTV,
Nadine 
Patterson- 
Harmony Image Productions 
* Communication and Human Rights- Deaf and Deaf-Blind
Committee on 
Human 
Rights 
* Grassroots Guide to Mainstream Media - ACT UP 
* Video 101- Witness 
* Using Theater to Get Your Message Out- Economic
Human Rights Theater 
* Production Models- Media Workers working with the
Movement to End 
Poverty- The Media College of the University of the
Poor

 Sponsored by: The Poor People's Economic Human Rights
Campaign, 
Kensington Welfare Rights Union, Human Rights Tech,
Social Welfare 
Action Alliance, Temple University School of Social
Work, Media College 
of the University of the Poor, Deaf and Deaf-Blind
Committee for Human 
Rights, Economic Human Rights Theater, Philadelphia
Independent Media 
Center, DUTV, Media Tank, Philadelphia Community
Access Coalition, 
Prometheus Radio Project 

CONTACT INFO:

Kensington Welfare Rights Union
NUHHCE, ASFCME, AFL-CIO
PO Box 50678
Philadelphia, PA 19132-9720
Phone: 215/203-1945
Fax:   215/203-1950
email: [email protected]
web:   http://www.kwru.org

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