KPFK Speaker Series: Laura Flanders

Saturday, February 22, 2020

Time
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue
Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Laura Flanders hosted by Sonali Kolhatkar speaks about the current state of independent media.

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KPFK and Random Length News present a KPFK Speaker Series featuring Laura Flanders and Sonali Kolhatkar for a conversation on independent media with special guests Greg Palast and James Preston Allen.

Laura Flanders   

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Followed by a discussion on the importance of Independent Alternative Media joined by Random Length News publisher James Allen and the audience.

Independent media operates free of any influence from both the government and the corporate sector. Its objective is to provide information from independent sources, that encourages people to think critically and form their own opinions, making independent media vital for any democracy.

This KPFK Speakers Series is hosted by The Palos Verdes Art Center, a nonprofit community visual arts school and gallery, inspires individuals to create, appreciate and celebrate art.

"Communications Wealth of Nations: How corporations are monopolizing the means of making meaning and how people's media can–and always have–fought back!" - Laura Flanders

"It appears the American media no longer requires that words bear any relationship to truth or to a larger purpose other than peddling rigid and archaic ideologies designed to shock and stupefy audiences." - Sonali Kolhatkar

Palos Verdes Art Center
5504 Crestridge Road
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
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Palos Verdes Art Center
5504 Crestridge Road
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

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