cool media conf this week at Carleton U

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Stephen Marshall will be in Canada this weekend, participating in

"Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis," the media conference organized by

OPIRG-Carleton University. For those who live nearby or who are planning on

attending, these are his scheduled events for Saturday afternoon:

1:45-3:00 p.m. Workshop session

“The Art of Revolution: How GNN Went From the Margins to MTV” (Tory

Building, Room 360)

3:00-4.30 p.m. Panel discussion: “Independent media and war” (Tory

Building, Room 360)

Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network)

Peter Phillips (Project Censored)

John Stauber (PR Watch)

Here's a description of the event:

Un-censoring: MediaMorphosis is organized by a group of undergraduate

and graduate university students operating under the umbrella of the

Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) of Carleton University, in

Ottawa, Canada. It is, with the objective of bringing people together

to discuss and exchange information on the currently expanding

manipulation of the mass media, that we are doing so. Our aim is to illustrate

the pivotal role played by corporate-sponsored mass media in

manipulating public perception about the world by controlling what we think about

and how we think about it.

Our objective is to enable people to detect media biases and think

critically, a necessary initial step towards re-building the foundations of

a better, and fully democratic, society. We aim to empower people, to

make them aware that we are the masters of our fate and we do not have

to depend on others to grant us what is already ours. Our freedom. Our

rights. Our dignity. We aim to promote a form of “public journalism” in

which the media enhance citizens’ participation in an effective public

life and help them regain control over their public affairs. We aim to

provide people with the necessary sense of public commitment to

actively engage in public discourse. We intend to impart the knowledge, tools

and skills necessary to be the media and create alternative channels of

communication so that people can express themselves and effectively

exercise their democratic rights and responsibilities.

This is the time to take actions to reclaim our sovereign freedom,

rights, privacy and dignity in a corporate-controlled mass-mediated

society. Join the mediamorphosis at Carleton University, in Ottawa, on March

4-6, 2004.

Hope to see some of you there,

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