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I'm writing today about the media skillshare we have planned this weekend (info below and at www.skillshareaustin.org)

There are a few things we're looking for help with. The first is sending out the info below to everyone you know.

On the day of the event we're looking for volunteers for the following jobs, and we'd really appreciate your help. Write us at info@skillshareaustin.org if you can take one of these:
-12:45 set up
-1:45-3:30 childcare
-3:00-5:00 dinner prep (which will be done at a nearby location, in the form of a workshop on how to make vegan gumbo)
-5:00-5:15 dinner set up
-6-6:15 dinner clean up
-6:00-7:30 childcare
-7:30 clean up

We have a schedule of workshops up at http://www.skillshareaustin.org/gmjt

Here's the general event info:

Skillshare Austin, in collaboration with Monkeywrench Books and KPWR People Will Radio, will host two FREE events of workshops and presentations for the Austin stop of the Grassroots Media Justice Tour*:

Sunday, October 19th, 1-7pm, at Space 12 (3121 E 12th, just west of Airport Blvd)
A day of media workshops including Hadassah Hill teaching us about creating a web presence and digital music recording, along with a whole bunch of local media activists sharing skills such as DJing, video editing, poetry writing, and web content management.
You'll have a chance to shadow a DJ as they broadcast live from the event, get a drupal tutorial geared towards your questions, take home a video clip you've edited and a audio sample you've recorded, and much much more.
Free childcare (sign up in advance) and vegan gumbo dinner included.

Monday, October 20th, 7pm,at Monkeywrench Books (110 E. North Loop)
Jordan Flaherty (Left Turn, Colorlines)talking about the links between the struggle for justice in the rebuilding of New Orleans, and struggles people are facing everywhere around housing, health care, and criminal justice.
Jesse Muhammad (Final Call) sharing his first-hand experiences as a journalist that helped bring the story of the case of the Jena Six to a national audience.
Hadassah Hill($pread Magazine) performing as her alter ego, Axon D'Luxe.
We'll also have Davey D, Hip Hop historian and journalist, Iris Rodriguez of La Nueva Raza, and Freestyling by Austin’s Gnostic Prophet.

details for both events at www.skillshareaustin.org

*What is the Grassroots Media Justice Tour?

The 2008 Grassroots Media Tour is sponsored by radical and independent media projects from around the US, including Bitch Magazine, $pread Magazine, Left Turn Magazine, ColorLines Magazine, Free Speech Radio News, and Make/Shift Magazine. the tour will bring performances, workshops, and inspiration to towns and cities in the South.

The tour seeks to communicate about current struggles for justice and liberation, from criminal justice organizing in Jena to sex worker activism,from resistance to imperialism in Iraq and Latin America to resistance to school privatization, from immigration rights movements to post-Katrina organizing in public housing. The tour also seeks to connect communities of
resistance, and to build relationships between grassroots activists and independent media. Tour presenters come from many movements and background, but all of them are grassroots media makers.