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poster_01 poster_02 poster_03 poster_04 actual size_24" x 36" or 36" x 24" DOUBLESPEAK PROPOSAL We propose to utilize a poster campaign to communicate the governmental mayhem of doublespeak. In our current poster series, we are covering the topics of: Tax Relief, Operation Freedom, Loving Alternatives, and No Child Left Behind. We are concerned with doublespeak becoming reality and want to bring to the surface the atrocities of governmental and political lies. We choose to reveal the current issues of doublespeak with a new series of posters for each set of doublespeak. Just like the Ad Council Campaign we propose to make use of public space as our forum of exhibition. We will place our posters on bus stops, buses, subways, billboards and other public venues. We choose this form of communication because public space will reach more people in their environment. Our target audience is people interacting on the streets. Doublespeak is committed to extensive research on all topics it chooses to bring to the forefront. Doublespeak conducts research in three basic areas: 1) Campaign development and evaluation - we conduct qualitative and quantitative research to guide the strategic and creative development of our campaigns. 2) Public Service Director studies - To help us better understand and serve our media audience, we conduct comprehensive surveys of Public Service Directors at mass media outlets throughout the country. 3) Special Issue/Audience studies - As needed, we conduct proprietary studies on specific issues or audiences. Art Direction From our research of poster art and photography we decided to use child-like rendering as imagery for our campaign. We feel it serves our narrative better, it makes a statement on doublespeak as language that works with most people. It is a compelling way to show shocking and uncomfortable imagery, and very effective in communicating complex ideas. Like doublespeak it appears beautiful until you actually look into the detail and get the real message. Research References: !) No Child Left Behind "An Estimated 12 Million Low- and Moderate-Income Families - with 24 Million Children - Would Not Benefit from Bush Tax Plan", by Isaac Shapiro, Allen Dupree and James Sly, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities. Februrary 7, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/2-7-01tax.htm "The Administration's Budget: Gaps Between Rhetoric and Reality," by Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, and Joel Friedman, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities. (Revised) March 1, 2001. "The Mask Comes Off" By Bob Herbert, New York Times, March 26, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/26/opinion/26HERB.html "America's Fiscal Future: Texas," by Jason Zengerle, The New Republic, April 2, 2001 (web-posted March 22, 2001) http://www.tnr.com/040201/zengerle040201.html "Evaluating the Budget Surplus and Tax Policy Options," Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget, March 8, 2001, by William G. Gale, Brookings Institution. http://www.brook.edu/views/testimony/gale/20010308/20010308.pdf SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- teachers layoffs http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/ Most states lag far behind 'No Child Left Behind' law http://www.usatoday.com/news/ No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Homepage http://www.isbe.state.il.us/nclb/default.htm HGSE News: No Child Left Behind? Milli Pierce Responds http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/features/pierce07012002.html Federal Law Pushes Va. to Draft New SOL Standards http://www.washingtonpost.com 2) Tax Relief "An Estimated 12 Million Low- and Moderate-Income Families - with 24 Million Children - Would Not Benefit from Bush Tax Plan", by Isaac Shapiro, Allen Dupree and James Sly, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities. Februrary 7, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/2-7-01tax.htm "Testimony of Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities before the House Committee on Ways and Means," February 13, 2001. "An Estimated 12 Million Low- and Moderate-Income Families - with 24 Million Children - Would Not Benefit from Bush Tax Plan", by Isaac Shapiro, Allen Dupree and James Sly, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities. Februrary 7, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/2-7-01tax.htm "The Administration's Budget: Gaps Between Rhetoric and Reality," by Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, and Joel Friedman, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities. (Revised) March 1, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/3-1-01bud.htm "The Mask Comes Off" By Bob Herbert, New York Times, March 26, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/26/opinion/26HERB.html "How Would Families at Different Income Levels Benefit from the Bush Tax Cut?", Robert Greenstein, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, February 6, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-01tax3.htm "Is The Bush Tax Cut Necessary To Avoid A Recession?" By Peter R. Orszag, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, February 22, 2001. CTJ, "Summary and Analysis of George W. Bush's Tax Plan Updated August 2000" http://www.ctj.org/html/bush0800.htm CTJ Analysis of Bush Plan Updated to 2001 Levels http://www.ctj.org/html/gwbin01.htm "4,500 Very Large Estates Would Receive As Much In Annual Tax Reductions Under Bush Plan As 140 Million Americans," by Isaac Shapiro, Iris J. Lav, and Jim Sly, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities, February 26, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/2-26-01tax2.htm "How Would Families at Different Income Levels Benefit from the Bush Tax Cut?", Robert Greenstein, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, February 6, 2001. http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-01tax3.htm "Economic Apartheid Data Center," United For A Fair Economy http://www.ufenet.org/research/Economic_Apartheid_Data.html#p56 "The Administration's Budget: Gaps Between Rhetoric and Reality," by Robert Greenstein, Richard Kogan, and Joel Friedman, Center On Budget And Policy Priorities. (Revised) March 1, 2001. "The Mask Comes Off" By Bob Herbert, New York Times, March 26, 2001 http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/26/opinion/26HERB.html "America's Fiscal Future: Texas," by Jason Zengerle, The New Republic, April 2, 2001 (web-posted March 22, 2001) http://www.tnr.com/040201/zengerle040201.html "Evaluating the Budget Surplus and Tax Policy Options," Testimony before the U.S. House Committee on the Budget, March 8, 2001, by William G. Gale, Brookings Institution. http://www.brook.edu/views/testimony/gale/20010308/20010308.pdf 3) Loving Alternatives VI. ARBITRARY DETENTION http://www.hrw.org/reports/2002/us911/USA0802-05.htm#P737_192003 Relevant Human Rights Watch Reports 2002 on the USA http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/us.html HRW - http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/cedaw/ Amnesty - http://www.amnestyusa.org/commit/ http://www.womenenews.com/article.cfm/dyn/aid/1189 Morality—or the politics of doublespeak? By Pat Brewer http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1991/03/03p8.htm Iraq Memo #1, October 9, 2002 The Brookings Institution Overthrowing Saddam: Calculating the Costs and Casualties Michael E. O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies “...U.S. losses could number 1,000 or more just in this first phase of the fighting....” “John Ashcroft: An Asset of the Far Right A Brief Overview of Key Political Relationships and Strategic Networking Resources” By Lee Cokorinos IDS Research Director ://fair.org The Center For Public Integrity http://www.public-i.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=502&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 “Christian Right Lifts Ashcroft” By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, April 14, 1998; Page A01 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/wh041498.htm People for the American Way http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=3149 http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=652 Christian Coalition http://www.cc.org/ http://www.cc.org/aboutcca/patmessage1.html 4) Operation Freedom Media Watchdogs Caught Napping By Leander Kahney - Also by this reporter Page 1 of 1 02:00 AM Mar. 17, 2003 PT Media Watchdogs Caught Napping By Leander Kahney Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58056,00.html Seeking global view of war Cable customers turn to Denver's International Channel for news By Steve Caulk, Rocky Mountain News March 27, 2003 http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/business/article/0,1299,DRMN_4_1842889,00.htmlMiddle East - THE ROVING EYE This war is brought to you - By Pepe Escobar Atoll - Asia Times Online http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC20Ak07.html “The American corporate media are not inclined to spell it out, and the absolute majority of American public opinion is anesthetized non -stop by a barrage of technical, bureaucratic and totally peripheral aspects of the war against Iraq.”AlterNet: What the New York Times Won't Tell You http://www.alternet.org/story.html Do we really have a "free" press? by Patrick J. Sloyan http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,895124,00.html Klein, William S, Faking the voice of the people, http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0131/p11s01-coop.html America's Team: Media and the Military (Entire Book!) http://www.fac.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13999 'NO BAD STORIES' The American Media-Military Relationship, Navy War College Review http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2002/winter/art5-w02.htm Bodies? What Bodies? by Patrick J. Sloyan http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=14633 Collective Amnesia, from American Journalism Review, October 2000. http://216.167.28.193/Article.asp?id=788 See the quote by Max Uechtritz, attending a journalism conference in the summer of 2002, “We now know for certain that only three things in life are certain – death, taxes and the fact the military are lying bastards.”, in News World Asia Conference Day 3 Report. http://www.newsworld.org/conference_report.htm Censorship of News in Wartime is Still Censorship http://media.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4277504,00.html Even in Wartime, Stealth and Democracy Do Not Mix http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=506&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf (Nariyah Accounts) http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html http://www.counterpunch.org/stauber1207.html http://www.hbo.com/films/livefrombaghdad/related.shtml (note: thanks to http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/myths.html for a good account of the "Nariyah" incident, which we incorporated and trimmed.) Editorial: Comfort and the Protesters http://www.nysun.com/sunarticle.asp?artID=529 The Bill of Rights (Amendments 1-10 of the U.S. Constitution) http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html The U.S. Constitution, Article III: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/art3.htm Famous Quote by John McCain http://www.life.com/Life/heroes/visions06.html Cited in Stars & Stripes, Pacific Edition, May 4, 1997 New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, Supreme Court Decision, Mar. 9, 1964 http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/nytvsullivan.html Quote on Supreme Court Case is from Jamie Kalven, editor's introduction to Harry Kalven's A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America (Harper & Row, 1988) Investigate 'Communist-style' peaceniks, says Right Wing Leader http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=14495 See the famous quote by Nazi leader Goering, who said after Germany lost World War II that to win people's support for war, all that was necessary was to "tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism." http://www.snopes.com/ Pope, Hugh, "U.S. Officials Discount Any Role by Iraq in Terrorist Attacks," Wall St. Journal, September 19, 2001. Whitmore, Brian, "Hijacker - Iraqi Meeting Disputed Differing Reports On Whether Prague Encounter Occurred," New York Times, October 23, 2002 Doug Struck, "Al Qaeda Members Fled to Kurdish Area of Iraq, State Department Says," The Washington Post, August 29, 2002 reprinted, The Tech, MIT Don Van Natta Jr., "Mullah Who Leads Ansar al Aslam Denies U.S. Claims," International Herald Tribune, February 7, 2003 http://www.iht.com/articles/85957.html Iraq: Group Linked To Al-Qaeda Establishes Enclave In North (Radio Free Europe Report) http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2002/07/17072002170855.asp Michael Howard and Julian Borgan, "Al Qaeda Running New Terror Camp, Say Kurds," The Guardian, August 23, 2002 http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,779342,00.html Helena Cobban, "Bin Laden's voice aside, war on Iraq is not war on Al Qaeda," Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 13 http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0213/p11s01-coop.html A British Reporter visits Ansar al-Islam in Northern Iraq http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,892112,00.html THREATS AND RESPONSES: TERROR LINKS; Split at C.I.A. and F.B.I. On Iraqi Ties to Al Qaeda By James Risen and David Johnston, The New York Times, February 2, 2003 Section 1; Page 13 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/02/international/middleeast/02INTE.html "Prisoner casts doubt on Iraq tie to Al Qaeda: Story at odds with Powell's UN case," Chicago Tribune, February 11, 2003. http://www. chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0302110307feb11,1,3163993.story?coll=chi%2Dnews%2Dhed Status of Verification of Iraq's Biological Warfare Programme, UNSCOM Report, July 1999 http://cns.miis.edu/research/iraq/ucreport/dis_bio.htm Response to Secretary of State Colin Powell's UN Presentation, by Dr. Glen Rangwala, Cambridge Univ. http://traprockpeace.org/firstresponse.html Europe skeptical of Iraq-ricin link http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/12/sprj.irq.powell.ricin/index.html "Revealed: truth behind US 'poison factory' claim," The Observer, Feb. 9, 2003. http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,892045,00.html Rangwala's Expose Of Plagiarism in British Dossier http://traprockpeace.org/britishdossier.html Powell's Speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/transcripts/powelltext_020503.html Iraqi 'facilities of concern' yield no evidence of violations," Associated Press, Jan. 18. http://www.modbee.com/24hour/special_reports/ iraq/inspections/story/724048p-5301910c.html Top Bush officials (Rice) push case against Saddam http://cgi.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/08/iraq.debate/ Germany # 1 in military spending, 1938: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, Paul Kennedy, 1987, p. 296 German recovery in 1936: Timelines Of The Great Depression http://www.korpios.org/resurgent/Timeline.htm Iraq military strength “dramatically down” DoD News Briefing, January 16, 1996 - 1:30 p.m: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan1996/t011696_tbrfg011.html Turkey and Saudi Arabia’s combined GDP is 11_ times that of Iraq, combined military budgets 20 times as Iraq’s. CIA World Factbook 2002 - Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, USA http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tu.html http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/sa.html http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/us.html US Fiscal Year 2004 military budget in world comparison: http://www.cdi.org/budget/2004/world-military-spending.cfm Smallpox in Iraq? http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/Iraq_smallpox021203.html US paper to face Russian smallpox lawsuit http://gazeta.ru/2002/12/05/USpapertofac.shtml Piller, Charles, Smallpox Strike Called Unlikely; Experts say suicidal efforts to spark an epidemic would probably fail. The Los Angeles Times, Dec 13, 2002. CIA Director Tenet said Iraq use of CBW unlikely unless attacked in letter to Senator Bob Graham: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iraq/2002/iraq-021007-cia01.htm "CIA veterans' warning on Iraq war," UPI, Feb. 9, 2003 http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030209-020607-8252r "Memo to the President," Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Feb. 7, 2003 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15127 The Wartime Deceptions: Saddam is Hitler and It's Not About Oil http://www.ccmep.org/2003_articles/Iraq/012703_wartime_deceptions.htm Top Bush officials (Rice) push case against Saddam http://cgi.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/08/iraq.debate/ | ||