Houston, Texas

Check out photos and a report from our event in Houston on the Houston Indymedia page.
The day began with a Houston media convergence, bringing togetehr media activists from across the city for a day of strategy and networking, as well as a workshop by Hadassah from $pread Magazine. The day was organized by Tish Stringer, another of the several radical moms that organized events on this tour.

Houston Indymedia activist RoBlock introduced the evening event with a quick lesson in posting to indymedia, which was followed by asking a volunteer from the audience to post a report from the evening's event. The event featured films about Galveston after Hurricane Ike by Brian Parras from TEJAS and performance and a talk by Zinn of SOS Broadcast.

San Antonio, Texas

We were so honored to be hosted by the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, an incredible space and organizing center that was initiated two decades ago by radical queer women of color. The folks at Esperanza shared with us their work convening the San Antonio Free Speech Coalition, which began when, on November 29, 2007, the City of San Antonio passed an ordinance that puts a price on free speech and their right to march in the streets.

New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans hosted perhaps the biggest and most exciting event of the tour. About 70 people came through the Seventh Ward Neighborhood Center, in this event hosted by the New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival and Mondo Bizarro. The spectacular youth media collective 2-Cent was there to show and talk about some of their work, as well as the Central City I-Witness project and acoustic soul roots music from amazing musician GaBrilla Ballard.

Pensacola, Florida

Thanks to amazing grassroots activist and mom Lauren Anzaldo who hosted the tour in Pensacola ad set up an amazing schedule, including a workshop at University of Western Florida and an event with the grassroots civil rights organization the Movement for Change, who hosted us at the Center for Social Justice.

Gainesville, Florida

In Gainesville, we were hosted by the Civic Media Center, and met with the students who had started a new progressive publication called The Fine Print.

Miami, Florida

In Miami, we had a spectacular event hosted by the Miami Workers Center, as well as workshops by Alexis and Puck and a party hosted by the Black Mangrove Collective.

We also took a social justice tour of Miami, hosted by Joseph from the Miami Workers Center. Among the highlights of the entire visit was our meeting with Max Rameau from Take Back the Land, who told of us their exciting work, a campaign of identifying vacant government owned or foreclosed homes and moving families into those locations, providing housing for otherwise homeless families.

Valdosta, Georgia

At Valdosta, we were hosted at Hildegard's, an important and beautiful community space, and at a Race Class and Gender class at the university there.

We also had a civil rights tour of Valdosta by Reverend Rose. To learn more of the underground history of Valdosta, check out this video, and these websites: winnersville.net and maryturner.org