Debate

Tuesday Ryan-Hart – Change Through Conversation

A community activist from Columbus, Ohio explains how she helped organize face-to-face community conversations around health issues to help people get the information they need to find solutions to local health problems.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

AD Avila – American Immigrant

An artist and community activist from San Jose describes how he came out of the "undocumented closet," and the tools he is using to bring the reality of undocumented immigrants' lives to the attention of the larger community.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

Tim Erickson – Connecting During Crisis

A father from St. Paul, Minnesota explains how he turned to an online discussion forum to connect to his community, and how he learned the power of online forums to link people to information and to each other in times of crisis.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

Maureen Mann – The Forum

A New Hampshire state legislator tells how her initial move to a media-poor part of her state led her to create an online newspaper that turned her neighbors into journalists.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

Martin Macias, Jr. – Ambos Lados: Both Sides

A young Latino radio reporter and organizer from Chicago explains how he learned what it takes to really hear his own community.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

Gayla Benefield - Lessons of Libby, Montana

Now in her 60s, a community activist in Libby, Montana describes how her parents' deaths from asbestos-related disease led to her struggle to interest media in reporting on the health and safety issues related to the local vermiculite mine.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

The law professor who organized "Information Stories" explains how his media-rich youth led him to worry, as an adult, about the news and information needs of local communities.

See also: Information Stories Collection Description

http://informationstories.org

Weldon, Cameron, Fields, Gray.

Weldon, Cameron, Fields, Gray.

Weldon, Cameron, Fields, Gray.