The Latin American and Caribbean Community Center offers an intensive training for individuals and organizations interested in learning how to produce media or sharpen up their existing media skills.  The training workshop will cover issues around alternative media and political activism.

Workshops Include:
Participatory Communication, Global Movements, The ins and outs of Radio Journalism, Radio Production 101, Cultivating a Listening Culture, Interview Workshop, Pop Culture: An Analysis of Mainstream Radio. Plus Film Screening, Participation in Live Radio Show, Networking, and more!!!

Limited to 15 Participants.  Please email info@lacccenter for an application form.

This week Radio Diaspora will be discussing in its series “Myths of Independence”, the realities around countries being independent when people are not liberated.

Our guests this week includes:

Lucilene Lira

Coordinator of the Annual Summer School for Union Women, the Young Workers in the Labor Movement and many other community and labor activities. She does a good amount of cross-border organizing and solidarity work by supporting resistance and autonomous peasants and indigenous movements, community and labor organizations at the fore front fight against capitalist corporate power. Born and raised on the banks of the Amazon River, Brazil, she participated actively in political and social movement during the 1980s working to support the struggle of river dwellers, fishermen, rubbertappers, landless workers and many rural communities affected by the industrialization of agriculture and rapid deforestation. A worker and union organizer herself, she was and still is a member of the Workers’ Party (PT).

Other guests include Afro Brazilian organizer Raquel de Sousa.

Tune in on Saturday September 8th at 5:00pm EST on WRFG 89.3 (Georgia) or on www.wrfg.org