Prometheus 6

I got some email inviting me to this thing at the end of January.

Strategizing for Democratic Survival

A Collaborative Strategy Summit for Media Pros, Scholars,
Activists and Whistleblowers Working for Truth, Transparency
and an Informed Resurgent Democracy

One of the sponsoring organizations is 911Truth.org, which frankly does not impress me. Many of the other sponsors do. I'm really mixed about whether or not to attend.

The conference is in Santa Cruz, which would let me visit some folks in the Bay Area that I haven't seen in way too long. In fact, I had a two hour phone conversation with one of the two remaining people I am willing to talk to for that long on the phone. I think I'm looking forward to seeing my friends a lot more than a media planning summit, even one held by a truly left progressive crew.

GOALS
• Gather key media constituencies needed to inject transformative truths* into 2008 political news and electoral debate;
* convergent evidence of an ongoing corporate/authoritarian coup d'état, election theft, 9/11 complicity/cover-up, "War on Terror" fraud, etc.
• Honor brave audacious "truth war veterans" (casualties & survivors) and learn from their experiences;
• Devise coherent decentralized models for distribution of suppressed news, synergistic truth-telling, and collaborative strategies to disclose, legitimize and popularize deeper historical narratives.. [<-- P6: This is where they got my attention]
• In sum, discover in this moment of Constitutional crisis, ecological peril and widening war, whether 300 top investigative journalists, whistleblowers and indy media all-stars can transform the way Americans perceive and defend their world.

So. I'm starting to drift toward the idea of going to San Francisco for a week or so. My question is, do you folk think a weekend in Santa Cruz is worth it?