Fwd: The Media and Social Movements

I imagine some subset of SFFCers might find the event below relevant.
Adding a tangent, one of the speakers, Bob Ostertag, is also a
musician who has released all of his recordings that he owns the
rights to under CC BY-NC (and a his latest under CC BY) -- see
http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7740 -- and this is just about
the best music released under any CC license, IMO.

However, this isn't about music, though it is the evening before the
conference, in case anyone is in the bay area early and looking for
something...

Media and Social Movements
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Join Jen Angel, Bob Ostertag, and Jeremy Adam Smith in a discussion on
the role of media in U.S. social movements, and celebrate the opening
of a new SF bookstore!
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Friday, October 10, 2008 at 7 p.m. - Free!
The Green Arcade - 1680 Market Street at Gough
http://www.thegreenarcade.com/

This informal panel will address several critical questions:

- What is the role of media in U.S. social movements?
- How does media work to sustain and support struggles?
- How can media be used more effectively to make change?
- What is the impact of the Internet on social justice media?

Please join three people who have worked long within independent media
and have worked and written on social movement media:

Jen Angel is a media activist and former publisher of Clamor Magazine.
She is the author of "Media and Activism: Creating and Maintaining
Effective Movement Media"
http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/media-and-activism/
and "Become the Media, a Critical History of Clamor Magazine"
http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/becomingthemedia

Historian, journalist, composer, Bob Ostertag's work cannot easily be
summarized or pigeon-holed. He has published 21 CDs of music, two
movies, two DVDs, and two books. His writings on contemporary politics
have been published on every continent and in many languages. He is
currently Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the
University of California at Davis. He is author of "People's
Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements"
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1790

Jeremy Adam Smith is senior editor of Greater Good magazine and author
of The Daddy Shift, forthcoming from Beacon Press in Spring 2009. He
is a longtime social justice and media activist and founding director
of the Independent Press Development Fund. His essays, short stories,
and articles on parenting, popular culture, urban life, and politics
have appeared in Mothering, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, San
Francisco Bay Guardian, Utne Reader, Wired, and numerous other
periodicals and books.
http://www.jeremyadamsmith.com/