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July 28, 2004

07.28.2004 | Tom Frank, How to Love Guns, How to Globalize Liberation

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July 28, 2004 Edition

THiS WEEK: Tom Frank explains how to get people to vote against themselves; black conservatives and the think tanks who love them; how to love your gun; tips for uprooting the system and globalizing liberation, from David Solnit; the big money (big surprise) behind Kerry; a look at what anarchism brings to anti-capitalist resistance; Green Party selling out democracy?; and church prayers for "accountants, those in manufacturing, banking, and commerce, stockbrokers, and fund managers

This Week's Picks:


  1. Red-State America Against Itself
    Kansas, once part of the great progressive heart of America, is now a conservative "red" state. How liberalism lost Kansas – and a whole lot of working-class America with it.
    Thomas Frank | tomdispatch.com
    http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1551

  2. Welcome to the Matrix
    Inside the Government’s Secret, Corporate-Run Mega-Database
    Madeleine Baran | The NewStandard
    http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=662

  3. The New Radicalism
     David Solnit's new book is a manual to help movements develop a strong clear analysis of what's wrong and why, a collection of visions of positive alternatives, and a resource and inspiration for strategies on getting the world we want. ***See Event Listing, below***
    Rachel Neumann | AlterNet
    http://www.alternet.org/story/19308/

  4. Blackwashing
    Scratch the surface of a black conservative group and you find a vast right-wing conspiracy
    Joshua Holland | Gadflyer
    http://gadflyer.com/articles/?ArticleID=173

  5. AUDIO | Guns
    Americans who love their guns. And the Americans who love them.
    This American Life
    http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/97/81.html

  6. Financing the Election
    This week, John Kerry accepts the Democratic nomination to run for United States President at the Fleet Center, a sports and entertainment arena named after the powerful FleetBoston Corporation, the biggest donor to Kerry's Congressional career.
    Bill Messler | CorpWatch
    http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11460

  7. AUDIO | An Anarchist Perspective
    Does anarchism demand an end to all authority? And what does anarchism bring to anti-capitalist resistance? "Against the Grain" host C.S. Soong continues his conversations about this underdiscussed line of thought and activism.
    Cindy Milstein | Against the Grain (KPFA)
    [Note: news stories at beginning of clip are from July 7 - you can fast forward!]
    MP3:     http://www.kpfa.org/cgi-bin/gen-mpegurl.m3u?server=209.81.10.18&port=80&file=dummy.m3u&mount=/data/20040707-Wed1200.mp3

  8. How to Steal an Election: The Green Version, 2004
    We all know what happened four years ago. Arguably 2000's vote-rigging and Supreme Court usurpation of power had to be the most undemocratic event in the history of presidential politics...until last month, that is.
    Michael Donnelly | Counterpunch.org
    http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly07102004.html

  9. BOOK REVIEW | A World of Our Own Making: Medical Enhancement and the Pursuit of Happiness
    The Pursuit of Perfection: The Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement
    by Sheila Rothman and David Rothman
    reviewed by Carl Elliot | Dissent
    http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/articles/su04/elliot.htm

  10. T.G.I.F., Amen
    The following prayers were distributed by the Industrial Christian Fellowship, a “cross-church Christian think-tank” based in Croydon, England. The Fellowship claims that “surveys have revealed that accountants, those in manufacturing, banking, and commerce, stockbrokers, and fund managers ... are seldom mentioned in church prayers,” and they issued eleven liturgies in an attempt to remedy that gap.
    Harper's
    http://www.harpers.org/TGIFAmen.html

  11. My Big Beef with Big Media
    How government protects big media – and shuts out upstarts like me. A capitalist argument against media monopoly.
    Ted Turner | Washington Monthly
    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0407.turner.html

  12. BAY AREA EVENT | Global Liberation:
    How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World

BOOK RELEASE PARTY:
Wednesday, July 28, 7pm
UFCW Local 648 Union Hall
1980 Mission @ 16th/15th
FREE

Featuring contributing activist-authors: Chris Crass, Van Jones, Ramsey Kanaan, Elizabeth Betita Martinez, Rachel Neumann, Patrick Reinsborough and Tom Wetzel, PLUS Street Theater by Antonia Juhasz and editor David Solnit of Art and Revolution with composer, artist and Punk Rock Orchestra violinist Carey Lamprecht

- Media Picks compiled and edited by Brian Awehali and Erin Wiegand

Posted by brian at July 28, 2004 01:28 AM

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