September Show '06: Teens! Sex! Rock Music!

We think that teens should be given more credit as the independent and free thinkers they really are instead of being continually pigeon-holed as drones. Do you have the power to break free of the persuasion?

Check out Cortney Harding response to the Rand Corporation's Survey which stated that teens who listen to music with sexually degrading lyrics are more likely to instigate and participate in sexual activities. Check out the blog here!

What do you think? Let us know...

September Show '06: Read the latest IndyKids!

YC Media Literacy Article in IndyKids

MNN Youth Channel Peer Trainer and PT Coordinator, Derrick Dawkins, has an article on media literacy in the fall edition of IndyKids! check it out - pick one up by the MNN reception window and flip to page 6. (dont forget to read all the other great stuff too.)
the issue is also downloadable as a pdf here.

August Show '06: Come to the YC Block Party!!

This is a little promo spot that was created to advertise the MNN Youth Channel Block Party on August 12th, 2006. get more info at www.youthchannel.org

August Show '06: Some Photos from the Youth Workshop at the ACM

Hi everyone,
we are here atthe ACM - Alliance for Community Media Conference in Boston. As a part of the pre-conference activities, Youth Channel took part in an all-day workshop working with young people (and some oldies) from different access centers to do some brainstorming about media action campaigns, and to make some short videos. Heres som pictures. we will add more as the week goes on. and hopefully the videos too!

August Show '06: Make Your Choice!

The MNN Youth Channel is excited to announce our annual spring wrap-up screening on Wednesday, June 21st 2006. We will be showcasing some of the best youth produced work that played on the channel in the last 5 months! There will also be performances by young, local hip hop and spoken work artists. First, however, we need your comments on the following six video clips to help us decide on the best Series and Special

August Show '06: Best Series A: Producers Project

Producer's Project is a bi-weekly series on Mondays at 7:30pm. Since June 2002, The Producers’ Project (TPP) has worked to extend the effectiveness, relevance and reach of education by putting powerful tools of learning, leadership, expression and production into the hands of students and teachers. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, we’ve operated summer boot camps, semester-long courses for students, and professional development programs for teachers. The results are visible in and exciting array of academically aligned, emotionally resilient, artistically expressive and issue-oriented documentaries and PSAs.

Links:
www.theproducersproject.org

August Show '06: Best Series B: Access Harlem

Access Harlem shows once a month on Sundays at 4pm and produced by RECYouth (Reel Education & Communication for Youth). NYC youth (ages 6 - 19) participating in the RECYouth program learn the skills necessary to become digital filmmakers, musicians and storytellers. RECYouth offers free, citywide, year-round programming, based in City of New York Parks & Recreation's Computer Resource Centers. We offer both after-school and teen programs in which students are trained in digital video and audio production through hands-on, pre-employment technology and arts instruction.

Links:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_things_to_do/crc/recyouth/recyouth_index.html

July Show '06: Best Series C: Drop TV

Drop TV is a magazine-style series of half hour episodes, on every Sunday at 11:30am, packed with high energy segments made for youth, by youth. Get ready because this isn't your grandparent's TV show, this is DROP TV - our media, our way.

During the summer months and after school, Media Guild apprentices, under professional and peer mentorship, engage in all aspects of pre-productions, production, and post-productions for DROP TV: research, writing, scheduling, camera, sound, lighting, computer graphic design, computer animation, editing, music, and sound mixing.

Links:
www.childrensmediaproject.org

July Show '06: Best Special A: Public Housing

Where did public housing come from? Who lives there? Who makes the decisions? What does it look like? What are some of the issues facing public housing today? These questions and more are explored by a group of students at City As High School in colloboration with The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP).

CUP works with youth to create collaborative projects that explore the urban environment. Our educational projects build on the everyday experiences of young people to ask questions about democracy, civic participation and social justice.

Links:
http://anothercupdevelopment.org
www.city-as-school.org

July Show '06: Best Special B: Burnt

Attempting to challenge the notion of what we consider social norms, Burnt enters the life of four friends struggling to communicate with each other.

Film Directed, edited and written by Karina Hurtado in collaboration with Global Action Project

Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

Links:
www.global-action.org

July Show '06: Best Special C: Teen Talk TV "Sex Sells"

Teen Talk is a program devoted to giving a meaningul and powerful radio/media voice to urban youth. All Teen Talk students are from the NYC Alternative Schools Superintendency and attend one of over 25 alternative schools or sites. Teen Talk productions are completely student-driven. Students do the research, choose the guests, write the questions and make it happen. Teen Talk has won 'PASS' Awards for Teen Media, radio and TV competitions, for the past 2 years.

Links:
www.teentalkny.org

June Show '06: Save Access Images Online...

Check out PHOTOS from the Save Access Protest/Rally at the Verizon Headquarters here in NYC!!
more info: http://www.saveaccess.org

June Show '06: Youth Focused O-Reilly Clip

Media Matters for America is always keep an eye out for Media Nonsense. In this clip, O'Reilly seems to frame the fact that young people in general are uniformed as to global politics as a right vs. left issue. Now, he makes some good points in this one (surprisingly)! I have met young people who dont know where important places are on a world map, but there are somethings that should be addressed that are not - like maybe young people arent mis-informed by Jon Stewart (see the statistic in the paragraph below), but brainwashed by advertising and consumerism... hm?... or the sensationalist (and yes, right wing) news outlets like Fox or the Fake News about video games sold to us as real and even important. How stupid, to say that the media is the problem... but only the 'liberal' media. Even 'all the stupid kids' know that there is no such thing!!! By the way - even though we dont have statistics to back it up, most of the young people we work with at Youth Channelknow that O'Reilly is full of crap AND how to find Iraq on a map.

Summary: Bill O'Reilly asserted that "[m]any Americans ages 18 to 24 have no idea what's going on," stating that they "get their news from [Comedy Central host] Jon Stewart and their point of view from bomb-throwing entertainers." In fact, studies have shown that viewers of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Stewart are consistently better informed about current events than consumers of other media, and Daily Show viewers are significantly better educated than viewers of The O'Reilly Factor. Further, consumers of Fox News in general have been found to be significantly more misinformed about current events than consumers of other mainstream media.

June Show '06: Save Public Access; Protest Corporate Media Domination - MAY 24!!!

On Wednesday, May 24th, thousands of people in cities across the country will protest the Telephone Companies AT&T and Verizon. We are outraged by the tactics of the major telephone companies (AT&T, Verizon and Quest) to pass National Video Franchising legislation in Congress. The Telcos are spending one million dollars a week to buy the votes of Congress people for their legislation (House Bill 5252 and Senate Bill 2686) and on advertising to influence public opinion, using ‘astroturf’ groups to distort the issues. The proposed legislation will curb local control over video franchises, negatively impact thousands of local Public, Educational and Governmental Access channels, allow red-lining in low-income and rural communities and jeopardize the openness of the internet by removing ‘net neutrality’ provisions designed to promote competition.

June Show '06: Sir! No Sir!: No to War, No to the Military

This is a great public service animation which speaks to young people about the reality of the army and war. Its also a preview of an up an coming documentary. If you ever wanted to end a war. You need to know this story.

Must watch flash animation Here

May Show '06: LIVEWIRE FESTIVAL

On April 29, 2006 the Livewire Festival was a 2-day event (One day entertainment, and the other workshops) launchd with an electic mix of electronic music, hip hop and some rock n roll. The Misled Youth Network organized the event which had a very nice turnout. If you have an open mind, and like all kinds of music, this event would definitely make your body move. Check it out!

May Show '06: City Council Resolution 2006

On May 10th, 2006 City Council members and supporters of public access, including producers and public access televsion staff. There was a press conference about some certain issues and the cope bill, all of which are important things that relate to the destruction of public access, and the silencing of the voices of those from marginalized groups. To find out more info on these issues log on to www.mnn.org/saveaccess.
Watch this clip.

May Show '06: Hello-Good bye

Good bye Youth Channel!!!.... for now. Before I started film school, even before I considered myself a filmmaker I came across Guerrilla News Network. Their videos/organzation is very interesting in terms of their mission and how they create very entertaining pieces that also make a bold statement.
Have a good summer!!
-Verena

May Show '06: YC Media Literacy Article Online

The Robert Bowne Foundation recently featured an article about the Youth Channel Critical Thinking Workshop, Mind Over Media, in their online publication, Page Turner.
Read It Here!

May Show '06: Coca Cola: Cool Hunters Exposed

Check out these two clips. the one on the left is an excerpt from a truly indpendent video out of suburban Ontario. The one on the left is a Coca-Cola ad produced by a Toronto ad agency. Be sure to look at the frame-by-frame comparisons linked below.

Benny(the director) has done a frame comparison here and here. For more info on The Winking Circle check out their new website. Heres a link to an online debate about who should sue who. whats YOUR opinion?

May Show '06: May Day: Immigrants' Rights, Youth Voices

Watch The Video (approx. 40 MB)
On May 1, 2006 MNN Youth Channel was out talking to young people in the streets in both Washington Heights and Union Square in New York City. Here's some of what we heard.

April Show '06: DAMN YC @ LIVEWIRE

Youth Channel producers and trainers will be present at LIVEWIRE in Brooklyn doing taping and interviewing on Saturday and doing a Mind Over Media workshop on Sunday.

April Show '06: Transit Strike Segment

(D.A.M.N. Y.C. news) Defense Against Media Nonsense Youth Channel News is a youth made program that allows youth to have their voices heard under the format of news reporting. During the heated transit strike, mainstream media depicted the occurences of the strike in a somehwat bias way, both the youth a the youth channel show it from all sides. Their was interviews with supporters, those against and those in between, when i t comes to the transit strike in New York City. This is a very hot segment.

Watch this segment

April Show '06: N.Y.C. Youth Media Organizations Lineup

The Youth Channel highlights works from other non-profit organizations in New York City and their works in youth media. Young media makers make movies, we show them on the youth channel; Pretty simple right! This clip is to let the world know about their works and you can catch all their work as well as many others on the Youth Channel.

Watch this clip

April Show '06: Youth Film Festival Lineup Promo

The Youth Channel highlights some of the best works of young filmmakers from different film festivals around the city by airing them. This promo is about letting you know when to watch it and what day. There are a lot of great submissions... Don't miss out!

Watch thic clip

April Show '06: Raging Grannies Protest

In times of war, families are torn. Some are worried about their loved ones, others encourage the war to act as a "cleanser" of all "terrorism". A group of older women activists made it their personal business to protest against the United States government, and all of their efforts in recruiting young people to be sent out to war. These elderly women try to recruit themselves. They sang songs of angst, and marched valiantly to Times Square to have their voices heard. Check out the video produced by D.A.M.N. Y.C. News. .....also get more info and press coverage at NYC Grannies Against the War homepage

April Show '06: Taking it to the Streets promo

Taking it to the streets is a new youth channel show that dables in the issues that affect the youth activist community. It airs on channel 34, Mondays a 8:00 p.m., as well as on mnn.org on the web.
Watch the clip here!!

April Show '06: FAKE NEWS!!!!

click images to watch fake news clips.
learn more about this issue and the campaign to STOP fake news at: Free Press

Sinclair Terrorizes with ‘I-Porn’

Faux tech-expert Robin Raskin offers video games as the antidote to “scary” pornographic i-Pods. What Raskin doesn’t mention is that she’s on the payroll of the companies whose products she’s pushing.

Clear Channel Delivers a Placebo

Carrie Lazarus hails a dietary supplement as a “major health breakthrough” for arthritis sufferers. She fails to point out that the sponsor of the VNR manufactures the supplement, nor mention that it barely outperforms a placebo.

Fox Sweetens the Pitch

“Parenting expert” Julie Edelman advises viewers to throw a “Hide and Glow” scavenger hunt featuring brand-name M&M candies. What the station didn’t reveal is that it lifted the entire segment from a VNR co-funded by Masterfoods (formerly the M&M/Mars Company).

April Show '06: Stories From Wiretap...

Aborting Young Women's Rights

By Emily Olfson and David Simpkins, Children's PressLine. Posted April 6, 2006.

Students Defy Lockdowns, Continue Walkouts

Aura Bogado, The NewStandard. March 30, 2006.
News: For a fourth consecutive schoolday, high school students leave campuses to protest national anti-immigrant legislation.

Students Protest Anti-Immigrant Bill

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. March 29, 2006.
News: Thousands of high school students walked out of their schools this week to protest the anti-immigrant House bill.

April Show '06: Rally for Immigration Rights 4-10

*Rally for Immigrant Rights!*

Monday, April 10, 2006
Converge at Battery Park @ 3PM (until 7PM)
Get off on any Train near the South End of Manhattan

For more info check out:
http://la.indymedia.org
http://deletetheborder.org
http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org
http://democracynow.org/

March Show '06: April 1 - Walk With Immigrants

Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz,
RADIO VISION CRISTIANA CONLICO (Fraternity of Religious Leaders)
& The New York Hispanic Clergy Organization

Invite You To Come And Join Us At The Great Walk In Solidarity With Immigrants

And Against House Bill HR 4437
Which If Passed, Would Make Any Assistance Given To An Immigrant A Federal Crime

We Will Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge From The Brooklyn Side Towards The Immigration Building At 26 Federal Plaza

Saturday,
April 1st, 2006
At  11:00 AM

(Subway Lines 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall) For more information, please call:
Senator Ruben Diaz (718) 892-7513 or Radio Vision Cristiana (973) 881-1130

March Show '06: Youth Produced Newspaper, New Media Empowerment Kit, & LA Protests

Help Get IndyKids into the Queens Libraries!

SAVE THE DATE!
IndyKids Bake Sale
Support IndyKids and distribute papers!
Saturday, April 15 (rain date: April 16)
2:00-5:00pm
Union Square South (14th Street near Broadway)

For more information on IndyKids and to download the paper, go to www.indykids.net To order copies for your school call 212-592-0116, or write to IndyKids indykids@indymedia.org

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MEDIA EMPOWERMENT KIT
just released by Adbusters


Designed as a flexible teachers’ aid, the kit features 43 lesson ideas,
including personal challenges, group activities, discussion starters and
eye-opening readings. Lessons are divided into three areas: Explore Your
Mental Environment, Explore Your Physical Environment and Create Your Own
Meaning.

Each kit includes:
 
 a lesson binder with photocopy-friendly removable sleeves
 a DVD chock full of images and video clips
 five full-color posters
 Adbusters special media literacy issue: “The Game of Life”

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LA PROTESTS AGAINST ANTI-IMMIGRATION LAWS

Story About High School Walkout in Protest of Anti-Immigration Laws
check out photos and video - links on the left

other information on the proposed laws and Saturday's HUGE march in LA:
LA Indymedia
OpinionEditorials.com
Democracy Now!
Associated Press