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Reports from conferences, strategy meetings and other events for organizing media activism; discussion notes, action plans, outcomes, reflections.
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Report-backs

Action Plans

Statements & Declarations

Media activism strategy meetings 2001-2004

Highlander Media Justice Gathering 2002

World Social Forum media/communications sections

National Conference on Media Reform

WSIS: World Summit on the Information Society 2003-2005

Community Wireless Summit 2004

Musgrove meetings on media 2002, 2004

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Speeches & Presentations

Audio/Video from the National Conference on Media Reform

Submitted by cima on Tue, 2008-06-03 11:40.
Categories: National Conference on Media Reform | Changing Policy | Gatherings & Meetings

Live audio and video streams during the conference, and archived audio/video downloads after the event.

http://www.freepress.net/conference/tune_in

Media Policy and the Next Presidency: The Time is Now

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2008-04-29 19:57.
Categories: Action Plans | Media Justice | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Changing Policy | Congress | Gatherings & Meetings | Meeting Notes | Public Interest Obligations | Regulation | United States | About the Policy Issues

Media advocates make suggestions on how to prepare for advancing a media/technology agenda in the new administration.

http://www.gfem.org/node/288

Internet & ICTs for Social Justice (APC Recommendations to UN governance forum -IGF 2007)

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2007-12-01 19:39.
Categories: Report-backs | Report (series) | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Internet | Access | Analysis & Commentary | Broadband Internet | Gatherings & Meetings | Global Policies | Global/International | Public Infrastructure & Access | About the Policy Issues

APC assessment of 2007 event and recommendations for moving towards the third forum in New Delhi, 2008.

http://www.apc.org/english/news/index.shtml?x=5340227

Media Justice or Media Control: Curriculum from a Conference organized by the Appalachian Community Fund

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2007-11-30 15:46.
Categories: Popular Education | Report/White Paper | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Changing Policy | Access | Community Media | Congress | Diversity | Diversity | FCC | Gatherings & Meetings | Organizers' Tools | Ownership | Public Interest Obligations | United States | About the Policy Issues

Relationship between media justice and media control

http://youthmediacouncil.org/documents/view/56

ICA 2007 Conference Ebook with Grassroots Panels

Submitted by Elsa on Mon, 2007-09-03 12:03.
Categories: The Field & What's Needed | Connecting the Pieces | Book Recommendation | Online (free) Book | Community Media | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Representation | United States

Grassroots and alternative media voices provide lived experience of participatory media practice at academic conference

http://www.researchingcommunication.eu/reco_book2.pdf

Communicating Justice at USSF 2007 (Malkia Cyril, YMC)

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2007-07-27 01:20.
Categories: Report-backs | Media Justice | The Field & What's Needed | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Access | Coalitions | Community Media | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Grassroots/local organizing | Independent media | Organizers' Tools | Representation | United States | Global media/communication movement(s)

Youth media leader and media justice advocate, Malkia Cyril, reports on her experience of the 2007 U.S. Social Forum.

http://youthmediacouncil.org/blogs/posts/view/46

Another Media is Possible! U.S. Social Forum: Media-related workshops

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2007-07-27 01:13.
Categories: Report-backs | Movement-Building, General | Community Media | Gatherings & Meetings | Grassroots/local organizing | Independent media | Meeting Notes | Organizers' Tools | United States

Descriptions of media-related workshops at the 2007 U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta, GA

http://reclaimthemedia.org/ussf-media_justice

Another World or Another Mistake? (tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:55.
Categories: Report-backs | Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Leadership | Access | Coalitions | Community Media | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | Race | Representation | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools | Youth

Poverty, Race, Disability, Youth and Indigenous Scholars from POOR Magazine travel to the 2007 US Social Forum to realize a new world of media production..By Any Means Necessary

http://www.poormagazine.org/index.cfm?L1=news&story=1806

Reflections on the US Social Forum (Int'l Relations Center)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:23.
Categories: Report-backs | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Leadership | Coalitions | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Globalization | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | United States

Two perspectives from the IRC Americas Program (Laura Carlsen and Katie Kohlstedt).


http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4411

Reflections on the US Social Forum: 3 Cautions for the Future of the Left (+ comments)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:07.
Categories: Report-backs | Creating Conferences & Meetings | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Article | Movement-Building, General | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Globalization | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Sally Kohn offers a critical eye on the first U.S. Social Forum and draws spirited commentary.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/18/2607/