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1:15 p.m. 1:30 – 4 p.m. • “Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & Television” - VIDEO Off the Straight & Narrow casts a critical eye over the growth of gay images on TV. Leading media scholars provide the historical and cultural context for exploring the social implications of these new representations. It challenges viewers to consider the value and limits of available gay images: who is represented, what they get to say, and how people respond to them. (Willamette 110) • Crash Course on Media Literacy See Friday listing (Owyhee Room) 1:15 – 2:30 p.m • Bridging the Gap Hope Marston and Brooke Robertshaw, of The San Fransico Mime Troupe will be performing October 10 and 11. the Lane County Bill of Rights Defense • Putting the Public Back: Successful Community and Committee, will share their experiences bridging the Independent Radio gap between liberals and conservatives. This was Amy Pincus of Inform Radio, Don McIntosh, KBOO essential to their success protecting our Bill of Rights, Board member and host of “Labor Radio”, a weekly through the passage of Senate Joint Memorial 7. program about working people and the labor movement, (Umpqua Room) Andrea Buffa, Campaign To Take Back Pacifica. Hear • They're Stealing Community Television: How Can how you can make it happen in your community. (Fir We Stop It? Room) Amy Pincus of Inform TV, Larry Dobberstein and Ray • Beyond the Mainstream Press: How Crucial Is the Wolfe of Eugene CTV and Jim Lockhart of Portland Role of the Alternative Print Media? CTV. (Fir Room) Ted Taylor and Alan Pittman of the Eugene Weekly, Peter • So What Good Is Free Speech without a Voice?: Moore of Alternatives Magazine, Mario Africa of CCCO. Media Access, the FCC, Fairness and the Right to (Ben Linder Room) Know Ed Monks of Radioactivists, Andrea Buffa of Campaign 11:45 a.m. • “Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis of to Reverse the FCC and David Duemler of Eugene Media Action address questions like: How could the Masculinity” - VIDEO As the first program to look systematically at the relationship Fairness Doctrine be even more important than the between the images of pop culture and the social recent FCC media ownership rule changes? (Ben Linder construction of masculine identities in the U.S., Jackson Room) Katz argues that widespread violence in American society, 1:15 – 4:00 p.m. including the tragic school shootings in Littleton, Colorado, • Anti-Racist Organizing Jonesboro, Arkansas, and elsewhe re, needs to be understood In this three-hour workshop, Laura Close, formerly a as part of an ongoing crisis in masculinity. (Willamette 110) student at the University of Oregon and a leader of the local movement against sweatshops, will 12:00 p.m Lunch and rally on the EMU Plaza with Kelly Campbell encourage participants to examine their personal of September 11th Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow, relationship to race and racism as well as the structures musicians Chico Schwall, Siobhan VanLanen and the in the U.S. that perpetuate racism. Join her in this interactive discussion based on how racism is holding Singers for Peace. back the progressive movement’s ability to create • “Leading Questions” by Bill Moyers - VIDEO effective change and what are the concrete ways you Leading Questions illustrates why selling a President is can act as allies and anti-racist in your daily life. no different than selling a bar of soap. This video shows Participants are expected to remain for the entire how focus groups help generate “power phrases” that workshop. (Oak Room) can turn elections. (Willamette 100) • Military Recruiting vs. Reality In this two-part workshop, Mario Ramirez Africa, 1:00 p.m coordinator and founder of the Central Committee for • “Truth About Lies” by Bill Moyers - VIDEO Truth about Lies shows that despite what we say, we Conscientious Objectors’ Third World Outreach Program, want to be lied to. This video can be used to draw debunks the myths perpetuated by military recruiters. He parallels between lies about the Vietnam War and those presents the realities of enlistment and military service, as well as alternatives. (Walnut Room ) George W. Bush uses. (Willamette 100) 2:00 p.m. • “Manufacturing consent: Noam Chomsky and the media” -VIDEO The companion film to the award-winning book by Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar (Willamette 100) 2:30 p.m. • “Dreamworlds 2: Desire, Sex, & Power in Music” -VIDEO Updated in 1995, Dreamworlds 2 combines powerful imagery from some two hundred videos with incisive narrative to educate viewers on the impact of sexual imagery in music videos. Shocking and often disturb- ing, Dreamworlds 2 allows its viewers to reflect criti- cally on images which have such power precisely be- cause they have become so common. By making their gendered messages clear, Dreamworlds 2 robs those images of their unchallenged power. (Willamette 110) 2:45 – 4:00 p.m. • Psychology and the Media: Shaping the Public Mind Eric Kim is a psychology instructor at Lane Community College. He will illustrate how control of the mainstream news affects the public perception about topics by controlling the agenda, use of language, and undercoverage of issues rather than through overt censorship and direct control. (Umpqua Room) • Media Activism, What’s to be Done? David Zupan and Michael Carrigan of the Justice Not War Coalition will facilitate a discussion on how progressives can effectively use both mainstream and alternative media. There will be an exploration of possibilities for networking and coalition building across the state and region. (Ben Linder Room) • Dissecting Talk Radio: Is It Just Too Damn Liberal? Ed Monks and Alan Siporin will discuss the question whether or not special guests Lars Larson from Portland and Don Carlin of KUGN accept the invitation to participate. (Fir Room) Huge Selection Beads & Beading Supplies with $5 purchase Locally hand-made jewelry
