Liveblogging the NCMR2008, the National Conference on Media Reform: opening plenary, streaming audio/video, and initial intro to WIMN events and feminist-friendly sessions, Pt. I

If you’re not able to be in Minneapolis for the National Conference on Media Reform, you can listen to live streaming video and audio from the opening plenary, here (you can also watch and hear clips from panels, full video and audio from plenaries, and more on a constant basis from now until Sunday).

As she opened her comments at the opening plenary of the 2008 NCMR, Ruckus Society leader Adrienne Marie Brown sang us a wake up song: “Woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom,” and then noted that she feels like an unlikely speaker to be on a plenary here because she wakes up every morning dreaming of freedom, but she doesn’t wake up in the morning dreaming of reform. She urged the crowd to spend more energy focused on broader and deeper vision for freedom and justice using media as a tool toward those goals.

Adrienne’s comments are all spot-on, and I don’t want to mistype any of her words — so go to the NCMR site and hear her full talk or tune in later for a transcript if they make it available.

And remember, if you’re at the NCMR2008, we hope you’ll come to the session WIMN has organized on Saturday at 11:30 - 1pm, titled, “There Is No Media Justice Without Women: Models for Feminist Social Justice Media Activism” — hear strategies you can adopt to improve media in your local communities and on the national level, meet WIMN staff (that’s me, y’all) and WIMN’s Voices bloggers (Anne Elizabeth Moore, Shireen Mitchell, Deanne Cuellar) and one of WIMN’s most respected allies, Manhattan Neighborhood Network and MAGNET leader Betty Yu, and learn from and hang with some of the most kick-ass women media justice leaders in the country.

See my prior post for more information about that panel, and for room/place/time logistics.

And see Anne Elizabeth Moore’s prior post about several other feminist-oriented media justice/indy media panels and events with WIMN bloggers and allies.

And see Lucinda Marshall’s prior post about what she calls “The Lois Lane Factor,” as she defines “gender as a media reform issue.”

Also, check out our pal and WIMN’s Voices contributor Samhita Mukhopadhyay, — Center for Media Justice staffer and Feministing editor — who is liveblbogging at the NCMR and tracking her every NCMR move on Twitter (and sitting right next to me, as a matter of fact… jealous, much? I love these women…)

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