• Silver City
• Albuquerque
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• Santa Fe
• Taos

Standing Up Against Hate Speech
Alex Nogales	Mark Potok	Marilyn Mayo	Mark Kappelhoff	John Transvina	Connie Yu
at NCMR / National Conference for Media Reform

Radio Free Silver! was born among hate speech.  When it originated in 2004 on KNFT in Silver City, NM, it occupied a 1 hour slot followed by 3 hours of Rush Limbaugh, and backed up by 2 hours of Bill O'Reilly and Michael Savage.  These ultra right wing opportunists and "corporatists" continue to spew their venom incessantly and to greater reward as evidenced by Limbaugh's recent renegotiation for even more pieces of Silver.

In an environment of increasing media consolidation controlled by fewer and fewer - and bloodier and bloodier - hands, abusive language is the rule rather than the exception with the most broadly syndicated right wing talk radio programming.  But this lunatic fringe has penetrated further into mainstream media with the increasingly vituperative language heard among reactionary network pundits and epitomized by CNN's Lou Dobbs' rants on immigration - and the platform that he offers to those with racist and violent associations.

This panel brings together several experts to discuss the circumstances and available alternatives to this roiling cauldron of not only hate speech, but calls to action to unleash violence against those who are degraded and maligned for financial gain and political positioning via fear mongering.

• Alex Nogales
  President & CEO of the 
  National Hispanic Media Coalition
• Mark Potok
  Director of SPLC's Intelligence Project & 
  editor of its award-winning Intelligence Report magazine
  Southern Poverty Law Center
• Marilyn Mayo
  Director of Right Wing Research for the
  Anti-Defamation League
• Mark Kappelhoff
  Chief of the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division of the
  US Department of Justice
• John Trasviña
  President and General Counsel of MALDEF
  Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund
• Corrine Yu
  Senior Counsel and Managing Policy Director for the 
  Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

The NCMR was attended by over 3,000 activists, journalists, content creators, documentarians, public officials, academics, experts, alternative media advocates and concerned citizens. Over 70 diverse panels were presented in addition to a dozen or more keynote spekers including Amy Goodman, Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, Van Jones and Naomi Klein. Visit the conference website for more audio, video and most importantly, how you can join the media reform movement that is gaining steam and heading our country back toward democracy.

Click here to watch Part 1, here to watch Part 2, or here to listen.