UT Austin Indy Conference Feb 18-20

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http://www.indyconference.org/schedule.php

**Saw this on an Amy Goodman book tour link-she will be there on Saturday.

IndyConference seeks to bring together Indymedia activists from across the continent to discuss our progress as a media democracy movement, as well as look at ways we can improve our content and effectiveness as a radical media network. As a collaborative and participatory media project, we see the need to come together and form new directions for this movement. This conference is meant to be both a celebration of our work as media activists and an investigation into our methods for getting where we are today. We still have many challenges to overcome if we are to truly be a viable and sustainable radical media network.

Along with this component of the conference, we also seek to share what we have learned as media activists; from journalistic techniques to collective organizing. We have also invited noted scholars of media/cultural theory who have contributed to the discourse of media culture in the modern era.

We feel that by bringing together media activists from inside and outside the IMC community we can forge a clearer path toward our goal of a grassroots media democracy and help lay the foundations of an open communications system where direct participation will guide the future of communications and political culture