---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:36:46 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UPDATE FROM HAVANA - MORE Community/Alternative Press Encounter Oct 21-25 Havana, Cuba UPDATE 8/1/96 Some of you folks have been asking me what kind of groups are coming, what is their line, etc... Well, I just finished a partial e-list of people either confirmed or interested which I include here for organizing amongst yourselves). We also just sent out a *massive* snail mailing which included hordes of alternative press groups, swarms of feisty activists and a sizable flock of academics. We've got the likes of Art Rosenblum from the Aquarian Research Center, who's bringing down a soiree of interested participants in his four-seat Cessna (there won't be any probs with the Cuban air force --we've already got the flight cleared). Dr. Louisa Montgomery has not only been preparing a paper on the nuances of government press control, but has been terrific help with the conference's organizing (and you can feel free to help her...) Jeremy Smith from the Center for Campus Organizing Journalism Project says he may bring down some students with him, and has been talking it up on the e-lists. We're still trying to convince Paul Glover of the Ithaca, NY HOUR project (alternative currency) that it is ecologically ethical to take a plane to Cuba. If he ever gets here, were going to do a symbolic Hour-Peso exchange. We've got "best wishes" from Robin Blackburn at New Left Review in London, and I'm meeting with an NLR rep in Havana in August. We've got the conference center all squared away, still in the Pan American Villa, and equipped with everything a bunch of alternative journalists, activists and academics need to brainstorm for a week. Some people are planning to stay another week or two to pursue the professional connections that will surely be made at the conference --we can help with this! We've got two reps in Latin America from the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), who say they have more than 100 people committed already! The current e-list: [format<infomed!2!3= e-mail: 3@2 with "infomed" eliminated] ************************************** International Viewpoint <infomed!CompuServe.COM!100666.1443> The English language monthly of the Fourth International, the largest international regroupment of revolutionary militants from the "trotskyist" and new left traditions. Alison Fraunhar <infomed!ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu!6500af3> Department of the History of Art and Architecture University of California Santa Barbara Demystification of the Cuban mulata e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alliance for Community Media <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Barry Forbes:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Kelly Matthews: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffrey Hops: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Art Rosenblum <infomed!netaxs.com!artr> Summary from Aquarian Research: With so little time to organize vast populations into sharing communities, we're using unlicensed low power FM radio stations to organize communities within our cities. <infomed!emuvax.emich.edu!SOC_BARAK> Gregg Barak Professor & Head Dept of Sociology, Anthropology, & Criminology Eastern Michigan University Juan Carlos QUINTERO VELASQUEZ <infomed!endacol.colnodo.apc.org!juank> Organization: Enda America Latina Institucion: TIERRA MADRE ENCARGADO TRABAJO JUVENIL Ciudad: Bogota Pais: Colombia COMUNICACION Y CULTURA JUVENIL EN SECTORES MARGINADOS Angela Lucia SERRANO CARRASCO Institucion: TIERRA MADRE ENCARGADA DE PROYECTOS Ciudad: Bogota Pais: Colombia TRANSFORMACIONES CULTURALES DE LA MIGRACION CAMPESINA: UNA MIRADA DESDE LA COMUNICACION Butch Miller, Publisher - [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFC Publishing, Inc. Cheryl Peck <infomed!aol.com!CPECK1017> Oral history project for the Detroit newspaper strike Chris Geovanis <infomed!mcs.net!geovanis> (This person is helping us make e-contact with the following groups): ITT, Mother Jones, The Nation, Native Nations, New Directions for Women, The Progressive, Z Magazine, Public Citizen, Sojourners, Utne Reader Village Voice, PeaceNet. *** Any assistance is greatly appreciated! *** Alternet <infomed!igc.apc.org!alternet> We are a nonprofit that supports alternative journalism. One of our main projects is a news service for alternative weeklies called AlterNet. If you have Web access, check out our homepage at http://www.alternet.org/an Christine TrianoInstitute for Alternative Journalism/AlterNet infomed!uclink2.berkeley.edu!chrisv (Chris Vaughan) Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers University <infomed!cornell.edu!jcm5(Cris McConkey)John Crispin McConkey Pegasys Cable Access Studio, Ithaca, NY Committee on US/Latin American Relations, Cornell University Progressive Media Alliance, Ithaca, NY infomed!aol.com!DavidMcR Socialist Party and War Resisters League David McReynolds Womens Access to Electronic Resources <infomed!igc.apc.org!water> Interesada en asistando la conferencia en Octubre. Donna Hoffman, Women's Collective of KO.OP Radio Dread-Eye <infomed!dcez.com!dreadi> I would love to participate in such an event. I live in Washington DC and produce a low budget public access television show. Justin DavisMetzner <infomed!aol.com!Emoone> It sounds like a great program. Some fellow journalists from Philadelphia and I would very much like to attend the October conference. <infomed!aol.com!EWizek> I have just completed training with my local Public Access Cable station and would like to do a personal documentary on this conference and grass roots organizations of the Cuban people. Ed Wizek [EMAIL PROTECTED] infomed!freespeech.org!fstv (Free Speech TV) FREE SPEECH TV is a new programming service in the United States which brings the best of activist, community- based, and alternative media to more than four million homes across the United States every week.Some of our staff is interested in attending the Communication Conference in Oct. --Michele Leonard infomed!clavicula.mednet.gu.se!rondin ME interesaria ir a la conferencia. GUSTAVO FRAGA ERRECART PHONE/FAX:46-31- 711-2900 CELLULAR:46-070-536-9189 GOTEBORG, SWEDEN. infomed!mail.utexas.edu!rrod (Rebeca Rodriguez and James Tennant) Universidad de Tejas en Austin, EEUU. Tenemos un grupo pequeno pero super-interesado en participar en la conferencia. infomed!gnu.ai.mit.edu!casa (Jeremy Smith) OK, I'm going to start making plans. I'll also prepare my summary ASAP. Center for Campus Organizing Journalism Project (CAJP) From: infomed!aol.com!Johnpap Peoples Weekly World I'd like to come in October -Kathleen Kelly New York Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Links <infomed!peg.apc.org!links> Duck Nichols, Joint Managing Editor Links, International Journal of Socialist Renewal, a magazine for the post Cold War left American region can be reached by email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lisa Pease <infomed!netcom.com!lpease> Take care, and good luck with that leaky roof! Bless the activists! "Dr L. Montgomery" <infomed!cus.cam.ac.uk!lm203> I want to attend the Havana conference... I'm a Latinamericanist specializing in government and politics. infomed!aol.com!ITHACAHOUR Name: Paul Glover Institution: Ithaca HOURS Title of paper: Ithaca HOURS: Creando la democracia economica con dinero local y el periodismo del barrio. From: Paul Steven Lefrak <infomed!umich.edu!plefrI'm hoping to still be able to go to Havana in October...President, Information and Library Studies Student Association(ILSSA) University of Michigan - Ann Arbor From: infomed!nyc.pipeline.com!pvnnyc (Peoples Video Network) We've faxed out applications already but just in case we'll e-apply as well. PVN applicants are as follows:* Sue Harris, Editor/Videographer Video: "The Children Are Dying: the Effect of US Sanctions on the People of Iraq" * Key Martin, Editor/Videographer Paper: Proposal for an International Peoples Video Network to Break the Information Blockade * Ellen Andors, Editor/Videographer Paper: A Call to Arms: Why We Need an Activist Media * Johnnie Stevens, Coordinator, applying as well. Peter Wirth <infomed!erc.cat.syr.edu!pwirth> I recently read an E-mail report on your upcoming conferences regarding the media. I started a public relations business a few years ago and focus on organizations that send people to the developing world. "Richard M. Miles" <infomed!worldnet.att.net!RICHARDMMILES> Your notice of the upcoming conference reached me through the Society of Professional Journalists' forum on the Internet, and I would like more information about each of the meeting components. >Vice President E- Span Inc.: http://www.espan.com >Executive Editor Career Companion: http://www.careercompanion.com >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >[EMAIL PROTECTED] New Left Review <infomed!CompuServe.COM!100306.3473> Many thanks for your e-mail messages. We will try to publicize your conferences. Very best wishes, Robin Blackburn Stephen Dunifer <infomed!crl.com!frbspd> International Radio Action Training Education (IRATE), a project of Free Radio Berkeley, is pleased to take part in the IIJPM conference. As part of this conference we will set up a micro power free radio station to demonstrate how the low cost technology broadcast technology we have been developing can be used to empower every community, village, pueblo with their low power FM radio station. The Student Insurgent <infomed!gladstone.uoregon.edu!insurgnt> I will do all I can to assist anyone from here if they want to go.THE STUDENT INSURGENT is the award-winning, biweekly, leftish newspaper published by students at the University of Oregon in Eugene. Tom Burghardt <infomed!igc.apc.org!tburghardt> I posted yourmaterial primarily because the Cuban Revolution has been subjected to an unprecedented criminal attack by Yankee imperialism from the moment of it's birth. --Antifa list TONELIUS OLIVER <infomed!sfsu.edu!toliver> Hello Mike my name is Tonelius Oliver I am a music journalist from California intersted in the October conference. infomed!ping.be!Wim.deBruyn (Wim A. de Bruyn) The paper will be about motivating human beings to keep the integrity of human nature as the life producing capital of the human race, by their way of living, nay, by their way of life. Brussels, Belgium Stay in touch, organize amongst yourselves, and contact me about anything! Michael Fuller IIPJM, La Habana
