Leaked: The Internet must go!

Hey! Are you on the internet right now? Of course you are! Then you should definitely check out this amazing video about what the internet companies are planning. This move could hurt both consumers and content creators--but of course would be a huge windfall for internet providers.

How weathly are Americans?

The disparity in wealth between the richest one percent of Americans and the bottom 80 percent has grown exponentially over the last thirty years — but the video, posted by user politizane and relying on data from a popular Mother Jones post, focuses on the difference between the ideal disparity that Americans would like to see and the reality.

Tax the Rich

So long! It's been fun.

Dear listeners,

In July 2011 I started a new job teaching Italian at Kansas State University. In some ways this was a return to my roots, as I taught English as a Foreign Language for 17 years in Italy. Now I am teaching English speakers Italian. I've come full circle.

This coming full circle also means the end of an attempt on my part to start a new career in my 50s. Sadly, as much as I tried to bring community radio to Manhattan, I was not successful. So I have decided to dedicate my energy and time to my first love, being an educator.

The archive of my shows will remain active - there's a lot of great content in the shows. So I hope you continue to listen and enjoy them.

Once again thank you for your support and encouragement over the five years the show was on the air. I know many feel that my program needs to be on the air and I agree with you that a diversity of voices is sorely lacking in the local media. But alas, it is not I who will bring that diversity. It will have to be someone else.

Christopher E. Renner

24 March 2008

Toward a New New Deal (Forum)

The Nation
07 April 2008 Issue

Seventy-five years ago, facing the catastrophic, worldwide failure of the free market, Franklin Roosevelt launched what is perhaps the greatest democratic experiment of the twentieth century. Touching nearly every aspect of American life, the New Deal transformed banking, business, labor, agriculture, arts and literature, urban and rural landscapes and, of course, the relationship of citizens to government itself. Today, decades of conservative rule have jeopardized much of the New Deal's legacy. Many of its reforms and regulations have been gutted, and much of the infrastructure it built crumbles from neglect. Yet the New Deal endures, not just in institutions like the FDIC and Social Security but in the very idea that where and when there is crisis government should rise to the challenge for the good of the common people. How can a look back help us confront the challenges of the present - from the tangled housing, credit and financial market crises to global warming to the small-mindedness of public policy and debate today? What is the unfinished business of the New Deal? And what can we learn from its failures and limitations? On this historic occasion we asked an esteemed collection of activists, writers, scholars and artists to reflect on the "usable past" of the New Deal. Their answers follow.

Featuring:

Bill McKibben: A Green Corps
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/mckibben

Michael J. Copps: Not Your Father's FCC
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/copps

Andrea Batista Schlesinger: A Chaos of Experimentation
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/schlesinger

Eric Schlosser: The Bare Minimum
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/schlosser

Frances Moore Lappé: The Only Fitting Tribute
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/lappe

Adolph Reed Jr.: Race and the New Deal Coalition
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/reed

The Rev. Jesse Jackson: For the 'FDR'
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/jackson

Andy Stern: Labor's New Deal
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/stern

Anna Deavere Smith: Potent Publics
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/smith

Sherle R. Schwenninger: Democratizing Capital
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/schwenninger

Stephen Duncombe: FDR's Democratic Propaganda
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/duncombe

Howard Zinn: Beyond the New Deal
http://thenation.com/doc/20080407/zinn

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