LETTERS AND RESOURCES

I was on Air America Radio last night on the Majority Report show and was very impressed with their new facilities and the quality of the conversation we had. I went on to promote my new book The Death of the Media but the conversation was far reaching and I even had a letter from a colleague who was listening in via the internet in Switzerland. How cool

Mark Stenzler writes:

Good to hear you tonight on AAR. I stayed up to listen. Swiss Social Dems have agreed to show your film in Geneva. Date will be in mid-January.

Sandra Vago writes from St. Louis:

”As many of you may know, I worked most of last spring and summer organizing a fundraiser for wounded veterans. So many of whom have been lost in red tape or completely forgotten due to VA hospital closings, lacking funds, benefit cuts and more. We are all of us aware that this has happened to Vietnam veterans and is now swelling to overflow those wounded and traumatized men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I would love to help them all but as VACT learned the last time, without some of you jumping in to help there is barely anything accomplished. We were able to help 8 families through the holidays this year, “8″ when it could have been “80″. I attempted to elicit help from President Clinton last time around and he was very quick to respond and stay in touch but had his own summit in New York that month.

Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation writes:

” I have just posted the newly released report by the White House, “National Strategy for Victory in Iraq” to my personal website. I am reading it now and will provide reactions and comments later, but I thought that this report might be useful to you.”

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001124.html

FROM JORDAN WITH LOVE

Our friend Paul O’Hanlon writes from Amman for IndyMedia. He was due to join that Peacemakers delegation to Baghdad. At the last minute, he couldn’t go—and a good thing because four members of the delegation were kidnapped. Here’s part of his report:

”The security situation is much stricter now as you would expect with a much more visible police presence. Jordanian surveillance aircraft regularly make low over flights across the Capital and there is an increased security presence at many hotels. For all that the atmosphere in Amman is generally one of safety and the Jordanian people are still as welcoming and helpful to foreigners as ever.

“I stayed at the one star Al Monzer hotel near the Abdali bus station in Amman. It’s clean and comfortable but at 6JD (about ₤5) a night it isn’t exactly the Hyatt! The 5 star Hyatt is where long time BBC Baghdad correspondent Caroline Hawley was staying when the bomb went off though fortunately she wasn’t injured. The respectable, responsible journalists of the world can stay in 180JD (about ₤160) a night hotels where the crème de la crème stay, while us mere bloggers must mix with the back packers and refugees in somewhat less salubrious surroundings.”

Here’s the link to his full report with pictures:
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2005/11/328833.html

LORI BERENSON’S TENTH ANNIVERSARY

The parents of the American activist journalist in jail in Peru charged with aiding terrorists—a charge she denies—write:

”It is hard to believe that Lori has completed 10 years of unjustimprisonment - 3, 653 days of her life. In the worst-case scenario she has served half her 20 year sentence.”

IRAQ REALITIES AT THE WHITNEY

Brian Drolet writes:

“On behalf of the board and staff of Deep Dish TV, I would like to let you know that Shocking and Awful - A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation, our recent 12 part series on the war on Iraq, has been selected for the upcoming Whitney Biennial 2006. Today’s New York Times (11/30/05) describes this year’s exhibit and lists the participants.”

http://nytimes.com/2005/11/30/arts/design/30whit.html?hp

I will be doing a radio show with teenagers in Brooklyn before rushing over to the Rubin Museum in Chelsea for tonight’s Aids panel.

READATHON

Thanks again for all who wrote in expressing interest in my new books. Here’s how you get them:

http://www.newsdissector.org/store./htm

Until tommorow.

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