Grassroots Media Convergence

Event Description:

Grassroots Media Tour -
Presenting Knowledge and Tools for Spreading Justice

In this time of war and economic collapse, what stories are the corporate media ignoring? Where can you turn for grassroots information and analysis, and to connect with movements for justice?

Come out to an evening examining the role of new and traditional grassroots media in working toward social justice.

Saturday October 18th
7:30 pm
Rice Media Center
2030 University Blvd.
Entrance #8 to the Rice University Campus
University and Stockton

Featuring:
-Tables by more than a dozen grassroots media organizations in Houston.
-Films by Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services and Undocumented Productions on the Recovery in Galveston after Hurricane Ike

Speakers:
Jesse Muhammad: Energetic, inspiring and effective are just some of the words audiences have used to describe the writings and messages delivered by writer, news reporter, artist, publicist and photojournalist Jesse Muhammad. Brother Jesse, a native of Houston, Texas, started contributing to the Final Call Newspaper in 2004 and was appointed as its Southwest Regional Correspondent. He has gained worldwide recognition for his consistent coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the continuing struggle of its survivors. In 2007, he was credited with bringing national and international attention to the case of the "Jena Six", and helped to mobilize the 50,000 plus attendees to the historic "Jena Six" rally in September of that year.

Hadassah Hill is a Brooklyn-based queer femme writer and activist who performs under the name Axon D'Luxe. She has worked in independent print, web, theater and audio media production for 10 years, and is currently the Art Director of the award-winning $pread Magazine and is producing her second album and a graphic novel. She is committed to empowering individuals to speak for themselves using new technologies, and to creating representations of the diverse communities she embodies using self-taught multimedia techniques.

Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. He was the first journalist with a national audience to write about the Jena Six case, and played an important role in bringing the story to national attention. His post-Katrina writing in ColorLines Magazine shared a journalism award from New America Media for best Katrina-related coverage in the ethnic press. Jordan is an editor of Left Turn Magazine and has written for a range of publications, from the Village Voice to Clarin in Argentina and Germany's Die Zeit. On the tour, he will be using new video, photos and first-hand accounts to share the grassroots struggle around the Jena Six and New Orleans post-Katrina organizing.

Sponsors and Participating Organizations:

The Grassroots Media Tour is sponsored by Left Turn Magazine, ColorLines Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Spread Magazine, Free Speech Radio News, Make/Shift, and other radical and independent media projects from around the US,

The Tour's Houston appearance is co-sponsored by Houston Indymedia, Sedition Books and Rice Media Center with participation from TEJAS, Undocumented Productions, Final Call, Free Press Houston, Houston Peace News, La Nueva Raza Newsmagazine, Southwest Alternate Media Project, Houston Zine Fest, Arcade Zine Distro, Greenwatch TV and HipHopPolitics.org.

Event Sponsor:
Many, Houston Indymedia

Event Website:
http://www.seditionbooks.org/node/36