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- Information Access / Technology Empowerment
Groups
- Mentor & Education Programs
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- For Individuals:
- Conferences:
- What's Left? Critical Communications in the Belly of the
Corporate Beast - a meeting / conference of the Union for Democratic
Communications will be held October 10-13, 1996 at Loyola University
Lakeshore Campus, Chicago, IL. This year's theme will look at the
strengths and limits of our work in effecting social change. There will
be follow up to the Media and Democracy Congress, as well as Z's
FAMAS proposal (April 1996). For information on the conference contact
Craig Kois; 312.915.6557; email ckois@wpo.it.luc.edu.
- Chicago Underground
Press Conference has an official
zine ...
- "Ethics and
Technology" Saturday 3/9/96 at Loyola University
- The Sociology
of the Internet. "The theme of the session is to examine the
consequences and long term impact of the Internet and computer-mediated
communication on global and local communities."
- "From Microchips to Mass Media" (DePaul, 5/96)
- "Building the Information Superhighway in the Chicago
Metropolitan Region - A Conference on Information and Communications
Access for Urban Chicago" (Roosevelt University 11/16/95-11/17/95)
- Loyola Alternative Radio Conference - October / November 1995
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"The Good, the Bad, and the Internet" (CPSR, at UIC, October 7-8,
1995)
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"The Midwest Conference on Technology, Employment, and Community" (at
UIC, March 2-4, 1995)
- Feminist Chicaco Information Activism
- Other Chicago Computing Activism:
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- CPSR -
Chicago Chapter
- CPSR
Chicago (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - Chicago
Chapter)
- MIT's Media Lab sponsored another guy working originally in
Boston, seeking to expand to Chicago ... highlighted in a fall '95
Mother Jones issue
- Chicago Libraries / Museums /
Archives:
- Chicago Radio:
- Chicago TV
- Center for Communications Resources (formerly the Center for
New TV) - around since 1978. 1419 West Blackhawk, Chicago, IL 60622. A
not-for-profit organization. Provides workshops and access to
communications resources including computing resources for members and
non-members.
- Yahoo
listing of chicago tv
- Chicago Film
- Chicago
Film / Video Producer's Guide
- Independent Theaters:
- Chicago
Filmmakers / Kino-Eye Cinema - 1543 W. Division, Chicago, IL
60622 - 773.384.5533
- Doc
Films - 1212 E. 59th St, Ida Noyes Hall - Documentary Film Group
(student film society at University of Chicago)
- Facets Multimedia - 1517 W Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL
60614 - 773.281.4114
- Film Center - School of the Art Institute, Columbus
Drive and Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60603 - 312.443.3733
- Kartemquin Films - 1901 W Wellington, Chicago,
IL 60657 - 773.472.4366; fax 773.472.3348
- Music Box Theatre
- Other Theaters that show good movies despite being corporate:
- Film Festivals!
- Special Showings!
- National Organization for Women, Chicago Chapter:
Young Adult Committee Movie Nights, 1st Friday Each Month: May 3, June 7,
August 2, September 6; 6:15 p.m., 30 E. Adams, 4th Floor.
- "Incident at Oglala: The Leonard Peltier Story" Lincoln Park
Public Library, 1150 W. Fullerton
- Chicago News
- Chicago Media Projects
- Chicago Media Watch
- Community Media
Workshop: from Malcolm X College and Columbia College ... helps
community and civic organizations ...
- Community Television
Network: (CTVN) empowers low-income, urban children & youth in
the
Chicagoland area to help them attain self-confidence, skills and an
interest in learning by teaching them the use and understanding of media
arts, exposing them to environments outside their own and giving them
awareness, motivation and tools to transform their circumstances.
- Counter
Media: Mission: To form a comprehensive core team and network that
would establish an effective overall media strategy and provide media
resources and video production experience to the activist community
engaged in protests and actions during the Democratic National Convention.
Contact: Jim Wrecks at 312-755-0105 or Activist Front at 708-974-0767.
http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/cpsr/countermedia/
- Progressive Media Initiative, c/o Ralph Suter, 1529 W.
Touhy Ave., #2, Chicago IL 60626-2623, fax 773-743-0602. For more
information call 773-743-6130.
- Street Level Youth Media
- Underground Media
Arts Laboratory
- Chicago Computer Users
Groups & Resources
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