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)
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