Do you want to learn about how more diversity in media ownership, and a stronger independent media could transform our communities and build the grassroots movement for justice?

Are you ready to build the skills and power to demand and win media justice?

Join the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAGNet) from 9am to 6pm on Thursday,November 29th at Manhattan Neighborhood Network as we bring youth, social, economic, and racial justice organizers together with media activists in the NY region to build skills in policy development, policy advocacy, integrating strategic communications, and media activism and production into grasssroots social change organizing efforts, and strategic communications.

This day-long strategy and skills building session will be facilitated by the SPIN Project, a non-profit communications strategy group dedicated to working with groups to build a fair, just and equitable society that want to be heard in today crowded media environment; and by the Praxis Project, a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems.

In the evening from 6:30-8:30pm - join MAG-Net and Global Action Project for a night of media justice films, hip-hop, and poetry featuring local political poet Roopa Singh aka Naxal

THIS IS A FREE EVENT! REGISTER NOW TO SAVE YOUR PLACE!

@ Manhattan Neighborhood Network - Open Studio, 1st Floor
537 West 59th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenue)
Trains: A/B/C/D to 59th Street- Columbus Circle

RSVP by emailing betty@mnn.org. For more info, contact (212) 757-2670 x346 or email betty@mnn.org