Friday Night: Opening Session 7pm
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Should Pacifica support in a major way the dissenters who are challenging the
presumptive election victory of the Republicans? How?
A Roundtable with participants from all five stations
* Military who refuse: Jeff Patterson, ex Marine who refused induction to Iraq,
organizer "Not in Our Name"
* Conversation opened by M.T. Karthik, Pacifica's National U.S. Elections Coordinator
Saturday Morning: 9:30am,
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How can we expand Pacifica and Independent media's reach: What has worked?
*Democracy Now!: a model for growth? - Denis Moynihan, DN! Outreach Director
& Ana Nogueira, Co-founder New York City Indymedia Center and DN! Producer
* Free Speech Radio News: How did its structure emerge and what changes are
underway? Is there another great technological leap on the horizon after MP3?
- Mic, FSRN Producer and Low Power FM radio activist
* LA Sound Posse: What outreach and organizing efforts are occurring out of
KPFK? - Dave Adelson
* Enemy Combatant Radio, SF Bay Indymedia - Mark B.
* KPFA General Manager: Roy Companella II
Saturday Noon: The seminar will host two international tele-panels. The first a meeting of internationally known intellectuals and critics, the second, a first ever international teleconference between community radio networks in the US, Latin America, and Europe. These conference calls will take place using free, open source telephony software called Skype (Mac OS X, PC, Linux) and include simultaneous text based translation.
The two teleconferences failed due to technical problems.
Panel One: What can we as a community of nations, independent thinkers and activists, what should we do about the problem we face with this growing empire that wants to be bigger and better than the Roman empire? What can we do for the preservation of culture, resources, the welfare of the planet and the people in it?
* USA: Pacifica Radio
* BUENAS AIRES: Rodrigo Tornero, Argentinean FM La Triba Radio Collective, producer
for ALER, The Latin American Association for Educational Radio
* MEXICO: Carlos Montemayor, author, journalist, political analyst and columnist
for La Jornada.
* MADRID: Rafael Cuesta: ALER, Red Con Voz
* Mario Villalobos: Anchor, ALER
Panel Two: How can the Pacifica Radio Network link up with the networks participating in this panel to have a freer faster information flow outside the mainstream media? What previous projects have you engaged in? What have been the results? How can we immediately began?
* USA: Pacifica Radio
* ARGENTINA: Rodrigo Tornero, member of the Buenos Aires-based FM La Tribu radio
collective.
* ECUADOR: Alar, continental network of community radio stations, daily broadcasters,
Mario Villalobos, journalist.
* SPAIN: Rafael Cuesta, member of the Madrid-based Red Con Voz radio collective.
* THE NETHERLANDS: Radio Netherlands (invited)
Saturday: 3pm-5pm
What is it most important for us to talk about now? (a facilitated open meeting)
Saturday Night: 7:30pm
Xenophobia the Father of Stupidity
Poetry and Soundscapes
* Keith Hennessy, dancer and performance artist Listen
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* Kim Shuck, Cherokee and leader of CA Poets in the Schools Listen to 64
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* Robert Knight, producer WBAI's Earthwatch, Flashpoints Headlines + Q and A
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Sunday Morning: 9:30am
Talk Back, feedback to the organizers
Sunday: 10:30am Unofficial Enemies
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* Ryme Kathouda: News Producer, WPFW, Co-Founder WBIX.org
* Prof. Kambiz Sakhai: author, "Communicative Reason & Medieval Iranian
Thought"
* Anti-Zionist Broadcasting in a Calvinist's Country: Nora Barrows Friedman,
Flashpoints (KPFA)
* Neil MacLean, Heathens and Heretics Unite!
Sunday: 2pm Indigenous Voices
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Voices
* Moderated by MT Karthik
* Jacqualine Battisse: KPFT, Houston, Texas
* Mary Jean Robertson: KPOO, San Francisco
Latino Voices
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Sunday: 3pm Listen to 32 kbps MP3 Dissidents or Nutcases: Should Interviewers
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* Moderated by MT Karthik
* 9/11 Who can say what happened?: Carol Brouillet, organizer
* Both "sides" Voted for War, Did Gatekeepers Make it Possible?: Joe
Wanzala
* And Opinions from Otis MacLay, Program Director, KPFT, Houston, Texas
Sunday: 7pm The Creamery Seminar Room
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Investigative reporting, what isn't being done? What connotes a real investigative report? What does it take for a story to sustain itself in the face of censorship?
* Dennis Bernstein, Flashpoints KPFA
* Response, Roy Campanella II., KPFA Station Manager
* Robert Knight, WBAI Earthwatch, Flashpoints KPFA
* Kevin Pena, investigative journalist, film maker, Haiti Response Listen to
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