Description of workshop:

Has the use of progressive, independent media to simply criticize our oppressors causing globalization to decrease? When we witness that 51 of the world’s largest economies are now multinational corporations rather than countries, the answer becomes self-evident. In this course we will cover four elements. First we will briefly cover the collectives and communities which live and work together that have used Media to empower their communities rather than to simply criticize the unjust power structure of globalization. Second, we will discuss how creating multiracial, multicultural communities and non-traditional cohousing activist groups may be the most effective means of using time, rent, utilities, gas and volunteers in long-term organized resistance activities. Third, we will cover the need to internationally network those groups in order to prevent the traditional fragmentation amongst community-based media activist groups in order to enable those communities to most effectively confront the pillars of globalizations. And fourth, we will have an break out groups and an open forum to discuss some of the most effective methods used to create a multicultural, multiracial community-based media activist group.

This session should also particularly benefit those who desire to learn about financially realistic means of increasing multiracial diversity in their communities and organizations worldwide.

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