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What Activists Are Saying About Living Media!

Your Living Media training program is inspired. it does something that the Center has advocated for a long time. I recommend with great enthusiasm your tape and training program to individuals traveling anywhere but especially in the non-western world.

Virginia Hadsell, Executive Director, North American Center for Responsible Tourism

Peter Wirth has produced an important resource to church groups and others who visit overseas and whose experience is important to other Americans. His tape Living Media will help leaders and group members as they prepare for their travel. I recommend that as groups are formed this tape becomes a central part of their planning and training. The low cost of the tape is well worth the expense and may be the best single expenditure that you make in terms of sharing your visit with folks at home.

J. Martin Bailey, Middle East Council of Churches, Ecumenical Travel Office Jerusalem, Israel

Thank you very much for introducing me to your excellent Living Media tape. Its user friendly style makes it very enjoyable and practical, and its step-by-step format enables individuals... to understand the basics necessary to obtain vital access to the media marketplace. The feedback we gathered from the Travel Seminar participants has been positive. A number of delegates began making linkages with their local media before leaving the US as a result of listening to the tape. Others made plans to write articles and schedule meetings. The tape has been pivotal in encouraging them to undertake such efforts early on.

Linda Gray MacKay, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee

In our recent school on the U.S.-Mexico border focusing on cross-border organizing work, we highlighted lessons from the tape and included it in our educational materials. I've already heard back from numerous participants about how they used these guidelines in thinking about and conducting radio and newspaper interviews upon their return from the school.

Mary Mc Ginn, Labor Notes

I found the tape extremely interesting and filled with useful information. I will be happy to recommend this innovative program to other members of the Association of Third World Studies.

Zia Hashmi, Executive Director, Association of Third World Studies

I was very impressed with the Living Media tape. It was interesting, well organized and filled with practical and useful information. I have been to Nicaragua eight times and have never really been able to utilize the media effectively to spread the message when I returned home. I wish I had been able to hear the cassette before, not after, I started my solidarity work.

Arnold H. Matlin, MD

The audio tape is great. It fills a real niche.

Janet Green, American Council for Voluntary International Action

I secured copies of the Living Media tape for each member of our group from the West Ohio Conference visiting Cuba in November. They all found them helpful, and several made arrangements to have articles published as a result of this. I would encourage anyone leading a group to visit a Third World country to supply your cassette to each participant ahead of time.

Chester Chambers, Delegation Coord., West Ohio Conf., United Methodist Church

I congratulate GW Associates on the quality of the educational material it has developed. The information is clear, concise and very useful. The format is wonderful. I especially like the usage of former delegates and the practical, chronological approach towards training people to gain media coverage.

Claudette Werleigh, Executive Director, Washington Office on Haiti