The Grassroots Media Justice Tour is coming to your city this October. While details will be announced later, here is the itinerary — and please email if you live in the area and want to help host a stop, interview the presenters, or get involved!

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Oct 2-3 - Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
Oct 4-5 - Asheville, NC
Oct 6 - Knoxville, TN?
Oct 7-8 - Atlanta, GA
Oct 9 - Gainesville/Valdosta/Jacksonville?
Oct 10-11 - Miami, FL
Oct 12-13 - Tampa, FL?
Oct 14 - Tallahassee/Pensacola/Mobile?
Oct 15-16 - New Orleans, LA
Oct 17 - Houston, TX
Oct 18 - San Antonio, TX
Oct 19-21 - Austin, TX
Oct 22 - Dallas, TX
Oct 23 - Denton, TX
Oct 24 - Fayetteville, AR?

Look for more updates soon!

Independent Media Activist Jen Angel to speak on “Becoming the Media”

Friday August 8th
6pm for a lecture, discussion and workshop.
Black Rose Collective Bookstore & Community Resource Center
4038 N. Mississippi Avenue Portland, OR 97227

Come to a lecture, discussion and workshop with independent media activist Jen Angel, who has recently written a pamphlet on PM Press titled “Becoming the Media: a critical history of Clamor Magazine”. Jen will speak to both her experiences in running a national magazine as well as the current state of independent media.

Jen Angel will address the current independent media environment, opportunities and challenges, and to her experiences in independent media and as the co-editor of Clamor Magazine. Clamor was a movement publication that existed between 2000 and 2006, covering radical politics, culture, and activism. Clamor published 38 issues and featured over 1,000 different writers and artists.
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This morning Raj was featured on the radio Program Democracy Now! talking about his book and about current food crises around the world. Listen or watch here.

Today Jen was featured on the radio program Against the Grain on KPFA, talking about her pamphlet, “Becoming the Media.” You can hear the interview here.

We are pleased to announce that we will be working with several independent media makers on a tour this October designed to broaden the reach of these independent outlets and introduce new communities to the power of media. Spearheaded by Jordan Flaherty or Left Turn and including a range of powerful speakers, this tour is designed for schools and community organizations. See more on their page.

By Paul Rockwell, In Motion Magazine
Oakland, California

O.K. I admit it. Sometimes I watch Dr. Phil, the pop psychologist on TV. There is one episode, if I remember, where Dr. Phil is consoling a battered woman, whose husband beats on her from time to time. The family gets along for a few weeks at a time, but sooner or later, big boss breaks his promise and continues the violence. All her complaints and pleas for change, her efforts to curry favor and appease him, have failed. And after years of disappointment, she wants Dr. Phil to help her. Dr. Phil listens. He takes her hand and asks a simple question:

“You tried to change his mind. How’s that workin’ for you?”

“It isn’t working, Dr. Phil,” she says. “He makes promises, but nothing I say really changes his behavior.”

Dr. Phil looks at her. He pauses and then says: “If you want different you gotta do different.”

Electoral politics are not working in America. We keep going back to Congress. Congress makes promises, yet the violence continues. If the peace movement wants different, it has to do different.

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