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Room Upstairs

8:30- 9:00 Coffee

9:00-9:15  Welcome

9:15-10:15

Room Upstairs
Keynote:

Patrick Reinsborough of smartMeme "Winning the Battle of the Story: Creating a Culture of Change"

10:30-11:25

Room Upstairs
Panel: Making Community Radio
Angelica Gutierrez, America Latina Al Dia Collective, Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7 FM
Bradley Pavlik, Planet Earth Radio, KUGS 89.3 FM
Rahul Gupta, Voices of Diversity- KBCS, Bellevue

Room Downstairs
Workshop: The Indymedia Movement
Sheri Herndon, Bridgeweaver Design
Ted Coopman, University of Washington Dept. of Communications


Coop Connections Building
Skills Training: Newswriting 101
w/ Tim Pilgrim, Professor of Journalism, WWU

11:35-12:30

Room Upstairs
Panel: Public Access TV
Matthew St. Carrel, Stone Egg Productions & West Sound Community TV
Dean Evenson, Soudings of the Planet
James Gilles
Fred Lane, Northwest Indian News

Room Downstairs
Workshop: Building Online Community & Media Networks
Brenna Wolf, riseup.net
Dave Allen, revolutionz.org

Coop Connections Building
Workshop: Grassroots Organizing for Media Reform; Lessons from the National Conference for Media Reform
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

12:30-1:30 Break for Lunch


1:30-2:30

Room Upstairs
Workshop: The Demonizing of Arabs in the Media & Popular Culture
John Sinno, Arab Film Distribution

Room Downstairs
Panel: Low Power FM
Dennis Lane, American Museum of Radio & Electricity LPFM & River Farm LPFM
Holly O'Neil, River Farm LPFM
Ted Coopman, University of Washington Dept. of Communications
Brian Allen, Technology consultant & engineer for LPFM stations

Coop Connections Building
Panel: Print Journalism
Darren Thompson, Editor, Organic Press
Colin Laursen, Editor, Fairhaven Free Press
Kevin Nelson, Columnist, "Golden Age of Scandal"
Sheri Ward, Editor, Whatcom Independent
Doug Collins, Editor, Washington Free Press

WECU Building
Skills Training: DIY Radio Journalism
Seth Vidana, media instructor, Wellspring Community School

2:40-3:35

Room Upstairs
Panel: Making the News
Aaron Thomas, Illumination PR
Tim Johnson, Bellingham Weekly
Cortney Harding, Public News Service
Michael Carlberg, Professor of Communication WWU

Room Downstairs
Panel: Community Film & Video Part I
Screening of: "Healing Our Spirits: Strength through Tragedy at Semiahmah"
by Co-directors Lexie Tom, and Michael Shepard
Lexie Tom, filmmaker, Northwest Indian College, Lummi Nation
Michael Shepard, filmmaker & filmmaking instructor Northwest Indian College
Pippa Breakspear, filmmaker
Sukhi Sanghera, filmmaker

Coop Connections Building
Counter-Recruiting Workshop
with Patrick Reinsborough

WECU Building
Skills Training: Navigating the Web-Radio interface: Internet distribution and FM broadcast
Amoshaun Toft, UW Dept. of Communications, radio.indymedia

3:45-4:40

Room Upstairs
Panel: Blogging
Lee Rosenberg, Reload Blog
David Goldstein, Horsesass.org
Natasha Chart, Pacificviews.org
Representatives, Betterdonkey.org
John Servais, nwcitizen.com

Room Downstairs
Panel: Community Film & Video Part II
Dennis Lane, filmmaker
Lex Sloan, filmmaker
Q&A with filmmakers from Panels I & II

Coop Connections Building
Discussion: What could an Indymedia website be for Bellingham?

WECU Building
Skills Training: Lobbying for Media Accountability & Independent Media
Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the Media

5:00- 6:30

Room Upstairs

Keynote: Bert Sacks: Sanctions, War, Occupation & other Failures of the Media & James Longley, filmmaker of "Iraq in Fragments"