The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2016-2017

The presentation of the Top 25 stories of 2016-2017 extends the tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State University students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across North America has made the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s cycle, Project Censored reviewed over 300 Validated Independent News stories (VINs) representing the collective efforts of 310 college students and 27 professors from 12 college and university campuses that participate in our affiliate program.

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Gender, Race, and Class in Media with Dr. Bill Yousman and Dr. Lori Bindig-Yousman

Giants - The Global Power Elite

Fake News and the Truth Emergency - A Speech by Mickey Huff

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Critical White Studies and the Trump Voter

Ralph Nader – Out of Control Corporations, Death in the Workplace, and the Issues Facing Americans

Sanctuary Cities in African American Communities

Radical Sociology with Michael Thompson, Frances Fox Piven, and William Robinson

Resisting the Ghost of Fascism With Guest Henry A. Giroux

#MeToo Movement with Pioneer Newspaper writers Jamie de Silva and Daniel MacGuire

Manufacturing Consent with Rob Williams

Darfur Genocide and efforts at world peace with Adeeb Yousif

Poets Reading the News

Art Activism with Eleanor Goldfield

Latin America Journalism with Kali Persall and T.M. Scruggs

Native Americans – The Other Slavery

Celebrate the Right to Read and Banned Books Week

1945 President Truman and Prime minister Churchill declared victory in Europe today, celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany. Following the announcement huge crowds, many dressed in red, white and blue, gathered outside Buckingham Palace in London and were cheered as the King, Queen and two Princesses came out onto the balcony.

1962 An estimated 9,000,000 Belgians participated in a ten-minute work stoppage to protest nuclear weapons.

1667 A federal grand jury indicted Mohammed Ali for refusing to be inducted into the armed forces. He was convicted by an all-white jury on June 20th.

My conscience won’t let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud for big powerful America,” he said at the time. “And shoot them for what? They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape and kill my mother and father. … Shoot them for what? How can I shoot them poor people? Just take me to jail.

1967 Following the publication of his book "UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED" published in 1965 which highlights the Chevrolet Corvair as an unsafe and unreliable example of automobiles offered to American Consumers. Ralph Nader is part of a symposium on "Automobile Crash Injuries" at the Upstate Medical Center as part of the pressure on the government and the automobile industry to improve safety in cars.

1973 After more than two months when 120 armed members of the American Indian Movement and their supporters who had seized the old town of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota lay down their arms and surrendered the town to wary Federal officials.

1979 Police killed 23 people and wounded 70 outside the municipal cathedral of San Salvador, El Salvador. The victims were members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc, a coalition of anti-government students, teachers, peasants & workers

2008 The Olympic torch reached the summit of Mount Everest after being carried up the mountain by the team Chinese climbers. The team of climbers consisted of both men and women, and Tibetans and Han-Chinese. The feat of carrying the torch up the tallest peak was hoped to draw attention away from protests against the Beijing Olympics.

2009 The 11th Star Trek film is released. It eatures the main characters of the original Star Trek television series, who are portrayed by a new cast. The film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) before they unite aboard the USS Enterprise to combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan who threatens the United Federation of Planets. The time-travel story establishes an alternate reality, freeing the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints.

2009 Members of the Ku Klux Klan burn a cross in an African-American neighborhood in Ozark, Alabama to intimidate residents

Let's close out my part of today's show with a , and ten second grand collection of 45 recordings that were released by one of my favorite voices. Fun way to spend an hour, forty-three minutes, and ten seconds. Here's a sample to get you hooked:

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