Several people from C-U were among the 3500 attendees of the June 6-8 National Conference for Media Reform (http://www.freepress.net/conference/).

We'd like to let the community know what we heard/saw/met/learned there. So please come hear our

Impressions from the National Conference on Media Reform<br>Monday, June 23rd, 7:00-8:45pm

Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St., Champaign
Pavilion Room "B"

At least Andrew O'Baoill, Danielle Chynoweth and Stuart Levy will be there, and with luck also others might speak as well.

There were some exciting talks at this conference. Some highlights for me:

Naomi Klein's talk during the Saturday evening keynote, with advice on how
we as activists should deal with people in power such as a potential
Pres. Obama. As FDR depended on pressure from activists to sell the
New Deal reforms to people in power, since without them the US might
well have had a revolution, so the greatest gift we could give Obama
would be to be that kind of threat -- "you can't ignore those people,
they're crazy!"

Some cool initiatives from people who came to the IL regional gathering, like an online magazine written for and mostly by teenage girls -- sort of an "anti-Cosmopolitan", this will not be a mag focusing on having the right body image or choosing fashionable clothes!

Showing and discussion of Tim Wise's film, On White Privilege,
on the pervasiveness and insidiousness of privilege and racism.
Privileged people don't need to care (or think they don't)
how others see them. "We will be greeted as liberators"
is the voice of privilege speaking.

and lots more.

We'll be videotaping this for future UPTV broadcast too.