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Monday, May 7, 2012

The Power of Image and the People A. D. Coleman and Jerry O'Neil


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 With host Melinda Pillsbury-Foster explore the roots of the issues which made it possible for the corporations to install their own operating system in our courts, in the economy, in government, and in all other parts of our lives. 
In the first two hours we will hear from Alan D. Coleman, former columnist for the Village Voice, whose blog, Photocritic International, provides insightful and provocative commentary into the world of photography as image continues to transform our world. Today Alan will provide an update on the Lt. Pike Incident and the photo which went viral.
Our third hour will be dedicated to the successful campaign by Jerry O'Neil, legislator from Montana, who has been working to end the monopoly of the Bar Association in that state.
Fighting fascism begins where ever you are now.
  This is our Mission and we pursue it relentlessly. 
This Week's Guests:                                                                       Tuesday, May 9th,  2012
Hour One - Two

Alan D. Colman has published 8 books and more than 2000 essays on photography and related subjects. Formerly a columnist for the Village Voice, the New York Times, and the New York Observer, Coleman contributes to ARTnews, Art On Paper, and Technology Review. His syndicated essays on mass media, new communication technologies, art, and photography are featured in such periodicals as Juliet Art Magazine (Italy), European Photography (Germany), and La Fotografia (Spain). His work has been translated into 21 languages and published in 30 countries.

Since 1995, Coleman has served as Publisher and Executive Director of The Nearby Café (nearbycafe.com), a multi-subject electronic magazine where his widely read blog on photography, "Photocritic International," appears. He also founded and directs the Photography Criticism CyberArchive (photocriticism.com), the most extensive online database ever created of writing about photography by authors past and present.

Coleman — who lectures, teaches and publishes widely both here and abroad — has appeared on NPR, PBS, CBS and the BBC. A Getty Museum Guest Scholar and a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Hasselblad Foundation, he was honored in 1996 as the Ansel and Virginia Adams Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Creative Photography. In 2002 he received the Culture Prize of the German Photographic Society — the first critic of photography ever so honored. American Photo named Coleman one of "the 100 most important people in photography in 1998."

Coleman's first major curatorial effort, Saga: the Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, made its debut in both book and exhibition form in September 2005 and now tours internationally. His most recent curatorial project, China: Insights, premiered in spring 2008.

Coleman's books include The Grotesque in Photography; Light Readings: A Photography Critic's Writings, 1968-1978; Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community; Tarnished Silver: After the Photo Boom; Looking at Photographs: Animals, a work for children; Depth Of Field: Essays on Photography, Mass Media and Lens Culture; and The Digital Evolution: Visual Communication in the Electronic Age, Essays, Lectures And Interviews 1967-1998.

Critical Focus received the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Writing on Photography in 1995). Wired magazine called The Digital Evolution "required reading for today’s media-savvy or information-obsessed artist." A new collection of Coleman’s essays, Available Light: Photography in the 1990s, will appear in 2010.
                                                              Site: Photocritic International


Hour Three 
 
Jerry O'Neil is a state legislator in Montana. 

In his own words - “A couple of items that might be of interest to you include why I chose to challenge the established legal system and what I have accomplished after more than 30 years of battle.

Between 1975 and 1979 the attorneys I retained to represent my children and myself against a cult did nothing for over 2 1/2 years. During this time members of the cult, in violation of a known court order, traveled from Idaho to Montana with the intent to indoctrinate my children in their dogma. While this allowed a longer length of strain and emotional damages to us, the Idaho Supreme Court in O'Neil v Vasseur, protected the monopoly and threw out my case against the attorneys.

Not being able to retain another law-firm to pursue the case against the cult it was necessary for me to litigate it by myself without an attorney. After a 6 day jury trial my children and I received a million dollar jury verdict. The defendants moved for a judgment not withstanding the jury verdict which the judge sat on for over a year before granting.

I appealed the judgment notwithstanding the verdict and the Idaho Supreme Court initially denied my appeal on July 23, 1986. I moved for reconsideration. The attorney who handled my Idaho divorce and helped me get custody of my 5 children informed me he had received word the Idaho Supreme Court wanted to reconsider their opinion but was unwilling to award a $1,000,000.00 verdict to someone who represented their self without an attorney (pro se). Therefore I was forced to have an attorney sign on to the appeal and then the court reinstated my cause of action for invasion of privacy.

When the reinstated cause was sent back to the district court I timely recused the judge who had taken so long to wrongly decide the case. After losing the judge who was predisposed to their arguments the defendants requested he put himself back on the case to hear their motion to dismiss the case. After he put himself back on the case and dismissed it, the Idaho Supreme Court overturned the dismissal. The justice, whom I believe passed down the word to me that I would have to engage a licensed attorney to prevail on the case, stated in his concurring opinion,
"Moreover, the particular district judge who granted the motion and vacated the judgment directed by this Court, had been timely disqualified from acting further in this case."”
                                                                       Site: Jerry O'Neil

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