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Contact: Josh Tabish,
Lead Coordinator, CounterCulture Speaker [email protected]
778.782.7353
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Renowned Author and Broadcaster David Barsamian Speaks in Vancouver
Vancouver, B.C. November 20, 2012. The CounterCulture Speaker Series is proud toannounce an upcoming talk with renowned journalist, broadcaster, and activist David Barsamian
taking place November 30, 2012 at SFUs Harbour Centre Campus (515 W. Hastings St.)
beginning at 6:30PM.
Barsamian is well known for his best-selling collaborations with famed intellectuals including
Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Edward Said. His latest is Occupy the Economy:
Challenging Capitalism with radical University of Massachusetts economist Richard Wolff. In
his Vancouver talk, Barsamian will offer attendees a critical look at economic crises in achanging world, and speculate on how we might act to prevent future collapses.
Outside of his writing, Barsamian the award-winning founder and director ofAlternative Radio,an independent, internationally-syndicated, talk radio program now in its 26 th year. Alternative
Radio can be heard regularly here in Vancouver on Coop Radio (CFRO) 100.5FM
His commitment to showcasing prominent progressive and humanitarian thinkers has garneredwide-spread acclaim. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its Top Ten
Media Heroes. In addition, he is the winner of the Media Education Award, the ACLU's Upton
Sinclair Award for independent journalism, and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the
Lannan Foundation.This free event will be held on Friday, November 30, 2012 at the SFU Harbour Centre Campus
(515 W. Hastings St) in the Terasen Cinema (room #1800). Let us know you will be attendingand RSVP on our Facebook page. For more information about the event head over to
www.mediademocracyday.org. The CounterCulture Speaker Series is a partnership with The
Media Democracy Project and SFUs Institute for the Humanities.About the CounterCulture Speaker Series:
CounterCulture is a discussion and screening series aimed at engaging interested members of the
public in critical debate on issues relating to art, media and political change. CounterCulture
aims to promote the democratic ideals of dissent, debate and discussion, constituting a point ofcontact between the university and local communities with free, public events held at SFUs
downtown Harbour Centre campus. Sponsored by SFUs Institute for the Humanities,
CounterCulture will help to create a significant presence for non-commercial alternative,independent, and democratic media in Canada.
About The Media Democracy Project:
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The Media Democracy Project is a group of people from both academic and activist communities
who are committed to democratizing the media. We believe that the media are central to thequestion of democracy for at least three reasons: (i) they are a significant source of political and
cultural information for Canadians, (ii) they make some perspectives or messages part of the
public discourse and neglect or omit others, and, (iii) they are owned by large corporate
conglomerates, who wield significant political and economic power. Our project is to promotedemocracy of the media system itself and through the media, and to do so we focus on three
principles, as identified in our tag line:
Know the Media | Be the Media | Change the Media
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Media Contacts:
Kathleen Cross, PhD.
Chair, The Media Democracy Project
Stuart Poyntz, PhD.
Steering Committee, The Media Democracy Project
778-782-7293
Josh Tabish
Lead Coordinator, Media Democracy Days 2012778.782.7353
