Archive for the Category ‘Events’
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Speaking Wednesday September 19, 2012 —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 Sponsored by Project Censored and Media Freedom Foundation in cooperation with SSU Sociology of Social Movements class David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio and [...]
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Dispatches from the Media Revolution Project Censored 2012 March 15, 2012 Wine and Cheese Reception 6:00-7:00 PM: Event 7:00-9:00 PM Arlene Francis Center for Spirit Art and Politics 99 6th St. Santa Rosa, CA Donation $10.00 at the Door Join us for reports and dialogue on this part year’s top censored stories and media analysis [...]
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A Talk by David Barsamian Wednesday, November 30 at 7 pm Arlene Francis Center for Spirit, Art, and Politics 99 6th Street, Santa Rosa, CA David Barsamian is the founder and director of the award-winning Alternative Radio, www.alternativeradio.org, based in Boulder, CO. For now more than 25 years, David has brought alternative perspectives from leading activists, academics and [...]
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KPFA Flashpoints and Project Censored Presents Greg Palast’s new book Vultures Picnic: A deep investigation into the 1% November 14, 7:00 pm The First Congregational Church 2345 Channing Way, Berkekey $15 at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds “Never before, in my decades as an investigator, have I taken you [...]
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The real enablers of change were huge numbers of people moving into the streets with camera phones. Rising Internet access, YouTube videos, satellite TV reception, and liberalization of media censorship played important roles, but ultimately it was long-standing economic and political grievances and a demonstration effect from Tunisia onwards that pushed broad masses of people [...]
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AHIMSA and the Metta Center for Nonviolence present a free public forum, TAKING STOCK OF PEACE: Inspiration from Peace Movements Worldwide. Sunday, October 30 2:30-6:30pm Berkeley Society of Friends 2151 Vine St. in Berkeley This special event launches the recent publication of Peace Movements Worldwide, a three-volume anthology with chapters covering insights and action from every continent [...]
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Civil Liberties for All! Friday, October 21, 7PM Darwin Hall, Room 103 Sonoma State University Featuring: Stephen Downs, Legal Counsel, Project Salam (Support and Legal Advocacy for Muslims); Leading national spokesman against government-promoted Islamophobia and repression against the Islamic-American communities Jess Sundin, Chicago Grand Jury subpoena victim and solidarity/antiwar activist facing, along with 23 others, felony [...]
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The Yes Men present: Creative Mischief Explosion Featuring Andy Bichlbaum Tuesday, October 11th 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Sebastopol Masonic Temple 373 North Main Street, Sebastopol, CA $15 in advance, $20 at the door TICKETS: www.wishingwellmultimedia.com The Yes Men, an activist group known for a variety of hoaxes, designed to disrupt or subvert mainstream, consumerist [...]
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Nada Alwadi Bahraini Journalist To Speak About The Popular Revolt For Democracy In Bahrain Sonoma State University Monday Sept. 26 at 7:00 P.M. Ives 101— Warren Auditorium $5-10 Sliding Scale —Students Free Nada Alwadi was a reporter for Alwasat, the most popular newspaper in Bahrain, a monarchy on a small island in the Persian Gulf. [...]
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September 17, 2011 2:00 PM to 5:00PM Mission City Coffee Roasting Company 2221 The Alameda Santa Clara, CA Peter Phillips will be giving a talk entitled “Managed News: Propaganda Inside the US/NATO Military Industrial Media Empire”. Peter Phillips is a Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University and former Director of Project Censored. He has [...]