Keith Harmon Snow in New York Sat October 30th
in alternative media:
FROM GENOCIDE
IN CENTRAL AFRICA
Investigative photo-journalist
KEITH HARMON SNOW
is coming to New York
SAT • OCT 30 • 7pm
THE BRECHT FORUM
451 West Street (between Bank + Bethune) (212) 242 4201
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
Some well-known “humanitarians” are soft on corporations to fatten their own funding. Are they saving lives, or facilitating genocide? Keith Harmon Snow will talk and show 200 of the many slides he took in Central Africa between 2000 and 2007
WHAT YOU WILL SEE:
• Militias and soldiers in Central Africa — FARDC, RPF, SPLA, UPDF, FDLR
• Weaponry
• MONUC, UN mission in Congo, on patrol
•Kagame and Museveni and their connections to multinationals
• Mines and Mining company propaganda in CONGO, UGANDA
• Western media propaganda about genocide in RWANDA and DARFUR
• Devastation of Congo environment
• The people surviving
• Historical photos
• Maps of logging, mining, oil concessions
KEITH HARMON SNOW is a war correspondent, photographer and independent investigator, and a four time (2003, 2006, 2007, 2010) Project Censored award winner. He is also the 2009 Regent’s Lecturer in Law & Society at the University of California Santa Barbara, recognized for over a decade of work, outside of academia, contesting official narratives on war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide while also working as a genocide investigator for the United Nations and other bodies. The first UCSB Regent’s Lecturer, in 1960, was Aldous Huxley; other recipients include Margaret Mead, Peter Matthiessen and Meredith Monk.
https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/RegentsLectureship.aspx
https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1386
https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/pdf/RegentsLecturerList.pdf
Keith Harmon Snow, as much as his work is pointed in the right direction, is an egotistical fool. I recently "un-friended" him on facebook where he regularly posts comments like "Don't read the newspapers". And " If you read the New York Times, National Geographic etc you're only adding to you own mental health problems". I suspect this is because these publications do not publish his work. I get the definite impression he thinks we should be reading what he writes, so maybe he could educate us about where he is published. Further more he works only on donations, and from what I can gather hasn't spent an awful lot of time in some of the countries he writes about, while all the time he lives on his family estate in Massachusetts. If you truly care about these places as much as your writings suggest sell that shit, down size and make some pretty hefty donations with the millions your bound to make, which will also allow you to work constantly to reporting on Africa. Do not go around telling people what they should and should not read and publicizing yourself as some kind of massiah. A journalist should know better.
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