Media Reform Events

Blogging While Brown: The First International Conference for Bloggers of Color

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:38:41 -0800

Start: 07/25/2008 - 00:00

End: 07/27/2008 - 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The most important purpose of the conference is to share knowledge.

GRC-13

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:41:09 -0700

Start: 07/25/2008 - 17:29

End: 07/27/2008 - 17:29

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

KBOO is partnering with KPCN, the low power station in Woodburn that was the object of a great Prometheus Barn Raising event, and with PSU for the 13th Grassroots Radio Coalition Conference.

Information on the program, registration and logistics will be availible mid-may here.

National Hip Hop Political Convention

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:29:33 -0700

Start: 07/28/2008 - 00:00

End: 08/03/2008 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The bi-annual National Hip Hop Political Convention (NHHPC) is a meeting where activists, organizers, artists, writers, journalists, scholars, and students from across the country develop and evolve the National Hip Hip Political Agenda, receive and participate in trainings, discussions, workshops, get inspired and build infrastructure for the hip hop political movement.

NonStop Radio Symposium

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:38:40 -0800

Start: 08/01/2008 - 00:00

End: 08/03/2008 - 23:59

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Come together and conspire with others who care just as much about securing the future of Progressive Talk as you do.

FCC Open Meeting

Stevie Converse — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:22:18 -0700

Start: 08/01/2008 - 13:17

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin J. Martin
has circulated the following items for consideration by his fellow FCC Commissioners as part of the
tentative agenda for next month’s open meeting scheduled for Friday, August 1, 2008:

· Comcast: A Memorandum Opinion & Order that addresses Comcast’s network management practices.

Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication 2008 Convention

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:46:07 -0700

Start: 08/06/2008 - 00:00

End: 08/09/2008 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

AEJMC expects some 2,000 journalism and mass communication educators, administrators, students and professionals during the four-day convention. The program will offer more than 100 teaching, professional freedom, and responsibility panels and more than 600 original research papers.

10th Annual SPIN Academy

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:47:54 -0700

Start: 08/13/2008 - 17:29

End: 08/17/2008 - 17:29

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The SPIN Academy is a five-day residential retreat hosting sixty activists from organizations around the country who are working to advance social justice. Academy attendees study key concepts in strategic communications, lead by the entire SPIN Project staff and more than thirty outside experts from a wide variety of professional communications capacities.

7th Annual Twin Cities Celebration of Hip-Hop

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:05:10 -0700

Start: 08/15/2008 - 16:56

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The annual Twin Cities Celebration of Hip-Hop has brought together people from all walks of life to celebrate the power of community through hip-hop culture. Over the past six years over 22,000 people from around the world have taken part in the festival and conference.

2008 National Convention & 5th Annual LGBT Media Summit

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:18:17 -0700

Start: 08/21/2008 - 00:00

End: 08/24/2008 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Rural Broadband Workshop

Bliss Requa-Trautz — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:27:59 -0700

Start: 09/18/2008 - 00:00

End: 09/19/2008 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Federal Communications Commission and the United States Department of Agriculture is conducting four educational broadband workshops with the purpose of informing people interested in bringing Broadband to their area about the resources, programs, and policies of the FCC and USDA.