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Freedom of Press and Media Consolidation Conference at UIUC |
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by slumgullion
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09 May 2005
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Seymour Hersh, Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman, Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and more to participate in a freedom of press/media consolidation conference Tuesday, May 10th and Wednesday, May 11th at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Check out http://www.iimpr.org for more info.
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All Events Are Free and Open to the Public!
Sponsored by the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 10-11, 2005
SCHEDULE
tentative schedule -- subject to change
1. Tuesday, May 10, Foellinger Auditorium. 5-6:30 PM Seymour Hersh, Keynote address. MillerComm
2. Tuesday May 10, Foellinger Auditorium. Opening Plenary 7:30-9:30PM
Host: Bob McChesney
Opening Welcome: Chancellor Richard Herman
Speakers: Amy Goodman, Rep. Bernie Sanders, Naomi Klein
3. Wednesday, May 11, Krannert. Festival Theater 9:00AM-10:30AM
Moderator: Dean Ron Yates
Speakers: Seymour Hersh, Danny Goldberg (Air America), Linda Foley (president, Newspaper Guild), Orville Schell (UC-Berkeley)
4. Wednesday, May 11, Krannert. Festival Theater 10:45AM-12:15PM
Moderator: Professor Bruce Williams
Speakers: Phil Donahue, John Nichols, Naomi Klein
5. Wednesday, May 11, Krannert Festival Theater. 1:45-3:15
Moderator: Prof. Angharad Valdivia
Speakers: Len Hill, Dennis Swanson (Viacom), Paul Jay, Roberta Baskin (Center for Public Integrity)
6. Wednesday, May 11, Krannert Festival Theater. 3:30-5:00
Moderator: Prof. Dan Schiller
Speakers: Ben Scott (Free Press), Amy Goodman, Bill Fletcher |
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http://www.iimpr.org
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Wednesday Lunchtime Session: Creating Alternative Media: Examples from Urbana-Champaign |
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09 May 2005
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Creating Alternative Media: Examples from Urbana-Champaign
Representatives from local alternative media discuss urbana.indymedia.org, independent radio, community wireless, and progressive newspapers.
Wednesday, May 11
12:30pm-1:30pm
Krannert Lobby
A brownbag lunchtime workshop during the Illinois Initiative for Media Policy Research conference at the U of I
Free and open to all
Participants:
Bill Taylor, Primary Communications Project
Sascha Meinrath, Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network
Mike Lehman, WRFU
Darrin Drda, public i
Sandra Ahten, WEFT
Paul Riismandel, Urbana.indymedia.org (and WEFT)
John K. Wilson, Campus Journalism Project (new U of I student newspaper) |
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My Recap of Tuesday Night |
by Sandra Ahten
spiritofsandra (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
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11 May 2005
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I didn't get to hear Seymour Hersh, so I'll let others tell you about what was reportedly a rambling uninspired talk -- but the three panel speakers were anything but that. Anyone of them was worth the price of admission. My favorite quotes:
Naomi Kline on commenting why American's were not outraged about the prison abuse scandal. "It is not because we lack compassion. It is that our compassion is being tightly managed. What we need is a Media that give us an outlet to be completely outraged."
Amy Goodman: "Media monopoly and militarization go hand and hand. We have to break this unholy alliance.
I, personally am in a pretty constant state of despair over what America, my country, is doing to the less powerful, the poor, and in general the whole rest of the world. I feel such guilt and burden.
But as Amy Goodman said last night "the action of every American has a ripple effect that is felt around the world." This thought sustains me. I believe her when she says every action taken for the good -- every time I ride my bike instead of hopping in my car, every time I help publish one more lie that government has perpetrated on us, every time I model 'involvment' in government or take a younger activist under my wing, every time I write a check to a nonprofit sustaining indymedia, every time I send a book to a prisoner -- that the ripple effect of that act, because I am an American is felt around the world too. |
