Celebrate!

In praise of activists in communities and on our airwaves. The staff, board and independent journalists of the National Radio Project & Making Contact enthusiastically invite participants of Planetwork to join us in celebration of The National Radio Project www.radioproject.org & Making Contact's 5th Birthday. The National Radio Project (NRP) works to heighten public consciousness, broaden public debate on critical social issues, and encourage civic participation by airing voices with diverse perspectives and opinions not often heard in the mass media. NRP produces Making Contact, a weekly public-affairs radio program now heard on 165 stations including 18 in Canada, 2 in South Africa and on the Internet.

Saturday May 13, 2000

Unitarian Universalist Center
1187 Franklin St. San Francisco
corner of Geary, wheelchair accessible

6:00 pm appetizers
7:00 pm dinner buffet
8:00 pm honoring of radio guests/activists
8:30 pm the D.B.s with tunes for dancing

Tickets: $35-$70 sliding scale. Help low-income activists attend by making an additional donation.
Reservations: Telephone 650-851-7256 or email mediaproject@igc.org

Your contribution is tax deductible as permitted by law, less $35 (fair market value) per event attendee.

Special recognition will be given to Making Contact voices including:

Lateefah Simon, Center for Young WomenÕs Development; Norman Uy Carnay, Asian Student Association, Hong Kong, represented by Anita Miralle, League of Filipino Students Anuradha Mittal --Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First, Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange Margie Richard Concerned Citizens of NORCO for Environmental Justice, represented by Denny Larsen, Communities for a Better Environment

The National Radio Project / Making Contact personnel
Managing Director - Laura Livoti Managing Producer - Phillip Babich
Executive Director - Peggy
Law Associate Producer - Stephanie Welch
Women's Desk Coordinator - Lisa Rudman
Prison Desk Coordinator - Eli Rosenblatt
Senior Advisor - Norman Solomon
National Producer - David Barsamian
Production Assistant - Shereen Meraji
Archivist - Din Abdullah
plus numerous freelancers and volunteers

More about the National Radio Project

With specialized training and production units known as desks (Women, Prisons, Globalization, and Youth) NRP works with community members to frame issues and identify guests.

As part of its mission as movement building radio, NRP produces special series such as World Trade Watch (in collaboration with Corporate Watch and the Institute for Public Accuracy) from Seattle during the WTO summit in 1999; Inside Capital (co-produced with Free Speech Radio News during the IMF/World Bank meeting in Washington D.C. in April 2000, and UnConventional Coverage from the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1996 and upcoming in August 2000.