Fact Up: Fact Checking and FOIA

Presentation: 
https://lowereastsidelibrarian.info/files/ncor2006.ppt
Co-presenter: 

Dena Marger

Event: 

National Conference on Organized Resistance 2006

Abstract: 

This workshop gives marginalized media some of the same tools available to their mainstream counterparts. Whether they use them effectively or not, corporate journalists have access to fact checkers and news libraries. FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act is a powerful tool that forces federal agencies to disclose requested records. Radical Reference librarians will teach attendees how to do access and report important information themselves. Radical Reference is a collective of volunteer library workers who believe in social justice and equality.