Monday August 25, 2014 – 11am
Posted Aug 25, 2014 02:47:32 PM.
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11:00- Colin Perkel, Journalist with the Canadian Press
Perkel is a senior journalist with The Canadian Press, where he has carried out a wide variety of assignments, including six months (2009-2010) over 3 tours with the Canadian Forces in Kandahar. There’s always been a cadre of journalists willing to put their lives at risk to cover the world’s wars. The Vietnam War, for instance, was a rich period, with journalists working on the front lines exposing the lie that America was winning the war. Canada has a proud history of war reporting by journalists who gave Canadian listeners in the Second World War a taste of what their soldiers were experiencing. A new generation of war correspondents has covered the world’s hot spots since 1991. One of the defining characteristics of this era has been a blurring of the front lines. In today’s sectarian, quasi-civil conflicts journalists are never really safe. If anything, they are in more danger than in traditional wars. Information is an important weapon. Syria, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Congo. Reporters are seen as tools and often targets. A press card is no protection.
11:30- Frank Vernuccio, Editor-in-Chief of the New York Analysis of Policy & Government
Throughout much of the world, tribalism-loyalty, above all else, to the particular clan, ethnic group or race into which one is born-has caused devastating harm. Given the clear and abundant evidence of tribalism’s horrific impact on so much of the planet, why are so many in the U.S. Progressive movement increasingly wedded to it? Evidence of this disturbing trend can be seen in recent disturbances, the latest example being in Ferguson, Missouri. In the aftermath of a shooting of a black teenager who acted aggressively towards a white police officer, all the evidence of tribalism came to the fore. Before a single fact was ascertained, the leading proponents of this discredited practice proclaimed the matter to be a racial incident. The tribalistic mindset of the agitators in Ferguson can best be illustrated by the almost total silence on their part concerning the horrible conditions of black-on-black crime in places such as Chicago, where the death by violence rate for young black men is greater than that for American military personnel fighting in Afghanistan. Why is tribalism occurring in America?
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