April 24—7:00 PM

Sonoma State University

Darwin Hall 201

Free and Open to the Public

 What does poverty look like in America today? Keith Kilty, Ohio State College of Social Work Professor Emeritus, puts a human face on poverty in his eye-opening documentary, Ain’t I A Person. Kilty examines issues ranging from “What is poverty?” to “What it means to be poor” and dispels many of the myths and stereotypes associated with it. A discussion led by Kilty will follow the showing.

 Sponsored by Sociology Club, SSU Associated Student Productions, Project Censored, Media Freedom Foundation

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This film, made by former PC Sonoma State University student Doug Hecker and longtime Project supporter Christopher Oscar, features original interviews about PC and media censorship with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Greg Palast, Oliver Stone, Daniel Ellsberg, Peter Kuznick, Cynthia McKinney, Nora Barrows-Friedman, John Perkins, Jonah Raskin, Khalil Bendib, Pacifica and KPFA Free Speech Radio personalities, Abby Martin of Breaking the Set, Al Jazeera English, several PC affiliated faculty, students, and features Project founder Dr. Carl Jensen, former director and president of the Media Freedom Foundation Dr. Peter Phillips, current director Prof. Mickey Huff, and associate director Dr. Andy Lee Roth and much, much MORE! The movie will be available after April 12th. Check out the trailer here!

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Media Democracy and Democratic Media in Action

UDC/Project Censored Conference in San Francisco November 1-3, 2013

We invite submissions for the Union for Democratic Communication and Project Censored conference November 1-3, 2013 at the University of San Francisco, where we have found affordable accommodations for your stay.  Submission deadline is June 1, 2013.

With increasingly precarious employment, accelerating ecological degradation, gulfs between the 1% and the 99%, as well as dramatic booms and busts, we need a global media responsive to the 99%.  We need rigorous critique of corporate media’s commodification of social life. We need critique of all forms of censorship, systematic information exclusion, and propaganda.  We need grounded ideas for democratizing media in all formats and genres.  We need media justice.

To revitalize and retool media democracy in today’s media landscape, the Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) and Project Censored are teaming up for our 2013 conference.  UDC, which held its first conference in 1981, has worked to overcome concentrated political-economic power in order to contribute to a world based on economic justice, equality, and peace.  Project Censored, founded in 1976, has made its mission to expose and counteract modern-day censorship.  Together, UDC and Project Censored hope to contribute to a more democratic society and world by sharing our scholarly and activist projects.

We invite research, activist & artistic proposals from critical perspectives interrogating media institutions and technologies, political/economic structures, media practices, cultural practices & audiences; we invite studies in critical pedagogy and research on media activism.  Proposals that address pro-democratic media reform or outline efforts to expand citizen access to media are particularly welcome.

We welcome the following proposals emailed to udcpc2013@gmail.com by June 1, 2013: 

1. 500-word abstracts that describe the purpose and significance of your research and/or activist projects, especially those that address the issues outlined in the call.

2. Full papers (up to 25 pages including references) from graduate and undergraduate students.  The top student paper will be considered for the Top Student Paper Award. Student papers should be indicated as such and also contain a 500-word abstract. Students may apply for funding to cover some of their travel expenses through the Jeanne Hall Memorial Fund. To be considered for such funding, please include a one-line request for consideration of such funding on the top of your proposal.

3. Presentations of Media Literacy projects, including films and multimedia related to the call.

4. Finally, we welcome proposals for pre-constituted panels.  Please include 500-word abstracts for each participant (4-5 participants) and one panel rationale of 200-350 words that articulates the connections between the projects and the overall significance of the panel.

Sponsored in part by the Media Studies Department of the University of San Francisco

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$15 Suggested Donation
No one turned away

Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art, and Politics
99 6th Street, Santa Rosa, California

Please join Mickey Huff, Andy Roth, Peter Phillips, and many other writers and researchers who contributed to the new Censored 2013 yearbook.

From signs of an emerging police state, to NATO war crimes in Libya, and FBI responsibility for a majority of terrorist plots in the US, the 2013 edition of Censored: Dispatches from the Media Revolution reports the News That Didn’t Make the News and analyzes why. The book’s additional chapters include original analysis on drones and targeted killing, “GuatánamoSpeak,” the democracy movement in Kashmir, corporate education “reform,” the status of Iraqi refugees, the 1970 Kent State massacre, and the global network of the ruling 1%. Each chapter deconstructs the official narratives and propagandized news frames featured in corporate news coverage. Censored 2013 also includes the latest on Junk Food News and News Abuse and updates from last year’s top censored stories.

Published by Seven Stories Press, Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution is available now directly from Project Censored (www.projectcensored.org) and in bookstores around the country.
Since 1976, Project Censored’s mission has been is to teach students and inform the public about the vital role of a free press in a democratic society. The Media Freedom Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, supports Project Censored. Donations can be made on-line at: (www.projectcensored.org) or mail a check to: Project Censored, P.O. Box 751, Cotati, CA 94931—
Information 707-874-2695

Join us for Beer, Wine, Light Buffet Snacks and a great Program!

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They will report back on the trip at:

Code Pink Pakistan Drone Report

 Sonoma State University

 November 7, at 7:00 PM

 In Schultz Library Room 3001

Admission is Free, and open to the entire campus and the public

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Moe’s Books

2476 Telegraph Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94704

Join Project Censored and contributors to the 2013 edition of Censored: Dispatches from the Media Revolution in celebrating the new book’s publication.  The event is free and open to the public.

From signs of an emerging police state, to NATO war crimes in Libya, and education “reform” as a Trojan horse for privatization, Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution features Project Censored’s annual list of the top 25 underreported news stories for 2011-2012, and it analyzes underlying patterns in those stories in the form of Censored News Clusters.

Censored 2013 acclaims the importance of independent journalism for democratic self-government, and it holds to account the corporate media for their failure to provide the public with complete, relevant news coverage.

The book’s additional chapters include original analysis on drones and targeted killing, “GuatánamoSpeak,” the democracy movement in Kashmir, corporate education “reform,” the status of Iraqi refugees, the 1970 Kent State massacre, and the global network of the ruling 1%. Each chapter deconstructs the official narratives and propagandized news frames featured in corporate news coverage.  Censored 2013 also includes the latest on Junk Food News and News Abuse, and updates from last year’s top censored stories.

Published by Seven Stories Press, Censored 2013: Dispatches from the Media Revolution is available now directly from Project Censored. It is available in bookstores around the country on October 30, 2012.

No Lies Radio (http://noliesradio.org/) will live stream the event on the Internet.

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 Wednesday—October 10—7:00 PM

Cross & Crown Lutheran Church
5475 Snyder Ln., Rohnert Park, CA 94928

 $10.00 donation:  Students, Seniors, and Occupiers $5— No one turned away

Colonel Ann Wright is a former United States Army colonel and a U.S. diplomat who resigned in opposition to the Iraq War; one of three State Department officials to publicly resign in protest of the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.  She was on the May 2010 Freedom Flotilla I, attacked by the Israeli military, and was an organizer for the US Boat to Gaza in the 2011 Freedom Flotilla II.

Gaza’s Ark is a new initiative to challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza, the only Mediterranean port closed to shipping. The Canadian Boat to Gaza, in cooperation with internationals in the US, Australia and other countries, will build a boat in Gaza, using existing resources. A crew of internationals and Palestinians will sail it out of Gaza carrying Palestinian products to fulfil trade deals with international buyers. This event is a fund-raiser for Gaza’s Ark — http://gazaark.org/

Sponsored by Project Censored and Media Freedom Foundation in cooperation with SSU Sociology of Social Movements class

Information: peter@projectcensored.org, 707-874-2695

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with his new book

Billionaires and Ballot Bandits

 

 

Berkeley                                         Santa Rosa

Monday—September 24                    Tuesday—September 25

7:30 PM                                          7:00 PM

St John’s Presbyterian Church            Glaser Center, UU Congregation

2727 College Avenue                        547 Mendocino Ave

$10.00 donation at the door—no one turned away—Wheel chair Accessible

 

Benefit for Project Censored, Media Freedom Foundation, Flashpoints,

KPFA in Berkeley and KRCB in Santa Rosa

In Cooperation with SSU Sociology of Media Class

 

Book sales by Moe’s Books in Berkeley and Copperfield’s in Santa Rosa

 

In the 2008 election, no less than: 767,023_provisional ballots were cast and not counted; 1,451,116 ballots were_”spoiled,” not counted; 488,136 absentee ballots were mailed in, but_not counted. Add it up: in the last presidential election, no less than_2,706,275 ballots were  never counted.

Information contact:

Peter@projectcensored.org

707-874-2695

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