The Nation's West Coast Youth Journalism Conference

Ooooh. Check this out. A Youth Journalism conference at UCLA sponsored by The Nation magazine and Campus Progress. Saturday, January 26, 2008 9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

I wonder how loosely we can define "youth". I'm young for my age.

An interesting list of speakers. Maybe if I wear a hat, and make sure my tattoo is showing...

• Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, and author of the international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
  
• Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher, The Nation
  
• Robert Scheer, nationally syndicated columnist, founding editor of TruthDig
  
• Patricia Williams, Nation columnist, author, professor of law at Columbia University
  
• Tom Hayden, author, activist, former California state legislator
  
• Marc Cooper, author, Nation contributing editor
  
• Abigail Goldman, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Los Angeles Times
  
• Kristina Rizga, editor and publisher of WireTap magazine
  
• Richard Kim, senior editor, The Nation