Gabi Clayton
Today: Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested At the RNC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE www.democracynow.org September 1, 2008 Contact:Denis Moynihan 917-549-5000Mike Burke 646-552-5107, mike@democracynow.org ST. PAUL, MN—Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman was unlawfully arrested in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota at approximately 5 p.m. local time. Police violently manhandled Goodman, yanking her arm, as they arrested her. Video of her arrest can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ Goodman was …
Wednesday: “History and More”
It’s done. Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee for president. The emotional impact snuck up on me like a stealth bomb. Maybe because of all the drama with Hillary and Ted Kennedy. Probably because I never thought it would really happen. I came home during the delegate roll call vote and it hit me what …
Tuesday: “Wake up America”
The powerful speech by Dennis Kucinich at the Democratic National Convention wasn’t included on much of the media we saw and it should have been. Wake up America. This is not a call for you to take a new direction from right to left. This is call for you to go from down to up. …
Speaking of growing old …
This post’s title refers to something George Carlin said in the great video I posted earlier today below. I was going to post more of the updates on my own health, but this comes first. Alec posted this on his blog yesterday: Friday, August 22, 2008My aching heart I’m sorry if I was a day …
“Yes We Can” – The George Carlin Remix – by Jay Smooth
Thank you Jay for this excellent homage to the great George Carlin and his commentary on censorship and growing old: For the great one. One of the biggest influences on my understanding of everything, and his legendary “7 dirty words” court case happened at the radio station where I’ve spent half my life. One of …
John Phillip Sousa and the infernal machine. And much more!
A talk by Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law. I know this is long, but it is fascinating and entertaining. At about 8:13 minutes in there are three cool video clips to illustrate Mr. Lessig’s point. 19:07 minutes – filmed Mar 2007 – posted Nov 2007 by TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). …
Wow! Jay Smooth: How To Tell People They Sound Racist
Please watch How To Tell People They Sound Racist – a brilliant July 21, 2008 podcast by Jay Smooth, host of WBAI’s Underground Railroad in New York City. He is a blogger at hiphopmusic.com and the creator of the video podcast ill Doctrine. Thanks to Bil Browning at The Bilerico Project for posting it there. …
Sorry I’ve been so quiet.
Hi everyone. I am sorry I haven’t posted for a while and I am way behind on answering some of my email. I’m okay. I was/am dealing with some health stuff that slowed me down after the last grand mal seizure which was a month ago today on July 15th. I finally got the diagnosis …
See these if you can! Sordid Lives / Bare / Zero Hour
Tomorrow night (Wednesday) ‘Sordid Lives: The Series’ begins on LOGO TV. The movie Sordid Lives was fantastic and I expect the show to be too. Del Shores is also the author of the play ‘Southern Baptist Sissies’ which I saw first in Los Angeles (thank you, Michael) and then when it was done here at …