This week’s program presents excerpts from “The Long Sili-CON: Power and Censorship in the Digital Era,” a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and The Real News Network. The first in a series of three programs examining life and media in the modern age of pervasive digital communication as well as censorship. It examines the question “Is Freedom Possible in the Digital Era?” The panelists included Andy Lee Roth, Allison Butler and John K. Wilson; with moderators Maximillian Alvarez of The Real News Network and Mickey Huff of Project Censored.

Notes:
Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, and co-editor of the annual Project Censored books. Alison Butler is senior lecturer and Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program in Communications, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. John K. Wilson is Contributing Editor to Academeblog.org, a project of the American Association of University Professors. Maximillian Alvarez is Editor-in-Chief at the Real News Network.

A video of the entire program can be seen below:

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On March 21st, 2021, an alliance of peace organizations presented the “Cold War Truth Commission,” a day of online lectures and discussion about the origins of the Cold War, and the millions of human lives it took, mainly from US invasions and proxy wars. Sponsoring organizations included Witness for Peace Southwest, School of the Americas Watch, Code Pink, KPFK Radio, Project Censored, and more. This week’s Project Censored Show presents Part 2 of our selections from that ten-hour event.

Notes:
Medea Benjamin co-founded the organizations Code Pink and Global Exchange. Her books include “Inside Iran” and “Kingdom of the Unjust.” Eric Mann is Director of the Labor-Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, co-chair of the L.A. Bus Riders’ Union, and the author of “Playbook for Progressives.” Marcy Winograd is Coordinator of Code Pink Congress and a retired school teacher. Mickey Huff teaches History and Journalism at Diablo Valley College in northern California; he’s also the Director of Project Censored and the host of the Project Censored Show. Jeff Cohen is founder of the media-watch group FAIR, and co-founder of RootsAction.org. Rachel Brunke (Witness for Peace Southwest) and Frank Dorrel (Veterans  or Peace) were the hosts of the event.

More information can be found at codepink. Here is a video of the event:

A video of the entire day’s proceedings can be seen online at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq92c4Y-MoQ and more information can be found at www.codepink.org/coldwartruth

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On March 21st, 2021, an alliance of peace organizations presented the “Cold War Truth Commission,” a day of online lectures and discussion about the origins of the Cold War, and the millions of human lives it took, mainly from US invasions and proxy wars. Sponsoring organizations included Witness for Peace Southwest, School of the Americas Watch, Code Pink, KPFK Radio, Project Censored and more. This week’s Project Censored Show presents selections from that ten-hour event; next week’s show will present additional excerpts.

Notes:
Jim Lafferty is former executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Chapter. Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University, and coauthor of The Untold History of the United States. Alice Slater is a board member of World Beyond War, and the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Norman Solomon is an author, media critic, and founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Rachel Brunke (Witness for Peace Southwest) and Frank Dorrel (Veterans for Peace) were the hosts of the event.

A video of the entire day’s proceedings can be seen here.

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On this week’s Project Censored Show: History Matters. Historian and author Claudio Saunt is featured on the program for the hour. He addresses the mass expulsion of Native American Indians from the Southern US in the 19th Century, an event that would be described as the “Trail of Tears.” Prof. Saunt refers to this so-called “removal” as a deportation and extermination policy in his 2020 book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. His talk examines this little known history, including the political maneuvering by President Andrew Jackson to narrowly push the Indian Removal Act through Congress, as well as contemporary ramifications of such events.

Notes:
This program was recorded at an online discussion for KPFA-FM on March 31, 2021; the event was hosted by Mickey Huff via Zoom. Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of four books, including Unworthy Republic, the subject of today’s show, which was the winner of the 2021 Bancroft Prize.

the Project Censored Show:

Host: Mickey Huff

Producer: Anthony Fest

Music-break information:
1) & 3) “Trail of Tears” by Patrick Myers
2) “We Are Chickasaw” by Jesse Lindsey

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Today’s program focuses on the value of Critical Media Literacy, both for students and youth, and in wider public discourse. Mickey’s first guest is Alison Trope of the USC Annenberg School’s Critical Media Project. Trope explains how her institution is helping LA-area high school students learn to analyze media and its influence, something that is much needed across all sectors of our society in the US. In the second half of the show, Nolan Higdon and Mickey make the case for critical media literacy and free speech, in opposition to censorship and deplatforming.

Notes:

Dr. Alison Trope is Clinical Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California, and founder/director of the Critical Media Project. Dr. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in History and Media Studies at California State University, East Bay, and UC Santa Cruz, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. He is author most recently of The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education.

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Mickey’s first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospects for progressive change in 2021. Then author Dan Kovalik returns to the program to discuss his latest work, “Cancel This Book,” which warns of the dangers of ‘cancel culture.’

Notes:

Shahid Buttar is a civil-rights lawyer; he’s worked at public-interest organizations including the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In the 2020 election, he challenged long-time incumbent Nancy Pelosi for her seat in California’s 12th District (San Francisco). Dan Kovalik is a law professor and a prolific author; some of his recent books include “No More War,” and “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela.”

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Mickey’s guest for the first half of this week’s show is Jordan Elgrably, editor of The Markaz Review. They explore the importance of free speech and a free press in an open society that are covered in this month’s issue, “Why Truth?” In the second half of the show, Project Censored’s Andy Lee Roth discusses his recent article in this issue about how nonhuman censors — algorithms — are exerting tremendous, yet unseen, control over which stories users of online media are able to see as well as the pernicious impact these new gatekeepers of information have on society in the digital era.

Notes:

Jordan Elgrably, editor of the Markaz Review, is a widely-published writer. He was also the cofounder of the Levantine Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, and coeditor of the Project’s annual volume of censored stories and other media analysis. His article on algorithms as media gatekeepers can be found here.

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In the first half of the program, peace organizer Medea Benjamin looks at the Biden Administration’s foreign policy, and finds it mainly a disappointment. Then Rebecca Grace and John Gray introduce the Complete Picture Project, an organization that assembles videos of nonviolent offenders facing sentencing, so that a sentencing judge will learn more about an offender’s entire life, including family and community connections, rather than only the criminal record.

Notes: Medea Benjamin is co-founder of the women’s peace organization Code Pink; she’s also written eight books, including “Inside Iran” and “Kingdom of the Unjust.” Her recent article on Biden’s foreign policy can be found here.  Rebecca Grace and John Gray are the founders of the Complete Picture Project. Gray himself served a prison term for crimes related to an old drug habit.

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Daniel Ellsberg is best-known as the whistleblower who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” to the press, but has also written on the threat posed by nuclear weapons, and on other issues of war and peace. Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC, and co-author of “The Untold History of the United States.” Katherine Gun is a British whistleblower who exposed U-S efforts to browbeat other nations into supporting George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Peter Dale Scott is a retired professor, a former Canadian diplomat, and a prolific author on the ‘deep state.’ James Galbraith is Professor of Government at the University of Texas, and a son of the late author John Kenneth Galbraith. Aaron Good teaches at a Quaker high school in Pennsylvania, holds a doctorate from Temple University, and is a frequent contributor to Project Censored.

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