"No Women's Media, No Women's Progress" Donna Allen, founder of Women Institute for Freedom of the Press, stated in the mid 1970s. This is critically true today. Feminist/womanist issues are almost completely lacking in mainstream media.

Women produced media, skills building programs, advocacy efforts are key in advancing the multi-faceted issues and concerns of a broad range of women. In this session, grassroots media justice workers will describe their successes. Further we will brainstorm on how we can collaborate on projects to give our work greater visibility and reach. In particular, we will explore how we can interact on a global scale with such dynamic projects as the Women's Media Pool, which was initiated for Beijing 10+.

This session encourages the artistic, organizational and political talents of women, and will inspire other participants, media producers, filmmakers, BlogHers, culture-jammers, and others working to address local to (g)local social justice issues.

Panelists:
Lisa Gray-Garcia (aka tiny)
Poor News Network, Project Director and Co-Editor (California)

Jan Stout
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Reclaim the Media, Co-Producer, "Community Women's Voices, (Seattle)

Euneika Rogers
Green Lady Media and Media Equity Collaborative (Georgia)

TBA - Member of the Chilpancingo Collective for Environmental Justice
Maquilapolis Film Project (California & Mexico border)

Moderator:
DeAnne Cuellar
Texas Media Empowerment Project, Project Director (San Antonio, Texas)

Objectives:
Discuss problems and commonality; women/gender/justice-related

Interact in a global forum to address women’s representation and leadership in media and intersecting social justice issues

Build on a national network to strategize, and build a base for formal and informal collaborative feminist media change among participants.

Co-sponsored by Media Equity Collaborative (a fledging national network)