Listened to this for the first time tonight. I think they were about fifteen or sixteen when they recorded this. Maybe fourteen? There’s a glimpse of the talent that’s growing in them. And in their new original stuff and current live performances, it’s easy to see that they have a very special gift.
Full Show: The Path of Positive Resistance | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com Amazing what light shone from my television screen tonight. All of them kept saying, “The media won’t cover any of this,” and “We have to undertake this effort to organize for change without the prospect of widespread recognition, if any at all.” … More Jill Stein and Margaret Flowers on Bill Moyers 11/17/2013
Tonight was the Counter Recruitment presentation at Goddard with some teenagers telling us about how they inform their peers about the true nature of the armed forces. Apparently kids feel they have to go into the armed forces because college is so expensive now.
Inside the Republican Suicide Machine, an article by Tim Dickinson in the October 9th edition of Rolling Stone, attempts to uncover the funding, organizational and ideological split currently severing the Republican Party, and leading to the shutdown. The article does reveal how the Citizens United deregulation of campaign finance has turned the US House of … More Suicide in Which Sense?
Today the EPA held Listening Sessions here in Manhattan. Members of the public were invited to express their thoughts and concerns regarding regulations on existing coal-fired power plant emissions the EPA is going to propose in June of 2014. You had to sign up to speak, and they gave you three minutes. My say so … More Listening
DC Everybody’s getting stressed out about the Republican shutdown of government, and the threatened debt default. The whole world is getting worried, especially since they feel so helpless to effect any resolution that will protect their economic interests. TOKYO — Japan’s finance minister urged the United States on Tuesday to avoid a default that could … More Unraveling, Raveling
I keep picking up Deep Green Resistance and reading a few pages, then putting it down for a few days, unable to hold on to the required sense of urgency. I go back to thinking about my job, home improvement, finding more work, the Peace Movement, the tv show, family and friends, and politics. But … More End Game
Listening to the Mike Malloy show from 9:00 to midnight almost every day. The voice transmitted through the air into the otherwise silent personal space of whatever room I happen to be holed up in, fending off the impressions of the world outside. Malloy is playing the songs of the seventies group, America, in between … More Radio
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