June 27: SPJ NorCal longtime board member & past president Linda Jue is leading a session on the crackdown on journos & whistleblowers at IREs annual conference in SF. Go! (Deets below) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Other War: Cracking Down on Journalists and Whistleblowers The War on Terror opened the floodgates to the rising tide of the surveillance state and of other government and corporate actions that are now tripping alarms bells as imminent threats to our democracy. Many of those bells were sounded by whistleblowers who could no longer ignore their conscience, along with the journalists willing to listen to them. Consequently, we are seeing the most aggressive and destructive campaign in history waged against whistleblowers and journalists by the Obama Administration. This campaign has destroyed lives, ruined families, exacted immeasurable psychological and physical costs, and ultimately resulted in the demonization of those willing to step forward. Journalists, in particular, face urgent questions about how to protect their sources and themselves, as well as whether they shouldnt more aggressively challenge this other war. Join four prominent speakers in a provocative discussion about the new, more dangerous threats to whistleblowers, why going through official channels hasnt worked, what journalists should and shouldnt do when working with whistleblowers, what protections exist for whistleblowers and journalists, and how to ensure that vital stories about corruption and undue secrecy in our most powerful institutions see the light of day. Speakers: Beatrice Edwards is the Executive Director of the Government Accountability Project (GAP), a legal representative of Edward Snowden in the US. GAP has promoted anti-retaliation measures for more than thirty-five years and defends whistleblowers through the Congress, the media and the courts. Bea holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from American University and is the author of the recently released book The Rise of the American Corporate Security State. Daniel Ellsberg is a co-founder of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is best known as the whistleblower who gave the Pentagon Papers to the New York Timesin 1971. Ellsberg is also the author of three books: Papers on the War (1971),Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002), and Risk, Ambiguity and Decision (2001). In December 2006, he won the Right Livelihood Award, known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize,” in Stockholm, Sweden, “for putting peace and truth first, at considerable personal risk, and dedicating his life to inspiring others to follow his example.” Betty Medsger is the author of The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, the book that this year revealed who burglarized the Media, PA, FBI office in March 1971, the act of resistance that provided the first evidence of how Hoover’s FBI operated, including the infamous COINTELPRO operations. As a Washington Post reporter, Medsger wrote the first stories about the content of the files. Now based in New York, she is the former chair of the journalism department at San Francisco State University. Trevor Timm is a co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. He is a writer, activist, and legal analyst who specializes in free speech and government transparency issues. He writes a weekly column for The Guardian and has also contributed to The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy,Harvard Law and Policy Review, PBS MediaShift, and Politico. Trevor formerly worked as an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Before that, he helped the longtime General Counsel of The New York Times, James Goodale, write a book on the Pentagon Papers and the First Amendment. He received his J.D. from New York Law School. In 2013, he received the Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award for journalism. Moderator: Linda Jue is editor/executive director of the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, a public interest investigative reporting center based inSan Francisco. She was also a founding co-editor, with Barbara Ehrenreich, of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. In her past life, Linda directed national journalism programs as associate director of the Independent Press Association. She was an associate of the Center for Investigative Reporting, an editor at San Francisco Focus magazine and a correspondent for C-SPAN. Her work has appeared in San Francisco Focus, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Toronto Globe and Mail, GEO, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, PBS Frontline and other outlets. She has won two Thomas Moore Storke International Journalism Awards and a Maggie for excellence in feature writing. She is also a founding member of the Chauncey Bailey Investigative Reporting Project.
Posted on: Thu, 22 May 2014 19:14:23 +0000
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