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BINN 2007: Bias In Northwest News and Media
Because We’ve Been Ignored By Corporate and Progressive Media For Far Too Long.
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As minorities, marginalized people, activists and progressive members of the community, we already realize that corporate media censors news about marginalized people. But what exactly do we do when progressive newspapers, magazines and media groups also ignore marginalized people?
Recent scientific research
has demonstrated that biases thought to be absent or extinguished remain
as "mental residue" in most of us.
Studies show people can be consciously committed to egalitarianism, and
deliberately work to behave without prejudice, yet still possess hidden
negative prejudices or stereotypes.
So even though we believe we see and treat people as equals, hidden
biases may still influence our perceptions and actions.
Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University
of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests —
called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world — to
measure unconscious bias.
Here in Olympia, Washington we plan to talk in detail about these hidden biases that exist in Progressive Northwest Publications.
Schedule
The Bias In Northwest News And Media Conference
Date: Friday, October 26th, 2007 and Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Time: Meeting runs from 6pm-8pm on both days.
Location: Olympia Freeschool Building, 610 Columbia Street, Olympia, WA 98501
Staff Members of the Olympian, the News Tribune, Works in Progress, Green Pages, Riseup.net, The Sitting Duck, The Volcano Weekly and Cooper Point Journal are asked not to enter this conference in order to encourage people to speak out about the way we’re left out!
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This event is completely free of charge.
Our growing list of speakers includes
David Griffiths and Jennifer Laird from Cascadia Center for 5th World Studies ("Those who walk on foot move forward by steps.
We who walk on wheels move forward by revolutions. The 5th World is Rising")
T from Multicultural Outreach Media,
A member from Institute of PAMELA (Peaceful Alliances facilitated by Multilingual, Multicultural, Handicapable Outreach and Native Language Accessibility)
and more!
In order to maintain a neutral perspective, we are asking that staff members of newspapers and magazines to refrain from attending this event.
Have you ever felt that news which and events which affect you were ignored by your local progressive newspaper or magazine? This is your time to speak up!
Has it ever bothered you that these issues are absent from the front page of your local newspaper:
- News stories about African-American People
- News stories about People of Color
- News stories about Patriarchy and Sexism in Newspapers dominated by male employees
- News stories about the rise in progressive media groups that objectify a woman’s body in their advertisements accept
- News stories about Trangendered People
- News stories about Immigrant Issues
- News stories about Physically and Mentally Challenged People
- News stories about Other marginalized groups
- News stories about the injustice of Capitalism
Now is your time to speak up!
Please feel free to bring Pizza for everyone as well (Mutual-Aid Media Starts When You Start!)
You do not need to bring any food, but if you do, thanks! This can be a wonderful PIZZA POTLUCK!
(Bring any type of dish but please write down all the ingredients of your dish on a small sheet of paper for the consideration of vegans and vegetarians, thanks.)
Even if you have never been the victim of discrimination you are welcome to share your thoughts on "bias from the unbiased."
A few topics you may want to discuss if you have never been a victim of bias are...
Ageism?
- How can we get more attention paid to the plight that the elderly are facing while living in abominable, understaffed and deadly multinational corporate nursing homes... even though youth rarely see the insides of them until they are old and visitors and cameras are strictly prohibited?
Sexism?
- Do you think it is fair that so few progressive newspapers and corporate media groups refuse to allow several weeks of paid maternity leave when activist groups and progressive businesses with lower budgets in the UK and other industrialized countries have over twice as many paid weeks of maternity leave?
Homophobia?
- Why do so few progressive newspapers and media groups refuse to mention homophobia in their statement of anti-discrimination?
Classism?
- Is a Co-Op business, based on buying plans and purchasing clubs, blatantly discriminating against the poorest classes of people who cannot afford such plans and cannot afford co-op membership fees?
Ableism?
- African-American Americans had to struggle through slavery, a civil war and a civil rights movement for the right to use the front door and the right to sit in the front of a bus or a business. Do you think it is fair for so many progressive newspapers and media groups to deny wheelchair users the right to use their front door? Do you think it eats away at the dignity and the self-esteem of wheelchair users on a daily basis when they are told that they must go to the rear... and use the side door or the back door..just to sit at a meeting of a progressive media group?
Media Kick-backs?
- Do you think it is fair for progressive newspapers and media groups to ask marginalized people for sponsorships and kickbacks before running a news story? Important: if you have proof (emails, receipts, etc) of a progressive media group requesting kickbacks to run a news story, please bring it!
Come share your thoughts!
No fees, no donations, no money and no hateful rhetoric please. Come as you are. People of all ages, genders, physical abilities (the meeting room and the studio are all 100% wheelchair accessible), races, sexual orientations and backgrounds are greatly welcome!
"Many in our movements preach the value of free speech, open dialogue, and debate, yet as soon as somebody challenges our most basic assumptions, or dares to level a public criticism at the liberal powers-that-be, they are barked down and accused of creating a "circular firing squad." It seems to me that when you're simultaneously losing on nearly every one of our so-called "issues" -- abortion, civil rights, the environment, the economy, foreign policy -- questioning everything should no longer be our right, it should be our responsibility."
-Adam Werbach, Former president of the Sierra Club, from the controversial speech "Is Environmentalism Dead?". Adam Werbach resigned from the Sierra Club, and decided to stop calling himself an 'environmentalist', shortly after determining that the Sierra Club chose to remain 'neutral' in regards to the growing number of anti-immigrant environmental 'activists' within the Sierra Club who were supporting anti-immigration laws and using 'over-population' and 'protection of the environment' as their rational for their extreme racism and bias.
Come share your thoughts!
BINN 2007: Because We’ve Been Ignored By Corporate and Progressive Media For Far Too Long.
BINN 2007: Bias In Northwest News and Media
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