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Becker Lectures
P.O. Box 1094
Northampton, MA 01061
(413)585-0708

From "News Notes," Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB), number
33, Winter '90 (see AML resource file "groups"):

"We want to bring your attention to a speaker's bureau which features
lecturers who are experts on intelligence issues. Becker Lectures can
arrange for your group to host David MacMichael (former CIA analyst),
William Schaap (co-editor of CAIB), Edgar Chamorro (former contra
leader turned outspoken critic), Daniel Ellsberg, Jack Ryan (former FBI
agent turned critic), and many others."

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Subject:      media critics available for speaking engagements

** Topic: Media critics on speaking tours **
** Written  5:14 pm  Feb  6, 1991 by fair in cdp:gen.newsletter **
Subject: Media critics on speaking tours

"Unreliable Sources" authors available to speak about media coverage
of the war

Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon, authors of the recent book
"Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media,"
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are available for speeches/workshops/seminars about news coverage of
the war with Iraq and strategies for challenging media distortions.

For further information: (408) 338-4341

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			   Public Education
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SPEAK OUT! c/o Jean Caiani 2215-R Market St. #520
San Francisco, CA 94114
(415)864-4561

Speak Out! is a speakers bureau making available some 50 knowledgeable
activists and writers to speak on a spectrum of issues at your campus,
local peace group, church, etc. [See Institute for Social and Cultural
Change, above]

A partial list of topics and available speakers, taken from the
October(?) 1990 issue of "Z" magazine [see AML resource file
"publications"] follows.

Partial List of Available Speakers
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CENTRAL AMERICA
James Brockman,
Noam Chomsky,
Robin Hahnel,
Gladis Sibrian/FMLN,
Jaime Sibian/FMLN
Holly Sklar

CIA AND COVERT OPERATIONS
Philip Agee,
Noam Chomsky,
Dave Dellinger,
Brian Glick,
Dave Lippman

COMMUNITY ORGANIZING
[...]
LATINO POLITICS
EASTERN EUROPE &GLASNOST/PERESTROIKA
ECOLOGY
ECONOMIC VISION FOR THE U.S.
ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICIES
FEMINISM/WOMEN
GAY AND LESBIAN POLITICS/AIDS
LAW AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
LIBERATION THEOLOGY
MAINSTREAM AND ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
MIDDLE EAST
NATIVE AMERICA
NORTHERN IRELAND
PHILIPPINES
POPULAR CULTURE
POLITICAL REPRESSION IN THE U.S.
PROGRESSIVE ELECTORAL POLITICS
PSYCHIATRY IN THE U.S.
RACISM IN THE U.S.
RADICAL OVERVIEW -- WHAT'S WRONG, WHAT'S THE ALTERNATIVE, HOW TO ACHIEVE IT
RELIGIOUS AND RACIST RIGHT
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
S & L CRISIS
SOUTH AFRICA/APARTHEID
STUDENT ACTIVISM AND LESSONS FROM THE SIXTIES
U.S. DEMOCRACY

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
Noam Chomsky
Dave Dellinger
Daniel Ellsberg
Edward Herman
Rita Maran
Michael Parenti
Stephen Shalom
Holly Sklar
Howard Zinn

U.S. LABOR
VIETNAM
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN