[Pttv-announce] Tues 11/15 - Make this netWORK and 'Get Hooked Up!'

[jen at papertiger.org]

NYC Grassroots Media Coalition invites you to our November
'make this netWORK' event: "Get Hooked Up: Tools For Community Organizing"

This month, we are also celebrating the launch of the new NYC Grassroots Media
Web Portal, Compass for Change and the new Ya Ya website.

"Get Hooked Up: Tools For Community Organizing"
Tuesday November 15th, 2005 5:30- 8:30pm
Hosted by Downtown Community TV Center (DCTV) and Manhattan Neighborhood Network
87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan (at the corner of White St.)

GET HOOKED UP:  TOOLS FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
Tuesday, November 15, 2005    5:30 - 8:30 pm
DCTV (87 Lafayette Street, Manhattan)
Refreshments will be provided

The North Star Fund and YaYa Network in partnership with May First
Technology Collective, NYC Grassroots Media Coalition and the NYC Social
Forum invite you to celebrate the release of several exciting new
resources for activists:

* Compass for Change - The new and improved activist portal, a series of
online tools designed to expand activists and community organizers
networks and broadend the field of social justice work. Featuring its new
Collective Calendar.  http://www.compassforchange.net

* YaYa Network's Youth Activist Calendar and Bulletin.
http://www.yayanet.org

* The NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Web Portal - A virtual space for
social justice organizers and media makers to come together, connect and
form collaborative partnerships.  http://www.nycgrassrootsmedia.org

Hosted by Downtown Community TV Center (DCTV) and Manhattan Neighborhood
Network, this event is not just another meeting, it's a fun informal
event!  Join us to celebrate, meet other local activists, and learn about
online tools that provide the social justice community with the means
organize and make media with just the click of your mouse.

Please rsvp by Friday, November 11 to emily at northstarfund.org.  For more
information, contact 212-620-9110.