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DESCRIPTION:"Let's Agree to Disagree" -- with Mickey Huff (Director of Project 
 Censored) Re his new book, sub-titled: A Critical Thinking Guide to 
 Communication, Conflict Management & Critical Media Literacy\n\nPresented 
 by the Green Party of Alameda County.  Mickey's talk will be followed by 
 Q&A.\n\nIn this age of extreme polarization, hyper-partisanship and "siloed 
 information," our society is challenged on agreeing to disagree, and our 
 democracy has become fragile, and political future seems almost hopeless. 
 America is in need for re-establishing a more tolerant and centered civil 
 discourse.  What is the media's role and how can we counter this? Every 
 major change in the media promises democratic possibility and inclusive 
 public conversation — only to see old patterns of division and exclusion 
 recur, and a challenge to civil liberties and free speech.  Is there a 
 direct parallel between our world today to that of post-World War I America 
 when the United States faced another raging pandemic and economic 
 recession, with the Red Scare, and other sources of tumult?\n\n\nMickey 
 Huff, Director of Project Censored, and Nolan Higdon, who teaches at UC 
 Santa Cruz, have just written a new book that discusses the origins of our 
 current hyper-partisanship, and provides a roadmap to break through the 
 polarization, and seeks to reverse these trends by fostering constructive 
 dialogue through critical thinking and critical media literacy.  Entitled, 
 Let's Agree to Disagree, this transformative text introduces readers to 
 useful theories, powerful case studies, and easily adoptable strategies.  
 Tonight, Mickey will present an overview of the book and answer questions 
 on this vital and urgent topic.\n\nMickey Huff is the director of Project 
 Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. To date, 
 he has co-edited 13 editions of the Project’s yearbook, including most 
 recently Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2022, with Andy Lee 
 Roth. He is also co-author, with Nolan Higdon, of United States of 
 Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and what we can do 
 about it) (2019). Huff received the Beverly Kees Educator Award as part of 
 the 2019 James Madison Freedom of Information Awards from the Society of 
 Professional Journalists, Northern California. He is professor of social 
 science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College, where he 
 co-chairs the history program and is chair of the Journalism Department. 
 Huff is executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show, a weekly 
 syndicated public affairs program that airs across the U.S. on Pacifica 
 Radio. Additionally, Huff sits on the board for the nonprofit Behind the 
 Headlines and serves on the editorial board for the journal Secrecy and 
 Society. For the past several years, Huff has worked with the national 
 outreach committee of Banned Books Week, working with the American Library 
 Association and the National Coalition Against Censorship, of which Project 
 Censored is a member.  His newest book with Nolan Higdon is, Let's Agree to 
 Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management 
 and Critical Media Literacy published by Routledge.\n\nThe Green Party of 
 Alameda County presents fab, free \nGreen Sunday programs on the 2nd Sunday 
 of most months. These programs are open to the public and generally of 
 interest to all progressives, indeed all thinking people who care about 
 humanity's fate, whether or not attendees are registered to vote with the 
 Green Party.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/04/06/18848919.php
SUMMARY:Mickey Huff! Green Sun.FREE public program. Solve polarization: Critical Thinking, Media
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