Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:47:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: UPDATE FROM HAVANA - MORE (fwd)




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Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 01:36:46
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To: marxjour-AT-ccc.uba.ar
Subject: UPDATE FROM HAVANA - MORE




Community/Alternative Press Encounter Oct
21-25 Havana, Cuba

UPDATE                        8/1/96
Some of you folks have been asking me
what kind of groups are
coming, what is their line, etc...

Well, I just finished a partial e-list
of people either confirmed or interested
which I include here for organizing amongst
yourselves).

We also just sent out a *massive* snail
mailing which included hordes
of alternative press groups, swarms of
feisty activists and a sizable flock of
academics.

We've got the likes of Art Rosenblum from
the Aquarian Research Center, who's
bringing down a soiree of interested
participants in his four-seat Cessna
(there won't be any probs with the Cuban
air force --we've already got the flight
cleared).

Dr. Louisa Montgomery has not only been
preparing a paper on the nuances of
government press control, but has been
terrific help with the conference's
organizing (and you can feel free to help
her...)

Jeremy Smith from the Center for Campus
Organizing Journalism Project says he may
bring down some students with him, and
has been talking it up on the e-lists.

We're still trying to convince Paul
Glover of the Ithaca, NY HOUR
project (alternative currency) that it is
ecologically ethical to take a plane to
Cuba. If he ever gets here, were going to
do a symbolic Hour-Peso exchange.

We've got "best wishes" from Robin
Blackburn at New Left Review
in London, and I'm meeting with an NLR
rep in Havana in August.

We've got the conference center all
squared away, still in the Pan
American Villa, and equipped with
everything a bunch of alternative
journalists, activists and academics need
to brainstorm for a week.

Some people are planning to stay another
week or two to pursue the professional
connections that will surely be made at
the conference --we can help with this!


We've got two reps in Latin America from
the Cuban Committees for the Defense of
the Revolution (CDR), who say they have
more than 100 people committed already!



The current e-list:
[format<infomed!2!3= e-mail: 3-AT-2
with "infomed" eliminated]

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International Viewpoint
<infomed!CompuServe.COM!100666.1443>
The English language monthly of the Fourth
International, the largest
international regroupment of
revolutionary militants from the
"trotskyist" and new left traditions.

Alison  Fraunhar
<infomed!ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu!6500af3>
Department of the History of Art and
Architecture University of California
Santa Barbara
Demystification of the Cuban mulata
e-mail 6500af3-AT-ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu

Alliance for Community Media
<acm-AT-alliancecm.org>
Barry Forbes:bforbes-AT-alliancecm.org
Kelly Matthews: kmatthews-AT-alliancecm.org
Jeffrey Hops:  jhops-AT-alliancecm.org

Art Rosenblum <infomed!netaxs.com!artr>
Summary from Aquarian Research: With so
little time to organize vast
populations into sharing communities,
we're using unlicensed low
power FM radio stations to organize
communities within our cities.

<infomed!emuvax.emich.edu!SOC_BARAK>
Gregg Barak
Professor & Head
Dept of Sociology, Anthropology, &
Criminology
Eastern Michigan University

Juan Carlos QUINTERO VELASQUEZ
<infomed!endacol.colnodo.apc.org!juank>
Organization: Enda America Latina
Institucion: TIERRA MADRE
ENCARGADO TRABAJO JUVENIL
Ciudad: Bogota            Pais: Colombia
COMUNICACION Y CULTURA JUVENIL  EN
SECTORES MARGINADOS

Angela Lucia SERRANO CARRASCO
Institucion: TIERRA MADRE
ENCARGADA DE PROYECTOS
Ciudad: Bogota     Pais: Colombia
TRANSFORMACIONES CULTURALES DE LA
MIGRACION CAMPESINA: UNA MIRADA
DESDE LA COMUNICACION

Butch Miller, Publisher -
NewsLtr-AT-Lets-Fly-Cruise.Com
LFC Publishing, Inc.

Cheryl Peck <infomed!aol.com!CPECK1017>
Oral history project for the Detroit
newspaper strike

Chris Geovanis <infomed!mcs.net!geovanis>
(This person is helping us make e-contact
with the following groups):
ITT, Mother Jones, The Nation, Native
Nations, New Directions for
Women, The Progressive, Z Magazine,
Public Citizen, Sojourners, Utne
Reader Village Voice, PeaceNet.
*** Any assistance is greatly appreciated! ***

Alternet <infomed!igc.apc.org!alternet>
We are a nonprofit that supports
alternative journalism. One of our
main projects is a news service for
alternative weeklies called
AlterNet. If you have Web access, check
out our homepage at
http://www.alternet.org/an Christine
TrianoInstitute for Alternative
Journalism/AlterNet

infomed!uclink2.berkeley.edu!chrisv
(Chris Vaughan) Assistant Professor of
Journalism and Mass Media at Rutgers
University

<infomed!cornell.edu!jcm5(Cris
McConkey)John Crispin McConkey
Pegasys Cable Access Studio, Ithaca, NY
Committee on US/Latin American Relations,
Cornell University Progressive Media
Alliance, Ithaca, NY

infomed!aol.com!DavidMcR
Socialist Party and War Resisters League
David McReynolds

Womens Access to Electronic Resources
<infomed!igc.apc.org!water>
Interesada en asistando la conferencia en
Octubre.
Donna Hoffman, Women's Collective of
KO.OP Radio

Dread-Eye <infomed!dcez.com!dreadi>
I would love to participate in such an
event. I live in Washington DC and produce a low
budget public access television show.
Justin DavisMetzner

<infomed!aol.com!Emoone>
It sounds like a great program. Some
fellow journalists from Philadelphia and
I would very much like to attend the
October conference.

<infomed!aol.com!EWizek>
I have just completed training with my
local Public Access Cable
station and would like to do a personal
documentary on this conference and grass
roots organizations of the Cuban people.
Ed Wizek  EWizek-AT-aol.com

infomed!freespeech.org!fstv (Free Speech TV)
FREE SPEECH TV is a new programming
service in the United States which
brings the best of activist, community-
based, and alternative media
to more than four million homes across
the United States every week.Some of our
staff is interested in attending the
Communication Conference in Oct.
--Michele Leonard

infomed!clavicula.mednet.gu.se!rondin
ME interesaria ir a la conferencia.
GUSTAVO FRAGA ERRECART PHONE/FAX:46-31-
711-2900 CELLULAR:46-070-536-9189
GOTEBORG, SWEDEN.

infomed!mail.utexas.edu!rrod
(Rebeca Rodriguez and James Tennant)
Universidad de Tejas en Austin, EEUU.
Tenemos un grupo pequeno pero
super-interesado en participar en la
conferencia.

infomed!gnu.ai.mit.edu!casa (Jeremy
Smith) OK, I'm going to start making plans.
I'll also prepare my summary
ASAP. Center for Campus Organizing
Journalism Project (CAJP)

From: infomed!aol.com!Johnpap
Peoples Weekly World

I'd like to come in October -Kathleen
Kelly New York Transfer News Collective
*   A Service of Blythe Systems
Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of
Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012
http://www.blythe.org
nyt-AT-blythe.org

Links <infomed!peg.apc.org!links>
Duck Nichols, Joint Managing Editor
Links, International Journal of
Socialist Renewal, a magazine for the
post Cold War left
American region can be reached by email:
achis-AT-igc.apc.org.

Lisa Pease <infomed!netcom.com!lpease>
Take care, and good luck with that leaky
roof! Bless the activists!

"Dr L. Montgomery"
<infomed!cus.cam.ac.uk!lm203>
I want to attend the Havana conference...
I'm a Latinamericanist
specializing in government and politics.

infomed!aol.com!ITHACAHOUR
Name: Paul Glover
Institution:  Ithaca HOURS
Title of paper: Ithaca HOURS: Creando la
democracia economica con dinero local
y el periodismo del barrio.

From: Paul Steven Lefrak
<infomed!umich.edu!plefrI'm hoping to
still be able to go to Havana in
October...President, Information and Library
Studies Student Association(ILSSA)
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

From: infomed!nyc.pipeline.com!pvnnyc
(Peoples Video Network)
We've faxed out applications already but
just in case we'll e-apply as
well.  PVN applicants are as follows:*
Sue Harris, Editor/Videographer
Video: "The Children Are Dying: the
Effect of US Sanctions on the
People of Iraq"
* Key Martin, Editor/Videographer
Paper: Proposal for an International
Peoples Video Network to
Break the Information Blockade
* Ellen Andors, Editor/Videographer
Paper: A Call to Arms: Why We Need an
Activist Media
* Johnnie Stevens, Coordinator, applying
as well.

Peter Wirth
<infomed!erc.cat.syr.edu!pwirth>
I recently read an E-mail report on your
upcoming conferences
regarding the media. I started a public
relations business a few
years ago and focus on organizations that
send people to the developing world.

"Richard M.  Miles"
<infomed!worldnet.att.net!RICHARDMMILES>
Your notice of the upcoming conference
reached me through the Society
of Professional Journalists' forum on the
Internet, and I would like
more information about each of the
meeting components. >Vice President E-
Span Inc.: http://www.espan.com
>Executive Editor Career Companion:
http://www.careercompanion.com
>rmiles-AT-espan.com
>rmmiles-AT-worldnet.att.net

New Left Review
<infomed!CompuServe.COM!100306.3473>
Many thanks for your e-mail messages.  We
will try to publicize your
conferences.
Very best wishes,
Robin Blackburn

Stephen Dunifer <infomed!crl.com!frbspd>
International Radio Action Training
Education (IRATE), a project of
Free Radio Berkeley, is pleased to take
part in the IIJPM conference.
As part of this conference we will set up
a micro power free radio
station to demonstrate how the low cost
technology broadcast technology
we have been developing can be used to
empower every
community, village, pueblo with their low
power FM radio station.

The Student Insurgent
<infomed!gladstone.uoregon.edu!insurgnt>
I will do all I can to
assist anyone from here if they
want to go.THE STUDENT INSURGENT is the
award-winning, biweekly,
leftish newspaper published by students
at the University of Oregon
in Eugene.

Tom Burghardt
<infomed!igc.apc.org!tburghardt>
I posted yourmaterial primarily because
the Cuban Revolution has been
subjected to an unprecedented criminal
attack by Yankee imperialism from the
moment of it's birth.  --Antifa list

TONELIUS OLIVER
<infomed!sfsu.edu!toliver>
Hello Mike my name is Tonelius Oliver I
am a music journalist from
California intersted in the October
conference.

infomed!ping.be!Wim.deBruyn (Wim A. de
Bruyn)
The paper will be about motivating human
beings to keep the integrity of human
nature as the life producing capital of
the human race, by their way of living,
nay, by their way of life.
Brussels, Belgium


Stay in touch, organize amongst
yourselves, and contact me about
anything!

Michael Fuller
IIPJM, La Habana




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