Community Media Corner
News from the Community Media Outreach & Media Services Dept
MNN Celebrates NYC Immigrant Heritage Week
with Special Programming starting April 20th
Working with the City of New York, MNN will be dedicating a special programming block to celebrate Immigrant Heritage Week that starts on April 20th.
As part of New York City's Immigrant Heritage Week 2009, MNN's Community Media Department is showing a curated block of videos produced by our grant and non-grantee community organizations that celebrate and honor the struggles and experiences of immigrant communities in New York City,
"MNN Celebrates Immigrant Heritage Week" starts Sunday, April 19th to Thursday, April 23rd from 9 to 10pm on Ch. 34 and live streaming on our website at MNN.org.
Here's a rundown of our programs:
Sunday, April 19th, 9 to 10pm:
"Deportation Crisis: American Children Under Attack" with Families for Freedom and the The Church of Life After Shopping Gospel Choir (58 minutes)
Monday, April 20th, 9 to 10pm:
"May Day, May Day" Live Studio Show from May 1st, 2008 by MNN's COM Department - Encore Presentation (58 minutes)
Tuesday, April 21st, 9 to 10pm:
"CSWA News: Garment Factory Workers" (28 mins)
"La Propuesta de la Nueva Ley y el Dream Act" by Esperanza Del Barrio (28 mins)
Wednesday, April 22nd, 9 to 10pm:
Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Week- Compilation of Immigrant Rights Campaigns (28 mins)
"Stereotypes and Racism" produced by Immigrant Social Services (28 mins)
Thursday, April 23rd, 9 to 10pm:
"Third World Newsreel: Immigrant Experience" (58 mins)
In This Issue
MNN Celebrates Immigrant Heritage Week
MNN's "CBTV" Series Launched on March 25th
6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
April 15th: Rockefeller Drug Laws Screening
Digital TV: Are Your Read for June 12th?
Audio from Grassroots Fundraising for Community Media
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MNN's MNN Community Media Presents: "Community Board Television: CBTV"
Your Neighborhood, Your Community Board...Only on MNN!
Bi-Weekly Series Launched March 25th at 9pm on Channel 34
"Community Board Television" aka "CBTV" is produced by our Department, featureing Community Board (CB) members, community based organizations, local residents and others from the 12 boards in Manattan. "CBTV" highlights their the CB's important work to improve quality of life for residents, families, and local businesses their local neighborhood.s With the economic downturn getting worse, it's more important than ever that MNN provide Manhattan residents with timely and relevant information on local public affairs, education, the economy and politics, and other events that impact their lives and neighborhoods. This is why we have collaborated with the Community Boards in Manhattan to produce MNN's "CBTV", bringing important local news and information to Manhattan viewers.
Watch our Bi-Weekly Series, evey other Wednesday at 9pm on Channel 34 (Timewarner)/Channel 82 (RCN). You can also check out the "CBTV" series on the Internet on our Blip TV channel at http://cbtv.blip.tv/.
Tune into "CBTV" this Spring Quarter (Wednesdays at 9pm on Channel 34 (TW)/ Channel 82 (RCN):
April 8th, April 22nd, May 6th, May 20th, June 3rd and June 17th
SAVE THE DATE! 6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
"HOPE TO ACTION" Saturday, May 30, 2009 9am-6pm
@ Hunter College, 68th St & Lexington Ave, 5th Floor
Please join the 6th Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference: HOPE to ACTION
The enthusiasm that mobilized for President Obama's historic 2008 election campaign ignited the hopeful hearts of a country at a crossroads. But even as we celebrate, we must continue to confront the serious concerns that impact our communities. In this moment of great opportunity and great challenge, the NYC Grassroots Media community asks: what is the media's role in catalyzing -- and realizing -- social justice?
Please join them as they work together to chart the road forward, and to build a new media: one that confronts injustice; lends voice to our creativity, diversity, and communities; and above all, lays the foundation to convert our collective HOPE for social justice into effective and immediate ACTION toward change.
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:Call for proposals to be released in the coming week.
Workshop proposals will be due April 15.
The deadline for advertising and exhibits will be May 1.
Check back at www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org for updates! For more information or to volunteer to help plan the conference, please email info@grassrootsmedia.org or call 917-523-1045.
MNN's Communtiy Media Department and the Media Action Grassroots Network are on the planning committe of the Conference this year.
Forum & Film Screening on Wed. April 15th @ DCTV @ 6:30pm :
"Rockefeller Drug Laws: STILL TAXING US!"
On Wednesday April 15th FREE! Forums invites you to:
Rockefeller Drug Laws: STILL TAXING US!
@ Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV),
87 Lafayette Street between White & Walker in Chinatown 3rd Floor
(Take the 6/N/R/Q/J/Z to Canal St. or the A/C to Canal St.)
After you mail off your personal tax forms, come find out how the Rockefeller Drug Laws are STILL TAXING US!!. The evening will begin by screening excerpts from Lockdown USA, and from Prison Famz Productions recent works including a special piece made just for Governor Paterson entitled, "$220 Million: Grow People, Not Prisons" and talk show Finally FREE from Mandatory Minimums?. A panel will follow to talk about what's going on behind closed doors, who is left out of recent changes to Mandatory Minimum Drug Laws, and what's left to be done.
If Bill A6805/S2855 passed, where will we see changes take place? What does it mean to "pass the Bill in the budget"? Will my loved one be able to apply for re-sentencing? Will the police stop harassing the children in my neighborhood, now? Why do the mainstream headlines say "an END to the Rockefeller Drug laws, when they're still on the books?!
If you or someone you know are impacted by these laws, or if you have been involved in the struggle to repeal Mandatory Minimums, this forum will help you understand how "the best reforms yet" don't really equal a full victory, and why it's more crucial to stay engaged now, than ever!
RSVP TO: 718-706-0195 or prisonfamz@gmail.com by April 14th, 12 noon. Space is limited!
Suggested donation to End Mandatory Minimums NOW! ALL ARE WELCOME. No one will be turned away.
FREE! is Families Rally for Emancipation and Empowerment, a grassroots community organizing collective of people with incarcerated loved ones, is launching a new monthly event at the Maysles Cinema in Harlem. Each month, FREE! Families Film Forum will present a different social justice film followed by interactive audience discussion to prompt dialogue, strategy and action by community stakeholders.
Screening is co-sponsored by Manhattan Neighborhood Network and our NYC MAG-Net Hub (Media Action Grassroots Network)
Digital TV: Are Your Ready for June 12th, 2009:
Action Alert! On April 17th: Stock the No Cost Box!
ACTION ALERT: A message from the Media Action Grassroots Network
On APRIL 17TH: Stock the No Cost Box!
Call Your Local Electronics Retailers and Demand a No Cost Converter Box!
As the June 12th deadline for the federally mandated Digital Television Transition rolls near, electronics retailers across the country could make the difference between TV access and a blank screen for tens of thousands of poor and working class communities in your city. All you have to do is ASK. Take less than 5 minutes of your time to join the Media Action Grassroots Network on April 17th as we call local electronics retailers in cities and towns across the country and ask them to pledge their support to a socially responsible digital television transition by stocking the $40.00 converter box with an analog pass through. For More info go to: http://dtvforthepeople.blogspot.com/
Listen to the Audio Recording from MNN's Community Media's Monthly Workshop Series presents "Grassroots Fundraising for Community Media"
Tues. March 31st 2009
This panel will provided fundraising ideas to those interested in pursuing community media initiatives. Some of our special guests included non-profit organizations who have successfully secured funding for their media projects. The workshop featured groups which have used non-traditional grassroots fundraising strategies to get their projects off the ground. Participants came and heard about the different ways producers, media makers and non-profit organizations can fundraise for their community-based media projects.
The special guests featured on the workshop were:
Lyn Pentecost, Lower East Side Girls Club
Liza Green, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Nikki Marron, Breakthrough: building human rights culture
LISTEN TO THE WORKSHOP NOW
`MNN Community Media Corner is distributed by MNN's Community Outreach & Media Services Department. For information about how your organization start to make its own local television programming, please call the Community Media Training Request line at 212-757-2670 x352 or email: cm@mnn.org. You may also learn more about us at http://www.mnn.org/com.
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