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at the World Social Forum
Between The Lines at the World Social Forum
Between The Lines Producers Scott Harris and Anna Manzo were at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 24-29, where over 80,000 attendees participated in over 1,000 workshops at over 200 venues. More photos, audio, articles forthcoming.
The Crisis in U.S. Media and the Growing Movement for Media Democracy, Jan. 26, 2006
More information about this joint
Between The Lines/Toward Freedom workshop at the World Social Forum.
A few of the U.S. Media in Crisis workshop moderators and
speakers at breakfast in Caracas: from left, Scott Harris,
Between The Lines producer; April Howard, translator; Teresa
Valdez, Cuban writer; Ben Dupuy, former Haitian ambassador to
former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; and Toward
Freedom editor Ben Dangl. (Photo by Anna Manzo)
Nearly 200 attendees were present at the media crisis panel, held at Parque del
Este in Caracas. Scott Harris, Between The Lines radio newsmagazine producer
gives an introduction at the Media in Crisis workshop. (Photo by Anna Manzo)
Scott Harris, left, and Ben Dangl moderate the
Media in Crisis workshop, which was filmed by
Lydia Sargent of Z Magazine. (Photo by Anna Manzo)
- Toward Freedom Editor Ben Dangl and Between The Lines Executive Producer Scott Harris give introductions at the World Social Forum Media Crisis Workshop (5:40) (in RealAudio)
Eva Golinger, a U.S. attorney living in Caracas and author of "The Chavez Code:
Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela," speaks at a "Media in Crisis" workshop
sponsored by Toward Freedom at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela.
Golinger is the attorney who had uncovered millions of dollars spent by the U.S. in the 2002
failed coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. (Photo by Anna Manzo)
- Eva Golinger at the World Social Forum Media Crisis Workshop, Jan. 26, 2006 (16:56) (in RealAudio)
Gregory Wilpert is editor of Venezuela Analaysis, a sociologist who originally
came to Venezuela to teach and was forever changed by the events he witnessed
during the failed 2002 coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
He spoke about how the private Venezuelan corporate media was complicit
in the planning of the coup, with its false reporting that the action was a "legal transfer
of power," when instead, Chavez was placed under arrest.
Wilpert with other workshop speakers to the right, Venezuelan community
radio programmer Gustavo Borges of el23.Net and his translator,
and far right, Michael Albert, editor of ZNET.org. (Photos by Anna Manzo)
- Gregory Wilpert, editor of Venezuela Analysis, spoke at the World Social Forum Media Crisis Workshop, Jan. 26, 2006 (14:05) (in RealAudio)
Ben Dupuy is the co-director of Haiti Progres and former ambassador-at-large
under ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
(Photo by Anna Manzo)
- Ben Dupuy, director of Haiti Progres, secretary general of the National Popular Party of Haiti, and spoke at the World Social Forum Media Crisis Workshop, Jan. 26, 2006 (20:03) (in RealAudio)
Other World Social Forum events:
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Director Lori Wallach
speaks at a panel on the World Trade Organization at the
World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo by Scott Harris)
- Lori Wallach at the World Social Forum panel on the World Trade Organization, Jan. 28, 2006 (Excerpt of speech for Between The Lines radio newsmagazine, in RealAudio)
The Toward Freedom/Between The Lines delegation met with
community radio station Radio Rebelde producers. Community
radio stations are at the hub of many of Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez's community initiatives for the poor, which include
government-run food co-ops, literacy centers and health clinics.
(Photo by Anna Manzo)
During the opening day procession in Caracas, three Venezuelan World Social Forum
delegates carry signs in Spanish and English that say, "Your mouth,
fundamental against fundamentalists." (Photo by Anna Manzo)
- Interviews at the World Social Forum march (14:30) (in MP3)
- Medea Benjamin, Global Exchange/Code Pink at the World Social Forum March (1:01) (in MP3)
- Cheri Honkala, Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign at the World Social Forum March (6:01) (in MP3)
- Geoff Millard, Iraq war veteran at the World Social Forum March(3:54) (in MP3)
A land reform group whose banner reads: "A Land Occupied is a Land Worked, War on Large Estates."
A group from Colombia, whose banner reads: "Humanitarian Agreements and Commitments; Respect life, dignity and freedom NOW"