Ilene Proctor Presents #94 in the 'Great Minds' Series
Corporate Power vs. Progressive Populism with Norman Solomon
MODERATOR: David Dayen
WHEN: Sunday November 17 2019
TIME: 4:00 PM
WHERE: Jerry Manpearl and Jan Goodman. Hosts
939 San Vicente Blvd Santa
Monica, CA. 90402
Tickets: $25.00 includes dessert and coffee, Pay by cash or check at the door or pay in advance to:
Ilene Proctor
9427 Charleville Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
PDLA and ADA members: $20.00
RSVP A MUST: [email protected]
|
Norman Solomon’s name springs to mind at the mention of the word integrity. A famed activist, journalist and author of a dozen books including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death, he’s co-founder and national coordinator of RootsAction.org, now with 1.2 million active supporters online in the United States.
Does democracy always have to capitulate to corporate bullying? Old maxim strictly tells us we must stand up to bullies, for when we give in to bullying it doesn’t stop the bullying. The relentless push for privatization is actually codeword for wanton corporate outsourcing, a depleted tax base, financial collapse and the inevitable struggle to survive. Norman, a stalwart of true progressivism never bends like a sapling to the politically driven corporate windbags, To survive the seduction to corporate mind games, we must listen to Norman’s clarion call warning of the dangers to democracy of unchallenged corporate power.
Norman was elected as a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where he was the coordinator of the independent Bernie Delegates Network. His current work for RootsAction includes the Biden Fact Squad project.
His recent articles include:
** “Why a DNC Vice Chair Bawled Me Out for Sharing Critical, Accurate Information About Joe Biden”
** “Nancy Pelosi Can’t Mask Her Contempt for Progressives”
** “To Win Power, Progressives Must Embrace ‘Primary’ as a Verb”
** “Why Bernie Sanders Is Absolutely Correct About the Washington Post -- and Corporate Media Overall”
** “The ‘Official Secrets’ Movie vs. Joe Biden’s Lies About the Iraq War”
|
|
The LA Times called War Made Easy “brutally persuasive” and “a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come.” The newspaper's reviewer added: “Solomon is a formidable thinker and activist.” A full-length documentary film, narrated by Sean Penn, was based on War Made Easy. The New York Times review called the film "ultimately persuasive" and said: “Many of its arguments have been made before … but Mr. Solomon digs deeper and hammers harder.”
Norman is the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a consortium of policy researchers and analysts. He coordinates IPA's ExposeFacts program, which supports “national security” whistleblowers and journalistic freedom. Norman wrote the nationally syndicated "Media Beat" weekly column from 1992 to 2009. He is a longtime associate of the media watch group FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting).
A collection of Norman’s columns won the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. The award, presented by the National Council of Teachers of English, honored his book The Habits of Highly Deceptive Media. In the introduction to that book, Jonathan Kozol wrote: “The tradition of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and I.F. Stone does not get much attention these days in the mainstream press ... but that tradition is alive and well in this collection of courageously irreverent columns on the media by Norman Solomon. ... He fights the good fight without fear of consequence. He courts no favors. He writes responsibly and is meticulous on details, but he does not choke on false civility.”
