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Friday, June 6th

10:00am - 10:30am	Kickoff: Welcome to Minneapolis Amy Klobuchar, Janis Lane-Ewart, Josh Silver, R.T. Rybak, Yolanda Hippensteele
10:30am - 12:00pm	Opening Plenary – Media at a Critical Juncture: Politics, Technology and Culture Adrienne Maree Brown, Keith Ellison, Lawrence Lessig
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Cable Battles: A Year in Review Barbara Popovic, Harold Feld, Harry Haasch, John Dunbar, Libby Beaty
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Free Speech in the 21st Century C. Edwin Baker, Caroline Fredrickson, Josh Wolf, Marvin Ammori
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Corporate Media Confidential Catherine Crier, Cliff Schecter, Craig Aaron, Jeff Cohen
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Faith-Based Community Organizing and Media Reform Cheryl Leanza, J. Bennett Guess, Kathy Partridge, Romal J. Tune, Vic Rosenthal
1:30pm - 3:00pm	How Independent Media Creates Change Daisy Hernández, Jane Hamsher, Jefferson Morley, Robert Greenwald, Tracy Van Slyke
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Media and Elections: Uncovering 2008 David Sirota, John Nichols, Robert "Biko" Baker, Santita Jackson
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Future of the Internet: Open, Neutral, Mobile and Ubiquitous Eloise-Rose Lee, Jef Pearlman, Susan Crawford, Tim Wu, Timothy Karr
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Spanish-Language Media: Is It Serving the Hispanic Community? Federico Subervi, Inez González, Mari Castañeda, Mario Duarte, Ronald Gordon
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Hip Hop Activism: Urban Strategies and Media Coalitions Julie Chang Schulman, Shamako Noble, Toki Wright, Willie "J.R." Fleming
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Film: Further Off the Straight & Narrow: New Gay and Lesbian Visibility on Television Media Education Foundation
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Policymaker Roundtable Michael Copps
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Shaping the Internet the Fun and Easy Way Abdulai Bah, Alexis Walker, Brian Garrido, Donald Anthonyson, Joshua Breitbart
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Legislation 2.0: Self-Governance and Policy on the Open Internet Andre Banks, Matt Stoller, Micah Sifry, Russell A. Newman
3:30pm - 5:00pm	In the Mix: Understanding New Music Services and the Bottom Line Ann Chaitovitz, Bryan Calhoun, John P. Strohm, Peter Gordon, stic.man
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Media and Democracy Reform David Cobb, Malia Lazu, Rob Richie, Solange Bitol Hansen, Susannah Goodman
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Minnesota Model: Countering Corporate Media David Schimke, Janis Lane-Ewart, Jeremy Iggers, Kathy Magnuson, Sarah Lutman, Vickie Evans-Nash
3:30pm - 5:00pm	The Changing Role of Media Critics Diane Farsetta, Eric Boehlert, Eric Deggans, Janine Jackson, Paul Schmelzer
3:30pm - 5:00pm	DTV Transition: Will Your TV Go Dark? Erica Swanson, Jeffrey Davis, Jenifer Simpson, Joel Kelsey, Leonie Campbell-Williams
3:30pm - 5:00pm	How Far Have We Come? People of Color in the Mass Media George Curry, Joseph Torres, Keith Kamisugi, Kristal Brent Zook, Laura Waterman Wittstock, Rosa A. Clemente
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Organizing Locally at the Grassroots Karen Toering, Nancy Doyle Brown, Steve Macek, Todd Wolfson, Tracy Rosenberg
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Policymaker Roundtable Keith Ellison
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Film: This Brave Nation Robert Greenwald
5:30pm - 7:00pm	State and Regional Caucuses Presented by the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG Net)
8:00pm - 10:30pm	Film: Body of War John Nichols, Phil Donahue, Robert W. McChesney

Saturday, June 7th

8:00am - 9:00am	Morning Plenary – Bill Moyers Bill Moyers, Robert W. McChesney
9:30am - 11:00am	Media Reform and Social Change Amalia Anderson, Deepa Fernandes, Mark Lloyd, Medea Benjamin
9:30am - 11:00am	From Broadcast to Broadband: The Next Frontier of Media Reform Amy Goodman, Malkia Cyril, Robert W. McChesney, Tim Wu
9:30am - 11:00am	Promoting Global Human Rights Through Progressive Communications Policies Andrew Puddephatt, Estela Waksberg Guerrini, Gene Kimmelman, Mak Yin-ting , Rosemary Okello-Orlale
9:30am - 11:00am	Precious Places, Public Platforms: Strategic Uses of Community Technology Anthony Riddle, DeeDee Halleck, Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Louis Massiah
9:30am - 11:00am	Power in Your Pocket: Cell Phones and Social Change Becky Bond, Candace Clement, Jed Alpert, Monifa Akinwole Bandele, Stephen Bradberry
9:30am - 11:00am	Grassroots Lobbying 101: How to Design and Win Policy Fights Chris Murray, Hannah Sassaman, Parul Desai, Sakura Saunders
9:30am - 11:00am	Spectrum 2.0: Using Public Airwaves to Build the Future of the Internet Christopher Mitchell, Geoffrey Blackwell, Maura Corbett, Sascha Meinrath, Wally Bowen
9:30am - 11:00am	Coverage of Race and Gender in the 2008 Campaign Kim Gandy, Laura Flanders, Laura Washington, Leonard Baynes, Roberto Lovato
9:30am - 11:00am	Film: Blood and Oil Media Education Foundation, Scott Morris
9:30am - 11:00am	How to Tell Your Story Mike Smith, Robert Pérez
11:30am - 1:00pm	Standing Up Against Hate Speech Alex Nogales, Corrine Yu, John Trasviña, Marilyn Mayo, Mark Kappelhoff, Mark Potok
11:30am - 1:00pm	Media Ownership Fight: Where It’s at and What’s Next Alexandra Russell, Andrew Jay Schwartzman, Frannie Wellings, Iván Román, Silvia Rivera
11:30am - 1:00pm	Winning Technology Policy and Media Reform in the States Amina Fazlullah, Catherine Settanni, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Julie Schwartz, Susan Satter
11:30am - 1:00pm	Media and the War: An Unembedded View Amy Goodman, Lennox Yearwood, Naomi Klein, Norman Solomon, Phil Donahue, Sonali Kolhatkar
11:30am - 1:00pm	There Is No Media Justice Without Women: Models for Feminist Social Justice Media Activism Anne Elizabeth Moore, Betty Yu, DeAnne Cuellar, Jennifer Pozner, Shireen Mitchell
11:30am - 1:00pm	Netroots: What's Next? Baratunde Thurston, Cenk Uygur, Duncan Black, Gina Cooper, Robin Marty
11:30am - 1:00pm	Privacy in the Age of AT&T, Google and the NSA Bob Edgar, Lillie Coney, Marcy Wheeler, Tim Jones, Tim Sparapani
11:30am - 1:00pm	Film: Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes Byron Hurt
11:30am - 1:00pm	Campus Organizing for Media Reform Camille Cyprian
11:30am - 1:00pm	Analyzing and Deconstructing Media Hilary Goldstein, Isabel Macdonald
11:30am - 1:00pm	Policymaker Roundtable Jonathan Adelstein
1:00pm - 2:30pm	Film: Broadcast Blues Sue Wilson
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Everyday Heroes: The Power of One in a Connected World Allie Pates, Eric Klinenberg, Mr. Spocko, Robb Topolski, Romeo Ramirez
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Media Policy in a New Congress and Administration Ben Scott, Jonathan Adelstein, Michael Copps, Mike Doyle
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Raising Change for Making Change: Fundraising for Better Media Beth McConnell, Courtney Young, Hye-Jung Park, John Graves, Kwame Tsikata, Russell Roybal
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Purple Politics: Coverage of LGBT Issues in the Media Brandon A. Benavides, Mike Rogers, Rashad Robinson, Tania Unzueta
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Creativity and Talent in the Entertainment Industry: Impact of Consolidated Media Bree Walker, Michael Winship, Patric M. Verrone
2:30pm - 4:00pm	News for the People: Can Black Radio Provide the News We Need? Bruce Dixon, Glen Ford, Jared Ball, Jeanette Foreman
2:30pm - 4:00pm	New Media, New Models, New Journalism Dan Gillmor, Ellen Miller, Linda Jue, Marcy Wheeler, Michael Skoler
2:30pm - 4:00pm	Past Success and Future Possibilites: A Discussion with Media Reform Pioneers George Stoney, Nicholas Johnson, Randall Pinkston, Stevie Converse
2:30pm - 4:00pm	In Our Own Voices: Youth Making Media Hannah Nemer, Jamilah King, Mariana Castañeda, Nissan Brown, Samantha Muilenburg, Scherazade Daruvalla King
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Media That Matters Film Shorts Maia Ermita
4:30pm - 6:00pm	When Media Is the Second Issue: Connecting with Social Justice Organizations Abdulai Bah, Alondra Espejel, Karlos Schmieder, Kat Aaron, Nick Szuberla
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Copyright Wars: Will Filtering Censor Free Speech and Kill Net Neutrality? Alex Curtis, Alison Hanold, Elizabeth Stark, Robert Millis
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Organizing for Change on the Social Web Andrew Slack, Chris Rabb, Craig Newmark, Deanna Zandt, Ruby Sinreich
4:30pm - 6:00pm	The Fighting Press: Ethnic Media Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Anthony Advincula, Edwin Okong'o, Juana Ponce de Leon, Loris Ann Taylor, Zuag Kimberly Chang
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Owning Our Own and Reaching the Masses Arianna Huffington, Davey D, Greg Watkins
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Creating Media Reformers with Media Education Bob McCannon, Rob Williams
4:30pm - 6:00pm	An Inside Look at Washington: Report from Capitol Hill Frannie Wellings, Kenneth DeGraff, Shawn Chang
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Newspapers: Not Dead Yet? Hazel Trice Edney, Joel Kramer, John Nichols, Linda Foley, Nick Coleman, Ryan Blethen
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Using the Media to Reform the Media: Strategic Communications for Media Reform Isobel White, Josh Seidenfeld
4:30pm - 6:00pm	Film: Freedom of Expression Media Education Foundation
6:00pm - 8:00pm	Film: War Made Easy Norman Solomon
8:00pm - 10:00pm	Keynote – Media Reform Begins With Me Arianna Huffington, Baratunde Thurston, Byron Dorgan, D.J. Nikoles, Dan Rather, Grace Lee Boggs, Lizz Winstead, Maria Isa, Michael Copps, Naomi Klein, Romal J. Tune, Shá Cage, Silvia Rivera, Tim Wu

Sunday, June 8th

9:30am - 11:00am	New Directions in Public Media Alyce Myatt, Jessica Clark, Jim Pagliarini, Nick Penniman
9:30am - 11:00am	Are You Being Served? Holding Local Broadcast Stations Accountable at the FCC Angela Campbell, Coriell Wright, Jessica Gonzalez
9:30am - 11:00am	Where We'll Take It: Young Leaders on the Future of Media Anthony Marshall, Chantz Erolin, Garlin Gilchrist II, Jeanette Lee, Yunuen Rodriguez
9:30am - 11:00am	Online and Offline: Connecting the Grassroots and the Netroots Brian Reich, Chris Parandian, Cristen Perks, Ira Horowitz, Richard Beach
9:30am - 11:00am	What About the Big Picture? Josué Guillén, Kim Freeman, Richard Healey
9:30am - 11:00am	Film: Tim Wise: On White Privilege Media Education Foundation
9:30am - 11:00am	Practical Tips for Building Effective Community Organizations Michael Jacoby Brown
11:30am - 1:00pm	Closing Plenary – Taking It Home Amy Goodman, Jonathan Adelstein, Van Jones