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Knocking Down Barriers To Video Citizen Journalism
Filed Under (*Top Stories, Minnesota, Video, Free speech) by mmcintee on October-24-2007

Link to Quicktime/podcast file

One by one the barriers to creating your own mass media have been coming down. First blogs let anyone publish their own newspaper, then podcasts let anyone publish their own radio show, now online videos let anyone put out a TV show…if you have the equipment and technical know how.Cameras and editing software have become less expensive and easier to operate. But creating and distributing your own video news story can still be a complicated and frustrating proposition.

The UpTake is stepping in to get rid of that last barrier.

This weekend The UpTake has scheduled its first video citizen journalism class. It’s free and open to the public (registration is required ahead of time through Wellstone Action). The class will cover the impact video citizen journalism has had and can have, cover story telling techniques and some of the nuts and bolts of shooting and editing video. Read the rest of this entry »

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Guantanamo Bay Challenges
Filed Under (Events and Stories) by mmcintee on October-24-2007

5:30 registration, 6 to 7:30 pm program,
Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey Institute,
301 - 19th Ave S, Mpls.

James Dorsey and Nicole Moen, attorneys for an Algerian detainee at Guantanamo, speak on “The Guantanamo Bay Challenge: Finding the Balance between Security and Our Nation’s Ideals,” $15.
FFI: http://www.micglobe.org/

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MN Health Care Access Commission
Filed Under (Events and Stories) by mmcintee on October-24-2007

HEALTH CARE ACCESS COMMISSION WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU, November 8

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Wescott Library, lower level meeting room
1340 Wescott Road
Eagan

Join Representative Paul Thissen and members of the Transformation Task Force and Health Care Access Commission for a discission of the future of health care in Minnesota. There will be an overview of reform efforts at the Capitol and input on what path the state should take.

FFI: Rep. Shelley Madore, shelley37a@yahoo.com

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Is Iran Next?
Filed Under (Events and Stories) by mmcintee on October-24-2007

Saturday, 11/3, 2 to 4 pm,
St. Joseph’s Parish,
8701 - 36th Ave N., New Hope

WAMM, 3rd CD Peace Campaign and NW Neighbors for Peace host Dr. Omid Mohseni of the University of Minnesota graduate faculty, helps us understand the escalating political and military crisis in Iran. A group discussion on what we as individuals and peace groups can do to prevent this potential disaster follows the presentation.

FFI: http://www.worldwidewamm.org

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