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Raising Our Voices Rises Again!

 

Pictures from the last training session which ran from 10/15/08 to 12/20/08.

Participants will build their skills base in a variety of media technology – from computer and online basics to podcasting video and audio on the Internet. Participants will also gain media messaging and analysis skills to help shape public opinion about themselves and their communities. Women of color, young people, new residents and individuals with little to no technology or computer experience are encouraged to apply. Continue reading Raising Our Voices Rises Again!

NORTH AMERICAN STREET NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION. by Challa Tabeson.

 

Culminating in a march and protest at the doors of the San Francisco Chronicle on July 28, the international conference of the North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA) gathered for three days of meetings and workshops to strengthen the street newspaper movement. For three blissful days in July, our NASNA conference brought struggling street poets, writers like myself, and homeless advocacy organizations such as the National Coalition on Homelessness face to face with more than forty street newspaper journalists from across the U.S. and Canada, as well as a handful of journalists from Europe and Great Britain. The diverse group of editors and publishers assembled under one unified roof to discuss and respond to issues as varied as are the newspapers themselves. Continue reading NORTH AMERICAN STREET NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION. by Challa Tabeson.