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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Apr 26 Barrie Zwicker on "Are Media a Lost Cause for Activists?"
Hi Barrie,
Okay great!
Please note the new location, the library holds 140 or so and has a video projector and large screen, so we're better off there.
It is a theatre with fixed chairs and so is not exactly a standard "workshop" setting, but better to have the extra space.
We're all set!! Well except Michel never sent me his bio that I requested March 19.
Richard
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Please circulate this notice of two upcoming events:
(1)
WORKSHOP with BARRIE ZWICKER:
"Are the Mainstream/Corporate Media a Lost Cause for Activists?"
Friday, April 26, 2002, 7:30 pm.
Ottawa Public Library (Main Branch)
120 Metcalfe St. (at Laurier)
(2)
SEPTEMBER 11: A PRETEXT for WAR
SPEAKERS: MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY and BARRIE ZWICKER
Saturday, April 27, 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Room 203, Montpetit Hall, 125 University Ave.
University of Ottawa.
(1)
WORKSHOP with BARRIE ZWICKER
(long-time journalist and media critic)
on Activist-Media Relations:
"Are the Mainstream/Corporate Media a Lost Cause for Activists?"
Friday, April 26, 2002, 7:30 pm.
Ottawa Public Library (Main Branch)
120 Metcalfe St. (at Laurier)
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* "Objectivity in journalism is advocacy for the status quo."
Tom Wicker, former writer for the New York Times
* "I've given up altogether on the corporate media."
Michael Valpy, Faith & Ethics reporter, The Globe & Mail; and NDP candidate in the last federal election
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About the WORKSHOP:
Barrie Zwicker's workshop on the relationships between activists and the media (both mainstream and alternative) will focus on key areas of concern for those interested in, and involved with peace, human rights and environmental campaigns. Barrie will use video clips to illustrate some of his points. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.
About BARRIE:
Barrie hosts Vision TV's weekly "Insight Media File" and is in his 14th year as Vision's resident media critic. He recently broadcast a controversial series of illustrated commentaries, called "The Great Deception." In these, Barrie dares to question the official version of what really happened on September 11. (This video will be shown in Ottawa on April 27, see details below.)
Barrie has worked in journalism and communications since age 16 (The Vancouver Province, The Detroit News, the Flint Journal, the Lansing State Journal, The Toronto Star and at The Globe and Mail for eight years). He taught journalism part time for seven years at Ryerson Polytechnic University and has co-authored and co-edited, "THE NEWS: Inside the Canadian Media" and authored "War, Peace and the Media."
(For more details about Barrie's work with the media, see the biographical notes below.)
This workshop is organized by:
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) http://www.ncf.ca/coat
NOWAR/PAIX (Network to Oppose War and Racism/Pacte contre l'agression, l'intolérance et la xénophobie)
For more information, contact:
Richard Sanders (COAT) 231-3076 ad207@ncf.ca
Mick Panesar (NOWAR/PAIX) 523-1077 nowar_paix@flora.org
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SEPTEMBER 11: A PRETEXT for WAR
Saturday, April 27
7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Room 203, Montpetit Hall,
125 University Ave.
University of Ottawa.
One block west of King Edward Ave.,
between Osgoode St. (Thomas-More) & Somerset St. E. (Marie-Curie)
See campus map: http://www.uottawa.ca/map/
SPEAKERS:
* MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY
An internationally acclaimed scholar, Michel Chossudovsky writes extensively on the civilian toll of globalization, the IMF, World Bank, NATO, US foreign policy and most recently, the wars against Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. He is co-editor of the new magazine "Global Outlook." The premiere issue, called "Stop the War," focuses on the hidden agenda behind the so-called 'War on Terrorism.'
More info: http://www.globalresearch.ca/
* BARRIE ZWICKER
A long-time journalist and media critic, Barrie Zwicker hosts Vision TV's weekly "Insight Media File" which recently broadcast a controversial series of his illustrated commentaries, called "The Great Deception." In these commentaries, Barrie dares to question the official version of what really happened on September 11.
PRESENTATIONS:
In their presentations, Barrie and Michel will discuss how the terrorist attacks of September 11 have been used as a pretext to unleash the so-called "War on Terrorism" whose real purpose is to project U.S. military, political and economic control over Central Asia and elsewhere.
VIDEO:
Barrie's controversial new video, "The Great Deception," will also be shown on April 27.
For more information on this event see this link on the COAT website:
http://www.ncf.ca/coat/links_main/september_11.htm
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Biographical Notes
Barrie Wallace Zwicker
(Updated 31 March 2002)
Barrie Zwicker is a media critic and broadcaster, in his 14th year as resident media critic for Vision TV, a cable DTH channel available in 7.5-million Canadian homes.
Zwicker last year hosted VisionTV Insight: the MediaFile Edition, a weekly half-hour commercial-free "alternative look at the media." He also moderated a media panel and provided a commentary each program.
Six of his commentaries -- a series titled "What Really Happened on Sept. 11th?" and which became known as "The Great Deception" -- elicited the greatest response of any programming in the channel's history. The series has been released on video.
In the Fall of 2002, Zwicker is to contribute to new, as-yet-unnamed, programs being invented over the Summer.
Zwicker has worked in journalism and communications since he was 16, when he joined the Russell (Man.) Banner as a Printer's Devil. He worked on major newspapers including The Vancouver Province, The Detroit News, the Flint Journal and the Lansing State Journal. He worked for a year at Canada's largest-circulation newspaper, The Toronto Star and for eight years at "Canada's National Newspaper," The Globe and Mail. While The Globe's education writer, he won all three top awards of the Education Writers' Association of North America.
Zwicker taught journalism part time for seven years at Ryerson Polytechnic University. His courses were "Media and Society" and then "Media, Ethics and the Law."
He has co-authored and co-edited, with the late Dick MacDonald THE NEWS: Inside the Canadian Media (Deneau) and authored War, Peace and the Media (Sources).
He has produced more than 200 media criticism segments for Vision TV in the past four seasons. Before that he contributed regularly to Vision's public affairs programs "It's About Time" and "Arts Express" from Vision's launch in September 1988.
Zwicker is also seen and heard as a media critic on CBC-TV, CTV's News1, RoB-TV and other TV and radio outlets and in print. For three and a half years his "Facing the Fourth Estate" commentary was nationally syndicated on 18 stations on CBC Radio.
He earned a Southam Fellowship (1967-68) and earlier (1959-61) the University of Michigan/Michigan Press Club Co-operative Journalism Fellowship, the first Canadian to do so.
He was owner and publisher of the journalism review content from 1974 through 1981, when he sold that publication to Humber College.
In 1999, he sold his directory business, Sources®, The Directory of Contacts for Editors, Reporters and Researchers, which he founded in June 1977.*
In the 1960s and 70s he was active in the Don Vale Association of Homeowners and Residents. Working in concert with then Ward 7 city Councillors John Sewell and Karl Jaffary, the association became a menace at City Hall. The Association succeeded in abolishing a so-called "urban renewal" plan for Don Vale which would have razed numerous homes - including Zwicker's - and turned the sites over to developers.
As Corresponding Secretary for the Association, Zwicker wrote letters and press releases arising from democratic meetings. He named and help found the ward's newspaper, 7 News. He also delivered it door to door.
He was awarded an honourary Life Membership in the Media Club of Canada in 1991 and is listed in Canadian Who's Who.
For more information about some of Barrie's recent broacasts:
http://hamilton.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=972&group=webcast
http://www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/insight.htm
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For more information about the events of April 26 - 27, contact:
Richard Sanders (COAT) 231-3076 ad207@ncf.ca
Mick Panesar (NOWAR/PAIX) 523-1077 nowar_paix@flora.org
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