EMPIRE, POWER, AND PROPAGANDA LECTURE SERIES

STARTS FEBRUARY 18, 2010

FOCUS ON PALESTINE/GAZA PANEL:

CYNTHIA McKINNEY, “The People’s Secretary of State”, former Congresswoman

BARBARA LUBIN and ZIAD ABBAS, Middle East Children’s Alliance

NUHA MASRI, UC Berkeley student activist

NORA BARROWS-FRIEDMAN, award-winning Flashpoints producer

February 18, 7:00 PM, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists,1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley

Sliding scale $5-$20 at the door, Benefit for Nora Barrows-Friedman’s Palestine/Gaza Investigative Reports on Flashpoints KPFA.

Introduction by MICKEY HUFF, director of Project Censored/Media Freedom Foundation, co-sponsors include ANSWER, World Can’t Wait, MECA

Upcoming lectures in the series include:

March 4th, Focus On Haiti: Hosted by Dennis Bernstein with panelists Walter Riley, Kevin Pina, and Pierre LaBossiere

March 18th, Focus on Indigenous Rights with Miguel Molina of Flashpoints and La Onda, others

March 25th, Focus on Obama’s 9/11 Wars Hosted by Mickey Huff with panelists Larry Everest, Russ Baker, and Bill Hackwell

April 22nd, Focus on Censorship and Propaganda: Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation: Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff, co-editors of Censored 2010 will speak on media censorship, propaganda, and the Truth Emergency in the US

The series is a fund raiser in support of Flashpoints Radio, and the Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored Investigative Reporting fund.

All events are on Thursday evenings at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar at Bonita, talks from 7-9 P.M., doors at 6:30. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Event is wheelchair accessible.