National Media Reform Conference - SPREAD THE WORD (This is a must to everyone)
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Date: 2008-05-08, 9:40AM EDT
Mark your calendar: the next National Conference for Media Reform will be
held in Minneapolis, June 6-8, 2008.
Join fellow activists, media makers, educators, journalists, policymakers
and concerned citizens in calling for real and lasting changes to our
nation’s media system.
2008 provides us with a great opportunity to put the issue of media reform
in the national spotlight. Join us in Minneapolis and help us build this
critical movement.
Speakers includes:
Bill Moyers, PBS legend
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Dan Rather, TV anchor
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Byron Dorgan, U.S. Senator
Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post
Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News & Democracy Now!
Lawrence Lessig, author of The Future of Ideas
Katrina vanden Heuvel, The Nation
Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner
Jonathan Adelstein, FCC Commissioner
Van Jones, ColorofChange.org
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus
Laura Flanders, Radio host and journalist
Robert Greenwald, Brave New Films
Jane Hamsher, FireDogLake
Tim Wu, author of Who Controls the Internet?
Kim Gandy, National Organization of Women
Rosa Clemente, R.E.A.C.Hip Hop
Robert W. McChesney, Free Press co-founder
The conference schedule is here:
http://www.freepress.net/conference/program
WHERE:
Minneapolis Convention Center
1301 2nd Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55403
minneapolisconventioncenter.com
WHEN:
Friday June 6th 2008, 10:00 am
Saturday June 7th 2008, 8:00 am
Sunday June 8th 2008, 9:30 am
- Location: This is a must to everyone
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