Host Per Fagereng interviews author and radio host David Barsamian about the elections and foreign policy.
David Barsamian will be speaking on "Elections & War" as well as a Q & A with audience members. This is a fundraiser for KBOO
Community Radio. Friday, November 5, 2010; Doors at 7:00 PM
First Unitarian Church of Portland's Historic Eliot Chapel
1011 SW 12th Avenue
Tickets: $7 at the door.
David will also speak on "The Middle East and The Media" Tuesday, Nov. 9, at the Troubadour Music Center, 521 SW 3rd street, Corvallis.
David Barsamian is the award winning founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. AR presents information and perspectives that are ignored or distorted in the corporate-controlled media. The one-hour program is broadcast on public radio stations in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries. His interviews and articles appear in The Progressive, The Nation, Z and other journals and magazines.
He is winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten Media Heroes.
He is the author of numerous books with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Eqbal Ahmad, Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy and Edward Said. His series of books with Chomsky, America's leading dissident, have sold in the hundreds of thousands and have been translated into many languages. His latest books are What We Say Goes with Noam Chomsky and Targeting Iran. He lectures all over the world. In December 2007, he gave the Eqbal Ahmad lectures in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore in Pakistan.
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