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Media Justice Town Hall Community Forum
tonight, April 11st from 7-8 PM on KPFA 94.1 FM

Part II will play on Full Circle, April 18 7-8 PM

This town hall forum took place on March 21 at the East Side Cultural Center, 2277 International Blvd. in Oakland.
*Topics include / (see more details below)/ *
Updates on the upcoming FCC hearings taking place on April 17 at Stanford University.

Panelists also discuss the necessity of communities telling their /own/ stories, and grassroots community media's role in supporting the people's voice. Also, the power that expression has for community empowerment and the necessity of expression towards healing as a moral, social, political and economic necessity. Questions came up around the cause of KPFA management pulling the original broadcast slated to go live on March 21 on Full Circle.

Panel moderator: JR of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (POCC) and Block Report Radio.
Panelists
Tiny AKA Lisa Gray- Garcia of Poor News Network
Rainjita Yang-Geesler- Co- Director of the First Voice Apprenticeship Program at KPFA Eloise Rose Lee- Media Alliance
Renita Pitts of TEMPO (Technological empowerment media project of Oakland)
Shahram Aghamir- Voices of the Middle East and North Africa also representing KPFA's unpaid staff organization (UPSO).
Willie Ratcliff- Bay View Newspaper publisher

DETAILS

The People's Voice Town Hall meeting is a community forum to discuss empowerment through creative expression and new technology. How can creative expression lead to healing? How do we build local sustainable economies through community based projects that reflect our social and ecological values?