January 30 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion presented by De Paul No-Sodexho campaign at GRRL House
January 2001
Beyondmedia documents the 1st National Meeting of the Young Adult Task Force for the American Association of People with Disabilties, and interviews 13-year-old activist Nura Aly
21 February 2001 What We Leave Behind screening and discussion at Northwestern University sponsored by the Prison Moratorium Project, Women's Coalition, and Amnesty International
3 March 2001
What We Leave Behind screens at a Critical Resistance East fundraiser in NYC. No speakers from CLAIM or Beyondmedia.
10 March 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and workshop for International Women's Day at Harold Washington College
10 March 2001
Beyondmedia goes to the Critical Resistance East conference on prisons in New York City for What We Leave Behind screening and distribution
16 March 2001
What We Leave Behind screening at Women in the Director's Chair 20th Annual International Film and Video Festival
20 March 2001
What We Leave Behind screening at Loyola University, north campus
30 March 2001
What We Leave Behind screening at the Annual Meeting of the School Social Workers for the Chicago Public Schools
March-April 2001
Beyondmedia travels to Moscow and Ukraine to produce Kesher Diary
March-April 2001
Beyondmedia travels to Moscow and Ukraine to produce Kesher Diary
17 April 2001
The National Disabled Students Union joined with disabled students across the nation in a simultaneous "Leave Out for Equal Justice" protest against the Supreme Court's pattern of weakening civil rights protections. Beyondmedia Education documents the all-day event for Girls Action Media
20 April 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion for Urban Plunge at Kolbe House
25 April 2001
First meeting of the Horizons/Beyondmedia Young Women's Media Workshop for Girls Action Media
28 April 2001
What We Leave Behind wins a Gold Award at the Houston Worldfest
30 April 2001
What We Leave Behind screening at University of Chicago's Office of Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP). This was part of a month-long series of events for Rape Prevention Month (April) on the subject of violence against women
3 May 2001
Beyondmedia Education screens our footage gathered at the recent Project Kesher's Young Women's Leadership Seminar in Moscow, at the Women's Exchange USA 2001. The seminar brought girls from across the US and the former Soviet Union together for a first-ever meeting of Project Kesher's young women leaders
11 May 2001
Beyondmedia Education documents the Mother's Day Rally at the Thompson Center, organized by Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers (CLAIM)
14 May 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion with students from the Student Prison Project at Mundelein High School
16 May 2001
Beyondmedia Education holds 3 media workshops with girls ages 8-18 at Alternatives' Career Night at Loyola University
25 May 2001
What We Leave Behind screening at the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Video Festival at Roxie Cinema in San Francisco
3 June 2001
What We Leave Behind screening with discussion at Unitarian Church of Evanston
5 July 2001
What We Leave Behind screening at "Inside & Out: Witnessing Prison in America" as part of Antioch College's Documentary Institute 2001 in Yellow Springs, Ohio
19 July 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion at Jenner and Block, One IBM Plaza 40th floor, to benefit CLAIM
16-19 August 2001
What We Leave Behind at Ladyfest Midwest Chicago. See www.ladyfestmidwest.org for more info.
18 September 2001
Alternatives' Girl World Media Workshop is launched
20 September 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion at Northwestern Law School clinic class.
12 October 2001
Beyondmedia Education presents on violence against women and girls and the media, at the "Sticks & Stones" conference at the YWCA of Metropolitan Chicago, 180 N. Wabash, 10:3011:30am.
12 October 2001
What We Leave Behind screens at a workshop entitled "The effects of incarceration on family and community" at Sharing a Vision: Expanding the Possibilities - The 7th Illinois Statewide Collaborative Early Childhood Conference Crowne Plaza Hotel, 3000 South Dirksen Parkway Springfield, Illinois 62703
18 October 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion at Ann Russo's Chicago Women's Activism class at DePaul University
26 October 2001
Beyondmedia Education Open House Info Café at our office,
6960 N. Sheridan Road, Store B, 5-8pm
14 November 2001
Beyondmedia Education addresses a class on "Media Activism" at Northeastern Illinois University
26 November 2001
What We Leave Behind is broadcast on DCTV at 8pm
30 November 2001
Beyondmedia Education addresses the Chicago Headline Club for journalists about our grassroots media activism, in a Brown Bag Lunch at the Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave, 20th floor dining room, noon to 1pm.
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13 December 2001
What We Leave Behind screening and discussion at Women in Community Service and the Sheriff's Female Furlough Program
December 2001
The Community Panels for Youth video screening at the annual CPY dinner at Northwestern University.
