Calling all social justice activists and organizers, radical journalists, movement podcasters, documentarians, and people from historically oppressed groups! Please join Migrant Roots Media, Interrupting Criminalization, and Press On for an intensive series of skill-sharing workshops about how to create audio, video, and live broadcasts to support movements for liberation.

This 12-session practical intensive will cover root cause analysis, interviewing and field recording 101, audio production, video production, scripting, promotion and distribution, legal considerations, journalistic/documentary ethics, grassroots fundraising for broadcast media, and provide opportunities for networking, relationship-building and strategy. It is designed for grassroots organizers and media makers at the frontlines of abolition and transformative justice, immigrant justice, and Southern movement building with a variety of skill levels, but a clear idea for a project they want to work on whether it’s an oral history, an interview series, a show or outlet, a social media campaign, or reporting live from protests or events. The series meets people where they are in terms of equipment and budget, and includes recommendations for how to make use of free and easily accessible tools. 

The intensive is sliding scale with low-cost and no-cost options. We will offer English to Spanish and Spanish to English interpretation for Spanish speakers, and live captioning for all sessions. We are committed to creating an accessible space so please do let us know your access needs in the registration form and we will try our best to meet them. We will be accepting a maximum of 100 participants, from anywhere in the world, and will be closely reviewing the registration form so try to be as clear and descriptive as you can in describing who you are & why you are interested in this intensive. 

This virtual Movement Broadcasting Intensive will take place on Zoom on every Tuesday & Thursday evening from October 3rd, 2023 - November 14, 2023, except there will be no session on Tuesday, October 31st. We very much encourage participants to come to as many of the live sessions as you can as there will be small group discussion & networking opportunities. All sessions will be recorded to review later. Participants who attend 10 of the 12 sessions and submit a pilot for feedback will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion and additional follow-up coaching and support. 

Dates, times and tentative session topics:

• Tues. 10/3 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Shifting Narratives for Liberation

• Thurs. 10/5 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Root Cause Storytelling

• Tues. 10/10 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Choosing a Format // Collaborative Projects

• Thurs. 10/12 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Interviewing with a Radical Lens

• Tues. 10/17 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Story Structure / Equipment and Budgeting

• Thurs. 10/19 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Audio Editing 101 / Video Editing 101

• Tues. 10/24 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Ethics of Movement Broadcasting

• Thurs. 10/26 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Fact Checking

• Thurs. 11/2 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Writing for Broadcast // Collaborations II

• Tues. 11/7 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Legal and Technical FAQs

• Thurs. 11/9 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Grassroots Fundraising // Promotion

• Tues. 11/14 @ 5 - 6:30pm (CT) / 6 - 7:30pm (EST) - Closing Celebration

Questions? Contact roxana@migrantrootsmedia.org (Spanish) or ravenjournalist@gmail.com (English)

The Team: 

www.presson.media 

#MovementJournalism

Neesha Powell-Ingabire (they & she), Press On’s director of popular education, is a coastal Georgia-born-and-raised movement journalist, essayist, community & cultural organizer, resource mobilizer, cat parent, spouse, and auntie living in Atlanta/occupied Muscogee territory. Her forthcoming debut book, COME BY HERE: MEMORY, MURDER, AND HOMECOMING ON GEORGIA'S GEECHEE COAST (Hub City Press, fall 2024), chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories.

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www.migrantrootsmedia.org 

#WeTellOurOwnStories

Roxana Bendezú, Founder and Executive Director, is a descendant of the Quechua People of the Andes, born and mostly raised in Lima, Perú. She migrated to Turtle Island first in 1993 and later in 1999. She is an activist documentarian, socio-political analyst, and the founder and executive director of Migrant Roots Media. She has been working on pro-migrant, pro-human rights causes at different capacities for the last decade.

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www.interruptingcriminalization.com/abolition-journalism

#NoMorePolice

Lewis Raven Wallace (he/they/ze) is an award-winning independent journalist based in Durham, North Carolina, the author and creator of The View from Somewhere book and podcast, and a current Ford Global Fellow and Abolition Journalism Fellow with Interrupting Criminalization. He previously worked in public radio, and is a long-time activist engaged in prison abolition, racial justice, and queer and trans liberation. He is white and transgender, and was born and raised in the Midwest with deep roots in the South.