Media Freedom Foundation President Peter Phillips:
Our mailing address is -
Media Freedom foundation
P.O. Box 571
Cotati, CA 94931
Media Freedom Foundation (MFF) is a non-profit 501-C-3 corporation that
sponsors Project Censored and all our various programs. MFF has a
ten-person board of directors, who are responsible for monitoring the
budget and setting policy for our operations. Mickey Huff is the
director of Project Censored and has overall responsibility for the
day-to-day management of the corporation and production of the annual
Censored yearbook. Associate Director Andy Roth serves in a similar
administrative capacity and has been heavily involved in writing and
researching Censored 2013.
We each are regularly invited speakers at community halls, college
campuses, academic conferences, and independent bookstores addressing
the issues of media censorship, propaganda, and the importance of
accurate independent media in society. To arrange for a member of our
speaking team to come to your community or campus see: [http://www.projectcensored.org/speakers]
We produce and broadcast a weekly one hour Project Censored Show on The
Morning Mix for KPFA radio every Friday at 8 A.M. PST at 94.1 FM and
online at [http://KPFA.org]. Our
affiliate stations include the Progressive Radio Network, No-Lies Radio,
and various Pacifica radio stations around the country. Please ask your
local public/ non-profit radio station to air our weekly shows. See [http://www.projectcensored.org/radio-archive]
for a listing of our shows and guests. The radio archives make
excellent classroom listening for high school and college classes.
We currently have some twenty colleges and university classes and
professors participating in researching and posting validated news
stories on our Media Freedom International news site at [http://www.mediafreedominternational.org].
Validated Independent News Stories (VINS) are news stories ignored by
corporate media that have been vetted and researched by students and
professors. These news stories are posted year-round and become the
annual nominations for voting on the top 25 most important censored news
stories of the year. Any college campuses can participate in this
process. Teaching college classes, working with students to learn about
alternative news outlets is a major part of our efforts to create a more
media literate society
MFF/Project Censored continues to maintain a website with daily RSS-news
feeds from some twenty sources we trust for quality news. See [http://www.censorednews.org]
Helping students and the public find trustworthy sources of daily news
is an important part of freedom of information that is vital to every
society. Reading independent news and comparing it to corporate media
coverage is an important part of many high school and college critical
thinking classes.
Adam Armstrong continues this year as the webmaster for all the
MFF/Project Censored websites including our Spanish language site at [http://www.proyectocensurado.org].
He has responsibility for maintaining and protecting six websites and
building traffic to each one. Unique views on our sites run some 400,000
each month with millions of monthly hits. Adam founded the website
blog— [http://www.dailycensored.com/], which has over 50 regular writers posting news stories and opinion. He is a vital part of the Project Censored team.
We are pleased to announce that MFF board member, Abby Martin of Media
Roots was hired this year to be a Russia Today news anchor in Washington
DC. In addition to her duties at RT Ms. Martin remains on the MFF
board, and continues to update video content on the Project Censored
linked Media Roots site at: [http://mediaroots.org/].
Over the past two-years MFF/Project Censored has engaged in developing
the idea of a fair share of the common heritage. With special funding
from Dorothy Andersen in Santa Rosa, California in honor of her late
husband Alfred Andersen’s beliefs, MFF has held public events, organized
essay contests, produced radio shows, and maintained a website the
links the importance of acknowledging that all material and cultural
wealth/resources in the world belongs to all living beings. MFF board
member Mary Lia has served as coordinator for this effort. Kenn Burrows
MFF board member and holistic health professor at San Francisco State
University has worked in supported. For full information of the
philosophy of the fair share of the common heritage see: [http://www.fairsharecommonheritage.org].
MFF/Project Censored is primarily affiliated with colleges,
universities, independent media and social justice organizations. In
this capacity, we are constantly writing, researching and promoting
important human rights issues and news. For example, we have posted an
original four part series on the privatization of public education by
investigative journalist Danny Weil: [http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-financialization-of-education-and-sonoma-state-university-part-iv]. Also see Dr. Jeremy Cloward's original article [http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-state-class-and-false-consciousness-within-the-american-working-class] and Dr. Peter Phillips recent op-ed piece [http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/desperate-times-demand-revolutionary-measures] and Dr. Andy Lee Roth's book review of Arundhati' Roy's "Walking with the Comrades," [http://www.fairsharecommonheritage.org/2012/04/05/popular-resistance-against-indias-war-on-commoners]
These efforts and others too numerous to list are part of our annual
activities at Media Freedom Foundation/ Project Censored. We currently
do all of this on less than $80,000 a year. In addition to annual
revenues from book sales and royalties, we primarily receive support
from individual donors from around the world. A new option this year has
been for donors to pledge $5 or more a month and in return receive a
copy of our annual yearbook. Please consider making a monthly pledge by
going on-line at www.projectcensored.org. If you are affiliated with a
non-profit foundation or can make a larger gift in support of one or all
of our activities we would sincerely appreciate hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Prof. Mickey Huff, Director, Project Censored
Dr. Andy Roth, Associate Director, Project Censored
Dr. Peter Phillips Ph.D., President, Media Freedom Foundation/Project Censored
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