he will be the phil donahue. i hand you the microphone. >> i'll hold onto it. believe the way we're planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. i'll also be taking questions from the audience. so, if any

he will be the phil donahue. i hand you the microphone. >> i'll hold onto it. i believe the way we're planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. i'll also be taking questions from the audience. so, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. allow me to have time to get over there to get to you. should we start off with a red question or a question from the audience? >> i can read one. >> okay. >> okay. and some of these questions on the list -- is the mic on? okay. some of the questions are directed toward a specific speaker, others aren't. so, if it's directed toward a specific speaker, i'll ask you. if not, just whoever can answer it, start answering it. this is a general question. so, it's not geared toward any particular speaker. so if anyone feels like chiming in, that would be great. how do you go about securing funding for the various graffiti programs? do you use grants, tax assessments, et cetera? anybody? >> i think i can take that. >> okay, ready. >> for anyone w

disappearikely to faster than you can say phil donahue. i worked with phil donahue. i know a little bit about journalists being silenced for questioning bipartisan military ventures. i was with him at msnbc in 2002-2 thousand three when bush was revving up the invasion of iraq with the support of joe biden, john kerry, hillary clinton, harry reid. thec terminated us for crime of jwi. that is journalism during wartime while independent. ini may be a crime mainstream media, but it is the kind of unauthorized, on embedded coverage that you get from the authors and journalists that we have assembled on this panel. it is the kind of coverage you get from the jeremy scandals -- skahills, and the independent media outlets that are so featured at this conference this weekend. many liberal journalists who were vocal about war and human rights and civil liberties during the bush area seem to have lost or muted their voices during the obama era. it says something about the lack of serious national debate about so-called national that last month, one of the loudest mainstream tv

they are likely to disappear faster than you can say phil donahue. i worked with phil donahue.a little bit about journalists being silenced for questioning bipartisan military ventures. i was with him at msnbc in 2002- 2 thousand three when bush was revving up the invasion of iraq with the support of joe biden, john kerry, hillary clinton, harry reid. msnbc terminated us for the crime of jwi. that is journalism during wartime while independent. jwi may be a crime in mainstream media, but it is the kind of unauthorized, on embedded coverage that you get from the authors and journalists that we have assembled on this panel. it is the kind of coverage you get from the jeremy scandals -- skahills, and the independent media outlets that are so featured at this conference this weekend. many liberal journalists who were vocal about war and human rights and civil liberties during the bush area seem to have lost or muted their voices during the obama era. it says something about the lack of serious national debate about so-called national security, that last month, one of the loudest ma

and we had phil donahue in our studio in new york. oprah before oprah, and then he had a show on msnbc, right before the invasion and was summarily dumped even though it was the most popular show on msnbc, it was the 8:00 slot in the evening. and we got ahold of the secret nbc memo that essentially said afterwards as we move into war, we're not going to have an anti-war face on a flagship show when the other networks are waving the american flag. i think that expressing that view that phil did or having guests on that dared to speak out against war, i mean, is patriotic. peace is patriotic. but phil did a film, his first documentary, about thomas seven years ago called "body of war." and has remained in touch with thomas ever since. and thomas is deciding whether to take his own life. he says that he cannot deal with the pain, he feels the veterans amanagers, the va hospital, has failed him. he's in terrible pain. he had a tremendous will to live, but the pain has worn him down. and i fear that many soldiers find themselves in the sit

i worked with phil donahue.now a little bit about journalists being silenced for questioning bipartisan military adventures. i was with phil at msnbc in 2002 to 2003 thousand three when bush was revving up the invasion of iraq with the support of joe biden, john kerry, hillary clinton, harry reid. msnbc terminated us for the crime of jwi. that is journalism during wartime while independent. jwi may be a crime in mainstream media, but it is the kind of unauthorized, unembedded coverage that you get from the authors and journalists that we have assembled on this panel. it is the kind of coverage you get from the jeremy skahills, and the independent media outlets that are so featured at this conference this weekend. many liberal journalists who were vocal about war and human rights and civil liberties during the bush area seem to have lost or muted their voices during the obama era. it says something about the lack of serious national debate about so-called national security, that last month, one of the loudest mai

[laughter] i worked with phil donahue, i know a little bit about journalists getting silenced for questioning bipartisan military adventures, because i was with phil at msnbc in 2002 and '3 when bush was revving up the invasion of iraq with the support of democratic leaders joe biden, john kerry, hillary clinton, harry reid, and msnbc terminated us for the crime of jwi. that's not dwi. jwi, that's journalism during wartime while independent. jwi may be a crime in mainstream media, but it's exactly the kind of unauthorized, unembedded coverage that you get from the authors and the journalists that we've assembled on this panel. it's the kind of coverage you get from the jeremy scahills and the glenn greenwalds, and it's the kind of coverage you get from the independent media outlets that are so featured at this conference this weekend. many liberal journalists who are vocal about war and human rights and civil liberties during the bush era, well, they seem to have lost or muted their voices during the obama era. it says something about the lack of serious national debate about so-called nation

he will be the phil donahue. i hand you the microphone. >> i'll hold onto it. believe the way we're planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. i'll also be taking questions from the audience. so, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. allow me to have time to get over there to get to you. should we start off with a red question or a question from the audience? >> i can read one. >> okay. >> okay. and some of these