Environment: "Indian Point" on HBO Tonight
Tonight, Thursday, September 9th, HBO will air a 45-minute program at 7pm CDT called "INDIAN POINT."
It is about what an "accident" or a terrorist attack would do to this particular NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
It is also being shown at the same time on the HBO Latino channel.
Following this will be another program called 'CHERNOBYL HEAT'
about the devastation following the 1986 Ukraine catastrophe.
Both will repeat at 10pm. The first program is part of the
"America Uncovered" series and will most likely repeat several times
this month or over the next few months. It is an excellent
series. Several years ago it showed "Blue Vinyl" about the cancer
& deaths that were caused by the production & use of vinyl
house siding in the United States & around the world. Very
haunting.
Thanks to DFIA Environmentalist Molly Regan for sending this in.
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Thursday, September 9
Environment: Indian Point on HBO Tonight
by
Linda Thieman
on Thu 09 Sep 2004 05:58 PM CDT
Margaret Cho as Emergency Revolutionary
by
Linda Thieman
on Thu 09 Sep 2004 04:28 PM CDT
Margaret Cho as Emergency Revolutionary
AlterNet.org ...Campaigning against injustice and hypocrisy whenever possible, Cho also takes the time to interact at length with a highly devoted audience composed of gays, straights, whites, Asians and whatever else America's so-called melting pot can contain. Because, as much as any talent working in these tough times of Patriot Acts and cowed journalists, she understands that although true revolution begins at home, it ends in the public square. "To me, revolution is the entitlement to change, to empower oneself to change," Cho recently explained to me in an interview. "That's the most difficult part of revolution – feeling that you deserve one. It is a powerful statement to want one, and of course an even more powerful thing to go about starting one." (Click here to read the complete article.)
News and Notes from Iowa and Deanland
by
Linda Thieman
on Thu 09 Sep 2004 11:12 AM CDT
Candlelight Vigil Across Nation
Organized by MoveOn.org in partnership with the Win Without War coalition More than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have now been killed in Iraq. 1,000 of our brothers, sisters, wives, husbands, moms, dads, sons, and daughters have given their lives in service to our country. To honor them and reflect on the loss of their lives, Americans everywhere are organizing candlelight vigils. Please come to a vigil Tonight, Thursday evening, September 9th, at 8:00 P.M. Click on the link below to find the location of a vigil in your area. http://action.moveon.org/vigil/ (Check local times. The Ames vigil actually starts at 6:15pm.) Fundraiser/Party for Molly Regan in Princeton, Iowa Molly Regan is running for the Scott Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and there's a fundraiser/party for her this Friday, September 10th at Boll's Community Center, River Drive, Princeton, from 6-9pm. There will be food, music & entertainment. Also Molly, Alta Price, and Alison Hart will be giving a tribute to our women heroes/heroines. New Book by Iowa's Mike Palecek is Out The new book by Iowa author Mike Palecek is now available. "The Last Liberal Outlaw" is a fictional yet powerful combination of elements: it's political, anti-prison, and anti-Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and American-type media. The book is available through publisher New Leaf Books in Chicago. http://www.newleafbooks.net/ "This hardhitting book is about a small town struggling economically. The powers that be want the promises of privatization and 'prisons for profit' as the solution. Mike Palecek addresses vividly the many issues that small town USA faces these days, political shenanigans, power brokering, violence, and the few who stand up for human rights. One of the important facets the author addresses is the co-opting of the press in this country, and how one journalists lives up to his ideals". - Dr. Eve Malo, University of Montana, Western "Palecek is at his best when writing about small-town America ... we haven't had a writer like this since Kurt Vonnegut was at his peak." - Chuck Gregory, BlueEar.com, A Global Journalism Community Palecek is an Iowa author, a former prisoner for peace, small-town newspaper reporter, and an Iowa Democratic Party congressional nominee in the 2000 election. He now writes, drives a bus and works at a group home for disabled adults. He lives with his family in northwest Iowa. Other books by Mike Palecek: Joe Coffee's Revolution, KGB, The Truth, Prophets Without Honor, Twins. For more information: www.iowapeace.com Burned by the Spotlight: A Q&A With Howard Dean In this Columbia Journalism Review interview, Howard Dean opens up about the role of the media in the Dean campaign and describes the view from inside the media maelstrom. Here's the link. I don't have the stomach to post an excerpt. http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/5/hall-dean.asp Whatever Happened to . . . ? I saw this little tidbit on Boston.com. The speculation about who may do what in a Kerry administration was far less interesting that just this one paragraph. Heavy-duty Dean supporters will see why: 'But even the pros are not immune to getting seriously ahead of themselves in a city where politics is about the only major industry experiencing an uptick in employment numbers. At the Kennedy School, always a place for Democratic administrations-in-waiting, the profs and lecturers are feverishly cranking out Op-Eds, the wonky equivalent of a personal ad. And think of Steve Grossman, a failed 2002 gubernatorial candidate, who thought he'd backed a winner in becoming campaign chairman for Howard Dean's presidential bid, only to see the former Vermont governor fade out after "the scream," whereupon Grossman jumped to Kerry. But . . . too late. Having seen Grossman betray Dean, Kerry couldn't believe that he would be treated any differently and has largely frozen Grossman out of the campaign, granting him only a bit part shoring up Jewish support nationally. "Grossman's not going anyplace," says a Boston political insider. "He pissed everybody off."' Well, that is certainly an understatement. Not only did Grossman betray, in an astonishing way timed to do as much damage as possible, a most beloved man, but he betrayed a movement, as well. One thing I've learned in the last five and a half months of Democracy for Iowa's existence is that Dean supporters have very long memories. The grassroots are a completely different kind of political animal, and I might add a completely unpredictable kind of political animal, that I don't think the pros have quite figured out yet. Linda Thieman |
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