The Conference is hosting an amazing line-up of activists, scholars, media makers, community organizers, musicians, filmmakers, artists, journalists and many more, of all ages!  Participants can choose from over 40 workshops and panels conducted by more than 50 local organizations on topics ranging from how to produce activist video to how to use that video to fight for policy changes.  We’ll discuss how the internet and social networking is changing the way we communicate.  You’ll learn how to find real election coverage and the best independent journalism.  And we’ll strategize how we can begin to create media systems that come from, and are responsive to the people.

Check out www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/conference for all the info and updates!!!!

It’s happening in just two weeks – Don’t Miss It!
THE FIFTH ANNUAL GRASSROOTS MEDIA CONFERENCE
Speaking Truth to Power: MEDIA JUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITIES
Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College CUNY
Sunday March 2nd, 2008 9am–6pm
Hunter College North Building, 68th Street and Lexington Ave.
ENTRANCE THROUGH WEST BUILDING: Southwest Corner, enter from street or directly from 6 train
The Opening Plenary Begins at 9:45am in the Exhibition Hall

For a full list of Workshops and Schedule go to: www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/conference
Admission: **
$20 advance; $30 day of
$15 students/seniors; $25 day of
$5 youth discount (18 & under) Youth admittance includes lunch.

Registration includes general admission to the Conference, access to all workshops and panels, film screenings, exhibition hall and networking after party.

EARLY REGISTRATION SAVES YOU $10

Join us as we seek to define what the term “Media Justice” means, as a community and explore how we can begin to make this ideal a reality for New York City.

Conference location:
Hunter College North Building, 68th Street and Lexington Ave.
ENTRANCE THROUGH WEST BUILDING: Southwest Corner, enter from street or directly from 6 train

DON’T DELAY - REGISTER TODAY!

For more information call (917) 523 -1045 or email info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org.

New York, NY – With nothing but a mic and their powerful voices, over 500 of New York City’s hottest teen spoken word poets will rant, rap and recite their OWN ORIGINAL WORK over 10 nights in February/March for an opportunity to compete at the 10th Annual Urban Word NYC Teen Poetry Slam Finals on March 1^st at Washington Irving High School, in front of 1,500 fans and supporters. Hip-Hop Legend, Afrika Bambaataa, will be honored alongside MC K~Swift and Tahani Salah. Def Poets and other surprise guests are expected, along with beats by DJ Reborn.

10^th Annual Urban Word NYC Grand Slam Final:

Saturday March 1^st 7PM @ Washington Irving High School (40 Irving Place)

Honorees: Afrika Bambaataa, MC K~Swift & Tahani Salah, DJ Reborn

Tickets available at www.urbanwordnyc.org or 212-352-3495 and at door.

REGISTER TODAY for the Fifth Annual NYC Grassroots Media Conference
Speaking Truth to Power: MEDIA JUSTICE IN OUR COMMUNITIES

The Conference is hosting an amazing line-up of activists, scholars, media makers, community organizers, musicians, filmmakers, artists, journalists and many more, of all ages! Participants can choose from over 40 workshops and panels conducted by more than 50 local organizations on topics ranging from how to produce activist video to how to use that video to fight for policy changes. We’ll discuss how the internet and social networking is changing the way we communicate. You’ll learn how to find real election coverage and the best independent journalism. And we’ll strategize how we can begin to create media systems that come from, and are responsive to the people.

For a full list of Workshops and Schedule go to: www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org/conference

Sunday March 2nd, 2008 9am–6pm
Hunter College North Building, 68th Street and Lexington Ave.
ENTRANCE THROUGH WEST BUILDING: Southwest Corner, enter from street or directly from 6 train
The Opening Plenary Begins at 9:45am in the Exhibition Hall

Admission:
$20 advance; $30 day of
$15 students/seniors; $25 day of
$5 youth discount (18 & under) Youth admittance includes lunch.

Registration includes general admission to the Conference, access to all workshops and panels, film screenings, exhibition hall and networking after party.

EARLY REGISTRATION SAVES YOU $10

For more information call (917) 523 -1045 or email info@nycgrassrootsmedia.org.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College CUNY

FEBRUARY “FOOD FOR THE SPIRIT”

Peace and much love! The divinity in me salutes the divinity in you!The spiritual gift for the month of FEBRUARY is LOVE! It has been said that “love is the most healing, powerful and harmonizing force onEarth“, I agree 100%! Your spiritual gift of LOVE gives you the ability to go beyond your personal feelings, thoughts and emotions to experience a higher consciousness. LOVE allows you to connect to the oneness of God, which is the underlying principle of all things. Unfortunately, most people never fully learn how to use this powerful gift. Some people have only experienced a limited level of LOVE because they have placed conditions on their LOVE. For example, in relationships people will sometimes hold back on their LOVE if the other person doesn’t say, act or do the things they want them to. That’s not LOVE, that’s emotionalism! To fully use your spiritual gift of LOVE, you must learn to LOVE like God loves us, which is unconditionally! In fact, God loves you so much He said, “even if YOU choose to make your bed in Hell, I will be with YOU”! Wow, now that’s what I call unconditional LOVE! I know that may seem hard for you to do, however, you CAN do it, you are a child of God and if it’s true of God, it’s true of you too!It is written that “God is LOVE”, we believe this to be true. Since God lives within you, through you, as you, that actually makes you the living manifestation of LOVE! It is also written that you should, “LOVE God with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul and you should LOVE your neighbor as you LOVE yourself”. As you begin to truly LOVE like God, you will experience the life you were born to live and it will become easy to share that LOVE with all of creation! We all seek LOVE to help our lives have more meaning and it’s not a coincidence that LOVE has to ability to “conquer all”. Using you spiritual gift of LOVE will give you an inner peace that is beyond words. In the appearance of these crazy times we are living in, I believe the late great philosophers Gregory Hines and Luther Vandross said it best, “there’s NOTHING better that LOVE, what in the world could you ever be thinking of”, Word! Forever HIPHOP,Minister Server – The HipHop Life CoachTemple of Hiphop,HIPHOP Ministries, Inc.www.hiphopministries.org404-425-9629 Ofc.

Please join us this weekend at USC in Los Angeles for a series of free DIY video screenings and talks.

Schedule of FREE public events:

Friday • 2.8.08
Davidson Conference Center, Embassy Room
3415 S. Figueroa, Los Angeles

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The Hip Hop Mental Health Project, an initiative of 1+1+1=ONE, is looking for an intern in NYC to work a minimum of 5 hours a week.

We need someone with strong administrative skills, computer/internet research/web surf savvy, amiable on the phone and to work with in the office. Pay is $10/hr plus metrocard stipend.

Below is the project’s mission.
Interested parties should respond to info@hiphopmentalhealth.org.

Mission:
The Hip Hop Mental Health Project seeks to shift the cultural paradigm of shame and alienation surrounding mental illness and satisfy our community’s need for a SAFE place to confront the issue and obtain vital information.

Through the integration of performance and research based dialogue, the Hip Hop Mental Health Project works to impact public discourse and values among urban communities in a way that educates about the signs, symptoms, and spiraling course of mental illness, and to explore possible solutions to the contributing life stressors of societal stigma and the difficulties of an overtaxed mental health system.

The Hip Hop Mental Health Project has a specific commitment to engaging young urban & low-income communities of color as they are the most detrimentally affected by the disparities in mental health diagnosis, treatment, and care.

The official word from the coroner’s office has come back in the death of UGK’s Pimp C, and the verdict is that the Texas rapper died from an accidental overdose, due to a combination of cough syrup and a pre-existing sleep apnea condition.The cornoer’s office said Monday (February 4) that the death was ruled as accidental and cited “promethazine/codeine effects and other unestablished factors” as the cause of death — specifically the use of prescription medicine used to treat coughs and congestion, and his pre-existing condition.The rapper (real name: Chad Butler) was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel on December 4th, following a concert the night before at the House Of Blues with rapper Too Short.He was just 33 years old.Read more: http://www.ballerstatus.com/article/news/2008/02/4017/