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Info on David Barsamian
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH – DAVID BARSAMIAN
David Barsamian is founder and director of “Alternative Radio”, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author, and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in the Progressive and Z Magazine.
As a writer, Mr. Barsamian is best known for his series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, which have been published in book form and translated into many languages, selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
His newest book with Noam Chomsky is Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy; and other books such as Targeting Iran with Noam Chomsky, Ervand Abrahamian, and Nahid Mozaffari; Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky; Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali; and Original Zinn with Howard Zinn . His earlier books include Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting.
His show, “Alternative Radio” airs on 90.1 FM, KKFI in Kansas City on Wednesdays at 9 AM following ”Democracy Now.”
The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its “Top Ten Media Heroes.” Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU’s Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism, the 2006 Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Award and the Cultural Freedom Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation.
Mr. Barsamian spoke previously at the Friends of Community Media’s annual media awards event to honor those in the media who have served their communities
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Ascertainment at KKFI
KKFI ascertainment forum on Thursday, 10/26 at 6:00 PM sponsored by the United Minority Media Association. KKFI Annex room at 39th and Main. Friends of Community Medias a co-sponsor and will have information about net neutrality and other activities coming up. M.C. Richardson is the coordinator.
All are welcome to bring diversity to the airways.
Saturday Event
This Saturday, October 21, 2017, 2-3:30 PM, Friends of Community
Media (FCM) Forum will feature a videoconference / webinar with Lewis
Friedland, professor of journalism at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, and author and editor of multiple works in this area
including "The Communication Crisis in America, And How to Fix It"
(2016) (Palgrave).
Venue:
KKFI Annex
3901 Main St.
Kansas City, MO (rear door, second floor)
Title: Communication’s Challenge to Democracy
This is the October 2017 episode of the FCM Forum, which hopes to
catalyze improvements to media and in the greater Kansas City area.
Hope to see you.
Spencer Graves, Secretary
Friends of Community Media
ph: 408-655-4567
https://journalism.wisc.edu/staff/lewis-a-friedland/
Ascertainment at KKFI 4/20/17
Community ascertainment at KKFI – all welcome
Just a reminder of what MC Richardson has been working on to make our organizations more inclusive. This would be a good chance to explain and learn why media awareness and reform are important. Attached is a flyer we will pass out as well an updated FCM fact sheet.
I’d encourage anyone that can, to attend.
-=Tom Crane=-
The news release is below:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 17, 2017
Contact Person – M.C. Richardson
Coordinator and Consultant
Mobile (816) 694-2273
KKFI 90.1 FM COMMUNITY ASCERTAINMENT FORUM
KKFI MID-COAST RADIO PROJECT,INC. will host its FIRST Community Ascertainment Forum this Thursday April 20, 2017 in KKFI Annex Room 6-8 p.m. location 3901 Main Street after 5:00 p.m.
you must enter rear entrance and park in Great American Bank’s Parking Lot. Take elevator to second level.
Mid-Coast Radio Project, Inc. KKFI is one of 200 Community Stations in the nation non commercial will bring together 18 Community Organizations, Agencies or Neighborhood Groups to voice their concerns and or issues for the betterment of Kansas City. These organizations are normally overlooked by previous held ascertainment gatherings, nor are the groups able to share their upcoming events with these meetings.
Some of the guest organizations include: Black Agenda Group, KCMO and Northeast Johnson County NAACP, Greater Kansas City Buffalo Soldiers 150 Celebration, Juneteenth Emancipation Proclamation Celebration, KCMO Human Relations Civil Rights Div., Midtown Kiwanis of Kansas City, FIRST CALL Drug and Alcohol Abuse,, League of Women Votes of Jackson County/Clay/Platte Counties, NEW GRAY PANTHERS, Eggs and Enlightenment, 24 HOUR FAITH TRAINING CENTER, Friends of Community Media Hogan College Prep Academy, TY-COR Great Plains Indians and Watkins Foundation Slave Cemeteries History.
This first of a kind event has invited various Media Groups located in Greater Kansas City which attendees can greet and meet. KKFI which is THE FLAG SHIP. And targeting PEOPLE of COLOR not limit to. Event Open to Public Refreshments served.
Other KKFI Community Ascertainment Forums scheduled for 2017 are July 20th and October 26th. Interviews can be arranged and electric outlets are available if needed.
Newspapers needing photos contact Jerry Lockett at (816) 588-9264, Groovy Grant (816) 756-7620 or M.C. Richardson