Decius wrote:

The biggest problem that the "anti-war" movement has right now is the illusion that somehow the war they protested starting in 2003 is the same war that they're protesting today.

I agree with this sentiment. I am not convinced that we went into Iraq the right way. I've been on the fence about that from the start. I am convinced that leaving right now would be a terrible thing to do. There is an important job to do in Iraq today and we need to see it through. Furthermore, I'd bet there would be broad international support today if we requested it.

I received an interesting email in this same vein today from my Public Policy department. Check it out below...they have a protest scheduled at CNN at 7pm Friday night. I hope to one day be in a controversial enough position that I can protest my former employer without any overriding irony.

-janelane, nfa w/ wmd

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Media Activist and Film Director
Danny Schechter
In Atlanta Friday, September 30

Talk at Georgia Tech, 1PM (Clary Theater)
Demonstration at CNN, 4PM
Movie at GSU, 7 PM (Cinefest)
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Danny Schechter is the executive editor of MediaChannel.org,
the world's largest online media issues network. He has authored
numerous books, including "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception:
How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War" (Prometheus Books, 2003
and "The More You Watch, The Less You Know" (Seven Stories Press).

Schechter joined the start-up staff at CNN as a producer based in Atlanta.
He then moved to ABC as a producer for 20/20. He has served as
adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia
University. His writing has appeared in leading newspapers and magazines
including the The Nation, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review,
Village Voice, Tikkun, and Z.

In 2001 Schechter received the Society of Professional Journalists' Award
for Excellence in Documentary Journalism.

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PROGRAM for Friday, September 30
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1 PM
Public Talk: “Media and Homeland Insecurity”
At Georgia Tech’s Clary Theater (by Tech Tower)
See: www.IP3.gatech.edu

4 PM
Protest at CNN

7 PM
"Movie Showing: Weapons of Mass Deception"
Winner of the 2005 International Film Festival in Durban, South Africa
At Georgia State University’s “Cinéfest”
2nd Floor of the University Center; suite 240
66 Courtland Street
For more information on WMD (including a trailer), visit
www.wmdthefilm.com

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PRESS RELEASE by the Southern Media Justice Coalition
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