Project Censored Events
Dr. Phillips in Ventura County
WHEN: Fri, January 9th, 2009 - 7:30 pm
Project Censored Director, Dr. Peter Phillips, will speak about “The New American Censorship” at 7:30 pm, Friday, January 9, 2009 at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3327 Old Conejo Road, Newbury Park
Dr. Phillips and Project Censored have published the 2009 edition of Censored: The News That Didn’t Make The News documenting the 25 biggest news stories ignored, misrepresented, underreported or censored by the mainstream media in 2008. This year’s top stories include real news from Iraq, behind the scenes plans for the Security and Prosperity Partnership (“NAFTA on steroids”), U.S. militarization of Latin America, an Executive Order to seize protestors’ assets, and the Act to route out “Homegrown Terrorism.”
Project Censored is a media research program based at Sonoma State University where Dr. Phillips is Professor of Sociology. A partnership of 200 faculty, students and community members conducts research and participates in writing the annual yearbook. This project has trained over 1500 students in investigative research, first Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the U.S.
After review for reliability of sources, content and national significance, 25 censored 2008 news stories were selected from nearly 1000 submitted by journalists, scholars, librarians and concerned citizens. The university community selected the 25 submitted to Project Censored and a panel of judges ranked them in importance. Current or previous judges have included: Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, Frances Moore Lappe, Michael Parenti, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn.
It is noted on http://www.projectcensored.org that Walter Cronkite stated: “Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasts are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.”
This event is cosponsored by Global Exchange Ventura County Supporters and Community Forum of the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. There will be a suggested donation of $5 to cover costs, but no one will be turned away. The Fellowship’s building at 3327 Old Conejo Road is located a short distance from the Wendy Drive exit from the 101 freeway. Enter at Ruth Drive.
For information contact Joanie McClellan at 805-241-8855, e-mail .
If you are interested in interviewing Dr. Phillips please email Steve Miller at or you may call him at 805-208-3865.
Ventura County Supporters:
Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, COMMUNITY FORUM and GLOBAL EXCHANGE
Dr. Phillips in San Diego
WHEN: Tue, January 6th, 2009 - 7:00 pm
“The New American Censorship”
A Talk by Peter Phillips
Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University,
Director, Project Censored
San Diego: Tuesday Jan 6, 2009— 7:00 PM
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego 92103
(opposite UCSD Medical Center)
$5-10 Donation requested - for info: 858-459-4650
Sponsor: Peace & Democracy Action Group of the First Unitarian
Universalist Church
Dr. Phillips in Venice, CA
WHEN: Sun, January 4th, 2009 - 2:00 pm
“The New American Censorship”
A Talk by Peter Phillips
Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University,
Director Project Censored
Sunday, January 4, 2009— 2:00 PM
Venice United Methodist Church
Peace & Justice Hall
2210 Lincoln Blvd., Venice 90291
(Corner of Lincoln & Victoria)
Music by Stephen Longfellow Fiske
$5 Donation at the Door
For More Information contact Frank Dorrel: 310-838-8131
Email:
ANTONIA JUHASZ
WHEN: Thu, December 11th, 2008 - 7:00 pm
THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED UNTIL SPRING 2009
SSU: Policy Analyst Antonia Juhasz Presents The Tyranny of Oil
Leading oil industry expert and critic, Antonia Juhasz will be at Sonoma State, December 11, to discuss her most recent work The Tyranny of Oil: the World’s Most Powerful Industry, and What We Must Do To Stop It. The book is described as “A riveting read with a bold blueprint for ending the madness,” by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s former EPA Secretary, Terry Tamminen.
Juhasz, who specializes in international trade and finance policy, holds a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University. She served as Legislative Assistant to two United States Members of Congress, and has over a dozen years of work in the field. She was project director of the International Forum on Globalization in San Francisco, is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies and Foreign Policy in Focus, and a fellow at Oil Change International.
Previous notable publications include The Bush Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time in 2006, Alternatives to Economic Globalization: a Better World Is Possible, and the article “Ambitions of Empire: the Radical Reconstruction of Iraq’s Economy” for which she received the 2004 Project Censored award. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, on Democracy Now!, NPR and others.
Juhasz provides the hardest-hitting exposé of the oil industry in decades, answering today’s most pressing energy questions: Why are oil and gasoline prices so unstable? Who’s really controlling those prices? How much oil is left? How far will Big Oil go to get it? And at what cost to the economy, environment, human rights, worker safety, public health, democracy, and America’s place in the world?
Lecture begins at 7 PM
Darwin 103
Series host: Prof. Mickey Huff
Tickets: $10 ($5 online at http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures)
Free for staff and students
MATT ROTHSCHILD
WHEN: Thu, December 4th, 2008 - 7:00 pm
JOURNALIST MATT ROTHSCHILD DISCUSSES THE LEGALIZING OF THE PRIVATE SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
Syndicated reporter and editor of the Progressive Magazine, Mr. Rothschild will be at Sonoma State University on Thursday, December 4, 2008, to present his stories about the Infragard alliance that deputizes private industry and the new laws that allow officials to seize the assets of people who criticize the government.
According to Rothschild, the Infragard alliance is a group of private industry leaders working with the FBI and Homeland Security to collect and provide information on America citizens. Information provided is beyond the reach of the Freedom of Information Act under the “trade secrets” exemption and members are discouraged from communicating with the public or media.
Rothschild will also talk about new laws passed by executive order which allows the government to seize the assets of war protestors and others critical of government policies, essentially criminalizing the right to dissent.
Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, the O’Reilly Factor, and NPR, and “Hannity & Colmes.” His newspaper commentaries have run in many of the country’s major papers. He hosts a weekly syndicated radio program called “Progressive Radio,” and does a two-minute radio commentary entitled “Progressive Point of View” which is also syndicated. Rothschild publications include “You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression” (The New Press, 2007). He is currently editing “The Best of The Progressive, 1909-2009,” to be published by the New Press in 2009.
Lecture begins at 7 PM
Darwin 103
Series host: Prof. Mickey Huff
Tickets: $10 ($5 online)
More about the author and his stories:
http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures/lecture120408/
To find out more about the lectures:
http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures
Ben Dangl/Jacob Wheeler
WHEN: Thu, November 20th, 2008 - 7:00 pm
The eighth session of the Modern Media Censorship lectures features the work of independent journalists Benjamin Dangl and Jacob Wheeler.
Benjamin Dangl has traveled and worked as an independent journalist around the world. He is the founder of UpsideDownWorld.org and the editor of www.towardfreedom.com/, a progressive perspective on world events. His main focus is Latin America, where he has written about social movements in Argentina, Bolivia’s resource wars, human rights in Chile, media in Cuba and Venezuelan politics. Ben is coming to SSU to discuss his award-winning coverage of the unprecedented changes taking place throughout South America and the US-backed militarism that is reemerging in response.
Jacob Wheeler is the Assistant Editor at In These Times magazine. A Danish-American who is fluent in four languages, Jacob began working at the magazine in February 2007. His international interests include Central America and he plans to pen a series of stories for In These Times on El Salvador’s potentially groundbreaking 2009 elections. Jacob will discuss his award-winning story about the Global War on Terror, the criminalization of protest in El Salvador, and how it all relates to water resources.
Lecture begins at 7 PM
Darwin 103
Series host: Prof. Mickey Huff
Tickets: $10 ($5 online at http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures)
Free for SSU students and staff
More about the authors and their stories:
http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures/lecture112008/
To find out more about the lectures:
http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures
DAHR JAMAIL
WHEN: Thu, November 13th, 2008 - 7:00 pm
Award-winning independent reporter and photographer, Dahr Jamail, will be at Sonoma State University on Thursday, November 13 (Darwin 103) to present his #1 ranked story, published in the Censored 2009 yearbook, as part of the Modern Media Censorship Lectures.
According to the investigative journalist, violence in Iraq has caused an exodus of almost 5 million people since 2003. Despite official claims to the contrary, more Iraqis are fleeing their homes than the numbers who are returning. Says one displaced Iraqi engineer, “There is no Iraq to return to, my friend. Iraq only exists in our dreams and memories.”
A former NY Times foreign desk chief calls Jamails reporting, “international journalism at its best.” Jamail writes for a wide number of press outlets including Inter Press Service, The Asia Times, The Nation, and Foreign Policy in Focus. He reports for Democracy Now! and the BBC, and is a special correspondent for Flashpoints radio.
Jamail hosts a website where he publishes his hard-hitting reports about the Mideast. He recently produced a book detailing his experiences in Iraq entitled “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.”
Jamail will present “The Exodus of Iraq” at Sonoma State University, Darwin Hall 103.
Buy tickets for Modern Media Censorship Lecture 7
or call 707-664-3160
More about Dahr Jamail and his stories:
http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures/lecture111308/
To find out more about the lectures:
http://www.projectcensored.org/lectures
