Town meetings that include everybody High school students create and use their own media during their protest and meeting with officials of the Department of Surface Mining, Frankfort, Kentucky . Photo by Nic Paget-Clarke. Say, for example, you hold a public meeting and you ask people to get up and speak, a lot of people are going to be pretty shy about talking. But if you do your public event by television, it's a lot easier to phone in from your kitchen to give your view. The events include cultural celebrations with beautiful scenery so that you have positive mirroring about where you are.
Kids operate all the equipment.
Why could be for various reasons. But it seems to be what is happening. It's similar to the way that Appalshop uses radio. It depends on how relevant the issue is. One of the most relevant public discussions that I can remember was in the French district and they were having problems with their water supply.