<div class="gmail_quote"><b><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Have you registered for the Grassroots Radio Conference yet?</span></font></b><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/244905" target="_blank">Early Bird discounts</a> <span></span><span></span><a></a>on registration available until next Tuesday, June 19, at 5:00pm.</b></span></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="http://www.grassrootsradioconference.org" target="_blank">Grassroots Radio Conference 2012: The Future of Community Radio</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Featuring:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;font-family:'Times New Roman';margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keynote speaker Joe Torres, co-author of <i><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/13/news_for_all_the_people_juan" target="_blank">News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media</a></i></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Acclaimed poet <a href="http://hakimbe.com/whoami" target="_blank">Hakim Bellamy</a></span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">& more!</span></font></p><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-sponsored by Prometheus Radio Project, Media Action Grassroots Network, Free Press, New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative, Urbana Public Television, Volo Broadband, Chambana.net, Makerspace Urbana, WEFT 90.1 FM, and Radio Free Urbana.</span></b></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="Arial"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><i><br></i></span></font><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year’s theme is “The Future of Community Radio.” With digital technology, local community radio stations have the opportunity to engage global audiences, deploy mobile studios, share community wireless internet, and become multi-media community centers. Together we will chart a vision for community radio as a dynamic community-building tool for decades to come!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-weight:normal;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p>We'll be working with the Prometheus Radio Project to host a “Get on the Air” clinic. We'll show you how to start a radio station in your community and stream your station online.</p>
<p>You can tour Urbana-Champaign's new public broadband system and attend sessions on youth power, building your own wireless Internet access point, using radio to achieve social justice and much more.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline"><a href="http://act.freepress.net/go/10682?ak_proof=1&t=3&akid=.9556709.wqznRt" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Don’t forget to register today to receive the discount rate.</a></span><span style="color:rgb(16,16,16)"> Prices go up on June 19th.</span></p>
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We're offering <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGYxOTVUV2lpdjVES2d5VkpQTDNkQWc6MQ#gid=0" target="_blank">home-stays</a>, <a href="http://grassrootsradioconference.org/childcare" target="_blank">childcare</a> (ages 1-9), <a href="http://grassrootsradioconference.org/forum/8" target="_blank">a rideshare forum</a>, and more services during our conference. </div>
<div><br></div><div><img src="cid:ii_137e24158b591e87" alt="Inline image 2" width="420" height="87"></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Austin McCann<br><a href="http://grassrootsradioconference.org/" target="_blank">2012 Grassroots Radio Conference</a><br>
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