3.28.07 Minutes MMC

[Maryland Media Collective]

Hey everyone,

We'll be meeting Wednesday @ 430pm at Key Hall 0106 this week.  We'll craft some flyers and watch some sweet media clips before going out and flyering around campus.

Here's are 3 great media awareness clips on YouTube that we saw last week:
*Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
*Frank Zappa on CNN's Crossfire (old but awesome!): http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
*Phil Donahue VS Bill(y) O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ctlmholr45c

Also, below are last week's minutes and announcements.

Peace,
Christian

1) Minutes
2) That Fresh Radio Piece 4.3.07
3) Tunnel
4) Other Announcements

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1-*Minutes*

In attendance: Adam, Steve, Christian

Agenda:
   Promotional!  aka why are there only 3 people at the meeting haha

So we have never done any serious PR beyond emails in the collective.  Much of that came to a lack of funds, BUT we are applying for $500 from SGA for a one-time program help fund.  We can make a ton of flyers, handbills, and posters that way.  We are using the fund mainly to do our big spring program on April 18th.

But what can we do besides flyering???

*Tabling

**coordinate with community roots
*Use mediums
     -freemix radio
     -open mic (free speech)
     -community call-in
     -free publications
     -tv
     -radio
     -computer

*Diamondback Inserts
*Index cards with factoids and put around campus
*Chalking
*Produce more packets like last semester
*Bubble from Bubble Project
*Make logo!

  -We Will Not Be Silent Shirts
  -stickers

ATTACHED are some flyers to use (play with them, edit them, whatever!)

And again, check these clips out!

*Jon Stewart on CNN's Crossfire: http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
*Frank Zappa on CNN's Crossfire (old but awesome!): http://youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
*Phil Donahue VS Bill(y) O'Reilly on the O'Reilly Factor: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ctlmholr45c
 
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2-*That Fresh Radio Piece*

Show 49!

This week's "fresh pieces" will be Hawah ( http://thatfreshradiopiece.com/show25.html) talking about his Shanti Salaam tour in India and his new CD. Plus, SGA Senior Vice President Kyle Carson discussing the prison-industrial complex and the University of Maryland's ties to it, which he is challenging.

Every Tuesday 4-6pm.  Listen live on wmucradio.com OR 88.1FM

ThatFreshRadioPiece.com for archives.

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3-*Tunnel of Oppression*

Help is needed on the Media room of the Tunnel of Oppression.  Check out the site for more info: http://www.studentorg.umd.edu/umdtunnel/

Its a bit outdated but basically the Tunnel aims to bring awareness to various forms of oppression.  Media was seen as something that can take that role so there is now a room devoted to it. 

The three parts to the room break into:
1) An introduction to Media Oppression (stereotypes, advertiser influence, ownership, censorship, infotainment, and more)
2) "Spin Alley" (Jon Stewart uses the term in the above video link).  This part focuses on news media and its significance.
3)  The last part deals with empowering the audience which leads into the Tunnel's next, and last, room of resources to act on all the forms of oppression in the Tunnel.

Email MD.MediaC...@gmail.com for more info!

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4-*Other Announcements*

Poetry is media!

Anis Mojgani, the 2005 and 2006 National Slam Poetry Champion is performing with the student organization TerPoets as part of their effort to spread the influence of poetry on campus. The free event will feature student performances followed by the feature performance by Mojgani, and will be hosted by a student DJ.

When: 8-10pm Friday April 6, 2007
Where: 0130 Tydings Hall, University of Maryland, College Park
Who: the event is free and open to the public

AND...

The Continuing Media Assassination of Dr. King
A presentation by Jared A. Ball, Ph.D.
April 9, 2007
7-9p Nyumburu (Multi-purpose Room)
University of Maryland

April 4, 2007 marks the 39th anniversary of the physical assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

However, this physical death was preceded by a media one where the image of King was reshaped into that of an enemy of the state and since has been again reshaped into the hero who was in reality feared by this country during his life.

Join us for a presentation and discussion of the true politics of Dr. King, his relationship to international freedom struggles and that pre/post-assassination of his image in US mainstream press. The presentation illustrates King's suppressed politics and the fears they instilled among this nation's power structure. All is traced through the lenses of King's own words then via the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO) statements followed up by a look at mainstream US press coverage of King as exemplified by the Washington Post.


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Maryland Media Collective
College Park, MD
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