Via Bernice Yeung

California First Amendment Coalition, in conjunction with the Society of Professional Journalists, NorCal chapter, presents “RESISTING GOVERNMENT SECRECY IN A TIME OF TERRORISM,” CFAC's 2004 open government assembly – a 2-day conference featuring premier investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH as key note speaker.

Friday, October 8 and Saturday October 9 at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

To be sure that you'll be able to get in – and to take advantage of our discount for early registration – register now or call CFAC at (415) 460-5060.

CFAC's program this year is rich in journalistic, legal and national security experts leading lively panel discussions on, among other topics:

*news coverage of the Iraq war;
*subpoenas against reporters;
*information controls under the Patriot Act and other
federal laws;
*the civil liberties/national security trade-off in
the U.S. Supreme Court;
*access to courts and state agencies; and
*international press freedom (or lack thereof).

For the full program, click here.

If you can attend only one conference this year, this is it. The experience will leave you well-informed, energized and
with a renewed commitment to First Amendment principles.

For more information, contact: Peter Scheer, Executive Director, California First Amendment Coalition at (415) 460-5060.

Via Sreenath Sreenivasan

The Australian PhotoJournalist is a boutique journal that casts a critical eye across journalism and attempts to challenge the notions and practices currently employed in that profession.

The Australian PhotoJournalist magazine's forthcoming issue is on ‘Celebrating Journalism: journalism that makes a difference'. As part of this issue we would like to include a fact sheet on journalists and photographers who have
made tangible differences as a result of their work.

We are looking to include people like Canadian Journalist and former radio producer, Jane Macklohone who is giving her time and money to teach the women of Afghanistan to use their country‚s airwaves to change the way that they are viewed in their society.

If you or someone you know has done something similar as a result of writing an article or assignment we would like to include you in our next issue. Your prompt response would be much appreciated as we are compiling within this week. We are still struggling to find journalists who have made a difference in the situations and people they document. Is this happening? We would love to acknowledge anything of this sort.

Thanking you for you time.

Laura Boase
APJ Editorial Board
Phone: 61 7 3875 3168
Fax: 61 7 3875 3202
Dept of Photography
QCA Griffith University
PO Box 3370
South Brisbane QLD
Australia 4101

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Via Harikrishna Katragadda

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Via New York Times

Richard G. Butler, founder of the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization died on September 8. As an aeronautical engineer Mr. Butler spent some time in India working for the Royal Indian Air Force. [Is that what it was called?] There, the article suggests, Mr. Butler “became aware of the caste system and the idea of racial superiority.”

The article quotes Butler:

“I noticed all the maharajahs were much whiter than the average Indian,” he told The Los Angeles Times in an article published in 1999. “As you went up the hierarchy, the lighter they got. It all got me to thinking, and when I came home from overseas, I had a feeling that we, the white race, were losing the war.”

Talk about a warped line of thinking! I was aghast to learn that the racist ideologies and actions of the Aryan Nations had its beginning in India!

Think street photography and I think of Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand and Robb Hill.

Yeah, Robb Hill.

Robb, a friend from my days at Indiana University, is a terrific photographer. I just received a note from him saying his portfolio of street photography is on display at the Catherine Edelman Gallery‘s website and that the prints are for sale. All images are 11 x 14″ or 16 x 20″ gelatin silver prints for $700 and $1200 respectively. Black & white prints – yummy!

Via New York Times

“At first Mr. Whitaker approached ground zero with dread and anxiety, he said. But when he saw the pile of rubble visibly diminish in a matter of days, he started feeling more optimistic. He wanted to capture that feeling, he said, and the speed with which the cleanup was taking place. Time-lapse photography was the ticket.”

September 11 is right around the corner. How far have we come in rebuilding Ground Zero? Check out Project Rebirth.

Via New York Times

“It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.” – VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY

“Each involved very different circumstances, but for the N.Y.U. community, and the Tisch School in particular, these two deaths, coming so close together, compound the sense of sorrow we feel and strengthens our resolve to do all we can to insure the well-being of all our students.”

We are sorry for your loss.