The Ann Arbor News, our local paper, will cease publication this summer, to be replaced with AnnArbor.com
What will this mean for groups like ICPJ?
Here are a few thoughts.
It will be easier to get a message out. For a long time progressives have complained about the stranglehold of big corporate media. Now that media is dying as citizen media grows. We have more access to get our message out.
It will be harder to get anyone to pay attention to our message. It used to be that between the local paper and the local TV news, most people were plugged in to a few sources of news, and if they covered you, you would have told everyone who needed telling. Now, with the profusion of blogs, YouTube channels, Twitter feeds, you need to be covered in more sources to reach the same size audience.
We will host an in-person discussion on this on Monday, April 27 at 6:00 p.m. at Memorial Christian Church, 730 Tappan, Ann Arbor.
Share your thoughts below and join us to discuss this issue.
Thank you for joining us to celebrate peace and to raise funds for ICPJ at the Peace All-Stars Concert! Not only did we enjoy a fabulous line-up of performers, but we surpassed our fundraising goal thanks to you!
Congratulations to the winners of our Concert Gift Basket Drawing: Ava Goff, Laura Raynor, Pete Held, and Keely Kaleski!
And a great big thank you to…
La’Ron Williams for bringing this talented group together and hosting an amazing evening of entertainment
All of the performers for donating their time and incredible talents!
First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor
The hard-working, committed volunteers who made the concert possible
Zingermans & Great Harvest Bread Co. for providing desserts for the reception
Sava’s State Street Cafe for donating gift certificates for the gift baskets
And Ten Thousand Villages for donating gift certificates for 300 guests!
“Ernesto Cardenal is a major epic-historical poet, in the grand lineage of Central American prophet Rubén Darío.” —Allen Ginsberg
Rev. Ernesto Cardenal will read from his new book, Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems on Wednesday, April 15 at 7 PM at the U-M Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery – Room 100.
Rev. Ernesto Cardenal was born in 1925 in Granada, Nicaragua. Revolutionary activist, disciple of omas Merton, Roman Catholic priest, founder of the contemplative commune Our Lady of Solentiname, ambassador for the Sandinistas, Minister of Culture in post-Somoza Nicaragua, andco-founder of the international cultural center House of Three Worlds, Cardenal, on his eightieth birthday, was given the nation’s highest cultural honor, the Order of Ruben Darío, by President Enrique Bolaños in 2005. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. Download the flier.
