Civilianism / Barely Legal in Vancouver Canada
Respected journalist Amy Goodman was finally able to give her talk in Vancouver, Canada, in late November, 2009, after and despite serious harassment by Canadian police. She discussed this on her show Democracy Now in late November, but this is the actual talk. She discussed health care, her mother’s health care before death, media, Obama, Afghanistan, our military, feminism, and more. It’s often funny too.
She also talks about how she feels getting involved and dissent are very important. It’s an incredible talk, very revealing as she talks about her mother, and completely unedited.
Great line (among many): “What do I think of the mainstream media? I think it would be a good idea.”
“Information is power”, she said, something any student of journalism could tell you instinctively, but something many people don’t usually think about.
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Credit for the original recording: Radio4all.net
Music: (I Wish I Had a) Wooden Heart, by David Holmes
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Lest we think that Canadian officials have a monopoly on antisocial behavior, there’s the story of Peter Watts, a Canadian author who was assaulted by U.S. border guards on Tuesday while attempting to get back into Canada from visiting friends in the United States. His crime was apparently exiting his car to ask why it was being searched; he’s charged with assault on a Federal official. (There are efforts towards collecting funds for his legal defense out on the Intarwebs.)
Comment by Steve Kramer — December 12, 2009 @ 12:53 am