Gabriel Day Santa Cruz, CA Bonnie Faulkner Glen Ellen, CA Mickey Huff Berkeley, CA David Kubiak Half Moon Bay, CA David Mathison San Francisco Janice Matthews Kansas City, MO Peter Phillips Sonoma, CA Ken Reiner Long Beach, CA Bryan Sacks Philadelphia, PA
Calling all whistleblowers, investigative journalists and independent media all-stars
WHY WE NEED THIS SUMMIT
The brief sampling of media work presented here makes it painfully clear that we do not lack brilliant voices, great stories, or mounting evidence of illicit forces run wild. What we do lack is a coherent vision of what we face and ways to quickly communicate it to the public with galvanizing power.
Our challenges are ignorance, fear, censorship, propaganda and an increasingly lethal merger of authoritarian corporate values and repressive military force.
Despite our unprecedented array of talents, truths and new tech resources, conditions continue to worsen at a truly surreal rate. Many say our democracy will not survive the decade. Others have trouble recognizing it right now.
We only know it's time for the best & brightest working against this coup to come together now and urgently explore what can and must be done.
Our Mentor & Mascot SATYA SAM An Independent Media Oscar for the Practice and Promotion of Fearless Truth-telling and Investigative Reporting (Click on pic for larger view) Click here for more details.
Down Memory Lane...
The famously unreported corporate putsch against FDR
This site is being maintained as an archive and reference for similar future gatherings, but also to refer readers to one of the conference's most positive outcomes, Project Censored's new trusted news & analysis compendium, as an alternative and antidote to the chronically truth-challenged corporate media.
A Collaborative Strategy Summit for Media Pros, Scholars, Activists and Whistleblowers Working for Truth, Transparency and an Informed Resurgent Democracy
PROCEEDINGS
The "Publicizing Truths with Consequence" organizing committee would like to sincerely thank the 330+ dedicated media activists, journalists and whistleblowers who devoted so many hours and so much effort and intelligence to make this gathering such a creative and productive event. We shall be posting select audio and video records of the proceedings and its concrete outcomes here and at the summit PNN site in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we offer the recently received video of one powerful session below to preview the quality of the discourse. For the entire session, please click here.
Former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney on corporate media complicity in the distortion of modern history
PROLOGUE
“Democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news.”
-- Dan Rather
“Practically every progressive struggle -- campaign finance reform, rain forest destruction and global warming, sweatshops, family farms, fair trade, health care for all, unionization, military spending and arms sales, tax reform, alternative energy, healthy food, media access, hazardous waste dumps, redlining, alternative medicine, you name it -- is being fought against one cluster of corporations or another. But it is not that corporation over there or this one over here that is the enemy. It is not one industry's contamination of our drinking water or another's perversion of the lawmaking process that is the problem--rather it is the corporation itself that must be addressed if we are to be a free people... The piecemeal approach to fighting corporate abuses keeps us spread thin, separated, on the defensive, riveted on the minutiae, and fighting on their terms. Piecemeal battles must certainly continue, for there are real and immediate corporate harms to be addressed. But it's time for our strategic emphasis to shift to the offensive, raising what I believe to be the central political issue for the new century: Who the hell is in charge here?”
-- Jim Hightower
“Journalism's job is not impartial 'balanced' reporting. Journalism's job is to tell the people what is really going on.”
-- George Seldes
PURPOSE A collaborative gathering of media veterans, scholars,activists & whistleblowers to assess and marshal our most powerful messages to rectify history, awaken a critical mass, and effectively expose the accelerating corporate coup d'état.
VISION Truth movements that arise after pivotal events like electoral fraud, 9/11, key assassinations, false flag ops and casus belli fabrications can/should become more than forensic inquiries into a single heinous crime. They can also strive to expose wider patterns of illicit control, deception and propaganda, and use their revelations to rouse entire societies to reject a malignant status quo.
Consequently, this is not a media conference to dissect or condemn the conglomerates, demand reforms, or even celebrate the increasing vigor of independent journalism. It is intended as a strategy session for already active and influential players to coordinate their most revealing messages, forge tactical alliances, innovate new distribution technologies, and mutually enhance each others' strongest work.
TARGET PARTICIPANTS - Leading media activists, A/V producers, and funding angels.
GOALS
• Gather key media constituencies needed to inject transformative truths* into 2008 political news and electoral debate; *convergent evidence of an ongoing corporate/authoritarian coup d'etat, election theft,9/11 complicity/cover-up, "War on Terror" fraud, etc.
• Honor brave audacious "truth war veterans" (casualties & survivors) and learn from their experiences;
• Devise coherent decentralized models for distribution of suppressed news, synergistic truth-telling, and collaborative strategies to disclose, legitimize and popularize deeper historical narratives..
• In sum, discover in this moment of Constitutional crisis, ecological peril and widening war, whether 300 top investigative journalists, whistleblowers and indy media all-stars can transform the way Americans perceive and defend their world.
CLOSING NEWS NOTES:
BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN CORPORATE-TOTALITARIAN AFFINITY (Two essential eye-opening excerpts from The Corporation)
Classic Corporate-Fascist Consanguinity
Current Kinder Gentler Paths to Corporate Supremacy
But If All Else Fails, Blackwater's on Tap
THE LIGHTER, BRIGHTER SIDES OF THE CORPORATIST AGENDA
Poll: Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
In the Know: Widening Gap Between Rich and Super-Rich
Federal 'First In Line' Program Offers Job Training at Needy Schools
Strategizing for Democratic Survival
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A Collaborative Strategy Summit for Media Pros, Scholars, Activists and Whistleblowers Working for Truth, Transparency and an Informed Resurgent Democracy
PROCEEDINGS
The "Publicizing Truths with Consequence" organizing committee would like to sincerely thank the 330+ dedicated media activists, journalists and whistleblowers who devoted so many hours and so much effort and intelligence to make this gathering such a creative and productive event. We shall be posting audio and video records of the proceedings and its concrete outcomes here and at the summit PNN site in the coming weeks. In the meantime, we offer the recently received video of one powerful session below to preview the quality of the discourse. For the entire session, please click here.
Former Georgia Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate
Cynthia McKinney on corporate media complicity in the distortion of modern history
PROLOGUE
“Democracy cannot survive, much less thrive with the level of big corporate and big government interference and intimidation in news.”
-- Dan Rather
“Practically every progressive struggle -- campaign finance reform, rain forest destruction and global warming, sweatshops, family farms, fair trade, health care for all, unionization, military spending and arms sales, tax reform, alternative energy, healthy food, media access, hazardous waste dumps, redlining, alternative medicine, you name it -- is being fought against one cluster of corporations or another. But it is not that corporation over there or this one over here that is the enemy. It is not one industry's contamination of our drinking water or another's perversion of the lawmaking process that is the problem--rather it is the corporation itself that must be addressed if we are to be a free people... The piecemeal approach to fighting corporate abuses keeps us spread thin, separated, on the defensive, riveted on the minutiae, and fighting on their terms. Piecemeal battles must certainly continue, for there are real and immediate corporate harms to be addressed. But it's time for our strategic emphasis to shift to the offensive, raising what I believe to be the central political issue for the new century: Who the hell is in charge here?”
-- Jim Hightower
“Journalism's job is not impartial 'balanced' reporting. Journalism's job is to tell the people what is really going on.”
-- George Seldes
PURPOSE A collaborative gathering of media veterans, scholars,activists & whistleblowers to assess and marshal our most powerful messages to rectify history, awaken a critical mass, and effectively expose the accelerating corporate coup d'état.
VISION Truth movements that arise after pivotal events like electoral fraud, 9/11, key assassinations, false flag ops and casus belli fabrications can/should become more than forensic inquiries into a single heinous crime. They can also strive to expose wider patterns of illicit control, deception and propaganda, and use their revelations to rouse entire societies to reject a malignant status quo.
Consequently, this is not a media conference to dissect or condemn the conglomerates, demand reforms, or even celebrate the increasing vigor of independent journalism. It is intended as a strategy session for already active and influential players to coordinate their most revealing messages, forge tactical alliances, innovate new distribution technologies, and mutually enhance each others' strongest work.
TARGET PARTICIPANTS - Leading media activists, A/V producers, and funding angels.
GOALS
• Gather key media constituencies needed to inject transformative truths* into 2008 political news and electoral debate; *convergent evidence of an ongoing corporate/authoritarian coup d'etat, election theft,9/11 complicity/cover-up, "War on Terror" fraud, etc.
• Honor brave audacious "truth war veterans" (casualties & survivors) and learn from their experiences;
• Devise coherent decentralized models for distribution of suppressed news, synergistic truth-telling, and collaborative strategies to disclose, legitimize and popularize deeper historical narratives..
• In sum, discover in this moment of Constitutional crisis, ecological peril and widening war, whether 300 top investigative journalists, whistleblowers and indy media all-stars can transform the way Americans perceive and defend their world.
CLOSING NEWS NOTES:
BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN CORPORATE-TOTALITARIAN AFFINITY (Two essential eye-opening excerpts from The Corporation)
Classic Corporate-Fascist Consanguinity
Current Kinder Gentler Paths to Corporate Supremacy
But If All Else Fails, Blackwater's on Tap
THE LIGHTER, BRIGHTER SIDES OF THE CORPORATIST AGENDA
Poll: Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
In the Know: Widening Gap Between Rich and Super-Rich
Federal 'First In Line' Program Offers Job Training at Needy Schools
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Should you be here?
We are looking for creative individuals somehow involved in journalism or media activities and prepared to help create a new nervous system for our body politic and reshape the content of national debate. If you haven't received an invitation and you feel qualified, please feel free to invite yourself. Click here to see the daring dangerous ilk we're hoping to attract.
