Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Foundation, working with the folks at The Nation, has come up with a terrific way to remind us of this. They’ve prepared a series of 30-minute documentaries, titled "This Brave Nation," which are essentially two-person conversations between major progressive figures — some new, some historic, but all of them with shared goals. The icons range from Tom Hayden to Van Jones, and include folks like Dolores Huerta, Carl Pope, Bonnie Raitt, and Pete Seeger, Majora Carter, Naomi Klein, Ava Lowery and Anthony Romero.
Starting June 1, they’ll be rolling out the documentaries with an episode per week, available in five-minute highlight videos and the full 30-minute films. The series culminates with a July 13 broadcast from Culver City, California, at which the first Brave Nation Award will be announced. They’ll also be available on DVDs.
You can get a preview at the video above or at their website.
Here’s hoping the series helps remind everyone that we have mutual goals at stake that extend well beyond any mere election cycle — even one of historic dimensions like this one.
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david!
Good evening, David.
Pamphleteers in video. Very interesting media tactic.
…start Digging!
thanks and dugg :)
OMG, I love this! The Nation together with Brave New Films. What could be better?
The words of Benjamin Franklin are still pertinent:
Or as Jesse Colin Young sang Get Together
sounds like a liberal media conspiracy…
I did digg!
It’s done; dugg.
will view after bball game
This looks very interesting. There’s got to be a lot of bridge-building and fence-mending to be done or McCain could win this election. It is not an overstatement to say that the very existence of America as we know it hangs in the balance.
This is a wonderful idea.
Here, I’m in an area where lots of people don’t have access to cable high-speed internet, and it would be great to have this in an actual pamphlet form (or at least not video).
Would a voice-to-print software be too expensive or hard to manage? This battleground area could use all the help it can get.
It would be interesting to poll everyone currently using a local food bank to get by two questions;
did you vote for Bush,
and are you going to vote in this election?
A good one…let’s just add in FDL…
Yep. I’m old enough to remember more than a couple of elections where the Dems were NOT able to come back together and unite around a candidate. Folks seemed more interested in the purity of their views than in winning an election and saving the country.
So we wound up with Nixon for two terms, Reagan for two terms, and BushCo for three terms.
NOT good times.
Talk about “loading the demo”… It sounds like a predictable sample.
Phoenix event today….. So far is that Bush left early… more than an hour early than what was planned…… saw a pic of the private home where the fund raiser was held…. big long tunnel/awning to keep attendees out of view…. They say there will be film at 10pm MST (hour away)….
McCain and Bush: Gone in under 60 seconds
hahahahaha
next goal – rassle up a posse and put em in the hoosgow before they head across the border
now that was an ugly win, but it’s still a win (yay Lakers)
The really funny thing is that was reported by our local Faux Channel….. WOW
Vice President Dan Quayle – Mr. Potatoe Head.
Only because they wouldn’t admit to it.
There are a LOT of people who fit that demographic these days.
now that makes me smile
Perhaps a useful site for the Hillary backers in your life?
http://www.overthehillgifts.com/index.html
One was to get some Party unity….
Quayle also married into big money…… the wife’s family owns a chain of newspapers including the AZ Republic(ian)
Rumors have it that the current occupant of the WH is not a fan of horses so maybe folks can show up at his events with good saddle riders and make him look like the scaredy cat he is.
Or not.
wish we could do this everwhere mcsame goes – make him change his plans to strictly private events because the protesters outnumber the attendees.
Spurs got screwed on that bogus no-call at the end.
i would love to deliver a pony to the oval office for his ‘use and enjoyment’. unfortunately, i do not believe in animal cruelty.
Anybody check the silverware drawer after this get together?
We all know what kind of thieving bastards they are.
i thought hockey season was over
Behind closed doors however, they spent more than hour at a fundraiser where Bush helped McCain net about $3 million according to sources familiar with the event. Among the more than 500 donors at the private home in the Phoenix suburbs was former Vice President Dan Quayle.
The Phoenix haul brings McCain’s Tuesday cash total to $4.5 million.
McCain had 1.5 mil before and 4.5 after he received 3 mil from Bush’s secret pals. The most notable assh*le of 500 assh*les in attendence was Dan Quayle aka Mr. Potatoe Head.
How to do it….. find out the schedule…. contact the local peace groups and tell them how the Phoenix groups drove McCain/Bush out an event and they too can be “video at 10pm” :)
LOL!
I think Danny boy’s family had some newspapers before he married Marilyn. IIRC, his grandfather was the publisher of the Indianapolis paper and pulled strings (the managing editor I think was the head of the Indiana National Guard) and got Danny a guard post during ‘Nam as a PIO type.
Please put those two together on Tee Vee!
i wonder if that fundraiser was in complience with FEC rules.
handled like true republicans
(no disrespect to Suzanne intended)
Dan Quayle aka Mr. Potatoe Head.
________
Who once wistfully regretted not having studied his Latin more diligently in school so that he might converse with the locals in their native tongue during his Veep trip to Latin America.
Not making that up.
Bush will do anything to try to stay out of The Hague.
Danny Boy would be a great Veep choice, we could have him debate a Fifth Grader……
*singing* i’m a spy (but it aint no house of love)
Wonder how much having those two in the same room lowered the accumulated IQ
it sure wasn’t that high to begin with katymine
It’s hard to know whether the campaign would have to raise or lower expectations for that debate!
3 days to termination?
I’m happy yer happy honey.
“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn’t study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.” — J. Danforth Quayle
“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” — J. Danforth Quayle
“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“Mars is essentially in the same orbit… Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If there is oxygen, that means we can breathe.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89
“What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.” — Vice President Dan Quayle (Editor : if anyone should know the cruelty of this problem first hand…)
“The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is ‘to be prepared’.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89
“May our nation continue to be the beakon of hope to the world.”– The Quayles’ 1989 Christmas card.
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 11/30/88
“I have made good judgments in the Past. I have made good judgments in the future.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“The future will be better tomorrow.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“We’re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/21/88
“People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.” — Vice President Dan Quayle to Sam Donaldson, 8/17/89
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“Public speaking is very easy.” — Vice President Dan Quayle to reporters in 10/88
“I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/20/92 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/22/90
“For NASA, space is still a high priority.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/5/90 (Editor’s favorite)
“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.” — Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/18/90
“The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.” –Vice President Dan Quayle
“We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.” –Vice President Dan Quayle
“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
“[It’s] time for the human race to enter the solar system.” — Vice President Dan Quayle
4.. wedding is sat… i’ll be here tonight and tomorrow night and then don’t return until tue (with pictures)
Most anyone with a brain did pretty much what they could to manipulate the system in those days to avoid going over to that mishegas so I will not fault Qualye or Cheney or Bush or Bill Clinton for having done so. I did it as well through using the ROTC program and college deferments. And I applaud the service of those who were not able to do as I did.
What I fault Bush, Cheney, and Quayle types for is being supporters of the war while doing all in their power to get out and then coming into the current era by sending another generation into harm’s way for a trumped up war just to feed their egos.
Well, they DO call it Latin America, don’t they?
How was he to know?
WOW…. to think …. this guy is smart enough to breathe…
Copied for future reference!
Thanks BobbyG!
If 500 donors contribute $6000 each = $3 million. The maximum donation is $2000 per person. Each assh*le would have to donate once for himself, once for his spouse and once for his child or domestic worker.
Oh, Suzanne, we will be waiting for those pictures! Did you ever post the final dress description for the “Mother of the Bride” (or, is it still secret?).
I miss Quayle – he was funny, at least. Bush is just stupid.
i posted a picture even.. let me rassle it up for you
What I heard was there was some creative financing like of like Tom Delay type where part of the money goes to McCain directly then some goes to the RNC which then can be sent back down to McCain ….. political money laundering
I once thought about putting together a fake “Panel discussion” featuring Bush, Quayle, and Reagan, using only their huge inventory of dumbass statements.
LOL.
What he breathes smells really bad but it’s really dark in there so he can’t see what’s on the end of his nose.
wow
get that on a CD! you’ll make ya some serious moneys!!!
It would make a 2 hour movie or a 300 page book. :)
here’s the link to the MOTB dress
It really would be funny, ‘eh?
But wouldn’t it be more appropriate as a comic book?
If you cobbled it into a website, you’d get sued by The Onion.
That would be a lot of work, but funny. The question is – is our children learning?
Nice duds Suzanne….
Mwahahahahaha…Gawd…
Probably get sued by Nancy.
thanks, katymine. the wedding is going to be lovely, and the reception afterwards is gonna be a blast. all at a fancy smancy hotel. will be the first time all my family has been together since the christmas before my dad passed – almost 6 years.
Wow. That is a great experience.
You will look spectacular! It has the famous “Fortuny” folds in the dress. Don’t forget to pack your favorite flip flops for the after dance scene when all women kick off their shoes.
Ya best put a little body armor in the backside of that dress darlin, you are going to be very lovely.
I love that caricature of Nancy from Postcards From The Edge – fish eye-view of her moving in with that finger-wag…
Just say fuck-off
How’s the bride holding up?
Priceless!
i’ve got baby girl to protect me (laughing) she’s 6′2
Can’t believe it’s already time for the wedding…
i finally got the all nervous and jittery phone call tonight that i’ve been figuring was coming. she has a house full of future inlaws, work made her work today and tomorrow, everyone is demanding her attention and she just needs some quiet time to run through all her organizational lists in order to calm down.
LOL.
I never let fear stop me.
LMAO!
((((( Suzanne)))))))
And their pockets, don’t forget.
Not really. no refs wants to make that call and Barry should have stepped up and not shrunk away from the contact. Besides the refs missed a call earlier for Fisher. it evened out (bad call wise) in the end
bait-n-switch – stirring portrayals of real courageous activists yoked to coalition building for a status-quo (D) candidate.
on the environment for a change, one could review kirk murphy’s post comparing Clinton & Obama:
http://firedoglake.com/2008/02…..ontenders/
simply reflexively supporting whatever the Party of the Least Worst comes up with doesn’t actually seem that brave.
insisting that principles like opposition to imperial wars and opposition to greedy despoilation of the earth come before the electoral advantages of some corporate political faction, that seems a little more brave.
dang, there’s no utube of the paul thorn song he wrote for his wedding aint living in sin no more
Suzanne, listen to Busted.
I think he knows what he’s talkin about.
Or, get bruises and tell us next week all about it. ;) lol
Your family will have a blast!
I’d tell ya to quit frettin’ about the Baby girls wedding but I learned long ago the sun comes up in the East.
Enjoy yerself Sweetie, take lots’a pictures.
ahem, baby girl is NOT getting married.. my oldest and firstborn is – jen is the lovely bride to be and not baby girl
I agree. Enjoy yourself Suzanne. Sending lots of positive energy to the happy couple. Long lives and lots of love
have i ever mentioned that the cops were called to my first wedding – when my dad’s friends and my husband’s friends got into a fistfight
And lots of tissues……. there is something about watching your baby getting married to start the water works….
ROTFLMAO!
Excuuuuuuse ME!
Lol.
My apologies!
a lacy hanky is on my list to pick up when i go into town either tomorrow or thursday
baby girl has set her glare back to stun
That’s just for show – I suggest a couple of mens’ hankies.
Besides the refs missed a call earlier for Fisher.
_________
LOL. The tu quoque school of officiating?
Whatever. It’s done.
Spurs are now done.
100% cotton!
do tell *g*
only have so many sleeves to stuff with hankies (laughing)
My apologies to Baby girl.
heh heh heh.
No, that hasn’t come up.
lol!
during the reception – out in the garage at my parents house (where the reception was)
no one went to jail but the party was pretty much over at that point…
Years ago….. my neighbor was throwing the reception for her new husbands daughter’s wedding at their house…. Nancy turned that basement into a beautiful hall, baked and cooked herself silly. At times I thought she was going to spin right off the planet trying to get everything just right…. as she was newly married and the step daughter was getting married ….
Wedding went fine…… reception started and it wasn’t very long when everyone left …. figured it would be party in to the wee hours….. found out that their septic tank had backed up and no working toilets in the whole house….. The whole neighborhood ate free food for a week…
Oh. My. God.
poor thing!
yikes
advantage to holding it at a fancy smancy hotel – no septic – connected to the sewage system and the hot water never runs out when taking a shower
Sorry I had to jump out, everyone. My system died on me, just before my daughter bonked her nose and got a nosebleed … Been that kinda day.
yikes.. hows she doing now david?
Though may I say: I hate the
FakersLakers. Aka the Great Satan.Oh fine. You know how these 7-year-olds’ crises are.
i thought kos was the great satan
and, of course, FTFY
Also, I should note that I am a future Mac owner. right now this Dell is too new to trade in, but I have had it with Vista.
Kos is the Great ORANGE Satan
F***in’-A David!
dayam, good thing nahant isn’t around
but that will make newton and the other macs happy
Tell me more about that. My PC is prehistoric and I will be replacing it eventually. Do all PCs come with Vista now or do they still sell XP? What kind of problems have you had?
Sorry if I’m 10 minutes early with the Off Topic…but David did bring it up…:)
off topic is pretty much this norm this late into late nite – and you are right, it is david’s thread and he brought it up – sports stuff really up to the host on that thread.
wait a minute… i thought basketball was over when march madness was done.
Oh boy a computer discussion Vista(PC)/MAC /Intel box just what is the better. I know you are gloating already Newt:>)
But David I run Vista and after I did all the driver and OS updates I have 0 Zero problems… It is a Dell Which I have found to be good hardware unless you build your own!
They all have Vista, which is a fine program when it’s working.
But I made this decision some months ago. Y’see, I got it with basic Vista, but soon discovered it would not talk to my HP printer/fax/scanner unless I had an upgraded version of it. Useta work at MS and still have friends there, so it was no problem getting an upgrade version, but I was in no hurry and didn’t do it for four months.
So when I installed the new Vista Ultimate, and turned my system back on, what to my wondering eyes should I discover but that the upgrade had wiped out every single bit of data I’d collected over those 4 months. Email, pix, documents, music, the works. Tried to recover and couldn’t.
I curse like a sailor and that day the fellows over in Bremerton were covering their ears.
You will remember this episode fondly twenty years from now.
I’m still wiped out from yesterday, Gnite y’all.
g’nite busted
NBA is in the middle of western & eastern conference finals….. then they go into the final finals…. Elmore is doing the eastern conference games…. Detroit & Boston….
Hey, nahant! So what are the odds that a caveman like me could do “all the driver and OS updates” without professional help?
I never gloat or strut.
But I’m trying to think of a gift I can get David to welcome him to the tribe – let’s see – he won’t need any Norton products…
Move the apocalypse clock ahead by ten minutes.
In Israel, Ehud Barak is proposing an emergency government to be headed by Ben Netanyahu.
-G
not quite but i’ve never seen a perfectly officiated game, should have never come down to one play anyway (my critique of the Lakers)
Your old Administrator is probably laughing his ass off, if you worked at Mikey Soft you should know “Back up you files” before making changes to the OS.
Nahant, I still have recurring problems with system freezes. I even added an extra gig of RAM and it made no difference.
tribe? i always thought of mac types more along the lines of a cult (ducking)
Nothing to see here, just move along.
From C&L:
firefox is pretty wonky and freezes on me – especially if i have more than 5 tabs open and play a utube – i’m looking forward to the v 3.0 release due out in june
hopefully, firefox won’t be such a memory hog then
I don’t think I want to be here if Bibi is leading Israel. He is so dangerous.
Dell has some really simple tools to help you. IT will tell you what drivers have been updated and should be installed. Really simple if you can reaD YOU CAN DO IT!
I thought Bush had the gram problem?
-G
Yeah, I’d done a backup early on, but forgot to do one that day … so yes, I was cursing myself as well.
How about “clutch”, or “collective” – definitely not the “herd…”
i won’t hold my breath waiting for gramm to step down from mcsame’s campaign
i will, however, demand congressional investigations into this obvious conflict of interest.
*sniff*
Now, back to the Fakers: Personally, I think Kobe (not Jane’s dog, who is perfectly nice) is a psycho.
But a psycho who, unfortunately, can drain threes at will.
Run the Dell Support Tool and run self help and find drivers, it will tell you which ones need updating,or go to this page and go through the Vista menus.
Mind you, I’m speaking as lifelong Sonics fan. So right now I pretty much hate the NBA generally.
is draining threes good (sports neophite here)
Yep, I’ve done all that. My wife is a software consultant and has worked on it too. It’s just buggy. I’m OK with it, but it does weird shit to me sometimes.
Fakers! Cmon give credit where it’s due. They are a good solid open court team. Would haveloved to see them go head to head with the Hornets.
i won’t even address the psycho comment. I assume your kidding. (you never know who knows who)
“And he hits the three-pointer from 80 feet out!”
It is very good. but that is not Kobe’s specialty. He likes to attack the basket. very aggressive player
No, sorry, it’s a deeply instilled hatred dating back to childhood. I actually liked Magic but still hated the Lakers. The NBA is set up to cater to big-market teams like LA and small markets like Seattle get the shit end of the stick — free agents, refereeing, the works.
Derangement has never been a bar to achievement in the NBA.
I guess it helps that I make money fixing PC’s but I have been having good luck with Vista Ultimate and no bugs so far… It seems real stable on my Laptop
mkay. I disagree but then again I’m not into sports conspiracy theories. hornets aren’t a big media team but have still garnered much attention.
As for Kobe … I worked as a sportswriter off and on and had some experience with sizing up what players were like as human beings. Kobe has never struck me as a good human being, and my sportswriter friends who have covered the NBA tell me he’s one of the flamingest assholes in the league.
It’s not a conspiracy, really. It’s just the way of the world: Sports stars will always choose big markets as free agents because of the money, pub, and adulation.
News at 10pm…
Showing video of Air Force One landing….. went to Silvardo Cable… Blah Blah Blah stimulate packing helping this business…. One photo of Bush, McCain & CindyLou…. Bush laid a smooch on CindyLou…
WOW showing the protest….. Downtown Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale private event….. Private home in the Biltmore ….. woohoo… Protest had more air time than Bush/McCain….
could you hold off on the name calling? I already gave you a hint that you never know who people know here. Sheesh.
But I’d like you to look at what Stern is doing to Seattle now and tell me he would do that to the Lakers.
but then explain the Hornets. Not a big market team but have built a young team on talent . whatever. all are entitled to their opinion
Two words: Latrell Sprewell.
From a Golden State Warriors fan.
huh? Okay rational discussion not going to be possible.
Well, yeah, but the Hornets have been in NO what, four years?
The Sonics have been in Seattle for 40.
No, probably not. I’m fucking furious about it.
oh yeah the whole choking the coach thing.
Hopefully McNovacaine picks Gramm.
Talk about a charisma void.
-G
I can understand the frustration but not so much the target of your frustration. Will be gald to talk b-ball when the hackles are down
Protest Video
Bush Visit to Phoenix
I like that nickname. he does have a numbing effect
late late nite is upstairs
I love that sign, Quit Calling Me Your Friend. I feel the same way.
My general frustration is with the NBA right now, and Stern in particular.
But I’ve always hated the Lakers because I was a Sonics fan all my life. Do you know how many playoffs we lost to those guys? No, it’s not a rational thing, of course — but sports fandom isn’t rational anyway. You love your team, you hate others (I hate the Raiders, too, as a longtime Seahawks fan). There are always teams you love to hate.
That doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate great players. I hate the Yankees but I appreciate Derek Jeter. I actually really liked Magic but couldn’t root for him. So I probably shouldn’t take it out on Kobe but (a) he has kicked me in the gut emotionally probably one time too many and (b) he’s been a jerk about it.
Chimpy must be smoldering inside.
His daughter disses him on the Ellen Show.
He’s being described as “hated” and “toxic” by the GOP faithful.
McCain is engaged in a Fay Dunaway at the end of Chinatown with Bush. “He’s my leader, I don’t know him, he’s my leader, I don’t know him.”
Now with McLellan comes the beginning of the deluge.
The spell is broken and no one is afraid of this asshat anymore.
Now the parade of rejection for this small minded tool who’s only solace is “Just wait, someday I’ll be proved right” mantra by only the Koold-Aidiest of his followers.
Even Turdblossom Rove was sounding a tad bit rattled under the ginger questioning of George Stuffanappleupyourass.
The walk of shame is ahead.
-G
LOL!
Beauty, Greg!
A lot of observers with psychiatric backgrounds have noted that Bush displays many of the classic symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with a streak of the sociopathic to boot. So he probably has built-in mechanisms that let him ignore or dismiss these outside assessments. Still, it can’t be easy for him right now.
And as you can tell, I’m deeply sympathetic.
understood. really. I was the same way but it is only a game and my life and general well being aren’t tied to how well or bad my team performs (well not anymore). The situation with Seattle is messed up and I David Stern is a dick for it (but then again I have never had a high opinion of the man-sorry) No one likes it when a player kicks your team when it’s down. It is a dickish thing to do and shows lack of humility but folks like Fischer, Gasol etc make up for what others lack in that dept.
I also am an avid hater of Raider nation so I’m with you on that one.
Malcolm X, in his Jan. 7, 1965 speech “The Prospects for Freedom”, at the Militant Labor Forum, in New York City.
Were he alive today, Malcolm would likely not be included in “This Brave Nation.”
Lesser evilism was less revered back then, they had more hope for authentic change.
Suzzanne there was a Wedding Songs concert at the symphont hall at Cal Poly SLO tonight Jus Sayin…Happy Bells
Missing dll files…how do you know which are missing and how to repair?