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1: Tracy Rosenberg. Rosenberg manages Media Alliance, a
non-profit that fights for the rights of media workers and consumers
of mass media. Media Alliance has a rich history, and is at the
cutting edge of media activism.
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2: Bradley. Bradley is a volunteer with the San Francisco
Bay Area Independent Media Center. He is also a photographer who
documents struggles in Santa Cruz with a keen eye. He tells about
going to Oaxaca, Mexico during the radical uprising there. Read
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3: Bill Hackwell. Hackwell is a photographer and activist
who lives in Oakland. He is an organizer for the ANSWER Coalition.
He is well known in Cuba, where he has traveled many times in solidarity
and put on several important photo shows. He talks about starting
out as a military photographer in Viet Nam, where his politics crystallized.
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4: Favianna Rodriguez. Rodriguez is a successful artist
and organizer of other artists. Along with producing hundreds of
silkscreen prints, she built a design business in Oakland that caters
to organizations for social change, Tumis. She is also an online
activist pushing for change for the Latino community. Read
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5: Josh Wolf. Wolf is a videographer who got caught up in
a legal case when he filmed a demonstration where a police officer
was seriously injured. He refused to turn his tape over to authorities,
and spent many months in prison on a contempt citation from a federal
grand jury. For his courageous stand he was the recipient of several
national journalism awards. Read
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6: Greg Landau. Landau is a record and film music producer
living in San Francisco. He learned filmmaking from his father,
Saul Landau, while traveling throughout Latin America. Greg spent
most of the 1980s in Nicaragua, where he was baptized by fire working
for the Ministry of Culture in the Sandinista government. He relates
the experiences that formed the cultural perspective that informs
his career today. Read
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7: Larry Bensky. Bensky has had a varied journalistic
career, marked by his association with KPFA-FM in Berkeley, where
he played many roles. Best known as a talk show host, he is famous
for anchoring the Iran-Contra Hearings from Washington for the national
Pacifica Network, for which he won the coveted George Polk award.
Less well known is his early career in mainstream journalism, his
activism against the Vietnam War, and his role in the struggle for
People’s Park in 1969. Read
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8: JR Valrey. Valrey is a journalist who covers the Black
communities of the Bay Area, addressing issues relevant to people
who live there, and informing people on the outside as to what is
going on. His forte is coverage of political prisoners and police
issues. He is host of "The Block Report" on KPFA and other stations
and works for The San Francisco Bay View. He is also Minister
of Information for the Prisoners of Conscience Committee. Read
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9: Geoffrey King. King is a public interest attorney serving
the community of media workers, and a professional photographer
of social protest. He works for First Amendment Project, and shoots
for the Demotix agency. He brought out a photo book at about the
time he graduated from Stanford Law School, called Such a Bittersweet
Day, about the loss of gay marriage rights with the passage
of Proposition 8. Read
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 Chapter 10: Elizabeth Gonzalez. Gonzalez is a veteran of the innovative community service organization and magazine called Silicon Valley Debug. She is now in marketing at New America Media in San Francisco. She was the subject of a photo I took at a protest four and a half years before we spoke, and we talked about the changes she’s been through since then. Read
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 Chapter 11: Maureen Gosling. Gosling is a documentary filmmaker who worked for many years with Les Blank of Flower Films. On her own she made the award-winning film Blossoms of Fire, which deals with a community in the Mexican Isthmus were women play a special role. She is working on a film about fabric hand-dyed by women in Mali that is becoming a cultural phenomenon. She also edits other people's films, working out of an office in Berkeley's Fantasy Records Building. Read
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 Chapter 12: Jose Manuel Martinez. Martinez’ creative life has been story telling. As a recording artist—a singer-song-writer who has participated on 15 CDs—he made his mark in Rock, Latin Rock and Salsa. Now having just completed a Master’s degree in Education at Stanford University, he is an English teacher, relating to young people how stories can empower, and the ways they can bring people together. Read
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