Social Activism
Pete Seeger On Obama
I saw the wonderful PBS debut of “American Masters: Peter Seeger: The Power of Song” last night. If you like American folk music, and true American patriots, I highly recommend this show. If it weren’t for Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, Woodie Guthrie, and the others that worked with them, we would have lost much American [...]
No American Left Behind
Obama at Tulane Obama gave a wonderful speech today in New Orleans. He said so many of the things that I wanted to hear. Click here to read the entire speech that Barack Obama delivered at Tulane University today. Here are some excerpts: The Times-Picayune Thursday February 07, 2008, 10:03 AM Sen. Barack Obama’s prepared [...]
Polls and Pundits
(Cross posted on my BarackObama.com blog) I have sat transfixed in front of the television since before the Iowa caucuses watching every bit of news related to the primary elections that I could suck up. Flitting nervously from news channel to news channel (avoiding Fox of course) trying to figure out what was really going [...]
Make It Right NOLA: Brad Pitt Announces Project to Rebuild 9th Ward
The Today Show featured a segment with Brad Pitt this morning dedicated to announcing Brad’s New Orleans 9th Ward project. The project is called “Make It Right” (MIR), and extensive information describing what the project is, names and bios of all of the key project team members and partners, and even the names of the [...]
Yearly Kos Convention Featured on PBS NewsHour
The PBS NewHour with Jim Lehrer had a mini-feature on the Yearly Kos Convention last night. If you missed it you can click here to access the transcript and audio replay. The video is available from the NewsHour page on the item describing the Yearly Kos story – Democrats Woo Bloggers. I thought it was [...]
