Media Activism

CA, San Diego: A Senseless Death

Chip — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:19:34 -0400

Start: 07/08/2009 - 6:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The screening of A SENSELESS DEATH at the San Diego Public Library

A Discussion with Local Activist Fernando Suarez Del Solar Follows the Film

SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Public Library will host a screening of A Senseless Death. This new film by Raymonde Provencher tells the little known story of "green card soldiers"-young, non-citizen soldiers and Marines struggling to achieve, the so-called, "American Dream"-who were among the first casualties of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The screening will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8 in the 3rd floor auditorium of the Central Library, located at 820 E Street in downtown San Diego. This free event is open to the public.

Among the first fallen were two young Latin Americans--José Antonio Gutierrez from Guatemala and Jesús Suarez del Solar, who was born in Mexico and raised near San Diego. Both would lose their lives in an unpopular war. Fernando Suarez Del Solar, Jesús' father, would become an outspoken critic of the war and a dedicated activist opposed to the militarization of Latino youth.

A discussion with Mr. Suarez will follow the screening of this moving documentary which combines the hot button issues of immigration and war in 21st century America.

CONTACT. Marc Chery 619-236-5816

Learn about other events at the San Diego Public Library's Central Library and 35 branches, find links to numerous additional resources, or search for materials in the Library's catalog online.

WI, Madison: Dave Zirin With Howard Zinn

Chip — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:51:47 -0400

Start: 05/02/2009 - 2:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Dave Zirin will interview his hero, the historian Howard Zinn, on stage in Madison, Wisc on May 2nd.

If you live in the Midwest, please stop through!

CA, Orange: "Global Economic Crisis & The New World Order"

Chip — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:19:14 -0400

Start: 04/25/2009 - 10:00am

End: 04/25/2009 - 12:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Seating is very limited so please promptly RSVP to info@ocpeace.org or leave a message for Ms. Trang re your attending the talk at (714) 637-8313.

CA, LA: "Local Media For Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit"

Chip — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:43:43 -0400

Start: 03/21/2009 - 11:00am

End: 03/21/2009 - 5:15pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

If you are concerned that our democracy and your community are being under-served by the state of today's media, then you should join us for this informative half-day summit.

Saturday, March 21, 2009
11:00am to 5:15pm, with reception to follow
Occidental College in Los Angeles, CA
Mosher Auditorium in the Norris Hall of Chemistry
Metro bus line 68/84 (stop: Westdale)

The program is in the works, but here is a taste of what we are working on:

Keynote Speaker:

Dominique DiPrima is host of the early morning talk radio show The Front Page on Los Angeles radio station KJLH 102.3-FM. Ms. DiPrima is also producer of the program.

Ms. DiPrima spent three years as a co-host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show on KKBT-FM, and in limited syndication. She served as one of “Harvey’s Angels” interviewing celebrities, and providing fuel for Harvey’s humor. In addition she was the News Director/Anchor for the show. Dominique is a talk radio veteran, with a stint as Host and Producer of her own talk show Street Science with Dominique DiPrima for almost nine years on 100.3-FM The Beat. Street Science with Dominique DiPrima tackled topics of relevance to the Beat’s primarily African American and Latino 18-35 year-old audience. She also served as Community Action Director at the Beat, building the department into an unprecedented large activist arm of the radio station, and working closely with grassroots community organizations. Street Science… earned Dominique an L.A. Weekly “Best of L.A.” award, and a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television among many others.

Panel Discussions

• How do local media help or hurt our communities?
• How can we participate in media to affect local social change?

Panelists

Brad Friedman, BradBlog.com
Linda Milazzo, Widely published journalist and teacher
Anthony Samad, Syndicated columnist- Black Commentator, LA Progressive
Mario Solis-Marich, The Mario Solis-Marich Show KTLK AM1150

Moderated by Tanya Acker, Political Analyst (CNN, MSNBC, FOX)

Sample Breakout Sessions:

- Citizen journalism/Internet: You Be the News or U B the News
- Using Social Networking to get your message out
- Not being heard? Start your own story
- Breaking the Digital Divide: Internet for Everyone
- Saving LA Public Access
- Indigenous Media

• Gain and share knowledge/experience
• Network with local activists
• Learn how today's media environment affects what we know -- and what we don't
• Get tips on how to make your message heard
• Find out ways to bring about change.

Tickets are $15 in advance / $20 at the door / $10 for students (with valid ID) and youth (18 and under). If you register online in advance and pay at the door, the cost will be the $15 advance price.

Free for Occidental College students, faculty and staff.

MA, Andover: Critical Issues Facing News Media Conference

Chip — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:47:23 -0500

Start: 03/07/2009 - 12:00am

End: 03/08/2009 - 4:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

CRITICAL ISSUES FACING NEWS MEDIA

SUBJECT OF CONFERENCE MARCH 7-8

Critical issues facing the news media will be the subject of a two-day conference opening March 7 that will draw top authorities to the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover .

Five Pulitzer Prize winners as well as the directors of several media foundations will be among the presenters to discuss, “Full Court Press: Facing and Fixing Media Problems.”

“As well as undergoing transformative changes in technology that are shaking up the news industry as never before, journalists are being challenged to gather and report the news accurately from hazardous battlefields in the Middle East to the offices of Washington bureaucrats bent on classifying everything as secret. The journalists are not doing well,” said Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover and conference convener.

Among the topics covered will be “Decline in Print News Media Competence,” “The Inadequacy of Electronic Media,” “Ideology and Government Financing of Media,” “Media Gullibility Covering the War in Iraq and the War on Terror,” “Are The News Media Reluctant To Admit Mistakes?” “Satire and News Reporting,” “Universities, Philanthropies, and Media Owners,” and “Can The Internet Be a Corrective For News Media Ills?”

Participants include: Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation, Harvard University; Karen Dunlap, president of The Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Robert Rosenthal, executive director of the Center for Investigative Reporting; Jon Sawyer, director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; Paul Hitlin, content supervisor for the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism; Louis Freedberg, director of the California Media Collaborative; and Lou Ureneck, chair of the Boston University Department of Journalism; John Walcott, Washington Bureau chief of McClatchey papers; and Robert Ferrante, former executive producer of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition."

Pulitzer Prize winners presenting will include Tyler Marshall, co-author of the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism study “The Changing Newsroom”; former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges; Art Howe, chief executive of Verve Wireless; best-selling author David Cay Johnston; and Michael Parks, until recently director of the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communications.

The conference begins at 8 a.m. Saturday, March 7 and concludes at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8. Attendance is open to the public by reservation only. The admission fee is $36, which includes all sessions and breakfast and lunch on both days. Students will be able to attend at a 50% discount. Those who wish to attend can reserve by phoning/e-mailing MSLAW Assistant to the Dean Rosa Figueiredo at (978) 681-0800, ext. 113 or rosa@mslaw.edu.

Rooms have been reserved by the law school at a discounted rate at the nearby Wyndham Andover hotel.

The Massachusetts School of Law (MSLAW) is located in Andover, Massachusetts. Its mission is to make practical, affordable, high quality legal education, and resulting social and economic mobility, available to capable but less privileged persons who have been traditionally excluded from the legal profession. #

(Further Information: Sherwood Ross, media consultant to the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, at sherwoodr1@yahoo.com; phone 305-205-8281.)

ROSS ASSOCIATES, SUITE 403, 102 S.W. 6TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33130

DC: Energy Efficiency: Complementary Polices for Climate Legislation

Chip — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:23:50 -0500

Start: 02/24/2009 - 9:30am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on
Energy Efficiency: Complementary Polices for Climate Legislation

WASHINGTON, DC The Committee on Energy and Commerce will hold a hearing titled, Energy Efficiency: Complementary Polices for Climate Legislation on Tuesday, February 24, 2009, in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. As Congress crafts comprehensive climate and energy legislation, it is critical to understand the vital role of energy efficiency in achieving climate change and energy policy objectives. This hearing will explore energy efficiency policies that could be incorporated into climate and energy legislation.

INVITED WITNESSES:

Hon. Philip Giudice, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources
Tom King, President, National Grid USA
Rich Wells, Vice President, Energy, The Dow Chemical Corporation
Iain Campbell, Vice President and General Manager, Johnson Controls Inc.
John A. Anderson, President, Electricity Consumers Resource Council

WHEN: 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, February 24

WHERE: 2322 Rayburn House Office Building

** The hearing will be audio webcast at www.energycommerce.house.gov.

"Thinking Big, Thinking Forward" Conference

Chip — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:23:15 -0500

Start: 02/11/2009 - 8:30am

End: 02/11/2009 - 4:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

As Barack Obama takes office, our first priority is to help him revive the economy. But we also have to get America thinking even bigger, and thinking forward about a long-term strategy for prosperity that is sustainable. Please join us on Wednesday, February 11 to move that agenda forward.

The post-bubble economic crisis has led most Americans to reject the conservative mantra that "government is the problem." Today we are demanding that Congress pass a bold economic recovery plan that can spur growth and create jobs. But if we succeed, our job will have just begun. If we don’t want to return to another cycle of speculative bubbles followed by disastrous busts, we need to come up with a bold strategy for sustainable 21st century prosperity.

Please join Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman and other experts and leaders on February 11 for Thinking Big/Thinking Forward: A Conference on America's Economic Future, co-sponsored by The American Prospect, Demos, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Institute for America's Future.

Click here to RSVP for the free event: "Thinking Big, Thinking Forward." This high-visibility conference will go beyond the conventional wisdom about the post-recession economy. And it will challenge the conservative campaign gearing up to demand austerity—and painful cuts to Medicare and Social Security—after the economy recovers.

Instead, we will discuss a new model of renewable economic growth spurred by public investment in clean energy, health care for all, affordable education, and a new 21st-century infrastructure. After years of conservative failure, we need to think as big as the times require in order to seize these opportunities to make us more productive.

Please join us on February 11 for "Thinking Big, Thinking Forward: A Conference on America's Economic Future."

WHAT
"Thinking Big, Thinking Forward: A Conference on America's Economic Future"

WHEN
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
8:30 A.M. to 4:30 P.M.

WHERE
Capital Hilton Hotel
1001 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036

WHO
Sponsored by
The American Prospect
Demos
Economic Policy Institute
Institute for America's Future

Featured speakers include:
Paul Krugman, Princeton University
Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect and Demos
Mark Schmitt, The American Prospect
Robert Borosage, Institute for America’s Future
Miles Rapoport, Demos
Tamara Draut, Demos
Larry Mishel, Economic Policy Institute
*Vice President Joe Biden
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers
Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change
Jeff Madrick, Challenge Magazine and The New School
Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
Janet Gornick, City University of New York
Karen Kornbluh, New America Foundation and Office of the President-elect
Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
Jacob Hacker, University of California, Berkeley
Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California
Ellen Bravo, University of Wisconsin

*invited

http://ga3.org/ct/U1_BpQp1KSk5/>Click here to RSVP for "Thinking Big, Thinking Forward." The event is free but space is limited, so don’t hesitate and reserve your place today.

Join us as we discuss the "New Deal Moment" that we must seize. Be there as we determine how we revitalize our infrastructure, create the clean energy economy, invest in people to build a "High-Wage America" and tackle the political resistance to real change.

As Robert Kuttner recently wrote in American Prospect, "expanded public spending needs to be seen as an eight-year project to restore effective government to a valued role in the economy."

Washington won't think that big unless we think big first. Click here to RSVP, and on Feb. 11th, we will come together to do just that.

Sincerely,

Robert Borosage, Co-Director, Institute for America's Future

Robert Kuttner, Co-Founder & Co-Editor, The American Prospect Senior Fellow, Dçmos

Lawrence Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute

Miles Rapoport, President, Demos

Mark Weaver on Florida Progressive Talk Radio

Chip — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:39:01 -0400

Start: 07/11/2008 - 12:00am

End: 12/31/2008 - 11:59pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Blog Talk Radio Presents
Florida Progressive Radio: The Mark Weaver Show

Probably the most important show Mark Weaver has done since going on the air September 15th, 2007.

Special guest will be Carah Ong, Iran policy analyst with the Center for Arms Control and Proliferation in Washington, D.C., discussing the imminent passage of neocon House Con. Resolution 362.

Also, Stanford Professor Martin Carnoy on the best performing education system in Latin America -- Cuba's.

Tune in weekly; download the podcasts! Programs are archived for your listening convenience!

Mock Trial Of Karl Rove To Be Held At Virginia Beach Town Center Fountain

ChrisIXXIVeritas@aol.com — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:07:26 -0400

Start: 07/18/2008 - 10:30am

End: 07/18/2008 - 2:40pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

We will be reading from a script, to making this quick simple and entertaining.

invitation go out for all to participate in this street theater.

The more the merrier!

First rehearsal Friday evening at the studio for the healing arts.

Let's plan a mock trial to convene while Thelma and Karl are at lunch in Ruth Chris's!

My Dear Friends,

as you see there looks to be at least three basic character acting parts

Judge, Jury, and Bailiff,

We would like to have a chorus of jurors pronouncing the verdict,

and different Bailiffs actors pronouncing the charges.

if we stick to a script, we can have as many participants we want.

I would say as few as six parts characters can pull off a short effective demonstration.

Limits on how many characters needed to participate?:

Judge: minimum of one,

bailiff: minimum of one, or one bailiff for every charge pronounced

Jurors: limitless, minimum of three

(reading of the verdict can be preformed by 'walk-on's' wanting to participate.)

Scripts will be available on request.

Congresswoman

Thelma Drake

With Special Guest

Karl Rove

Former Senior Advisor and

Deputy Chief of Staff to the President

Friday, July 18, 2008

11:15 a.m. Roundtable discussion & Photo-Op with Karl Rove

12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Luncheon. Karl Rove remarks followed by Q & A

Ruth's Chris Steak House

205 Central Park Ave.

Virginia Beach 23462

(Town Center area off of Independence Blvd.)

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Fountains at Town Center/ Va Beach
222 Central Park Ave, Virginia Beach, VA 23462
Right in front of Ruth Crist's and Funny Bone. Across street from California Pizza Kitchen.

Directions:

From North or South
- Take Interstate 64 to I-264.
- Take Interstate-264 East/Va Beach.
- Take Independence Blvd/Pembroke Area/Exit #17B (North).
- Take a RIGHT onto Columbus Street.
- Take a LEFT onto Town Center Drive.
- Takle a LEFT onto Main Street.
Fountain will be located at the end of Main Street.

There are several FREE Parking Garages and lots in the area.

Click here for

Town Center - Va Beach

Click on map to enlarge

Click here for aerial view

DC: Panel on Secret Surveillance featuring Pulitzer Prize Winner Eric Lichtblau

Chip — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:37:33 -0400

Start: 05/12/2008 - 9:00am

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Jessalyn Radack's latest column: The Justice Department's Litigation Security Group and Its Ethics Violations in the Al-Haramain Case
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20080508_radack.html

Ms. Radack's stunning article conclusion reminds us of the standard between legitimate and abusive government inquiry: "In sum, there are well-established and fairer procedures that could have been used in the Al-Haramain case. Yet the U.S government decided not to use them. The fact that this is a state-secrets case is no excuse. The state secrets privilege is supposed to protect national security, not serve as an end-run around basic legal ethics that undermines the integrity of the legal process."

On Monday morning, as part of Whistleblower Week in Washington, Radack is moderating a panel on secret surveillance featuring Eric Lichtblau, who won the Pulitizer Prize for breaking the story.

Phone: 202-546-3732

Media Activism

CA, San Diego: A Senseless Death

WI, Madison: Dave Zirin With Howard Zinn

CA, Orange: "Global Economic Crisis & The New World Order"

CA, LA: "Local Media For Social Change: A Southern California Regional Summit"

MA, Andover: Critical Issues Facing News Media Conference

DC: Energy Efficiency: Complementary Polices for Climate Legislation

"Thinking Big, Thinking Forward" Conference

Mark Weaver on Florida Progressive Talk Radio

Mock Trial Of Karl Rove To Be Held At Virginia Beach Town Center Fountain

DC: Panel on Secret Surveillance featuring Pulitzer Prize Winner Eric Lichtblau

DC: Energy Efficiency: Complementary Polices for Climate Legislation