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[IPA] Press Freedom Conference |
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by James Jacobs
Email: jacobs (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified!)
Phone: 359-9283 |
14 Feb 2001
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This is an email that I received regarding the Press Freedom Conference and Alternative News Media
Exposition to be held in SF April 27-29, 2001 |
From: Jeremy Smith <techassist (at) indypress.org>
To: inde-press (at) igc.topica.com
Subject: [IPA] Press Freedom Conference
Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2001, 11:22 AM
February 1, 2001
Dear Real News Providers and Media Activists,
You are part of a global movement to free the media by building alternative news and information services. Please join us in San Francisco on April 27-29, 2001, for the Press Freedom Conference and Alternative News Media
Exposition. We are celebrating \"Real News\" and building interconnections for sharing news with each other in the expansion of progressive information networks.
For the past several years a new media democracy movement has emerged in the United States. Media activists have gathered for Media Democracy Congresses (SF 96 & NY 97), Athens Media Conference (98), Fordham Press Freedom Conference (Spring 2000), and the IndyMedia Conference in Vermont (Fall 2000). A key theme emerging from these conferences has been the general understanding that we need to rebuild media news systems from the grassroots up and interlink with each other in sharing the news.
In honor of our 25th anniversary, Project Censored is co-hosting this national gathering of alternative news organizations and media activists at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Media activists, alternative news
publications, independent radio & TV are invited to join together for an Alternative News Media Exposition sharing 15,000 sq. ft. of floor space in the SFSU gymnasium complex. (150 display areas are available) Regional
publicity through KPFA and the San Francisco Bay Guardian will bring thousands of Bay Area residents to intermix and connect with Real News non-corporate media organizations/activist groups.
Exhibitors may bring samples to distribute or sell, and give out information on their organizations/publications. The Exposition has the potential to be a fund raising event for each of us.
Initial sponsors for The Alternative News Media Exposition and Press Freedom Conference are Project Censored, KPFA, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Journalism Department SFSU, Institute for Holistic Healing SFSU, Media Alliance, Independent Press Association, Free Speech TV, Mediachannel, and In These Times. Other Co-sponsors and under-writers are welcomed. Please register by March 5th in order to be included in the public announcements
and posters.
Display booth information and registration forms are enclosed and available at www.projectcensored.org or call 707-664-2500. Send recommendations for speakers, panel topics, and discussion group leaders to censored (at) sonoma.edu
Agenda: Friday April 27th
7-10:00 PM: Reception/party at San Francisco State University
Saturday April 28th
7-9:30 AM: Registration and Booth Set-Up
8:30-5:15: Conference Sessions
10-5:00: Exposition Open to Public
7-9:30 PM: Awards and Keynotes
Sunday April 29th
8:30-4:00: Conference Sessions
10-4:00: Exposition Open to Public
Real News
Real News is media information that contributes to the lives and socio-political understandings of working people. Real News informs, balances, and awakens the less powerful in society. Real news empowers and keeps key segments of working people in America tuned in, informed and active. Real News builds movements for social change. It keeps the 10-15% of us-those who as activists seek to make radical (root) changes in society-connected, aware and heart centered. It keeps us aware of our power and our collective ability to influence positive change. Real News organizes movement towards betterment, shapes policy for equality. Real News speaks truth to power and challenges the hegemonic top-down corporate entertainment news systems.
Every day Real News is published in hundreds of non-corporate alternative newsmagazines, local weeklys, zines, and independent newspapers around the globe. In the past year, Real News has appeared on Indymedia web sites in
over 30 cities in the U.S. as well as in over a dozen other countries. Real News is annually honored by Sonoma State University\'s Project Censored, where the Top 25 Real News stories not covered by the corporate media are published in the book \"Censored: the News That Didn\'t Make the News.\"
We have just worked out our a schedule of times for the Conference and Public presentations. The rooms seat 300 each and will run concurrently. The public room is open to all and the conference room will be open to media activists, writers, ect who actually registered for the conference portion of the Expo. Both are located in the Gym complex of San Francisco State University. The Exposition (150 booths) will be in the two main gyms in the same building. We will also have four classrooms for meetings, films and smaller presentations. I have not sloted any particular groups into times yet. So all times are still available.
Saturday: Conference Schedule
8:30-9:45 AM
10:00-11:15 AM
11:30-12:45
1:00-2:15 PM
2:30-3:45 PM
4:00-5:15 PM
Saturday Public Presentations
10:30-11:15 AM
11:30-12:15
12:30-1:15 PM
1:30-2:15 PM
3:30-4:14 PM
4:30-5:00 PM
Sunday Conference Schedule
8:30-9:45 AM
10:00-11:15 AM
11:30-12:45
1:00-2:15 PM
2:30-3:45 PM
Sunday public Presentations
10:30-11:15 AM
11:30-12:15
12:30-1:15 PM
1:30-2:15 PM
3:30-4:14 PM
The Project Censored Annual Awards Ceremony will be at 7:00 Pm on Saturday night in the on-campus Mckenna auditorium that seats 700.
Individual On-line Registration:
PRESS FREEDOM CONFERENCE & ALTERNATIVE NEWS MEDIA EXPOSITION
APRIL 27-29, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Name E-mail
________________________________ ____________________________
Address
_________________________________________________________________
City, State and Zip
Affiliation: Phone:
Conference Fee are $50.00 per person. This includes admission both days to
the Media Exposition, attendance at the Media Freedom conference sessions,
Friday night reception, and Saturday night Project Censored 25th annual
awards ceremony.
Vias or Mastercard # Expiration Date
______________________________ ____________
check can be made out to Project Censored and mailed along with
registration form to
Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1818 East Cotati Ave
Rohnert Park, Ca 94928
Alternative News Media and Activist Organization Exposition and Conference
Registration
PRESS FREEDOM CONFERENCE & ALTERNATIVE NEWS MEDIA EXPOSITION
APRIL 27-29, 2001
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Organization E-mail
________________________________ ____________________________
Address Web/Url
_________________________________________________________________
City, State and Zip Phone/fax
Persons Attending:
Will you want electrical power to your booth?
Organization Registration rates:
Under-Writer: $1,000 includes a double wide conference booth (16 X 8\') in
the main Exposition hall, full listing as a co-sponsor in all
pre-publicity, four individual Expo/conference passes, public presentation
time slot each day during the Exposition,
Sponsor: $500 includes a booth (8 X 8) in the main Exposition hall, three
individual Expo/conference passes, participant listing in all
pre-publicity, public presentation time slot during the Exposition.
Full Participant: $250 includes a booth (8 X 8) in the Exposition halls,
two individual Expo/conference passes, listing in the exposition program,
public presentation time slot during the exposition as available.
Participant: $125 includes a shared booth (4 X 8) in the Exposition halls,
one individual Expo/conference pass, listing in the exposition program,
public presentation time slots during the exposition as available.
All conference particpiants are invited to the Friday night opening
reception and the Saturday evening Project Censored Awards ceremony.
Vias or Mastercard # Expiration Date
______________________________ ____________
check can be made out to Project Censored and mailed along with
registration form to
Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave
Rohnert Park, Ca 94928
Peter Phillips Ph.D.
Sociology Department/Project Censored
Sonoma State University
1801 East Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
707-664-2588
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