Grassroots journalists discuss social and racial justice, Oct. 20

Event: Using both traditional and new media, grassroots journalists offer news that corporate-commercial journalists often overlook. In this presentation, Jordan Flaherty will speak on “Floodlines: What New Orleans and Katrina can teach us about social justice and economic collapse in the United States,” while Jesse Muhammad will speak on “Uprising: The story the Jena Six, racial justice, and grassroots movements.”

When: 3 p.m., Oct. 20, 2008

Where: CMA 4.128 (Burson Conference Room)

Background: Jordan Flaherty is a writer and community organizer based in New Orleans. He is an editor of Left Turn magazine and has written for a range of publications, from the Village Voice to Clarin in Argentina and Germany’s Die Zeit. He has been published in several anthologies, including What Lies Beneath: Race, Katrina and the State of the Nation.

Jesse Muhammad is a writer and photojournalist with the Final Call newspaper, for which he covered Hurricane Katrina and the continuing struggle of its survivors. In 2007 he helped bring national and international attention to the case of the Jena Six. Muhammad is a co-founder and editor of “For Youth, Teens and Young Adults” (FYTYA.com), a Houston based newspaper that highlights the accomplishments of high school and college students.

This event, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Senior Fellows honors program of the College of Communication.

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Contact:
Robert Jensen
471-1990