Project Censored! Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips Speak Out

Project Censored is releasing its annual book which highlights the 25 most censored stories of 2009/2010. Past and current directors and co-editors of this year's Censored 2011 are Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff will be speaking out Thursday, September 9, 2010, on the Community Currency Radio show from 2 pm to 3 pm, but they will also be attending, doing more interviews, and speaking at the 6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, on a day when a concerted effort is taking place, multiple press conferences to break the media barrier and taboo surrounding issues covered in the new book- including State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs) and WTC Building 7.

Listen to Progressive Radio Network from 2 pm -3 pm to the Community Currency Radio Show to hear about Project Censored with Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips (Speaking live from the 6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival).

Project Censored's mission is to teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society – and to tell the News That Didn’t Make the News and Why. Project Censored began over 30 years ago, in 1976, as an epiphany within the mind of Carl Jensen, now Professor Emeritus, Communications Studies, Sonoma State University, California (SSU). Carl realized that vital information was being continuously and systematically filtered by a news media industry owned by fewer and fewer corporations. The idea was to have a group of respected scholars find and select 25 under-reported, misrepresented, or frankly censored news stories over the preceding year that were of maximal importance to the public. This effort gradually evolved into formal courses of study at SSU. This month Censored 2011, edited by Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, chronicling the 25 most censored stories of 2009/2010 will be released.

When Dr. Carl Jensen retired in 1996, the project was passed to Dr. Peter Phillips, award winning Professor of Sociology at SSU where he teaches on Media Censorship, Power, Class Statification, and Social Welfare. Peter has authored, or co-authored several books including Impeach the President; The case Against Bush and Cheney, and Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism, along with the Project Censored yearbooks dating from 1997. Peter Phillips, Phd. is now director emeritus of Project Censored, and president of the Media Freedom Foundation. He is known for his op-ed pieces in the alternative press and independent newspapers nationwide, and the winner of the 2009 Dallas Smythe Award, presented by the Union for Democratic Communication.

After completing thirteen Censored books, Peter has passed the mantle to Mickey Huff, Associate Professor of History at Diablo Valley College, former Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology at Sonoma State University, and the previous Co-Director of the alternative public opinion research agency Retropoll, in Berkeley. Mickey now serves as the Director of Project Censored, and is a fellow board member of Media Freedom Foundation, working with Professor Phillips. Mickey teaches courses in U.S. Media History, Sociology of Media and Censorship, Propaganda and Media Studies, Critical Thinking concerning 9/11 and American Empire, and Popular Culture. He designed and taught classes on “History of U.S. Media” at Berkeley City College, Critical Reasoning in History, “America, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Media Myth Making and the Propaganda of Historical Construction,” and “American Popular Culture and Mass Media in Historical Perspectives” at Diablo Valley College.

The new Censored 2010 introduces a Truth Emergency section which showcases the work of scholars and independent journalists including Dr. Lance de Haven Smith, Dr. David Ray Griffin, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Dr. Robert Abele, and Dr. Andrew Roth addressing State Crimes Against Democracy (SCADs), WTC Building 7 (The third building destroyed on 9/11, which was not hit by an airplane and sustained less damage than other buildings that did not fall. The most plausible explanation, controlled demolition, has been attacked or ignored by government scientists in what seems to be violation of the scientific method itself. Nearly half the US population still has no knowledge of this building and the 9/11 Commission did not even mention it in its report- a testimony to the ongoing censorship of this topic), the plight of Palestinian peoples, the failures of corporate media to report on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and just war theory, how corporate media and the military industrial complex merge to generate pro military propaganda.

They will both be speaking at the 6th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival Thursday, September 9, 2010 at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland.

The weekly Community Currency Radio Show is hosted by Carol Brouillet, a longtime activist who organized three conferences on Strategies to Transform the Global Economy and (the first) marches on her Senators and Congresswoman in January 2002 to Demand a Congressional Investigation of 9-11. She publishes the Deception Dollars, Perception Dollars, and Co-Founded the 9-11 Truth Alliance, and the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance . She organized premieres of films, educational events, marches, rallies for 9-11 Truth, the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11, and produced the film Behind Every Terrorist- There is a Bush. She is currently organizing the 9th Annual 9/11 Truth Rally/March- Theme - Satyagraha - Truth Force beginning at the panhandle @10 am (between Oak and Fell @ Ashbury), marching @11 am to the 12th Annual Power to the Peaceful Festival.