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Hi all,
I was recently contacted by someone at CLA who wants us to do something at their next conference. Is anyone interested in doing a panel with me? I'm willing to do the legwork (filling out the proposal etc), but think it would be WAY better with more than just me yammering away. You could tie this in with a nice SoCal vacation, come on, it'll be fun and panels are a great way to get your feet wet if you haven't presented much. Deadline is April 17th though, so get in touch if you are interested.
-Lia
Below find his letter:

Thursday, October 2nd 

7:30 - 9 pm: Panel discussion 

9 – 10:30 pm: Debate watching party

At the Brecht Forum 
451 West Street (West Side Highway / between Bank & Bethune Streets) 
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15 • Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers

Join FAIR, the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and the Brecht Forum for a panel discussion, Q&A and debate-watching party on the night of the debate between vice presidential nominees Joe Biden and Sarah Palin.

The evening will kick off with a panel discussion on race, gender and the media in the 2008 election. In an election year that has seen the first black candidate nominated for president by a major party and the first Republican woman nominated for vice president--while two women of color have teamed up on the Green Party ticket--issues of race and gender have been at the forefront during this campaign season, not least in media coverage. But how well have the media served the public in this historic election? What issues are being ignored, even as the press heralds the race as evidence of shattered glass ceilings and the "end of black politics"? Journalists Laura Flanders, Glen Ford and Gary Younge take a closer look.

Then stick around with FAIR at the Brecht Forum to watch the vice presidential debate.

UPDATE: Here's the wiki with all the info! http://wiki.radicalreference.info/index.php/RNC2008

Members, potential members and allies of Radical Reference met in Philadelphia at the A Space, who graciously offered us accommodations for our meeting for a small donation. Thanks A space!

Radical Reference will be conducting two workshops on Saturday October 20th in lovely Baltimore. You can see a full schedule of speakers, tables and other workshops here.
Descriptions of the workshops we are conducting are here. We'll have a table with (hopefully) some exciting crafty stuff too, so come over, it should be pretty great.

A while back James and I were interviewed by Dandizette. The interview is now up on their site here

In the spirit of projects like
http://bookcrossing.com and
http://www.londonproject.co.uk/bookproject
we've decided to set some books free as well. Essentially it's a way for you to make the entire world, and especially places that lack libraries of their own, (ie.

Bucknell prof Eric Faden along with some of his film students at Bucknell, has produced a terrific video mashup.

"A Fair(y) Use Tale" cuts together thousands of extremely short clips from dozens of Disney cartoons, lifting individual words and short phrases to spell out an articulate, funny, and educational lesson on how copyright works, or rather..doesn't work.

There will be Rad Ref shirts available at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair! This was my first attempt at screenprinting, so some are very poor, but some are fine! And by fine I mean FINE! Go buy one!

On March 3rd, 2007 The San Diego Food Not Lawns put on an all day conference and workshop at City College.
Michelle Simon, author of "Appetite for Profit, How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back." was the opening speaker, and Dolores Huerta made the evening keynote address.