Navigating Media Propaganda & Awakening Solutions for a Regenerative Future | Presentation by WTK Director Amber Yang
I draw on my work with WantToKnow.info, restorative justice, and media literacy to explore the challenges facing our media and public health systems + empowering media tools and solutions.
About a month ago, I spoke at a local event in Minneapolis with Children’s Health Defense Minnesota. I made sure to record the event because I wanted our readers to be able to tune in!
With engaging visuals and slides throughout the presentation, I draw on my work with WantToKnow.info, restorative justice, and media literacy to explore the deepest challenges facing our media and public health systems today.
In the talk, I present practical, empowering tools for navigating the media landscape along with real world solutions that move beyond disease-care and remind us of what’s possible. Using social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s three forces of a healthy society, I explore how special interests have hijacked these forces:
Social capital: Social capital is the values and practices that bind us in relationship and make it possible for us to solve problems together especially in times of crisis. Yet cancel culture, social division, and self-censorship are weakening that foundation. Essentially, the crisis we face today in public health isn’t just medical or environmental, it’s a social and moral crisis. Our health epidemics are getting worse not because we lack solutions, but because our attention is constantly being redirected toward fear-based narratives that fuel the endless culture wars.
Strong institutions: Giant corporations control our food, our medicine, our agricultural and health systems. They instrumentalize government agencies to support policies and products that cause widespread harm, including the toxic chemicals damaging our brains, our bodies, and our capacity to thrive. I discuss how our scientific and medical institutions have become increasingly captured by corporate and special interests, rooted in Rockefeller’s Big Oil influence that helped lay the foundation for modern pharmaceutical medicine and continuing through today’s revolving doors and high-level health cover-ups.
Shared stories: Covert censorship networks, fact-checking organizations, credibility scoring tools funded by powerful interests, and “bias-tracking” platforms narrowing complex issues into partisan boxes all manufacture both the illusion of consensus and the illusion of division. I unpack the machinery behind the censorship during the COVID pandemic era and connect it to a much deeper story about who shapes our information environment and what we see and don’t see.
I hope this presentation supports your sensemaking during these challenging times, PEERS community! It would mean so much to me if you could watch it and let me know what you think!
With faith in a transforming world,
Amber Yang for PEERS and WantToKnow.info
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The following URL links to a paper written by David A. Hughes titled "9/11 Truth and the Silence of the IR Discipline": https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0304375419898334. I encourage you to read his work if you have questions about events such as 9/11 or COVID-19.
David A. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln. He received his undergraduate and master's degrees from Oxford University and holds doctorates in German Studies (Duke University) and International Relations (Oxford Brookes University). His research focuses on psychological warfare, "9/11," "Covid-19," the deep state, technocracy, global class relations, and resurgent totalitarianism.
I'm glad I found you Amber, thanks initially to your excellent interview with constitutional lawyer Danny Sheehan and his wife Sara Nelson (Romero Institute/New Paradigm Institute #citizensfordisclosure ). I've enjoyed your raps since then. Obviously "disclosure" is applicable across the board for this paranoia-driven pickle we've got our collective selves into since we scared ourselves silly with our devastating nuclear detonations.
This is the first time I caught that wanttoknowPEERS was started by whistleblower Fred Burks.
FYI Peoples!: 2005 key archival: #fredburks "high level state dept whistleblower" https://www.wanttoknow.info/050226fredburkswsj