NYC grassroots media - what is community media

The New York City grassroots media conference held February 11, 2006 at the new school University was a conference put on by an alliance of my makers, artists, independent media organizations in community-based organizations interested in the working towards Democratic media in New York City. the goal of the conference was to connect different media makers in organizations in response to ongoing FCC threats to further relaxed media ownership regulations. organizers also wanted to strengthen connections between independent media makers and social justice organizations. as both an independent media maker and a person involves with public access media BNN - CCTV I found this conference very interesting.

A session I found particularly interesting was a panel discussion focusing on using the video as organizing tool. it was called "putting in Villa community in community media". the seminar devolved fairly rapidly into the problem of defining a working definition of community media.