-Caveat Lector- visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:35:42 -0000 From: Robert Sterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Konformist: (unknown) Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Final Program: Press Freedom Conference Tue, 24 Apr 2001 Peter Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please alert your listservs and link your websites this weekend April 28-29 to http://www.donandcarla.net/ for live coverage of the Press Freedom Conference in San Francisco. PRESS FREEDOM CONFERENCE & ALTERNATIVE NEWS MEDIA EXPOSITION CONFERENCE PROGRAM APRIL 27-29 2001 SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY THE EXPOSITION HALL WILL BE OPEN SATURDAY FROM 10-5:00 & SUNDAY FROM 10:00-4:00 WITH OVER 100 ALTERNATIVE NEWS MEDIA EXHIBITERS Registration on Line at http://www.projectcensored.org/intro.htm or call 707-664-2500 Full Conference Registration $50, Student/low-income $25 Daily Admittance: $10.00 or $7.00 student/low-income Friday April 27th Cesar Chavez Student Union, San Francisco State University CONFERENCE RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION 7:00 to 10:00 PM - Robin Andersen: Fordham University, Host/MC - Charles Klotzer: Editor-publisher emeritus, St Louis Journalism Review, Speaker Music by Larry Shaw Poetry by: Keith Antar Mason: Artistic director: The Hittite Empire Reception and Celebration for Project Censored and Media Alliance's 25th Anniversaries Music, Cake, Food, and No-host Beer and Wine Open to all Registered Conference participants, SFSU & SSU volunteers $15 at the door for public Saturday April 28th San Francisco State University Gymnasium Complex 7:30-10:00 AM Exhibitor Set-up in SFSU Gym Complex Exposition Hall opens to the public at 10:00 AM $10.00 Daily Admission $7.00 Student/low-income KEYNOTES, PANELS AND WORKSHOPS: 10:00-11:15 AM, Gym 118 PANEL: Media Activism in the Fight Against Domestic Militarization and the Prison Industrial Complex - Facilitated by Michelle Foy of California Prison Focus and the California Prison Moratorium Project. - Rose Braz, director of Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex. - Jose Palafox: PhD student in Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, immigrant rights activist and co-producer of the film "New World Border". - Ed Mead, Former political prisoner and co-founder of Prison Legal News 10:00 to 11:15 AM, Women's gym PANEL: The Decline of the Media in the New World Order Chair: Louis Hiken, National Lawyer's Guild Committee on Democratic Communications, How to build a political movement when corporations own the means of communications - Sara Flounders, Founder and co-director of the International Action Center, Opposition to US Corporate Wars: Need to create a movement that does not rely on the corporate media. - Peter Sussman, Author/Journalist: Co-author with prison writer Dannie Martin of' "Committing Journalism." True Crime:The Censors and the Sensationalists 10:00- 11:15, Gym 123 Working Groups - Indymedia IMC Organizer Working Group: plan facilitation and prepare for the IMC Welcome session 10:15 to 11:30, Gym 114 FILM: Storm from the Mountain: The Zapatistas Take Mexico City An Indymedia Production by Big Noise Films, The Chiapas Media Project and Paper Tiger TV for Free speech TV 10:30-11:3, Gym 116 WORKSHOP: Independent Press Association: Information 10:30-11:45, Chavez Student Union, Rosa Parks Room WORKSHOP: Psychiatric Drug Corporations. Human Rights and the Media - David Oaks, Director: Support Coalition International - Sally Zinman, Director: California Network of Mental Health Clients 10:30-11:45, Exhibit Hall East WORKSHOP: Labor Media and Technology Chair: Steve Zeltzer, Labor Video Project - Wes Brain of SEIU Local 503 and a labor video producer - Carl Bryant, Producer, Letter Carriers TV214 11:30-12:45, Gym 118 PANEL: Indymedia: Since Seattle, Where are we headed? - Sheri Herndon, Seattle IMC Moderator, How the IMC got started: video clip from "Showdown in Seattle" Inside the Seattle IMC - Luz: Chiapas IMC. Video clip of the recent Zapatista march to Mexico City - Lynea Diaz-Hagan, New York IMC : video clips, "Not My President" Anti-inaugural Bush Protests. - Shane Korytko, Canada/Argentina IMC', Video clip of protests in Quebec City - Rachel Rinaldo, Coordinator of "Indymedia Newsreal 11:30-12:45, Women's Gym PANEL: Is There Room For Progressives on Commercial Radio? Chair: Peter Werbe, Detroit Michigan - Louie Free, Youngstown, Ohio - Pat Thurston, KSRO Santa Rosa, California - Francisco Aruca, President of Radio Progreso, Inc -Media Manipulation and the Politics of Fear: The Miami Experience 11:30-12:45, Gym 146 WORKSHOP: Micro-Radio Movement - Sarah Olsen and Richard Edmondson: San Francisco Liberation Radio - Maria Gilardin, TUC radio - Greg Ruggerio, Seven Stories Press - John Malkin, Free Radio Santa Cruz - Alan Korn, National Lawyers Guild, & Center for Democratic Communications 11:30 to 11:50, Gym 114 FILM: Put the Public Back Into Public Broadcasting: If We Don't Do It, Who Will? 15 min. - Citizens from Independent Public Broadcasting 11:45 to 12:45, Chavez Union: Rosa Parks Room KEYNOTE: Karl Grossman Weapons in Space A Media Black Out 12:00 to 1:00, Gym 114 FILM: KPFA On The Air (by California Newsreel) 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM, Exhibit Hall East An Epic Prose Poem, Carl Jensen: Censored America Percussionist Dr. Gorden Spear 12:00 to 1:15, Gym 116 Workshop: IPA information Independent Press Association 1:00 to 2:00 PM Saturday, Gym 118 KEYNOTE: Len Horowitz, Author/Activist Medicine, Media and Mind control: Publishing Under Globalization 1:00-2:10 PM, Women's Gym PANEL: Aristide Elected, Bush Selected Haiti & Florida: Media, Elections, Disinformation Moderator: Karen Talbot, Women's International League for Peace & Freedom - Pierre Labossiere: Co-founder of the Bay Area Haitian-American Council(BAHACO - Laura Flynn, Activist - Norman Solomon, Author and Columnist - Marie Harrison, SF Bayview, a progressive African-American newspaper 1:00 - 2:15, Gym 146 PANEL: War and Peace-What the News Media Don't Report - Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics, Chair Peace and Justice Studies Program University of San Francisco - Justin Raimondo, Editorial Director: Antiwar.com, columnist/peace activist - Paul W. Lovinger, Founder and Secretary of War and Law League (WALL), writer/journalist - Phyllis Olin, Attorney, President of the Board-Western States Legal Foundation 1:00 - 2:15, Chavez Student Union, Rosa Park Room WORKSHOP: Raising Our Voices: A WORKSHOP on Street Journalism (Media Alliance)- Terry Messman; editor, Street Spirit, East Bay - Chance Martin; editor, Street Sheet, San Francisco - Lisa Gray-Garcia; editor, Poor Magazine, San Francisco 1:15 - 2:15, Exhibit Hall East KEYNOTE: Steve Wilson and Jane Akre: Fired Fox TV Reporters: Update on Fox TV Law suit and BGh in Our Milk 1:15 - 2:15, Gym 114 FILM: Labor Video Project: Behind the Charade 1:30am - 2:45pm, Gym 123 IMC Welcome Session: meet, discuss goals for WORKSHOPs, forums and organizing 1:30 - 2:30, Gym 116 PANEL: Alternative Media Literacy and Critical Thinking in Higher Education - Mickey Huff: History Professor, Diablo Valley College - Obed Vasquez: Sociology Professor: Diablo Valley College - Vida Pavesich: Philosophy Professor ,Diablo Valley College 2:15 - 3:30, Women"s Gym KEYNOTE: Michael Parenti Methods of Media Manipulation 2:15 - 3:50, Gym 118 PANEL: Seeking REAL Alternatives: Arab journalists and the US Media Moderator: Barbara Nimri Aziz, WBAI Radio, New York, - Nicole Sawaya, Station KALW, San Francisco - Hussein Ibish, Communications Director, ADC, Washington - Lorraine Ali, General Editor, Newsweek, New York - Nermin Al-Mufty (columnist, Baghdad) - Etel Adnan (essayist and Poet --Lebanon, France, US) 2:30pm - 4:45pm, Gym 123 and Gym114 IMC Forum and break out working sessions 2:30 - 3:45, Gym 146 PANEL: Media Democracy "Direct Actions:" Roundtable on Collaboration How can independent media organizations work together, overcome obstacles to collaboration, strengthen each other, and increase our cumulative impact? Co-facilators: Aliza Dichter, MediaChannel; Eric Galatas, Free Speech TV - David Barsamian, Alternative Radio - Helen De Michiel, National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture - Duane Elgin, Campaign for Positive Future and Bay Voice - Dee Dee Halleck, Deep Dish TV - Peggy Law, National Radio Project - Judith LeBlanc, Changing America - Jeremy Smith, Independent Press Association 2:30 - 4:00, Chavez Student Union, Rosa Parks Room WORKSHOP: Building Local Alternative News Organizations - Liane Clorfene-Castin: Chicago Media Watch - Larry Bensky, host "Sunday Salon," KPFA, lecturer, Mass Communications, CSU Hayward - Laurie Litman: Connections Newspaper - Charles Klotzer: Editor-publisher emeritus, St Louis Journalism Review - Representative: North Bay Media Coalition 2:30 - 4:00, Exhibit Hall East WORKSHOP: Undisclosed Public Health Hazard: Cell Phones and Microwave Antenna Pollution Film: Public Exposure: DNA Democracy and the "Wireless Revolution" - Mary Beth Brangan, and Jim Heddle. Producers, Ecological Options Network - Libby Kelley: Council on Wireless Technology Impact - Doug Loranger: SF Neighborhood Antenna Free Union 3:45 -5:00, Women's Gym PANEL: Amnesty International: Human Rights and the Progressive Media - Cosette Thompson: Western Regional Director - Hilary Naylor, former AI Board member, Oakland. - Erin Callahan, Communications Director, Washington DC - Tracy Ulltveit-Moe, Researcher (Guatemala, Panama), AI International Secretariat, London 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Gym 118 KEYNOTE: Norman Solomon, Author/Columnist Fighting the Media Oligarchy, Creating Media Democracy 4:00 - 5:00, Gym 146 PANEL: The Media's Role in the AID$ Lie - ACTUP San Francisco - Michael Bellafantaine - Tate Swindell - David Pasquarelli 4:00 - 5:00, Exhibit Hall East Speaker: Teter Park, Author & former Journalist, Congressional Quarterly, Washington Post, Meta-censorship: Repressing News from the Unconscious 4:00 - 5:00, Gym 116 WORKSHOP: Activist Outreach: Using a Digital Projector to Engage and Inform. Example: How TV poisons children's minds and undermines schooling. Miles Everett, Alliance for Democracy Project Censored Awards Ceremony Saturday 7:00-10:00 PM San Francisco State University, McKenna Theater (Conf. Particpants Free - Gen Public $15 at the door) - Nicole Sawaya, Station KALW, San Francisco MC - Welcome: Peter Phillips, Director Project Censored - KEYNOTE: Amy Goodman, Building Media Freedom -Expressive Art: Keith Antar Mason: Artistic director: The Hittite Empire -In My Living condition 2001: The Wars Fought on the Landscape of Black Male Bodies in -America Award Presenters: - Michael Parenti: Author, - Normon Solomon: Author/columnist - Robin Andersen: Professor Communication Studies: Fordham University - Julianne Cartwright Traylor: Chair: Amnesty International USA - Carl Jensen: Founder of Project Censored - Sheila Rabb Weidenfeld, President DC Production SUNDAY, APRIL 29th San Francisco State University Gymnasium Complex Exposition Hall open to the public 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM $10.00 Daily Admission, $7.00 Student/low-income KEYNOTES, PANELS & WORKSHOPS: 9:00 - 11:00 AM, Gym 118 Sunday (conference registrants only) Round table discussion/Activist planning session Topic: Building a Movement:International Dimensions of Building a Media Democracy Movement Facilitators: Robert Hackett: Professor Communication Studies: Simon Fraiser University - Dorothy Kidd: Professor Communications Studies, University San Francisco - David Barsamian: Alternative Radio - Tim Russo: Chiapas IMC - Maxine Ruvinsky: Professor of Journalism, University of the Caiboo, Kamloops B.C. - Mercedes Romero: Photojournalist from Chiapas/Mexico City 10:00 - 11:15, Gym 146 * KEYNOTE: John Vasconcellos, California State Senator, Silicon Valley: A New Political Vision for Harnessing the Progressive Community * KEYNOTE: Helen Grieco Director of Campaign for Positive Media and President of California National Organization for Women. Topic: The Politics of Media: Creating a Citizen's Movement Using Viewer Feedback 10:00 - 11:15, Women's Gym PANEL: Propaganda Wars - John Stauber, PR watch - Michele Gale-Sinex, Writer and Activist - Nancy Snow, Author, Propaganda, Inc., Associate Director, UCLA Center for Communications & Community - David Miller, Stirling Media Research Institute, University of Stirling, Scotland 10:00 - 11:15, Gym 123 IMC Forum/Meeting: discuss general IMC topics, organize that day's WORKSHOPs & forums 10:00 - 11:15 Exhibition Hall East WORKSHOP: Fund Raising for Media Activists - Rona Fernandez and Jeremy Smith, Independent Press Association 10:30 - 11:45, Gym 114 WORKSHOP: Starting and Sustaining Alternative Newspapers in Local Communities - Laurie Litman, and Bruce Giudici, Connections: Stockton's Alternative News Publication 10:30 - 12:45, Gym 116 WORKSHOP: Video Activism: Multimedia presentation, Participatory discussion explores the use of video as a tool in current progressive struggles and a hands-on training by Whispered Media and the Headwaters Action Video Collective. 11:15 - 12:30, Gym 118 PANEL: Spirituality, Progressive Media and Social Change - Kenn Burrows, Institute for Holistic Healing Studies, San Francisco State University - JoAnna Macy, Eco-philosopher, Activist and author; World as Self, World as Lover - Wes Nisker: Radio commentator, Author and Editor of Inquiring Mind, "Buddhist Journal" - Rabbi Michael Lerner: Author, Spirit Matters: Global Healing and Wisdom of the Soul and Editor, Tikkun Magazine 11:30 - 12:45, Women's Gym PANEL: Global Economics: Changing the Rules of the Game Moderator: Carol Brouillet, Who's Counting Project - Kevin Danaher, Director , Global Exchange -Maria Gilardin, TUC Radio -Marianne Manilov, Board of Director's Ruckus Society, International Forum on Globlizations Associate 11:30 - 12:45, Gym 123 IMC Forum and/or break out working sessions 11:30 - 12: 45, Exhibit Hall East WORKSHOP: Democratic Media Legal Project: Legal Challenge to the Telcommunications Act - -Peter Franck, Coordinating Attorney, Democratic Media Legal Project - Henry Kroll, Director, Democratic Media Legal Project 11:30 - 12:40, Gym 146 PANEL: Constructing the Machinery to Deliver the Message to the Citizens - Stuart Shaw: Chair - Brian Murphy, Niagara University, "Creating Social Justice Communicators" - Geoff Dividian, Owner and Editor of the Putnam Pit, "Producing and Delivering Your own Newspaper" -Phillip Babich, National Radio Project "Producing and Delivering Your Own Radio Show" - Brian Scott, Director Berkeley Community Media, "Producing and Delivering Your Own Television Show" 11:45 - 12:45, Gym 114 FILM: KPFA On The Air (by California Newsreel) 12:45 - 1:45, Gym 118 KEYNOTE: Samuel Epstein, M.D., Author: The Politics of Cancer, Revisited, Cancer Prevention Coalition and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago Topic: Losing the Winnable War Against Cancer-A Paradigm Failed and What to Do About It 12:50 - 2:30, Exhibit Hall East PANEL: The Pacifica Campaign: Turn off the Water, Turn Up the Heat Dan Coughlan, fired news director, Pacifica Network News Carol Spooner, Committee to Remove the Pacifica Board John Sheridan, coordinator of picketing Epstein, Becker and Green Robbie Osman, fired (and reinstated) programmer, KPFA 1:00 - 2:00, Gym 114 FILM: Is the Press Really Free? (Project Censored) 1:00 - 2:25, Women's Gym PANEL: Fighting Big Media Concentration with Indy Media Cooperation: Building Infrastructure for Collaboration - Aliza Dichter, MediaChannel, facilitator - Rona Fernandez, Independent Press Association - Eric Galatas, Free Speech TV - Dan Merkle, Seattle IMC - Peter Phillips, Project Censored - Lisa Souza, Media Alliance 1:00 - 2:15, Gym 116 WORKSHOP: Alternative Libraries and Infoshops. Sponsored by: Independent Press Association - Sheila Bishop, member of the volunteer collective of the Civic Media Center, FL - Charles Willett, co-founder of the CMC and editor of the review journal Counterpoise - Eric Hannan & Julia Laffen, SFSU Holistic Health Learning Center 1:00 - 2:15, Gym 146 PANEL: Korea and Media Misinformation - Karen Talbot, Writer/activist - Rev. Kiyul Chung; Korean Truth Commission - Brian Willson, Peace Activist 1:30pm - 2:15pm, Gym 123 IMC Working Session/Informal Meetings 2:15 - 3:15, Gym 114 FILM: Questioning AIDS in South Africa, Sponsored by Act Up San Francisco 2:15 - 3:30, Gym 118 PANEL: The Biggest Lie: False Reporting and Disinformation on the 50- Year Israeli Occupation of Palestine. Moderator: Dennis Bernstein, Flashpoints KPFA - Elias Rashmawi, The National Right to Return Committee: Regional Spokeperson for the American Arab Anti-Discrimination league - Eyad Kishawi, a Palestinian activist, the censorship of campaign for divestment from Israel - Noura Erakat: Palestinian Journalism Student and activist at U.C. Berkeley on the demonization of Palestinian children in the US press and it's impact on the struggle for liberation. -Allison Weir: bay-area journalist/media activist, Just back from Palestine -Hatem Bazian:Lecturer in Near-East Studies, University of California, Berkeley -Barbara Lubin, a Jewish American activist who frequently travels to Palestine and Israel to deliver material aid and build political support for justice. 2:15 - 3:45, Gym 116 FILM: Who's Counting? (92 min.) (Who's Counting Project) 2:30pm - 3:45pm, Gym 123 IMC Wrap-Up Meeting: Discuss weekend's progress, working group report back, future IMC activities 2:30 - 4:00 Women's Gym PANEL: Environment, Technology and Health, What Corporate Media Doesn't ReportModerator: Sunny Lewis, Founder, Editor-in-chief, Environment News Service - Bill Pease, Ph.D.: creator Scorecard, founder LocusPocus - Ted Smith, J.D.: founder, executive director Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition- Samuel Epstein, M.D.: Emeritus Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, and Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition - Gar Smith: Editor, Earth Island Journal - Joseph Mitchel, M.D.: author "Social-Ecological Aspects of Health 2:45 - 3:45, Exhibition Hall East Meet the Activists "From the Station of our Listeners" The listeners in listener-sponsored Pacifica radio - Adrienne Lauby, Chair. 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