The Los Angeles Alternative Media Network (LAAMN) held its regular monthly meeting in April and Carmen Vega, our representative to the Coordinating Committee, which is meeting on 5/13 in NYC to discuss the content and structure of the upcoming Media and Democracy Congress, led a discussion about the Congress and what ideas and suggestions people had for panels, workshops, overall goals, etc. Here are the results from that discussion: I. There should be panels focused on political and social issues and how the alternative, independent media can help strengthen the progressive movement. Here are a few examples: a. A panel on "Building the Labor Movement", which would discuss how to create new media on labor, how to enhance current labor union publications,how to include labor issues in current alternative media. Speakers could include representatives from The Weekly Detroit Journal, LaborNet, The Labor Party newspaper, Labor Notes, Labor Video Project, We Do The Work,Local 1199 News, America At Work (monthly magazine of the AFL-CIO), In These Times, etc. b. A panel on "The Environment" focusing on speakers in the environmental movement who are creating independent media; c. A panel on "The Coverage of Racism and the Multicultural Movement" with speakers discussing how the independent media have been covering the [100 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=05_1997&mid=1783554&hilit=ART+SATELLITE> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 05_1997&1767403 Score: 78 Subject: San Francisco Lead Porting Software engineer Interactive Internet Apps start-up