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unusualmusic_lj_archiveThe F Word: The Possibility Of Change
Did ‘08 End An Era Or Revive One?
Video The Vote: Repair The Electoral System
It's not the change it's the possibility of change. That's how Barack Obama described his election on the night of November 4. " This victory alone is not the change we seek - it is only the chance for us to make that change. " He said and he continued. "And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were."
Too right. The way things were, have led us to this point: as the data filters in... unemployment at 6.5% and rising... US consumer confidence is at the lowest point since its measurement began ... The entire industrial world is showing Negative growth for the first time since WW2...
We're in need of real change. There's no quick fix. And that's why it is less than reassuring to read over the list of economic advisers on the Obama transition team. Among them: Lawrence "women are genetically predisposed to limited science and math achievement" Summers, Robert "$200 million" Rubin, Paul "I played ball with the Reagan administration" Volker.
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Did ‘08 End An Era Or Revive One?
Americans heard more about socialism and the Weather Underground during the last part of the Presidential Election campaign than most of us had heard in years.
Today's show asks -- did '08 end an era - or revive one, politically speaking-- with former Weather Underground leader Bernadine Dohrn, Jamal Joseph, former Black Panther and Photographer turned PR guru David Fenton. We look at the power of the image to affect public opinion and the power of social movements to endure. Fenton has a photo show “Eye of the Revolution” opening in NYC this weekend at the Steven Kasher Gallery.MORE
Video The Vote: Repair The Electoral System
There's plenty that needs to be fixed about our electoral system. The landslide for Obama is thrilling, but we continue to hear stories of messed-up ballots. Here's some voices from Video the Vote, produced by Sanford Lewis and Jonathan Mena. A retired judge in Ohio narrowly avoids disenfranchisement, as do citizens in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
