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Upcoming Events
October 20 - 28
Launch of Dispatches: Beyond Iraq
New York, Boston,
San Francisco
December 5
Tom Sawyer Olive Pick
Draguignan, France
February -April, 2009
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
May, 2009
The Great Chocolate Tour
Paris
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 Mort Rosenblum, journalist, author, educator, and eater, has assigned himself the immodest mission of saving the world. Having covered assorted mayhem in 200 present and former countries over four decades, he suspects this may be a bit too ambitious for an aging Quixote who knocks off Decembers to harvest his olives. But he sees plenty of like-minded people already at work on the most urgent goals: to rescue "the media"; to reclaim democracy; to halt terracide; to fight poverty and plagues; to curb corporate colonialism; and to set a great but misguided nation back on course.
After 40 years in the wilderness as a foreign correspondent, Rosenblum's cri de coeur is "ESCAPING PLATO'S CAVE: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival", was published in October 2007 by St. Martin's Press. Not much changed. In 2008, with co-editor Gary Knight and publisher Simba Gill, he produced the first issue of DISPATCHES, a quarterly journal on vital issues meant to go beyond the “what?” and “who?” to the more crucial “why?” and “what can be done?”
In PLATO he notes: "For all the words and images we call 'media,' precious few trained eyes see distant reality up close, and these grow fewer by the year. When reporters do warn us of a crisis, we pay scant attention. We react to effect and ignore the causes. And then, overwhelmed, we cite that old saw as a path of least resistance: You can't worry about what you can't change. We must turn this around: You can't change what you don't worry about." That also explains DISPATCHES.
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