Archive for January 13th, 2007

Jeff Cohen

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

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Media Critic Jeff Cohen, with Juan Gonzalez, speaks to a crowd of roughly 1000 people on the dangers of Corporate Media at the Memphis Cook Convention Center at the Conference for Media Reform.

Donahue

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Phil Donahue is the moderator of a session on Corporate Media.donahue.jpg

War Protest

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Last night outside the hotel we are staying at, veterans and Memphis citizens protested the “surge” announced by president Bush. There were roughly 35 protesters when I was there. One one car that drove by was negative. Many cars beeped their horns in support.war-protest-union-and-mclean.jpg

Yup

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Heh.

And I just can’t help my screaming gales of laughter.

Scenes From Media Reform

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Here are a couple of highlights from the Conference of Media Reform in Memphis. As I’m sitting at the P& H Cafe, I haven’t had time to reduce them.

There has been a lot of talk about corporate media and it’s influence on the mindest of America.

Beautiful.

Surprisingly, or maybe not,, mainstream media outlets didn’t show, but so far, Squirrelly and I have seen Danny Glover, Jesse Jackson, Mayor Willie Herenton, John Nichols, Amy Goodman and the awesome Bill Moyers.

Squirrel took a ton of shots, and we will get them up here as we can.


Here is a another taste. I put them up bigger later, but am having some tech difficulties.

Man, this conference is amazing.

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Photos by Squirrelly. She will have a flickr stite with all the pictures whe took at the conference early next week.

Awe-inspiring

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

This conference is life-changing. I cannot even breathe right now.

Life-changing.

I’llĀ  have a series of pictures from Memphis in just a few minutes. What I’ve seen so far has been awe-inspiring.

I really feel validated for the feelings I’ve had for the last few years.

As I said, pics by Squirrelly are coming.

We are sitting at the P and H Cafe because the wifi at the hotel is the suck. They are coming.