In our recent teach-in on Noncooperation with Trump, we touched on many essential pillars of free societies and of liberatory movements — including, the media. As repression keeps on ramping up, we’re pushing back with a follow up event digging in to this urgent topic… 

Join us to hear from panelists on the frontlines of independent media. Watch to the end to engage in a skill share — learn to spot bias, misinformation, propaganda, and manipulation with “An Editor’s Guide to Critical Media Literacy”.

Recorded on Thursday, May 29th, 2025
ZNetwork.org teamed up with RootsAction to co-host this National Teach-In as part of a new project: TeachInNetwork.org

Speakers include:

Jeff Cohen: media critic; former commentator on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC; senior producer of MSNBC’s Phil Donahue show; founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and co-founded RootsAction in 2011.

Sonali Kolhatkar: journalist; author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice; and co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan.

Michael Arria: Mondoweiss’s U.S. correspondent; producer of The Shift, tracking U.S. politics and Palestine; and of Power & Pushback, covering the Palestine movement and the repression of Palestine activism.

Alexandria Shaner: author and staff member at ZNetwork.org; writer for Extinction Rebellion. Her work has appeared in Common Dreams, Foreign Policy in Focus, LA Progressive, Waging Nonviolence, Antiwar.com, and many more outlets.

Jesse Meyerson: Communications Director for IfNotNow and former communications Director for India Walton for Mayor.

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