5/25 - Pacifica Reporter Aaron Glantz Speaks about Iraq and Viet Nam

New College Media Studies MA Program, KPFA, Global Exchange and Media Alliance presents:

AARON GLANTZ Speaking on
"Iraq and Viet Nam - War and Its Legacy"

Thursday, May 25 at 7 PM
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street (near 19th St), San Francisco

FREE and open to the public

6 - 7 pm - New College Media Studies MA Program - Information Table - before the Aaron Glantz event, New College Theater, 777 Valencia St., SF

7 pm - Aaron Glantz Speaks on Iraq and Viet Nam

Pacifica reporter Aaron Glantz will return to New College to speak about Iraq and Viet Nam: War and its Legacy. He is an award-winning journalist and author who visited Iraq three times since the occupation and authored How America Lost Iraq. He recently spent several months on a reporting tip to Viet Nam.

“Aaron Glantz' courageous, unembedded journalism explains the reality of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq with a clarity and perspective sorely lacking in the mainstream media. He incisively cuts through the fog of war and Pentagon chatter, getting close to the story, as all journalists should. How America Lost Iraq is essential reading as the saber rattling in Washington continues.”
--Amy Goodman, host Democracy Now!

Aaron Glantz is a reporter for Pacifica Radio and other media outlets. He has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. His work from Iraq has also been syndicated to newspapers around the world by Inter Press News Service. He recently returned after a four month reporting trip to Hanoi.

Aaron is a founding producer of Pacifica Radio’s national newscast, Free Speech Radio News. In the course of his work he has also reported from Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, France, and Denmark. Before becoming an international reporter, Aaron served as California State Capitol reporter for Pacifica’s flag-ship station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where he won the California Journalism Award for radio in 2000.

Visit: http://www.aaronglantz.com/

Sponsored by New College Media Studies MA Program, KPFA, Global Exchange and Media Alliance.

For more information contact Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425 or jon [at] newcollege.edu/

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Tuesday, March 14, 6:30 pm - 8 pm

New College of California
Media Studies MA Program - Information Table

Thursday, May 25, 6 pm - 7 pm
New College Theater, 777 Valencia St., SF

Visit our Information Table between 6 and 7 pm, before the Aaron Glantz talk, and learn about New College's Media Studies MA Program.

Offering an innovative media studies education for social change, the New College Media Studies Graduate Program is founded on the belief that vibrant alternative media are urgently needed to renew our democracy and achieve peace and social justice. The program encourages media makers to speak truth to power, expose injustice and enable marginalized communities to utilize media – and in these ways create a forum for the practice of democracy.

For more information, stop by the info table on May 25, visit our Media Studies website - http://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies/ or call Mary Ellen Churchill at 415-437-3494.