Entries from January 2007

January 29, 2007

Only a few months away

The 9th annual Allied Media Conference:
“Breaking Silence, Building Movements”
June 22-24, 2007
Detroit, MI
www.amc2007.org

Because so many voices have been silenced by corporate media. Because media should be a tool for communication and transformation and not a commodity to passively consume. Because our stories have been misrepresented, misinterpreted, and straight up missing…
We need a [...]

January 25, 2007

National Conference on Media Reform

I mentioned a post that I had deleted about the National Conference on Media Reform that convened in Memphis, Jan 12-14. My friend and co-organizer of the AMC Josh Breitbart wrote an in-depth analysis of the event–and the media movement in general–for Wiretap two days ago. Anyone interested in this movement should give [...]

January 24, 2007

We made it!

My partner Mel and I have been driving across the country since the 15th, and we have finally reached Portland, Oregon, her new home. It has been quite a trip. I started in Memphis, where I attended the National Conference on Media Reform. I actually started an entire post on the conference [...]

January 15, 2007

Celebrate MLK Day

Yesterday I went to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. It was created in the Lorraine Motel, the place where MLK was assassinated.  Standing in front of the building and seeing the place where such an important leader in our nation’s history was killed was powerful, and brought up a deep sadness in [...]

January 1, 2007

Happy New Year!

Mel and I spent the first day of the new year driving around and taking shots of some of our favorite things in the city. Here’s some of what we got:

This is my favorite skyscraper, the Guardian Building

Tribute to MLK in the labor monument downtown

A view of the bridge from Fort Street

The Underground Railroad [...]