PirateCon 2017 Qualifying the Integrity of Media Sources Talk
Channel: Massachusetts Pirate Party
Date: 2017-06-12

Kendra Moyer and Wendy Joy Welsh talk about qualifying the integrity of media. Kendra Moyer participated remotely and the recording reflects the projection of her video stream. Wendy Joy Welsh showed her Corruption and Fake News video during it. You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoy5IwcMiUo

Kendra Moyer is a writer, political technologist, community educator and member of the International Pirate Party and the MF/PL Support Team and. She teaches programming in GNU/Linux, educating activists about data security. Kendra has served as an Arbitrator for the Massachusetts Pirate Party. She is a graduate of the MF/PL Techie of Color Internship Program in network administration. Kendra mentors the for the Outreachy Program, bringing under-represented technologists into the software engineering industry. A past member of OBIT the Occupy Boston Information Tech team and writer and editor for The Boston Occupier and Versus News, she supports Constitutional protections with Restore the 4th and and Net Neutrality with Fight for the Future. She resides in Highland Park, MI and advocates welfare rights and against the emergency management crisis in low income communities. She is dedicated to promoting and end to systematic violence, human rights, and animal rights. Kendra graduated from University of Michigan and holds an MA in Communications and Arts Management from Eastern Michigan University.

Wendy Joy Welsh is a graduate of Smith College with a degree in Computer Science. Ms. Welsh’s success in the software industry includes starting and running her own consulting company, but Wendy is now using her problem-solving skills to solve the most important problem: Big Business’ control over our government, aka corruption. Wendy’s first foray into political activism was to work with the Greater Boston Trade Justice (formerly NoTPPBoston) in order to stop the Trans Pacific Partnership. Wendy took the group beyond simple protesting by employing marketing techniques. Wendy identified and targeted a prime audience: medical patients, who would have to pay more for medicines with the TPP. Wendy designed and created a targeted, informative trifold flyer. The flyer resembled a pharmaceutical brochure, and was distributed to all of the hospitals in Boston and many of the surrounding towns. While trying to solve the problem of corruption, Wendy stumbled upon a way to prove that Corporate Media is a tool for propaganda. That proof is described her paper entitled Why Media Corporations Lie About Citizens United and How to Get Money out of Politics. She also made a 10-minute video about the same topic: Corruption and Fake News. You can find Wendy Joy Welsh’s work at TheAnswerIsLocal.com.

This video is in the public domain, though we always appreciate attribution.