EASTSIDE L.A. NETSQUARED (http://bit.ly/lMqx8A) invites you to attend
"Creating Effective Social Media Campaigns: How DREAM Students Built a Movement" Wednesday, June 29, 2011 6:30pm - 8:30pm Location: Asian Pacific American Legal Center, 1145 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA Facebook listing: http://on.fb.me/iOxQCk Dream Activists all over the nation have always taken their fight to the streets, but through strategy-driven campaigns that maximize the power of current social media trends, they have halted deportations, passed laws and garnered the nation's attention all the way to the White House. Come and hear first hand from the activist organizing and leading these campaigns here in the LA area. There will also be presentations and a discussion with activist who have taken to social media in redefining what it means to be undocumented in the U.S. and the changing experience for those who have known no other place other than the U.S. SPEAKERS (list in formation): Erick Huerta is a journalism student at East Los Angeles College. He's a community organizer with Dream Team Los Angeles, a contributing blogger on LAEastside.com and lataco.com Erick has been writing about issues facing undocumented resdents and has been chronicling his life on his personal blog www.justarandomhero.blogspot.com since 2006. Pedro Joel Espinosa graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2009 and I'm a community organizer, media maker, complex human being and all around DREAMer. Jesus Iniguez, founded Dreamers Adrift, an online media project by undocumented youth and for undocumented youth. We're a small contingent of DREAMers from various backgrounds who come together to explore and dissect our experiences as undocumented college graduates, as well as the various intersectionalities of our identities and how the undocumented experience impacts these other personal identities. ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
