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Newswire Roundtable: Move Your Money Saturday 11/2/11
In this week's Roundtable segment, two topics from the 99 Percent Movement. In Oakland, residents called for a general strike today. Meanwhile, several other national groups call for a day of action against banks on Saturday, encouraging residents to withdraw their money and close their accounts with big banks. Host Jared Jacang Maher is joined by Don Rojas, FSTV's executive director and Marcy Miranda, Newswire producer.
Email this pageGRITtv: June 24 2010
The U.S. Social Forum kicked off this week in Detroit, with over 20,000 attendees from around the country determined to create solutions for the many problems the country faces. ; One of the ongoing struggles that fans of GRITtv will understand is the fight to create a thriving, independent media without corporate dollars--one that puts the concerns of real people ahead of profits.Don Rojas, Executive Director of Free Speech TV (GRITtv's satellite home on DISH network and now DirectTV as well) joins us to talk about the media collaborations happening at the Forum and beyond.
GRITtv: Don Rojas: Making a New Media at the Social Forum
The U.S. Social Forum kicked off this week in Detroit, with over 20,000 attendees from around the country determined to create solutions for the many problems the country faces. One of the ongoing struggles that fans of GRITtv will understand is the fight to create a thriving, independent media without corporate dollars--one that puts the concerns of real people ahead of profits. Don Rojas, Executive Director of Free Speech TV (GRITtv's satellite home on DISH network and now DirectTV as well) joins us to talk about the media collaborations happening at the Forum and beyond. Check out Free Speech TV's livestream from the Forum--and keep an eye out for Laura on there this weekend.
FSTV News: Media Consortium Conference Feb. 2010
FSTV's Herb Boyd talks with organizers and attendees at the Media Consortium Conference in New York in Feb. 2010. Don Hazen, executive editor of AlterNet, Media Consortium Director Tracey Van Syke, Globalvision's Rory O'Connor and FreeSpeechTV Executive Director Don Rojas discuss how progressive media are changing as the Internet evolves, new business models for non-profits, collaboration between organizations and how social-change groups have begun using social media to promote events and initiate social change.
