Northwest Media Action

We have a date for the conference!

Attention, fans and producers of independent media:

The Progressive Roundtable's Conference on Independent Media will take place on October 7th of this year from 9:30 to 1 PM. That's the first Saturday of the month for those of you without calendars.

At that event, we will have short presentations by people who have successfully created new media properties in each of several classes of media. Those classes include, but are not limited to:

DIY (Stickers, graffiti, stencils, etc.)
Peer to Peer sharing - DVDs, MP3s, etc.
Alternative Radio - community radio, public radio, college radio, and for-
profit radio
Alternative Press - print publications
Web-based news sites - like this one
Public Access TV
Film Screenings
Documentary Filmmaking

After the presentations, we would break into working groups to discuss how to produce our own versions of this media or learn how we can help projects already in existence.

There was some talk about having some kind of show or concert after the conference to raise funds, but that was held over for some enterprising person to take command of it. So far, we're strictly focusing on getting producers of this stuff on board.

Also at this last meeting, we met Dick Mansfield, retired schoolteacher from Tacoma who has become adept at downloading and sharing of alternative media off the internet. He brought several discs to the meeting and talked about how with just an internet connection and a DVD burner, you can make a lot of media for not much money. If we also had a digital projector, film screenings would be a snap.

Bill Johnston had a cool idea that is probably much farther off - eventually getting together with a progressive business owner or unioon to buy a mixed-use building that we could actually use to create indy media but also have a coffeeshop and bookstore in the same building. That would sure be a great resource for organizers.

Those of you who plan to come to our next meeting should be thinking of three things: 1) come up with a cool name for our conference, 2) come up with innovative ideas for promoting the conference, to ensure that we get plenty of people to come, and 3) bring more people to the meeting!

Our meetings take place at Tom's house from 7-8:30 PM every second and fourth Wednesday. Be there or be square! Email me to get the address, or call at
(253)227-6884.

We can win, if we come together! Let's make the media work for us, and not the other way around!

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