[Peace] David Barsamian on Media Matters AM 580 @ 1p Sun, Nov 6th
jencart
jencart at mycidco.com
Fri Nov 4 23:29:38 CST 2005
Barsamian hangs w/ the best. This will be a great show!
Jenifer C.
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Welcome to another edition of the WILL-AM Media Matters email update!
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THIS WEEK'S GUEST
Our guest this week is David Barsamian. Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine.
His latest books are Imperial Ambitions (with Noam Chomsky) and Speaking of Empire & Resistance (with Tariq Ali.) His earlier books include Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.
The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes." Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism and of a Democracy Media Award.
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UPCOMING GUESTS
In coming weeks we will feature Kembrew McLeod, Mark Crispin Miller, Robert Greenwald, and Sam Husseini.
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LAST WEEK'S GUESTS
Last week's guest was Andrew Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University. Dr. Bacevich is the author of The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005).
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OTHER INFORMATION
Last August we interviewed local media activists about developments at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, such as the purchase of a building in downtown Urbana and the pending launch of a
new community radio station, WRFU, based at the IMC. WRFU will be launched as part of a 'radio barnraising' held at the IMC from 11-13 November, in association with the Prometheus Radio Project. More information is available online: http://www.radiofreeurbana.org
http://www.prometheusradio.org http://www.ucimc.org
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Former -- and upcoming -- Media Matters guest Robert Greenwald has released a new movie: WAL-MART, the high cost of low price. There will be a screening on campus @ 7p on Thursday, November 17th in the Education Building.
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