North East

Phew. V-Media had a long week traveling to each of the town hall meetings in the North East, Roxborough and at Ben Franklin High School. That's 6 for 6! We also presented two workshops at the United Way Youth Development Conference 2008 on "Youth, Media and Identity" and "Connecting through Spoken Word" and interviewed a lot of young people there about how the budget cuts are affecting them. We are in the process of editing and uploading all the great footage we got, so stay tuned for more entries. For this episode, Mosi Blaylock reports on the North East:

This was my second town hall meeting; my first was at the School of the Future. It was interesting how each of the town meetings were different from each other. For example, at the School of the Future, the crowd was more focused on the libraries and asking the mayor about how he made the decisions. The crowd at the School of the Future was also more diverse: people from the community, people from City Hall and people from other communities that were just concerned about the issues. At the North East meeting, the support was mostly coming from people from that local community and the majority of their questions were geared towards firehouses.

Here are two questions about libraries from the North East that we thought were interesting.

Will BookMobiles replace our libraries?




A teacher's view on libraries:





Again, check back soon for some really interesting interview footage.