<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Save the date!</span><br><div class="gmail_quote">


<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Join MAG-Net, Free Press, Prometheus Radio project, and other national & local media groups </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">at:</span><br>


<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:bold">2012 Grassroots Radio Conference</span><br>


<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center</span><br>


<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">July 26th-July 29th, 2012</span><br>
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">Interested
 in using media to transform your community? The Grassroots Radio 
Conference (GRC) celebrates the vibrant and democratic medium of local 
community-driven radio. We bring together radio operators, media 
artists, community activists, engineers, and ordinary citizens from 
across the nation to learn, discuss, brainstorm, and build. Due to last 
year’s historic Local Community Radio Act, the government will be 
issuing brand new community radio station licenses all across the 
country to nonprofits and their partnering community groups, including 
for the first time in major cities! To that end, the GRC will feature an
 LP-FM Clinic to help in the process of starting your own LP-FM station 
and helping existing stations adapt to the digital age. This year’s GRC 
will celebrate RFU (Radio Free Urbana) raising its new radio tower and 
the UC-IMC becoming an anchor institution in Urbana-Champaign’s new 
public broadband system.  Stay tuned to</span><a href="http://grc.ucimc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">grassrootsradioconference.org</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal"> for more information as the conference approaches. To get involved, contact Austin at </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="mailto:austinmccann@ucimc.org" target="_blank">austinmccann@ucimc.org</a></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:normal;font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal">. </span><span class="HOEnZb"></span><br>

</div><br>-- <br>Austin McCann<br>2012 Grassroots Radio Conference<br><a href="mailto:theaustinmccann@gmail.com" target="_blank">austinmccann [at] ucimc.org</a><br>(727) 409-3605 -- cell<br><br>