Bill Ayers on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
This is an except from the end of the interview that I thought was relevant to the questions we’re asking in How to Win.
Gross: Do you think some of the tactics that you took on were in some part this youthful expression of anger, something that [...]
A bid by Bay Area anti-nuclear weapons activists and the New College of California to take over Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been rejected by the U.S. nuclear weapons agency.
Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) out of Livermore, New College in San Francisco and two allied groups filed the bid for the Livermore contract [...]
MIAMI — When Sarah Silverman told young Jews to get their lazy rotund rear ends to Florida to persuade their grandparents to vote for Senator Barack Obama, one question loomed: Would they go?
This weekend was the first big test, a kickoff for the so-called Great Schlep, and so far, momentum has been building with the [...]
This is a new video from 23/6.com a political-ish comedy site. The video is about a serious issue, but treats it in a comical-ish way. Which is a fine strategy if done well, but I there’s just not quite enough substance here. All you really get from the video is that there’s a terrorist watch [...]
This is great speech by journalist John Pilger on the powers and dangers of corporate media. I think what’s most interesting about it is that he breaks from the Left/Right dialectic that plagues social change movements and takes liberalism to task for some of its crimes. The liberal Clinton administration increased the size of [...]
After reading this, I wonder if artists or activists have been unwittingly influenced/inspired by some of these token, ineffective campaigns? If the culture is openly celebrating these supposed victories, one might believe they are actually effective.
By Anne Landeman
Recently while browsing the Web I came across UrbanDictionary.com, which is sort of a wiki of contemporary [...]
By Steve Cobble The Progressive May 2008
My political friends often asked me last year, “Why are you helping Kucinich run for President? You know he’s not going to win.”
My normal response was: “If everyone who agreed with him voted for him, we’d win.”
But over the course of four decades of progressive politics, I’ve also concluded [...]
Rich Dahm - head writer for the Colbert Report I met Rich nearly by accident on Friday May 23rd 2008. He’s a regular looking guy, very unassuming. Todd Hanson, editor of The Onion, after his Head Writer title, introduced him as the writer of one of the most important speeches in our history. I [...]