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Journalism for Liberation and Combat

Below is information on Journalism For Liberation and Combat. The course has been completed but you can still engage with it. Black Power Media is now hosting all four sessions Here is the Course Syllabus to follow along with the sessions. For more info on each session   An intensive series of participatory seminars by and for radical media workers, organizers, and everyone with an eye on liberation Hosts, Presenters and Guests (affiliations): Jared A. Ball (iMiXWHATiLiKE, Black Power Media) Too Black (Black Myths Podcast, Black Power Media) Erica Caines (Black Alliance for Peace & Hood Communist) Kelly Hayes (Movement Memos & Truthout) Brian Nam-Sonenstein (Beyond Prisons & Shadowproof.com) Brandon Soderberg (coauthor I’ve Got A Monster ) Brooke Terpstra (Oakland Abolition & Solidarity) Jared Ware (Millennials Are Killing Capitalism) When and how: - Four 2-3 hr remote sessions - Sat 3/5, Sun 3/6, Sat 3/12, Sun 3/13 - 1-3 PST / 4-6 EST each session - Syllabi ,
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Session 4: Panel Discussion - Covering Social Movements and Repression within Various Media Contexts

Host: Jared Ware is a co-host and producer of Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. He was a co-founder and former producer of the Beyond Prisons podcast. He was a member of the 2018 National Prison Strike and has written multiple articles on prisoner movements, repression and organizing. Description :  This panel will be a culminating discussion with journalists who form the bridge between social movements and media. Our panelists range on a spectrum from organizers who have created their own media platforms to uplift social movements and accessible revolutionary theory, to journalists who have navigated corporate, indy, and alt-weekly papers with an eye toward covering social movements or forces of repression. They have each encountered contradictions which necessitate liberatory approaches and done principled work to chart their own paths. We will draw on their experiences for insight on how to navigate typically inhospitable media spaces and still build towards revolutionary culture.
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Session 3: Comparative Case Study - The South End, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and Popular Propaganda

Host:  Too Black is a poet, member of Black Alliance For Peace, producer of The Last Dope Intellectual Podcast, and host of The Black Myths Podcast on Black Power Media. He is based in Indianapolis, IN and can be reached at tooblack8808 at gmail.com or @too_black_ on Twitter. Description :  On September 26th, 1968, Black Panther and Detroit-based Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) member, John Watson, took over as Editor-in-chief for The South End newspaper at Wayne State University. According to Watson, he took over “ with the intention of promoting the interests of impoverished, oppressed, exploited, and powerless victims of white, racist monopoly capitalism and imperialism.” Watson’s organization, DRUM, as well as FRUM (Ford Revolutionary Union Movement) and ELRUM (Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement), went on to form the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.  In this session, we will study the origins of this Black workers movement in relationship to the propaganda a
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