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UPDATED from a previous post.

Tonight, Dr. Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored at Sonoma St. University, will be in Nashville to deliver his lecture “Media Democracy in a Time of Truth Emergency.”

The lecture, at 7:30 PM at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1808 Woodmont Avenue, is free and open to the public. There will be a Q&A immediately following.

Dr. Phillips was our guest on Monday and you can listen to the interview here.

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Project Censored is a media democracy project which has been highlighting the 25 most important stories ignored by the mainstream media through an annual publication and website, including stories such as NATOs consideration of a “First Strike” Nuclear Option, Cruelty and Death in America’s Juvenile Detention Centers or the Seizing of War Protesters’ Assets. The top most underreported story of 2009 according to the project has been the violent deaths of over one million Iraqis since the beginning of the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq.

“Over one million Iraqis have met violent deaths as a result of the 2003 invasion . . .These numbers suggest that the invasion and occupation of Iraq rivals the mass killings of the last century—the human toll exceeds the 800,000 to 900,000 believed killed in the Rwandan genocide in 1994, and is approaching the number (1.7 million) who died in Cambodia’s infamous “Killing Fields” during the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s.”

Dr. Phillips is a Professor Sociology at Sonoma State University where he teaches classes in Media Censorship, Investigative Sociology, Sociology of Power, Political Sociology, and Sociology of Media. He has published eleven editions of Censored: Media Democracy in Action from Seven Stories Press. Also from Seven Stories Press is Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006) and Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism (2003).

Phillips also writes op-ed pieces for independent media nationwide having published in dozens of publications newspapers and websites including: Z magazine, Free Inquiry, Counterpunch, Common Dreams, Buzzflash, Dissident Voice, Social Policy, and Briarpatch. He frequently speaks on media censorship and various socio-political issues on radio and TV talks shows including Talk of the Nation, Air America, Talk America, World Radio Network, Flashpoints, and the Jim Hightower Show.

He has completed several investigative sociology research studies that are available at Projectcensored.org including: The Global Dominance Group: 9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context, A Study of Bias in the Associated Press, Practices in Health Care and Disability insurance: Deny Delay Diminish and Blame, US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights, and The Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model.

For more information about tonight’s lecture, contact Dan Tyler, dantyler@comcast.net, 615 297 3637 or Chris Lugo, christopherlugo@aol.com, 615 593 0304.