[NYTr] Emergency Media Strategy Summit 1/25-27 Santa Cruz

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Project Censored - Dec 11, 2007
https://webmail.sonoma.edu/mailman/listinfo/project-censored-l
http://www.truthemergency.us/

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

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

*      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 popularize deeper historical narratives.

*      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.