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DESCRIPTION:Media Technology and Democracy Post-Election 2004:  Where Do We Go from 
 Here?  Monday, November 15th, 7- 9 pm  New College Cultural Center, 766 
 Valencia Street, San Francisco  What are the lessons of the 2004 elections 
 regarding media, new technology and politics? What is on the horizon for 
 the media democracy and media justice movements? Media technology has the 
 capacity for both liberation and oppression; it can enlighten and 
 obfuscate; serve the interests of progress or reaction. From the 
 perspective of the recent elections, an outstanding panel talks about the 
 future of media technology and democracy.  Panelists:  Dan Coughlin, 
 Executive Director of Pacifica Radio. He was appointed the Executive 
 Director of Pacifica Radio in January 2002. Under his stewardship, the 
 network pulled itself back from the brink of bankruptcy following a 
 debilitating 2-year internal struggle. Pacifica has since undergone the 
 largest financial and audience expansion in the network's 55-year history 
 while transforming itself into a membership organization with national 
 elections for its board of directors. Coughlin previously served as the 
 network's news director and as a producer of Democracy Now! He came to 
 Pacifica from Inter Press Service (IPS) Third World News Agency, a wire 
 service specializing in the Global South, where he worked as a senior 
 editor  Jan Frel, Political Editor of AlterNet - the highly acclaimed 
 Internet information source that provides readers with crucial facts and 
 passionate opinions. He recently worked on the Dean for America campaign in 
 Vermont, and before that he worked for the public interest journal 
 TomPaine.com. Jan graduated from St. Andrews University Scotland with a 
 degree in Geography. He says he could have been a better student.  Art 
 McGee, communications, media, and technology consultant with Online Policy 
 Group. Art McGee has over 15 years of experience in the corporate and 
 non-profit arenas. He has worked with organizations such as Project Change 
 (AntiRacismNet), Media Alliance (San Francisco), TAO Communications (now 
 known as the Organization for Autonomous Communications), the Center for 
 Third World Organizing (CTWO), the Black Radical Congress (BRC), and the 
 Institute for Global Communications (The World's First Non-Profit Internet 
 Service Provider), among many others.  Thenmozhi Soundararjan, Co-founder 
 and Executive Director, Third World Majority. She is a filmmaker, singer, 
 and grassroots media activist. As a second generation Tamil Untouchable 
 woman, she strives to connect grassroots organizers in developing countries 
 with media resources that can widen their base of resistance. She was the 
 director and founder of the Center for Digital Storytelling's national 
 community programs in which she developed the framework for community based 
 digital storytelling. In that capacity she has worked with over 200 
 communities around the country developing grounded new media practices for 
 their work. Further she is in residence at the MIT Center for Reflective 
 Community Practice writing about her experiences with community based 
 digital storytelling. She is also a 2001-2002 Eureka foundation fellow.  
 Donation: $5 - 10 (sliding scale; no one turned away for lack of funds)  
 This event is sponsored by New College Center for Education and Social 
 Action. For more information about this event, please contact 
 jon@newcollege.edu or call 415-437-3425. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/10/51833.php
SUMMARY:Media Technology and Democracy Post-Election 2004
LOCATION:New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/11/10/51833.php
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