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A Media-based Economy for Detroit's Future

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Participants: Aurora Harris, Broadside Press; Ron Scott, For My People; Khary Frazier, The Michigan Citizen; Shea Howell, The Michigan Citizen; Zak Rosen, Detroit Today; Oya Amakisi, Amakisi Unlimited; Arvell Jones and Desmond Jones, Encode Media; Nkenge Zola, U of D Mercy Digital Media Studies Department
Facilitator: Lottie Spady, Free D Media

Jennifer Granholm has earmarked millions of dollars for her "21st century jobs" initiative. Detroit is home to hundreds of independent recording studios based out of peoples basements, garages and bathrooms. Free D media (In Our Own Backyard) has instituted a program to offer media-based cooperative economics skills to displaced workers in Detroit. Motown Records was started with an $800 loan from the Gordy family "co-op"in a house on W. Grand Blvd! What kind of economic future for Detroit can we advance through independent media?

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