CHICAGO MEDIA ACTION ALERT, January 15, 2004
http://www.chicagomediaaction.org

Another reminder: Chicago Media Action is organizing a film and forum as part of its Public Education Forum series.  The forum will be on
Sunday, January 18, 3pm-6pm, at The Chicago Temple (77 W. Washington). The topic will be:

"Martin Luther King, Jr. Identified the real 'Axis of Evil' - Poverty, Racism, and War: What Did the Media Fail To Cover and Why?"

More details are listed below.

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Author Carol Bragg speculates "The vision, the analysis, and the agenda that King espoused, and we largely neglected, might have prevented
those horrific events of 9/11". Many similarities can be drawn between the "neglected" points King made against the Vietnam War and the
points being made today against the war in Iraq.  This forum will examine the issue of media bias and what impact it has had on the current
state of U.S. foreign and domestic affairs.

The program agenda is scheduled to include:
(1) Commentary by Cliff Kelley (radio talk show host and former Chicago alderman) and Salim Muwakkil (Chicago Tribune op-ed columnist and a
senior editor at "In These Times").

(2) "At The River I Stand", a 56-minute award-winning documentary film on Dr. King's last labor organizing movement - the Memphis sanitation
worker's strike. The film will be introduced by noted labor and civil rights activist Katie Jordan, President of the Chicago Chapter of
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW).

(3) Dr. King's "Why I Oppose The War in Vietnam" speech (a 23-minute excerpt from this speech given April 4, 1967 - one year to the day
before his assassination). King warned that unless the "triple evils" of poverty, racism and militarism are seriously addressed, then global
chaos will result.

(4) A question/comment/discussion period, where members of the audience can have an opportunity to voice their opinions and interact with the
speakers.

(5) A celebratory hearing/singing-along-to Stevie Wonder's "Happy Birthday To You" (the hit song Wonder wrote to honor Dr. King and to
pressure Ronald Reagan into signing the bill making Dr. King's birthday a federal holiday).

To read more about this event, please visit:

http://www.chicagomediaaction.org/news.php?id=128

A downloadable PDF flyer of the event is available here:

http://www.chicagomediaaction.org/pdffiles/mlkforum.pdf

Please forward this email, post the PDF flyer, and spread the word about this event.  Thank you.

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