[Robert A Cook PE]

Who is McChesney - The “ruler” and writer of the FCC reg’s?

[azkathy]

You ask who is Robert McChesney, I learned about him years ago-2004 or 2005. I found the program for Radfest 2004. It was an organizing event for SOCIALISTS. I am looking for the program-but here is the announcement for it. PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY THE HAVENS CENTER UW-Madison presents RADFEST 2004 MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM Lake Geneva Campus of Aurora University Williams Bay, WI June 4-6, 2004 www.havenscenter.org Dear friend: I would like to invite you to RadFest 2004, an annual weekend conference for progressive activists and academics organized by the A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Also known as the Midwest Social Forum, the central goal of the conference is to provide an opportunity for progressive activists, organizers, and intellectuals to come together to discuss issues, strengthen networks, and devise strategies for progressive social, economic, and political change. The conference has grown significantly in recent years, becoming an important annual gathering for progressives. Last year, for example, approximately 425 people from throughout the upper Midwest and beyond attended. This year, our program has expanded considerably and we expect an even larger turnout. The conference will take place on the weekend of June 4-6, 2004 at the Lake Geneva Campus of Aurora University “ 240 acres of rolling, wooded hillside located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Williams Bay, WI, about 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee, 70 miles southeast of Madison, and 80 miles northwest of Chicago. The opening event of the program will be a plenary panel on Friday evening, titled Latinos and the Struggle for Political, Social, and Economic Justice. The panel will be composed of Elizabeth Martínez (Institute for Multi-Racial Justice), Richard Moore (Southwest Network forEnvironmental and Economic Justice), Christine Neumann-Ortiz (Voces de la Frontera), and Rene Saucedo (La Raza Centro Legal). On Saturday evening, there will be a second plenary panel, titled Progressive Strategy in 2004, and Beyond. The panelists will include Medea Benjamin (Global Exchange), Elizabeth Marti­nez (Institute for Multi-Racial Justice), Jamala Rogers (Black Radical Congress), and a fourth panelist yet to be determined. The remainder of the program will be primarily devoted to nearly fifty workshops and panels addressing a wide array of social, political, and economic topics on Saturday and Sunday, including: Ending Corpocracy: Getting Corporations out of Politics(with Charlie Derber, Ed Garvey, and Mike McCabe); Media, Democracy, Education, Reform, and the World (with Bob McCannon and Bob McChesney); Post-invasion Iraq and the Movement to End the Occupation (with Medea Benjamin, George Martin, Matt Rothschild, and Allen Ruff); Fifty Years after˜Brown v. Board of Education™: Measuring the Success of Desegregation(with Barbara Golden); Community-driven Neighborhood Change: Lessons from Chicago (with Gabriel Piemonte and Beauty Turner); Taking the Social in Socialism Seriously (with Erik Olin Wright); Another World is Possible: The Social Forum Movement (with Marc Becker, Janet Conway, Corey Dolgon, Matt Nelson, and Thomas Ponniah);Corporate Globalization: Corporations and In addition, there will be a book signing session with Charlie Derber, Regime Change Begins at Home; Robert Jensen, Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity; Jason Mark, Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power; Bob McChesney, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communications Politics in the 21st Century; and Thomas Ponniah, Another World is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum." It is signed, Patrick Barrett Administrative Director A. E. Havens Center I wish I knew how to make some of the key items in this BOLD! Robert McChesney is a SOCIALIST! These are the people who put Obama in power.