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Editing For Advocacy Workshop

Date:
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Time:
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Type:
Class/Workshop
Organizer/Author:
Tracy Rosenberg
Location Details:
1904 Franklin Street # 500
Oakland CA 94612

In this new workshop, learn how to turn your newsletter or magazine into a voice for social justice. As an editor, you have the power to use your publication to help shape the dialogue on the issues your organization cares about. Don't settle for bland when you don't have to. Editing for Advocacy will help you foster creative debate, engaging conversations and passionate persuasive argument in your print or online publication.

Jess Clarke is the founding editor of Freedom Voices Press (http://www.freedomvoices.org) and editor-in -chief of Race, Poverty & the Environment a journal of social and environmental justice published by Urban Habitat. (http://www.urbanhabitat.org/rpe). From 1998-2004, Clarke was editor of MediaFile a bi-monthly journal of media analysis and resources for activists published by Media Alliance. He is the co-editor with Roger Burbach of September 11 and the U.S. War, Beyond the Curtain of Smoke co-published by Freedom Voices and City Lights publishers 2002; editor of Image and Imagination, Encounters with the Photography of Dorothea Lange, 1997; and co-editor, with Clifton Ross of Voice of Fire, 1994, the first anthology of Zapatista communiqu�s and interviews published in English. A California Arts Council artist-in-residence 1999-2001 and a San Francisco Arts Commission lead artist on the MA training project, Raising Our Voices, Clarke has been teaching writing, digital design and critical thinking in community settings for over a decade.
Added to the calendar on Fri, May 2, 2008 4:18PM
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