Sunday, March 27
It's Easter Sunday, but that hasn't tempered the holier-than-thou fury of the religious right and the Terri Schiavo tragedy. Today we step back and look at progressive values - where actions and deeds often come before evangelizing and belief-based bullying.
Today's show includes an update from Ohio, where Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell got a dressing-down from passionate Democrats in hearings the media saw fit to ignore this week. Our senior producer was there and we'll play tape. Monty Python's TERRY JONES will join us live in studio to discuss Spamalot the Python's arrival on Broadway -- and "Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror," his latest collection of "observations and denunciations." Also with us, Nigeria's Nobel Prize-winner, WOLE SOYINKA who says we are questing for dignity in a dehumanized world. Join us.
"Election reform? What ele...
"Election reform? What election reform?" That's what I keep hearing from my main stream media addicted friends. Heck, if you listened to the corporate media channels you might think the vote fraud in Ohio and elsewhere was a bad dream. But while the MSM remains fascinated with medically made zombies and other horrors, small parties and independent groups are making a difference, under the radar. Example:
Burlington, Vermont Greens mobilized to agitate for Instand Runoff Voting and, on March 1st, the referendum on question 5 passed in a landslide. That same day, question 7 also passed by a similar margin. "What was question 7?" I hear you ask. Check it out:
QUESTION 7
"Shall the voters of the City of Burlington advise the President and Congress that Burlington and its citizens strongly support the men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces in Iraq and believe that the best way to support them is to bring them home now?"
Reform has to take place on a local level. With a dominate Republican party and a suppliant Republican-lite party in power, expecting any kind of progress on issues that affect our democracy is beyond ludicrous. There is NO incentive for the two corporate owned parties to do anything but fill the pockets of their contributors while throwing tidbits to their undemanding base. Are you going to sit back and cheer from the sidelines? Or do you want to join the fight? Here's a couple opportunities you won't hear about from the conservative media and it's faux-progressive counterpart:
APRIL 8-10 'Gathering To Save Our Democracy National Conference on the 2004 Election and the Need for Election Reform', in Nashville, TN. David Cobb is scheduled to speak on Saturday, April 9; numerous other grassroots voting rights and civil rights activists will also speak. The Green Party of Tennessee is a cosponsor.
http://tn.greens.org/
http://www.freepress.org/conf.php (includes information on location, costs, lodging, scheduled events)
APRIL 15-17 Mass Mobilization and protests during the spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, in Washington, DC.
Mobilization for Global Justice http://www.globalizethis.org
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By AlanSmithee04March 28, 2005 - 12:28am