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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">Dear act-ma, <br>
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New England progressives are cordially invited to attend the
3rd Digital Media Conference: Freedom and Unfreedom in the
Digital Age on October 25-27, 2013 at Lesley University's
Doble Campus (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://goo.gl/maps/pqDQr">http://goo.gl/maps/pqDQr</a>)
on Mellen St. in Cambridge. <br>
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The conference theme is Freedom and Unfreedom in the Digital
Age. Plenaries and workshops will address the grave threat
posed to American democracy by the ongoing NSA scandal, and
relate it to threats and opportunities posed to civil
liberties by the swift growth of digital media and technology
in the service of the national security state. <br>
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Additional connections will be made between the struggle to
expand civil liberties nationwide and the campaigns by
communities of color and immigrants to resist constant
surveillance and mass incarceration by increasingly
militarized police, ICE, the DEA, state and federal prison
systems, and the private prison and security industries. Basic
workshops on social media, digital storytelling and privacy
software will also be offered. <br>
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A special feature of the conference will be a Digital
Storytelling and Media Activism Boot Camp led by documentary
filmmaker Prof. Chloe Smolarski of Parsons The New School for
Design and CUNY in New York City. Video continues to play a
vital role for communications for non-profits in particular
and social movements in general. If your organization doesn't
have a trained video producer on staff, the bootcamp will be
an excellent opportunity to learn to produce a short video
documentary using readily available cameraphones or
inexpensive camcorders. The bootcamp will lead off the
conference from 3-6 p.m. on Friday, October 25th. <br>
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Confirmed speakers include: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, author and
media personality (NYC), Kade Crockford of ACLU Massachusetts,
Gregg Housh of Anonymous, Betty Yu of the Center for Media
Justice (NYC), Rajesh Kasturirangan of MIT, Subrata Ghoshroy
of MIT, Zak Rogoff of the Free Software Foundation, Robin
Jacks of Occupy Boston, Alfredo Lopez of May First/People Link
(NYC), Chris Faraone of the Weekly Dig, and Deb Nicholson of
MediaGoblin. <br>
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The opening 10/25 7 p.m. plenary is free and open to the
public. Registration for the full conference is $35 ($10
students and low-income). Please contact us if your
organization requires a discounted rate or will make in-kind
contributions in lieu of registration fees. No one turned away
due to inability to pay.<br>
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Full background and registration information is available on
the conference website: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.digitalmediaconference.org/">http://www.digitalmediaconference.org/</a>
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Facebook: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.facebook.com/digitalmediaconference/">http://www.facebook.com/digitalmediaconference/</a>.
Twitter: @bostondmc. <br>
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The event is sponsored by Lesley University, Massachusetts
Global Action, Open Media Boston, TecsChange and United for
Justice with Peace. <br>
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Best regards, <br>
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Suren Moodliar <br>
Coordinator <br>
Massachusetts Global Action/encuentro 5 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.encuentro5.org">http://www.encuentro5.org</a>
<br>
<br>
and <br>
<br>
Jason Pramas <br>
Editor/Publisher <br>
Open Media Boston <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.openmediaboston.org">http://www.openmediaboston.org</a>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://about.me/jpramas">http://about.me/jpramas</a> <br>
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