[Sfbay-video] [Fwd: Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit: Jan. 25-27]

[Marc Smolowitz - Development Dept.]

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Subject: 	Santa Cruz Media Strategy Summit: Jan. 25-27
Date: 	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:40:27 -0800
From: 	Peter Phillips <peter.phillips at sonoma.edu>
To: 	censored2 at sonoma.edu






* *_*http://www.truthemergency.us*_ <ttp://www.truthemergency.us/%22>*/*

*We the undersigned urgently invite the most concerned members of the 
independent media community (and your brightest friends) to join us in 
Santa Cruz to reinvent the "free press" 
in America and resuscitate courageous journalism as a democracy 
restoring force.*

Larisa Alexandrovna, Ed Asner, David Altheide, John Parry Barlow, Dennis 
Bernstein, Khalil Bhendib, Kristina Borjesson, Peter B Collins, Gabriel 
Day, Katherine Dodds, Ronnie Dugger, Bonnie Faulkner, Mike Ferner, 
Robert Fitrakis, Brad Friedman, Richard Greene, David Ray Griffin, Kyle 
Hence, Mickey Huff, David Kubiak, Kalle Lasn, David Lindorff, Janice 
Mathews, David Mathison, Jason McKain, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, 
Kelly Omeara, Peter Phillips, Coleen Rowley, Bryan Sacks, Danny 
Schechter, Barbara Trent, Sarah Ruth van Gelder, Tracy Van Slyke, Aldo 
Vidali...

*PURPOSE*
A collaborative gathering of media veterans, scholars, activists & 
whistleblowers to assess and deploy our most powerful tools and 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 and false flag ops can/should become more than 
forensic inquiries into a single heinous crime. They can also 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, introduce new distribution 
technologies, and mutually enhance each other's strongest work.

All participants will play an active role in nominal group processes 
over the weekend that will prioritize sources, analysis methods, and 
distribution models for trustworthy news dedicated to renewing activism 
and democracy in America.

*QUESTIONS IN NEED OF FAST ANSWERS*

· · What role can and should the independent media be playing in our 
crisis-driven age - and how can we collaborate to maximize its force? 

· · What master narratives should we be focusing on 
- how can we best communicate both unspeakable knowledge and emboldening 
hope?

· · What are the most promising tools and models out there for 
reporting, distributing, and maximizing the impact of deeply revelatory 
news?

· · What are the most credible transformative goals we as
a community can target in the political circus of 2008?

· · How can we develop a collaborative infrastructure to supplant the 
corporate media and strengthen all our work?

·  How can we support each other? How can we support ourselves?

 

Short briefings will be offered on these topics by experts 
in each field, but all participants are responsible for the outcome 
because we still don't have the answers we need.

*TARGET PARTICIPANTS*
Leading media activists, A/V producers, authors, bloggers, journalists, 
scholars, whistleblowers, celebrities, publishers, broadcasters and 
funding angels.

 

*GOALS*

Ø      Gather key media constituencies needed to inject trans-formative 
truths into 2008 political news and electoral debate;

Ø      Honor brave audacious "truth war veterans" (casualties & 
survivors) and learn from their experiences.

Ø      Devise coherent decentralized models for distribution of 
suppressed news, synergistic truth-telling, and collaborative strategies 
to popularize deeper historical narratives.

Ø      Strategize collective action that establishes independent news 
media as a realistic and viable substitute for corporate news, and 
diminishes the domination of Fox, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and the 
mainstream newswires

Bring your best ideas, an open mind, and an urgent desire for change. In 
sum, we hope to discover in this moment of Constitutional crisis, 
ecological peril and widening war, if a roomful of top investigative 
journalists, whistleblowers and Indy-media all-stars can transform the 
way Americans perceive and defend their world.


-- 
Marc G. Smolowitz
Access SF Development
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1720 Market Street | San Francisco, CA 94102
Ph: 415-575-4947 | Fax: 415-575-4945
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