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THE COUNTDOWN TO THE SYMPOSIUM HAS STARTED - An Update
As preparations accelerate towards the opening reception of this
ground-breaking conference, the following call, "Invitation to
Participate", is being endorsed widely and broadly. The Conference
organisers are promoting endorsement as an act of solidarising with
the stand in this call. The broadest possible front of people of
conscience needs to be developed, so that disinformation is isolated
to the maximum.
The Symposium will actually begin on the evening of Wednesday June
30th, with an opening reception at 7:30 p.m. in the FASS Building,
University Avenue, Dal University Campus. The reception will include
a ceilidh, with Gaelic performing artists, Spoken Word, and
(possibly) a Mi'kmaq traditional drumming troupe.
The initial Programme will be announced on this website and to the
Symposium listserv during the week of May 24th.
Sessions will include:
- 9/11 and the "war on terrorism"
- Islam / "clash of civilisations"
- Nation-building, Language and Rights (dealing with Palestine, the
Middle East, Eurocentrism, and minority languages)
- Cuba-Venezuela-Latin America
- First Nations
- Environment (International and North Atlantic fisheries; depleted
uranium; seismic testing; multi-national mining)
- The Dignity of Labour
- Issues of Journalism and Means of Communication
Halifax International Symposium on Media and Disinformation
Opening Reception/Ceilidh-Spoken Word 7:30 pm, June 30, 2004
July 1-4, 2004 - Dalhousie University - Halifax, Nova Scotia
=46ASS Building, University Avenue
http://www.halifaxsymposium.ca
Invitation to Participate
This International Symposium aims to deal with one of the most
pressing matters facing journalists, media and culture workers, and
all sections of the people -- disinformation. The main aim of the
Symposium is to empower journalists and collectives of the people by
definitively exposing the modus operandi and extent of
disinformation, presenting the experience of journalists and
activists across Canada and abroad in tackling it, and to consolidate
the long-term struggle for its elimination.
That disinformation exists is well established. The international
situation has become increasingly dangerous, filled with tension
between the peoples and the big powers and amongst the big powers
themselves. Disinformation has emerged as one of their most powerful
weapons against peace and humanity. The whole world is discussing how
the invasion and occupation of Iraq was justified by lies and
deceptions. But disinformation extends far beyond isolated examples;
whether it is the manipulation of "democracy" or of "human rights" or
of "nuclear-non-proliferation" to justify interference in the
internal affairs of sovereign nations and even launch pre-emptive
aggression, it has become so pervasive that it is the central rule,
rather than the exception.
Disinformation -- as distinct from misinformation -- relies on
mystifying the basis of change, development and motion in society,
and reduces objective reality to a matter of interpretation, debate
and discussion. Whether it is the "clash of civilizations" or the
thesis of "rogue" or "failed" states, disinformation relies on the
ideological content of imperialism.
=46or example, people simply are not able to understand the Palestinian
crisis as anything other that an "ethnic clash," because they are not
provided with information about the whole reality. They are not
provided with the context needed to come to any other conclusion than
the pre-determined one: a hopeless "cycle of violence."
The manipulation of information, the invention of pretexts, the
falsification of reality, and turning people against their own
interests is itself facilitated by the monopoly control over the
media, and the process of neo-liberal globalization. The
unprecedented concentration of media and power enables a tiny handful
of moguls with a preconceived agenda to deploy colossal resources to
dictate what is published and what is not, who is hired and who is
fired, all with the aim of disorienting people and usurping any
healthy discussion. Under the veneer of being "fair and balanced" and
even "objective," this media normalizes bias, disregards and changes
essential facts, and ignores and suppresses all those voices
presenting information and independent views.
Disinformation is not just a matter of a foreign policy adventure of
Bush or Blair, but has become a general method for imperial dictate
and monopoly right in the overall neo-liberal assault on conscience
and enlightenment, and the sovereign and democratic rights of nations
and peoples.
The Symposium will feature discussions of disinformation and how it
operates at the local, regional, national, and global levels. We
invite media workers, scholars, First Nations, labour, fishermen and
farmer's organizers, anti-war and environmental activists, publishers
and other concerned groups or individuals to present their experience
and expertise of disinformation. We are inviting journalists from
Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Palestine and other countries to share their
rich experience in fighting disinformation and interference in their
affairs.
Hostility towards the monopoly media is pronounced. Some are
concerned about the Americanization, some dislike the sensationalism,
some say that coverage is distorted, and others say that reality is
ignored altogether. But all express dissatisfaction and outrage. The
media, increasing numbers of people are realizing, does not serve
them, and even acts as a barrier to dealing with the pressing issues
they face.
These concerns have given rise to an explosion of new and independent
media on a global scale, as a voice to address peoples' rights and
concerns.
Those who are initiating this conference have professional
backgrounds in independent journalism and publishing, in radio,
print, film, books, and on the Internet. This Symposium is open to
everyone who is deeply concerned about disinformation, the mass media
and the kind of information and culture they represent. This
Symposium has been borne out of this concern. We share the conviction
that now is the time to develop our collective capability to
influence the course of events. It is the responsibility of those who
stand for the truth to thoroughly deal with the question of
disinformation. We are building a space where we can deal with the
question, and advance the long work of combatting disinformation and
building an independent media.
Let all those concerned about fighting disinformation converge on Halifax!
Organizing Committee:
* shunpiking magazine; Tony Seed, editor/publisher
* CKDU Radio (Halifax) 97.5 FM; Pierre Loiselle, spoken word co-ordinator
* The Dominion; Dru Oja Jay, editor/publisher
Sponsors:
* CHMA Radio (Sackville, NB)
* Fernwood Publishing Co. Ltd. (Black Point); Errol Sharpe, publisher
* Ideological Studies Centre (Ottawa/Hull); Sandra L. Smith, director
* Monkeyfist.com (Washington DC); Kendall Clark, editor
* Montreal Muslim News; Yahya Abdul Rahman, editor
* Wake Up with Co-op (CFRO, Vancouver); Charles Boylan, host
Endorsers:
* Active Voice Coalition (Prince George, BC)
* Hasan Abbas, Fellow at Harvard Law School, doctoral candidate
at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is
working on Islamic and international law and jihad. The author of two
books, one of them being released this summer, he is a former police
officer from Pakistan
* Christopher Anderson (New York), PhD candidate in
Communications; Columbia University, staff writer The Independent,
editor NYC-Independent Media Center website
* Axis of Logic (Boston); Les Blough, editor
* Dr Labeeb B'Soul (Halifax NS), professor, Comparative
Religion, Dalhousie University
* Dr Piotr Bein (BC); engineer-planner-scientist, author of
books and articles on information warfare on the Balkan conflict,
Depleted Uranium, co-founder du-watch@yahoogroups.com
* Canada Palestine Association; Dr. Ismail Zayid, president
* Canpalnet-Ottawa, member of the Canada Palestine Support Network
* Caravan Radio Show (CKUT, Montreal)
* Caroline Cameron (Inverness, NS), editorial co-ordinator, Mac-talla
* Isra'a Dabboour (Halifax, NS), computer programmer,
Palestinian commentator
* Dalhousie Students for Peace and Justice (Halifax, NS)
* The Dalhousie Gazette. Dalhousie University
* Dr Hassan El-Najjar (Dalton GA), editor, Al-Jazeerah
* En Camino (Toronto, ON), Justin Podur
* En-Visions Productions, Inc. (Halifax); Charles Lapp & Bill
McKiggan, filmmakers
* Greg Felton (New Westminster, BC), columnist,
MediaMonitors.net and Alberta Arab News; autho,r Enemies of Necessity
(July, 2004)
* Anthony Fenton (Vancouver, BC), journalist
* FromOccupiedPalestine.org, Valerie Zink & Jon Elme
* Gerry and Jose Gladwin (Wolfville, NS), teacher and librarian
/ Volkskayaks
* Don Grady, vice-president, South West Nova Scotia Fishermens'
Rights Association, Cape Sable Island
* Halifax People's Voice, newsletter of the People's Front (Halifax)
* Dr. Anthony Hall, Founding Coordinator of Globalization
Studies, University of Lethbridge; author, The American Empire and
the Fourth World, and other works
* Don Hill, host, Wild Rose Forum, CBC Radio One, Alberta
* Information: Montr=E9al - Palestine (<http://www.imopa.ca/>www.imopa.ca)
* Dr. M.R. Islam, Petroleum Engineering, Dalhousie - Sexton Campus
* Penney Kome (Calgary, AB), author and journalist
* Lewis MacKinnon, co-president, Chomhairle na G=E0idhlig, Alba
Nuadh / Gaelic Council of Nova Scotia
* Ashley MacPherson (Sackville, NB), communications studies,
Mount Allison University
* Randal Marlin (Ottawa, ON), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy,
Carleton University, author, Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
and other works
* MLPC Radio, University of Windsor
* Leuren Moret (Berkeley, CA); independent scientist, nuclear
weapons lab whistleblower, radiation specialist, Environmental
Commissioner in the City of Berkeley, and independent
journalis;.author of Foreword to Discounted Casualties: The Human
Cost of Depleted Uranium by Hiroshima journalist Akira Tashiro, and
other works; President, Scientists for Indigenous People, Past
President, Association for Women Geoscientists
* Nova Scotia Cuba Friendship Association
* Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombian journalist and author
resident in France. Contributor to Le Monde diplomatique. Author of
nine books, including The Cuban Exile Movement: Dissidents or
Mercenaries? (translated into eight languages) and Bacardi: The
Hidden War (translated into seven languages). Based on this research,
the Franco-German network ARTE and Britain's BBC produced two
documentaries. Presently doing research on the manipulation of news
carried out by Reporters Without Borders, a French organization which
is supported by significant European media.
* Palestine House, Toronto
* Paper Tiger TV, New York
* Parent-Child Guide (Halifax, NS), Robert Rockwell, publisher
* Susan Riordan (Yarmouth, NS), Canadian Gulf War veterans widow
* Bill Ross (Delta, ON), believer
* Isaac Saney (Halifax), professor, International Development &
Black History, Dalhousie & St. Mary's Universities; author, Cuba:
Revolution in Motion
* Debby Seed (Toronto, ON), writer/editor, author, The Amazing
Water Book and other works
* Smoke Signals First Nations Radio, CHRW 94.9FM www.chrwradio.com
(Hosts) Dan Smoke-Asayenes and Mary Lou Smoke-Asayenes Kwe
Outstanding Multicultural Program for 2004
* Dr. Jaspal Singh, South Asian Review (Canada), South Asian Center, MA
* Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for
Public Accuracy, associate FAIR, columnist ("Media Beat"); co-author,
Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, author, The Habits
of Highly Deceptive Media, amongst others
* Splitting the Sky, Mohawk Territory; author of The
Autobiography of Spiltting the Sky: From Attica to Gustafsen Lake
* Dr. Erin Steuter, professor of Communication Studies, Mt.
Allison University, Sackville, NB
* Susan Thompson (Edmonton, AB), freelance writer/editor
* =FCberCulture Collective (Montreal/Halifax/Vancouver)
* Vive le Canada (Edmonton, AB) http://www.vivelecanada.ca
* Dr. James Winter, professor of Communication Studies,
University of Windsor, ON; author Mediathink, Democracy's Oxygen: How
Corporations Control The News, amongst others
* Workers' Forum (Toronto); Pierre Ch=E9nier, secretary
* John & Karen S. Wright (Kansas City), Heartland Labor Forum
* Gary Zatzman, co-editor, Dossier on Palestine
* Barrie Zwicker (Toronto), broadcaster and writer, producer
"The Great Deception: The War on Terrorism, An Alternate View";
former host Vision TV's weekly "Insight Media File"; Director,
International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11 http://www.911inquiry.org/
In the interests of strengthening the unified front against
disinformation on a world scale, we encourage everyone to discuss and
endorse this Call and the Halifax International Symposium on Media
and Disinformation. We warmly encourage everyone to take up this Call
as your own and popularize it widely among your fellow journalists
and other contacts throughout the world.
Please contact us as soon as possible and we will add your names immediately=
=2E
Contact
Telephone: 902.444.4922 (outside North America: 001.902.444.4922)
=46ax: 001.902.444.7595
E-mail: info@halifaxsymposium.ca
Post: Halifax Symposium, PO Box 31377, Halifax, NS, Canada B3K 5Z1
Website: www.halifaxsymposium.ca
Subscribe
To receive email updates about the Halifax Symposium, send an email
message to info@halifaxsymposium.ca with "symposium subscribe" in the
subject line.
Registration
Registration fees are $120 ($100 for students and unwaged folk). This
covers four days of events; some meals provided. To pre-register,
send the following details to info@halifaxsymposium.ca:
* Your full name
* Your email address
* Your mailing address
* Any organizations you are representing
* Your web site address (if you have one)
* Whether you require billeting
* How many days you plan to stay
Registration is capped at 240 participants.
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<div align=3D"center"><font size=3D"+2"><b>THE COUNTDOWN TO THE SYMPOSIUM
HAS STARTED - An Update</b></font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">As preparations accelerate towards the opening
reception of this ground-breaking conference, the following call,
"Invitation to Participate", is being endorsed widely and
broadly. The Conference organisers are promoting endorsement as an act
of solidarising with the stand in this call. The broadest possible
front of people of conscience needs to be developed, so that
disinformation is isolated to the maximum.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">The Symposium will actually begin on the evening
of Wednesday June 30th, with an opening reception at 7:30 p.m. in the
=46ASS Building, University Avenue, Dal University Campus. The reception
will include a ceilidh, with Gaelic performing artists, Spoken Word,
and (possibly) a Mi'kmaq traditional drumming troupe.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">The initial Programme will be announced on this
website and to the Symposium listserv during the week of May
24th.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">Sessions will include:</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- 9/11 and the "war on
terrorism"</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- Islam / "clash of
civilisations"</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- Nation-building, Language and Rights (dealing
with Palestine, the Middle East, Eurocentrism, and minority
languages)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- Cuba-Venezuela-Latin America</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- First Nations</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- Environment (International and North Atlantic
fisheries; depleted uranium; seismic testing; multi-national
mining)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- The Dignity of Labour</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">- Issues of Journalism and Means of
Communication</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br></div>
<div align=3D"center"><font size=3D"+2"><b>Halifax International Symposium
on Media and Disinformation</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div align=3D"center">Opening Reception/Ceilidh-Spoken Word 7:30 pm,
June 30, 2004</div>
<div align=3D"center"><br></div>
<div align=3D"center">July 1-4, 2004 - Dalhousie University - Halifax,
Nova Scotia</div>
<div align=3D"center">FASS Building, University Avenue</div>
<div align=3D"center">http://www.halifaxsymposium.ca</div>
<div align=3D"center"><br></div>
<div align=3D"center"><font size=3D"+2"><b>Invitation to
Participate</b></font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">This International Symposium aims to deal with
one of the most pressing matters facing journalists, media and culture
workers, and all sections of the people -- disinformation. The main
aim of the Symposium is to empower journalists and collectives of the
people by definitively exposing the modus operandi and extent of
disinformation, presenting the experience of journalists and activists
across Canada and abroad in tackling it, and to consolidate the
long-term struggle for its elimination.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">That disinformation exists is well established.
The international situation has become increasingly dangerous, filled
with tension between the peoples and the big powers and amongst the
big powers themselves. Disinformation has emerged as one of their most
powerful weapons against peace and humanity. The whole world is
discussing how the invasion and occupation of Iraq was justified by
lies and deceptions. But disinformation extends far beyond isolated
examples; whether it is the manipulation of "democracy" or
of "human rights" or of "nuclear-non-proliferation"
to justify interference in the internal affairs of sovereign nations
and even launch pre-emptive aggression, it has become so pervasive
that it is the central rule, rather than the exception.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
Disinformation -- as distinct from misinformation -- relies on
mystifying the basis of change, development and motion in society, and
reduces objective reality to a matter of interpretation, debate and
discussion. Whether it is the "clash of civilizations" or
the thesis of "rogue" or "failed" states,
disinformation relies on the ideological content of imperialism.<br>
<br>
=46or example, people simply are not able to understand the Palestinian
crisis as anything other that an "ethnic clash," because
they are not provided with information about the whole reality. They
are not provided with the context needed to come to any other
conclusion than the pre-determined one: a hopeless "cycle of
violence."</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
The manipulation of information, the invention of pretexts, the
falsification of reality, and turning people against their own
interests is itself facilitated by the monopoly control over the
media, and the process of neo-liberal globalization. The unprecedented
concentration of media and power enables a tiny handful of moguls with
a preconceived agenda to deploy colossal resources to dictate what is
published and what is not, who is hired and who is fired, all with the
aim of disorienting people and usurping any healthy discussion. Under
the veneer of being "fair and balanced" and even
"objective," this media normalizes bias, disregards and
changes essential facts, and ignores and suppresses all those voices
presenting information and independent views.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
Disinformation is not just a matter of a foreign policy adventure of
Bush or Blair, but has become a general method for imperial dictate
and monopoly right in the overall neo-liberal assault on conscience
and enlightenment, and the sovereign and democratic rights of nations
and peoples.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
The Symposium will feature discussions of disinformation and how it
operates at the local, regional, national, and global levels. We
invite media workers, scholars, First Nations, labour, fishermen and
farmer's organizers, anti-war and environmental activists, publishers
and other concerned groups or individuals to present their experience
and expertise of disinformation. We are inviting journalists from
Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti, Palestine and other countries to share their
rich experience in fighting disinformation and interference in their
affairs.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
Hostility towards the monopoly media is pronounced. Some are concerned
about the Americanization, some dislike the sensationalism, some say
that coverage is distorted, and others say that reality is ignored
altogether. But all express dissatisfaction and outrage. The media,
increasing numbers of people are realizing, does not serve them, and
even acts as a barrier to dealing with the pressing issues they
face.</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
These concerns have given rise to an explosion of new and independent
media on a global scale, as a voice to address peoples' rights and
concerns.<br>
<br>
Those who are initiating this conference have professional backgrounds
in independent journalism and publishing, in radio, print, film,
books, and on the Internet. This Symposium is open to everyone who is
deeply concerned about disinformation, the mass media and the kind of
information and culture they represent. This Symposium has been borne
out of this concern. We share the conviction that now is the time to
develop our collective capability to influence the course of events.
It is the responsibility of those who stand for the truth to
thoroughly deal with the question of disinformation. We are building a
space where we can deal with the question, and advance the long work
of combatting disinformation and building an independent media.<br>
<br>
Let all those concerned about fighting disinformation converge on
Halifax!</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><b>Organizing Committee:</b><br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>shunpiking magazine; Tony Seed,
editor/publisher<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>CKDU Radio
(Halifax) 97.5 FM; Pierre Loiselle, spoken word co-ordinator<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>The
Dominion; Dru Oja Jay, editor/publisher</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><b>Sponsors:</b><br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>CHMA Radio (Sackville,
NB)<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Fernwood Publishing Co. Ltd.
(Black Point); Errol Sharpe, publisher<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Ideological Studies Centre
(Ottawa/Hull); Sandra L. Smith, director<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Monkeyfist.com (Washington DC);
Kendall Clark, editor</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Montreal Muslim News; Yahya Abdul Rahman, editor</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Wake Up with
Co-op (CFRO, Vancouver); Charles Boylan, host</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><b>Endorsers:</b></font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Active Voice Coalition (Prince George, BC)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Hasan Abbas, Fellow at Harvard Law School, doctoral candidate
at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He is
working on Islamic and international law and jihad. The author of two
books, one of them being released this summer, he is a former police
officer from Pakistan</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Christopher Anderson (New York), PhD candidate in
Communications; Columbia University, staff writer The Independent,
editor NYC-Independent Media Center website</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Axis of Logic
(Boston); Les Blough, editor</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr Labeeb B'Soul (Halifax NS), professor, Comparative
Religion, Dalhousie University</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr Piotr Bein (BC); engineer-planner-scientist, author of
books and articles on information warfare on the Balkan conflict,
Depleted Uranium, co-founder du-watch@yahoogroups.com</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Canada Palestine
Association; Dr. Ismail Zayid, president</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Canpalnet-Ottawa, member of the Canada Palestine Support
Network</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Caravan Radio Show (CKUT, Montreal)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Caroline Cameron (Inverness, NS), editorial co-ordinator,
Mac-talla</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Isra'a Dabboour (Halifax, NS), computer programmer,
Palestinian commentator</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Dalhousie
Students for Peace and Justice (Halifax, NS)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>The Dalhousie Gazette. Dalhousie University</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr Hassan El-Najjar (Dalton GA), editor, Al-Jazeerah<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>En Camino (Toronto, ON), Justin
Podur</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>En-Visions
Productions, Inc. (Halifax); Charles Lapp & Bill McKiggan,
filmmakers<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Greg Felton (New
Westminster, BC), columnist, MediaMonitors.net and Alberta Arab News;
autho,r Enemies of Necessity (July, 2004)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Anthony Fenton
(Vancouver, BC), journalist<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>FromOccupiedPalestine.org,
Valerie Zink & Jon Elme</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Gerry and Jose Gladwin (Wolfville, NS), teacher and librarian
/ Volkskayaks</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Don Grady, vice-president, South West Nova Scotia Fishermens'
Rights Association, Cape Sable Island</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Halifax People's Voice, newsletter of the People's Front
(Halifax)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr. Anthony Hall, Founding Coordinator of Globalization
Studies, University of Lethbridge; author, The American Empire and the
=46ourth World, and other works</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Don Hill, host, Wild Rose Forum, CBC Radio One,
Alberta</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Information: Montr=E9al - Palestine (</font><a
href=3D"http://www.imopa.ca/"><font
size=3D"+1">www.imopa.ca</font></a><font size=3D"+1">)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr. M.R. Islam, Petroleum Engineering, Dalhousie - Sexton
Campus</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Penney Kome (Calgary, AB), author and journalist</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Lewis MacKinnon,
co-president, Chomhairle na G=E0idhlig, Alba Nuadh / Gaelic Council of
Nova Scotia</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Ashley MacPherson (Sackville, NB), communications studies,
Mount Allison University</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Randal Marlin (Ottawa, ON), Adjunct Professor of Philosophy,
Carleton University, author, Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
and other works</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>MLPC Radio,
University of Windsor</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Leuren Moret (Berkeley, CA); independent scientist, nuclear
weapons lab whistleblower, radiation specialist, Environmental
Commissioner in the City of Berkeley, and independent
journalis;.author of Foreword to Discounted Casualties: The Human Cost
of Depleted Uranium by Hiroshima journalist Akira Tashiro, and other
works; President, Scientists for Indigenous People, Past President,
Association for Women Geoscientists</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Nova Scotia Cuba Friendship Association</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Hernando Calvo Ospina, Colombian journalist and author
resident in France. Contributor to<i> Le Monde diplomatique</i>.
Author of nine books, including<i> The Cuban Exile Movement:
Dissidents or Mercenaries?</i> (translated into eight languages)
and<i> Bacardi: The Hidden War</i> (translated into seven languages).
Based on this research, the Franco-German network ARTE and Britain's
BBC produced two documentaries. Presently doing research on the
manipulation of news carried out by Reporters Without Borders, a
=46rench organization which is supported by significant European
media.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Palestine House, Toronto</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Paper Tiger TV, New York</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Parent-Child Guide (Halifax, NS), Robert Rockwell,
publisher</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Susan Riordan</font><font size=3D"+2"> (Yarmouth, NS), Canadian
Gulf War veterans widow</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Bill Ross (Delta, ON), believer<br>
<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Isaac Saney
(Halifax), professor, International Development & Black History,
Dalhousie & St. Mary's Universities; author, Cuba: Revolution in
Motion</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Debby Seed (Toronto, ON), writer/editor, author, The Amazing
Water Book and other works</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Smoke Signals First Nations Radio, CHRW 94.9FM
www.chrwradio.com<br>
(Hosts) Dan Smoke-Asayenes and Mary Lou Smoke-Asayenes Kwe<br>
Outstanding Multicultural Program for 2004</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr. Jaspal Singh, South Asian Review (Canada), South Asian
Center, MA</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public
Accuracy, associate FAIR, columnist ("Media Beat");
co-author, Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You, author,
The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media, amongst others</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Splitting the Sky, Mohawk Territory</font>;<font size=3D"+1">
author of The Autobiography of Spiltting the Sky: From Attica to
Gustafsen Lake</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr. Erin Steuter, professor of Communication Studies, Mt.
Allison University, Sackville, NB</font><br>
</div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Susan Thompson (Edmonton, AB), freelance
writer/editor</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>=FCberCulture
Collective (Montreal/Halifax/Vancouver)</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Vive le Canada (Edmonton, AB)
http://www.vivelecanada.ca</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Dr. James Winter, professor of Communication Studies,
University of Windsor, ON; author Mediathink, Democracy's Oxygen: How
Corporations Control The News, amongst others</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Workers' Forum (Toronto); Pierre Ch=E9nier,
secretary</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>John & Karen S. Wright (Kansas City), Heartland Labor
=46orum</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1">*<x-tab>
</x-tab>Gary Zatzman, co-editor, Dossier on Palestine</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>Barrie Zwicker
(Toronto), broadcaster and writer, producer "The Great Deception:
The War on Terrorism, An Alternate View"; former host Vision TV's
weekly "Insight Media File"; Director, International
Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11 http://www.911inquiry.org/</font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><br></font></div>
<div><font size=3D"+1"><b>In the interests of strengthening the unified
front against disinformation on a world scale, we encourage everyone
to discuss and endorse this Call and the Halifax International
Symposium on Media and Disinformation. We warmly encourage everyone to
take up this Call as your own and popularize it widely among your
fellow journalists and other contacts throughout the world.</b><br>
<br>
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immediately.<br>
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001.902.444.4922)</font></div>
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E-mail: info@halifaxsymposium.ca<br>
Post: Halifax Symposium, PO Box 31377, Halifax, NS, Canada B3K
5Z1</font></div>
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