SIXTH ANNUAL GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE

KGNU TO HOST SIXTH ANNUAL

GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE

Keynote Speeches by Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez & David Barsamian

July 13-15

For immediate release

Contact Marty Durlin at 303 449 4885

KGNU TO HOST SIXTH ANNUAL

GRASSROOTS RADIO CONFERENCE

Keynote Speeches by Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez & David Barsamian

KGNU will present the Sixth Annual Grassroots Radio Conference July

13-15

at the Broker Inn in Boulder. The conference will feature keynote speeches

by Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!; Juan Gonzalez, former co-host of DN

and columnist for the New York Daily News; and David Barsamian of

Alternative Radio.

The first Grassroots Radio Conference was held in Boulder in 1996,

co-founded by KGNU and WERU (Blue Hill, Maine), as a reaction against the

homogenization of commercialization of public radio. Subsequent conferences

have been in held in Boulder, Bar Harbor, ME and Madison, WI.

This year's conference will focus on creating the foundation for

community-based media in the 21st century. As the media is controlled by

fewer and fewer megacorporations, citizen-owned and operated media outlets

become more and more important for the functioning of democracy. GRC

organizers hope to strengthen efforts to create, defend and preserve

citizen-owned and operated media, including community radio, low power FM

and independent media centers.

GRC6 will offer workshops and panels especially pertinent to

grassroots

radio stations, including sustainable fundraising, news alternatives, use

of the internet for program distribution, independent music programming,

youth radio, media activism and legal issues. One workshop centers on the

topic of board recruitment, election and process - or "how to avoid a

Pacifica-like takeover."

Laura Flanders, until recently host of a national talk show

distributed by

Working Assets, will also attend; as will Philip Babich of the National

Radio Project and host of a new news show Live Wire; and Aaron Glantz of

Free Speech Radio News.

For more information, contact Marty Durlin at KGNU (303 449 4885, or

marty@kgnu.org). To register, contact Evan Perkins at KGNU

(evanp@kgnu.org). Housing and transportation information is available on

KGNU's website (kgnu.org)