More About This Event Series
This month we’re partnering with the Denver Zine Fest to explore “How to Own: The Media” and we’re doing so by putting the media on trial.
Our “People Vs ____” program has put many things we take for granted on trial including: God, retirement, having children, capitalism, masculinity, education, and more and this month we’ll transform the McNichols building into a courtroom with prosecution and defense experts putting all aspects of “media” on trial.
Confirmed “lawyers”:
-Denis Moynihan of Democracy Now
-Denise Maes of the ACLU
-Maeve Conran of KGNU
-Leonid Reznikov of Gorizont Colorado Russian Newspaper
-Anthony Grimes of ReactiveOps
-Wadi Muhaisen of Muhaisen and Muhaisen lawyers
-more to come…
Plus, a videozine from MO SPKXS and creative footage from Mary Grace Legg and Locker Partners
Journalists: With Do we even need them anymore? Are they objective? Should they be? Have they helped keep the government in check or have they been stenographers for power?
Social Media: Does it provide anything useful or just suck our time away? Does clicking “like” or “share” replace action for change? Is clickbait a business model with any merit? Why give a platform for your jerk Uncle Doug’s “hot take” on everything?
Dissent: Should hurtful and offensive opinions be allowed? Is the “marketplace of ideas” really the backbone of a free society? Should it be? Would a State-run media look any different than what we have today?
And YOU are the jury.
Stay tuned for more details on who the “attorneys” will be, but for now just plan on coming to learn, converse, and take action to keep or change the media that we all own together.
What if you felt the same ownership of our streets, libraries, emergency services, and media as you did about your personal belongings? Why don’t you?
That’s what we’re looking at every month this year with our Own This City: A Live Instruction Manual series.
All of our programs are free (a $5 suggested donation helps with costs).
Childcare and interpretation is available if requested
(the earlier you let us know the better!)
And of course, we have delicious warm cookies:
traditional, vegan, and gluten-free.
Own This City: Own the Streets from Warm Cookies of the Revolution on Vimeo.
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