LAFCO, the Los Angeles Filmmakers’ Cooperative, was started in 2000 when a group of underground filmmakers bought a 1985 Chevy schoolbus on eBay and coverted it into a fully self-sufficient digital studio on wheels. In 2001, three LAFCO filmmakers set out to cross the country to make films with artists, poets, and musicians across America. See all nine parts here.
July 5, 2009
Palin confuses GOP
Republican are just as baffled as everyone else by Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s sudden resignation. “If this is geared for her run for the presidency in 2012, it is one of the most politically tone deaf decisions that we’ve seen,” said Stuart Roy, a Republican consultant.
July 22, 2008
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May 21, 2008
The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class
Nationally syndicated radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann exposes the covert war that conservatives and corporations are waging against America’s middle class, a war that’s reducing the rest of us to a politically impotent working poor. This book asks: How did this happen? Who’s benefiting? And how can we stop it?
Beginning with the Reagan administration, the U.S. government has steadily instituted policies and legislation that favor corporations over citizens. Analyzing the rhetoric and policies of the current administration’s “compassionate conservatism,” Hartmann goes on to detail the ways in which safety nets for working people (from progressive taxation to antitrust legislation to Social Security) have been steadily weakened, and argues that an empowered, educated middle class is crucial to a functioning democracy. Chapters detail the ways in which what gets called “the free market” is not really free (for good reason, he notes), how “We the People create the middle class,” how the policies of the Founding Fathers and figures like FDR still have a lot to teach us, and ways for “Leveling the Playing Field.” An intelligent critique of the contemporary plight of the middle class.
Read Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class – And What We Can Do About It.
