Video: INDEPENDENT MEDIA: HOPES
AND CHALLENGES
7 pm, Wednesday March 20, ASHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY, 410 Siskiyou Blvd.
The Cuba/Venezuela series screens INDEPENDENT MEDIA: HOPES AND CHALLENGES. Speakers address how the US media promotes our foreign policy through propaganda, psychological warfare, and misinformation. (approx. 50 min.)
* Eva Golinger, attorney, author and journalist, discusses psychological operations and the contracts the US has with media corporations, acting to undermine the government of Venezuela.
* Greg Wilpert, US sociologist and journalist, relates how wealthy owners of major media in Venezuela helped to plan the short-lived 2002 coup.
* Michael Albert, US journalist, calls for more active alternative and community media, to counter and clarify the mainstream media on a global scale.
Doors open 6:30 to 7:15. All are welcome. Discussion to follow the screening.
For information call 541-482-8915.
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