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Date:
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:55:46 -0800
From:
"Rogi Riverstone"
Subject:
Re: [KUNMIDEAS-L] Fwd: plantation Mentality

I just lost my free speech to blog. Google bought
Blogger. Now, I can't access it from my WebTV. I must
use a computer. I'm privileged; most webtv users don't
own and can't afford a computer. Their blogging is
silenced.
See: http://msntv.blogspot.com/
Rogi Riverstone
http://rriverstone.com

Date:
Tue, 16 Jan 2007 16:42:37 -0800
From:
"megan kamerick"
Subject:
Re: [KUNMIDEAS-L] transcript of moyers speech

it's here
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/1112-10.htm
Megan
--- Halima Christy wrote:
>
> tried to send this earlier-- hope you are tuned
> in to this-
>
> --- the forwarded message follows ---
> > From: "Halima Christy"
> Subject: plantation Mentality

> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:46:44 -0700
>
> hi-
> i just heard a very unusual media speech- on
> "Democracy
> Now"
> (on TV- 10am Ch27 in Abq) by BILL MOYERS at the
> Media
> Conference in Memphis--
>
> Moyers passionately spoke- fire in his belly!--
> about
> --'elite plunder' of the very rich across the boards
> in US
> --- in everything, including radio, tv , cable,
> and they are going after internet more than we
> dreamed...
> -- conspiracy of the rich
> --"The American Dream vs The Gospel of wealth" (a
> book)
> --Censorship of Knowledge in the Media for last 50
> years
> -- Oligarchy's 'view from the top' in all media, and
> the
> effect it has repressing democracy
> --Media language concealing reality
> -- time to challenge the "Plantation mentality' we
> are all
> being subjected to by Washington & the corp
> media
> -- great book called "Digital Destiny"- must read
> for
> media lovers
>
> It seems like Moyers really did listen to Jos
> Campbell and
> to
> many of the healers in both of his historic series
> in the
> 80's
> while so many others were opting into the yuppie
> dream....
> Moyers
> talks about salvaging freedom of the press with
> digital-
> even tho
> the corp plundering has started--
> R Murdoch bought 'myspace', and Google already
> bought
> Utube, etc, etc--
>
> Moyers notes that with digital, 'everyman' has a
> pen, is a
> Tom
> Paine, and corp cannot be the only storywriters...
>
> Hoping that we all understand the nefarious
> ramifications
> of
> the 'plantation mentality', Moyers said maybe the
> civil
> rights
> movement in media starts when we stand up from our
> obsequious
> labors and realize " this ain't the product of
> intelligent
> design"
>
> He spoke of the original goals for radio- "classroom
> for
> the Air",
> and how they were exchanged for commercial
> sponsorship
> goals in the
> 40's and 50's....
>
> THIS is a GREAT speech, not to be missed by anyone
> who
> values
> Free Speech in any form. As one who worked in the
> FSM-
> the Free Speech Movement
> meetings started in the house next to mine on
> Carleton
> Street,
> and i have never fully recovered from that blast of
> intelligence-
> listening to Mario Savio, (whom i sometimes think
> of as
> the
> 'last best orator), and the others, being present at
>
> Sproul Hall Plaza
> from the first FSM demonstration on== with all the
> police
> tear gas
> attacks and arrests, etc etc--
> i don't get to hear GREAT SPEECHES nearly enough--
> most
> politicians
> and media people seem possessed with serious early
> Alzheimer's..
> (except for public media, bien sur),
> and the ONLY national TV show (are there others?)
> worth
> attention
> seems to be DEMOCRACY NOW-- which helps me
> to believe that free speech/democracy is just
> temporarily
> comatose..
>
> THIS Bill Moyers speech is GOOD FOR THE INTELLIGENT
> HEART....
>
> TREAT YOURSELF to some sane and brilliant thinking--
>
> listen today
> at 4 pm on www.KUNM.org (Albq time) if you are out
> of the
> area,
> to Bill Moyers on "Will the media foster democracy
> or
> quench it?"
>
> Health democracy for all,
>
> Halima