<font color="#222222" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2">Hi local GRC partners,<br><br>Please help us invite folks to the GRC and consider yourself warmly invited! Here's a template with an announcement to invite people to the GRC. I've also attached our press kit -- a radio PSA, press release, and poster. <br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Austin<br></font><br>-----------------------------------------<br></span></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">
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<font color="#222222" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font><div><font color="#222222" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Hi ____,</span></font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font color="#222222" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">I wanted to make sure you know about this opportunity nearby you to learn everything you need to know to start or grow a community radio. I'll be there presenting - hope you can make it. Travel and registration scholarships are available if that's a barrier. Please pass on the word!<br>
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<div style="text-align:center"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"><a href="http://www.grassrootsradioconference.org/" target="_blank">Grassroots Radio Conference 2012: </a></span></font></b></div>
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<div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large"><a href="http://www.grassrootsradioconference.org/" target="_blank">The Future of Community Radio</a></span></font></b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">July 26-29, 2012</span></font></b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:large">Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, Illinois</span></font></b></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><b><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a href="http://www.grassrootsradioconference.org/registration" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:large">REGISTER NOW</span></a></font></b></div>
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<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Featuring: <br>Keynote speaker <b>Joe Torres</b>, </font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">co-author of <i>News for All the People: </i></span></div>
<div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><i>The Epic Story of Race and the American Media</i>,</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Acclaimed poet <b>Hakim Bellamy </b><br>
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</span></div></div></div><div><br><span style="font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div><span>Does your community need more independent media?<br>
<br>Thanks to national legislation, we are facing </span><a href="http://prometheusradio.org/start_a_station" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span>the biggest expansion of community radio</span></a><span> in US history, with stations soon to be available in most major cities where they can reach up to half a million listeners.<br>
<br>Learn how to </span><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span>form a local coalition to </span></font><span>start a radio station in your community and stream online. </span><font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span>Integrate multimedia, community engagement, arts, and journalism into your station.</span></font></font></div>
<span> Learn about public broadband and community wireless. Produce media, get fundraising support, and learn how to do outreach. <br>
<br>Whether you're an experienced broadcaster, or if you've never made media before, come learn how you can help expand community radio and amplify voices in your town or city! </span></span><a href="http://grassrootsradioconference.org/sessions" target="_blank">Look at the sessions</a> and <a href="http://grassrootsradioconference.org/presenters" target="_blank">presenters</a>.</div>
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</font></div><div><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><div><div>$75-125 for the weekend. Home-stays, childcare (ages 1-9), <a href="http://grassrootsradioconference.org/forum/8" target="_blank">rideshare</a> forum and Spanish translation are available. As are <a href="http://www.grassrootsradioconference.org/content/affording-grc" target="_blank">worktrades and scholarships</a>.<br>
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Hosted by <a href="http://www.ucimc.org/" target="_blank">Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center</a>, a vibrant community center and home to WRFU Radio Free Urbana 104.5 LP-FM.<br><br></div>Co-sponsored
by Free Press, Brown Paper Tickets, Prometheus Radio Project, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Insitute, WRFU
104.5 - Radio Free Urbana, WEFT 90.1 FM, Illinois Public Media, Urbana
Public Television, Volo Broadband, </font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Media Action Grassroots
Network, </font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Makerspace Urbana, and Chambana.net.<div>
<br>Contact: Austin McCann <a href="mailto:2012grc@gmail.com" target="_blank">2012grc@gmail.com</a> or <a href="tel:217-344-8820" value="+12173448820" target="_blank">217-344-8820</a>.</div></font></div>
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