Conference
What a week
The week started in Philadelphia on Saturday. I went to the launch of Impeach For Change at, of all places, Constitution Hall. I was there to discuss with other bloggers the importance of keeping the matter of George Bush's impeachment on the table. Not for political vendetta but as a matter of constitutional crisis.
Then on Tuesday on to Barnard College, where with 5 other feminist bloggers we discussed the state of the feminist blogosphere and what opportunities and obstacles lie ahead.
Hours later I hopped on a train to go down to Washington DC. I was slated to give a workshop on blogging with Chris Rabb of Afro-netizen, Bill Densmore of Media Giraffe and Faiz Shakir of Think Progress. I swear, an hour and a half is just not enough for tackling all the questions of concerned of people who want to use new media tools like blogs but just don't know how.
Let's say I am DYING to follow up on all these conference. Give me until tomorrow. I'm running out to pick up my kids at school. Also, the week is not over yet. I still have Rootscamp to attend.
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Ethnic Media Online : Taking Your News to the Blogosphere
First National Professional Development Seminar for Ethnic Media Colleagues
Wednesday, November 15
Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036
New America Media invites you to our first national professional development seminar for ethnic media editors, reporters and marketing associates. The all-day seminar features business and editorial workshops and follows the First National Ethnic Media Awards Banquet on Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
At 2:00pm, Liza Sabater, whose blog CultureKitchen is one of the top 100 progressive blogs in the United States, gives a workshop on the hows and whys of taking your news online and if you haven't already done it, developing blogs for your top commentators.
Speaker:
Liza Sabater, Writer, Blogger, Netactivist, www.culturekitchen.com
Faiz Shakir, Deputy Research Director, www.thinkprogress.org and the Progress Report, Center for American Progress
Chris Rabb, founder and chief evangelist, Afro-Netizen
New America Media
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Blogging and Feminism : (Web)sites of resistance
Feminist Futures
Blogging Feminism:
(Web)Sites of Resistance
A panel discussion
Tuesday, 14 November, 7:00 PM
Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall
Free & open to the public; no reservations required.
Cyberspace . . . will have important effects in encouraging women to participate in designing and implementing models of economic development, constructing stable democracies, ensuring that different cultures can exist side by side without violent conflict and providing the sense of trust, partnership and solidarity that are necessary to any society in which people cooperate for mutual well-being.
- Lourdes Arizpe
Of the internet's viability as a tool for political change, we ask, is there a better example than the blog? Young and youthfully minded feminists have learned that blogging allows them to carve out personal and political spaces where their lives, their issues, their analyses of the world can come into sharp focus. Outside the confines of mainstream media, where women are addressed (usually exclusively) as consumers, feminist bloggers have become the cultural producers blazing some of the most radical and rousing paths toward revolutionary social change.
This spring, The Scholar & Feminist Online, will publish issue 5.3 - "Blogging Feminism: (Web)Sites of Resistance." On Tuesday, 14 November, guest editors Gwendolyn Beetham and Jessica Valenti come together with select contributors to discuss how feminists are fulfilling the promise of creating a cybercommunity dedicated to securing a more just and peaceful world. Panelists include Lauren Spees and Michelle Riblett, BC '05 (Hollaback), Liza Sabater (Culture Kitchen), and Alice Marwick (Tiara).
Barnard University's Center for Research on Women
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Impeach for Change
Nov. 11, 2006, Movement to Impeach Bush and Cheney Announced
Speakers: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Elizabeth Holtzman, former Member of Congress, served on the House panel that voted to impeach President Nixon, and author of The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens
Cindy Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace
David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com
Tim Carpenter, Director of Progressive Democrats of America
Jodie Evans, Co-Founder of CODE PINK Women for Peace
Bill Perry, Veterans for Peace
Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org
Bloggers: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Glen Ford (Black Agenda Report)
Sally Hemings (Sally Hemings in Paris)
Rob Kall (OpEdNews.com)
Dave Lindorff (ThisCantBeHappening.net)
Martin Longman (BoomanTribune.com)
Susie Madrik (Suburban Guerilla)
Liza Sabater (Culture Kitchen)
Bob Fertik (Democrats.com)
WHERE: Kirby Auditorium in the National Constitution Center on Independence Mall (across from Independence Hall), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Directions)
Tickets must be purchased in advance
http://impeachbush.meetup.com/16/calendar/5235193
Note: A private, nonprofit, and nonpartisan organization, the National Constitution Center welcomes a broad diversity of opinion and allows -- without endorsement -- press conferences by advocacy and political organizations as well as other types of groups.
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Run, run as fast as you can! The almighty powerful bloggers attack!
Yesterday I attended Fair Media Council's "Connections Day". I was one of the participants in the Blogging: The Power of Citizen Journalism panel.
I had a blast because I finally met Bob Cox, founder of the Media Bloggers Association and Steve Safran of Lost Remote. Bob is the patron saint of bloggers and Steve? Well, as you can see by his energy in this post, he's Bob's so-good-yet-evil twin.
As Steve points out, the debate was rather agitated and it went from, how can blogs be used by disseminate your message to the "we still own the media and you bloggers suck" debate. The three of us agreed we are in a transitional period at the moment, because the rules of engagement through reading and writing are changing.
Here's what I get from the discussions we had during the panel and afterwards:
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