Register NOW for the Media Education Summit of the Year!

For Immediate Release
Monday, February 13, 2006

Register NOW for the Media Education Summit of the Year!

"Facing The Media Crisis: Media Education for Reform, Justice and Democracy"
October 6-8, 2006: Burlington, Vermont
The Wyndham Lakefront Hotel and Champlain College

We are capping Summit registrations at 500 attendees. Register NOW to ensure a place for you at the Summit, and:

Receive valuable resources:

Early Bird registrants will receive FREE Multi-Media Education Resources - a $250-$350 value! (See list, below).

Dialogue with our courageous and compelling Summit keynote and plenary speakers:

U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Sanders, Sut Jhally, Jean Kilbourne, Bill McKibben, Robert McChesney, Diane Wilson and more than one dozen other prominent media educators and citizen/activists!

Submit a workshop proposal of your own! Teach others about your media education work!

For more information about the Summit, including speakers, workshop proposals, and registration, please visit http://www.acmecoalition.org

Registration details below:

Full registration includes continental breakfasts, lunches, ACME Friday night reception, ACME Sunday night celebration, and access to all keynotes, plenaries and workshops throughout the weekend October 6-8, 2006 in Burlington, VT.

Early Bird Registration prices are only available between February 13 and June 25, 2006.

Starting June 26, 2006, the prices will return to Regular Registration prices.

Individual tickets are available for Friday or Sunday Nights' events (does not include any other events or summit registration) for $25 each, non-refundable. For fast and easy registration (or ticket purchase), please visit http://www.acteva.com/go/ACME2006where you can pay by credit card and receive confirmation.

To register print form by mail, fax or purchase order, an additional $5 processing fee will be added to the total registration. To register by mail, go to http://www.acmecoalition.orgfor printable form and information.

ACME Membership ID number are necessary to access ACME Member Registration fee. ACME membership is included in the Non-Member Registration fee.

For more information, please contact ACME board member and membership director Veda Renfrow at

FREE ACME SUMMIT RESOURCES PROVIDED TO EARLY BIRD REGISTRANTS, AS FOLLOWS:

The first 20 ACME Summit registrants will receive a FREE copy of ACME Summit keynoter Diane Wilson's new book An Unreasonable Woman.

The next 60 ACME Summit registrants will receive a FREE TV-B-Gone remote control device.

The next 100 ACME Summit registrants will receive a FREE copy of MemeFILMS' "Making Youth Media That Matters In Minutes" DVD.

The first 300 ACME Summit registrants will receive a FREE copy of CCTV's "National Media Reform Conference 2005" DVD.

All ACME Summit Early Bird registrants will receive a FREE copy of the new NMMLP CD-ROM "The Media and the Medium," containing more than 200 printable pages of lessons plans and more than 65 media examples for use with students of all ages.

All ACME Early Bird registrants will receive, for FREE, ACME's trademark "Media Buy The People" bumper sticker and "What the FCC?" button.

PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ACME SUMMIT PARTNERS AND CO-SPONSORS:

ACME, Boston chapter at http://www.acmeboston.org
ACME, Vermont chapter at http://www.acmevermont.org
Champlain College at http://www.champlain.edu
Chelsea Green Press at http://www.chelseagreen.com
CCTV/Center for Media and Democracy at http://www.cctv.org/index.htm
Media Education Foundation at http://www.mediaed.org
MemeFILMS at http://www.memefilms.org
The New Mexico Media Literacy Project at http://www.nmmlp.org
TV-B-Gone at http://www.tvbgone.com

Brought to you by the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME at www.acmecoalition.org)