Most are kept ignorant by the corporations that spoon feed us information.
Learn about this and how the Internet can change this at an upcoming
lecture.

kelly 

This Thursday, 7/15/99, at 7:00pm is the second in the 1999 Chicago Media
Watch Lecture Series:

                         What do you know?
                                 Only what
                                    THEY
                             want to tell you!

This week's lecture and discussion will feature:

Robert Weissman, co-author of Corporate Predators: The Hunt for Megaprofits
and the Attack on 
Democracy.  

Ralph Nader, writing in the book's introduction says, "Specific
descriptions of corporate misbehavior do nourish proper generalizations
that in turn lead to more just movements and practices.  Here, columnists
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman provide a distinct service in
Corporate Predators. It is not just the versatility of their writings --
covering bribery, pollution, corporate crime, fraud and abuse, failure of
law enforcement, union-busting, the mayhem inflicted by product defects and
toxics, the deep gap between the rich and the rest of America, corporate
front groups, the media censorship and self-censorship, the profiteering,
the pillaging overseas and more-- but it is also the impact on the reader
that comes from aggregating evidence."

You can read Mr. Weissman's and  Mr. Mokhiber's weekly column, Focus on the
Corporation, in the San Francisco Bay Guardian at http://www.sfbg.com/focus/

Location:

UIC Campus
Chicago Circle Center, Room 605 
750 S. Halsted St. Chicago*
(Take the elevator in the northern most Circle Center building to the sixth
floor )

Tickets are available at the door:

    Members           $7.00
    Non-members   $8.00
    Students            $5.00
    Low-income       $5.00
    Annual dues      $35.00

For information, phone Liane Casten, (847) 869-9144

Upcoming lectures:

*Carol Felsenthal: 8/19 Citizen Newhouse: Portrait of a Media Baron
*Danny Schechter: 9/23 The More You Watch, The Less You Know

Venue Notice:

Lectures to be held in September, October and November will be at Ann
Sather’s on Belmont.



*                              How to Reach UIC

                                   By Bus
  If you need information about Chicago Transit Authority buses, call the
   Regional Transit Authority Travel Information Department at 836-7000.

                          By Elevated-Subway Train
The campus is served by what is known as the Halsted/University of Illinois
  stop on the route of the Douglas-Congress-O'Hare elevated-subway trains.
  You can take either an A or B train to the university stop. If you need
 more information about Chicago Transit Authority trains or buses, call the
   Regional Transit Authority Travel Information Department at 836-7000.


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