Nov 29: MAG-Net media skills and strategy training (New York City)

29 Nov 2007 - 9:00am
29 Nov 2007 - 6:00pm
Description:

The Jumpoff: A NY Regional Media Justice Skills & Strategy Session
Join Reclaim the Media and the other groups comprising the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) from 9am to 6pm on Thursday, November 29th at the Manhattan Neighborhood Network as we bring youth, social, economic, and racial justice organizers together with media activists in the NY region to build skills in policy development, policy advocacy, integrating strategic communications, and media activism and production into grasssroots social change organizing efforts, and strategic communications.

This day-long strategy and skills building session will be facilitated by the SPIN Project, a non-profit communications strategy group dedicated to working with groups to build a fair, just and equitable society that want to be heard in today crowded media environment; and by The Praxis Project, a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems.

Contact Betty Yu at betty@mnn.org for more information.

Location:
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, 537 West 59th Street, New York
The media's job is to interest the public in the public interest. -John Dewey