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
Gay Dems Praise Log Cabin Bush Decision
by
Linda Thieman
on Thu 09 Sep 2004 08:54 AM CDT
Gay Dems Praise Log Cabin Bush Decision
by Doreen Brandt, 365Gay.com (Washington) Gay Democrats and LGBT civil rights groups are praising Log Cabin Republicans for refusing to endorse George W. Bush's re-[s]election. "It was probably a very difficult decision for them to make as Republicans but was a natural decision under the circumstances," National Stonewall Democrats spokesperson John Marble told 365Gay.com. Wednesday morning Log Cabin Republicans announced they would not support Bush's bid for a second term. “Some will accuse us of being disloyal," said LCR Executive Director Patrick Guerriero. "However, it was actually the White House who was disloyal to the 1,000,000 gay and lesbian Americans who supported him four years ago." Log Cabin Republicans, the GOP's LGBT group, accused the White House of making a strategic political decision to pursue a re-[s]election strategy catered to the radical right. "The pResident's use of the bully pulpit, stump speeches and radio addresses to support a Constitutional amendment has encouraged the passage of discriminatory laws and state constitutional amendments across America. Using gays and lesbians as wedge issues in an election year is unacceptable to Log Cabin,” said Guerriero. The group said it would not endorse Democratic nominee John Kerry. Nevertheless, the decision could have a major effect on the outcome of the presidential election. Polls suggest that even though Bush is ahead of Kerry (sic) the election could be closer than in 2000. Exit polls in the 2000 election showed that over 1,000,000 gays and lesbians voted for Bush/Cheney, including nearly 50,000 in Florida. Al Gore "lost" Florida (sic), and the Presidential election (sic), in 2000 by fewer than 1,000 votes. "I don't think any self-respecting gay individual can vote for George W. Bush and I think that Republican leaders like Washington DC council member David Catania have made it clear that Bush has given the LGBT community no reason to re-[s]elect him this fall," Stonewall Democrats' Marble told 365Gay.com. (more)
Kerry Widens Lead in Battleground States
by
Linda Thieman
on Thu 09 Sep 2004 05:54 AM CDT
 Kerry Widens Lead in Battleground States Ruy Teixeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority Now that's a headline you're not likely to see in the mainstream media, consumed as they are with the storyline du jour about Bush's Big Mo' from the convention. But that's what the internals of the latest Gallup poll tell us. Prior to the Republican convention, Kerry had a one point lead among RVs [registered voters] (47-46) in the battleground states. After the Republican convention, now that battleground voters have had a chance to take a closer look at what Bush and his party really stand for, Kerry leads by 5 in these same states (50-45)! Note that Kerry gained three points among battleground voters, while Bush actually got a negative one point bounce. And wait--there's more! The Gallup poll's internals also show that Kerry continues to lead among independents (49-46) and that both parties' partisans are equally polarized for their respective candidates (90-7). Note that these findings directly contradict the results of the recent Newsweek poll, which showed Bush doing much better among Republican partisans than Kerry was doing among Democratic partisans. Note also that, given the equal polarization of partisans and Kerry's lead among independents, the only possible reason Bush has any lead at all among Gallup's RVs must be because their sample has a GOP advantage on party ID (my guess is 5 points) that is inconsistent with almost all other polling data from this campaign season (see my recent post on the Newsweek poll for more discussion of this issue). Indeed, if equal polarization of partisans continues and Kerry carries a 3 point lead on independents into the election, he'll win fairly easily, since the Democratic proportion of voters in presidential elections is always higher, not lower, than the Republican proportion. In 2000, after all, Bush carried independents by 2 points and received stronger support from his partisans than Gore did from his--but still lost the popular vote by half a point. Now that's another storyline you're unlikely to see in the mainstream media. Ruy Teixeira is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress. |
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