Air America today announced that starting March 10th, The Rachel Maddow Show will expand from two to three hours nationally.  It currently airs live 6PM-8PM Eastern -- the new broadcast time will be 6PM-9PM Eastern.

 

The decision to expand Maddow's show was sparked by Los Angeles station KTLK's desire to build their afternoon drive-time schedule around Maddow's live show -- in order to build on the ratings success of The Randi Rhodes Show, which KTLK  Show,  airs immediately before Maddow.

 

Maddow will be joined in the third hour of her newly expanded show by author and political activist David Bender, the former host of two Air America programs, Politically Direct and Ring of Fire.  Maddow describes Bender as her "political guru" -- for years, he has been a frequent guest and fill-in host on The Rachel Maddow Show. Read full press release here

 

Rachel can also be found on the TV machine as she has been named a MSNBC analyst !

 

Southern Methodist University presents The Vagina Monologues

For more information, email Susan dakotawitch@gmail.com at or the SMU
Women's Interest Network atWIN@smu.edu

As part of the global V-Day campaign, Southern Methodist University presents
Eve Ensler's *The Vagina Monologues*. All proceeds benefit The Family Place
in its efforts to aid those affected by domestic violence.

When: February 16, 7:00pm
Where: Hughes-Trigg Theatre, Southern Methodist University Campus
Tickets: Reserve your tickets by emailingWIN@smu.edu. Tickets are $5 for
students, $10 for everyone else. Cash or check only, payable when you pick
up your tickets the night of the show. Make checks payable to The Family
Place.

 

Or--

 

Together, we can make 2008 even better.
CODEPINK has a year of beautiful, powerful actions planned. We are especially excited about V to the 10th in New Orleans on April 11-12, with a CODEPINK-initiated community project during the proceeding week. Don't miss this chance to gather with thousands of women to
nurture and honor the women of New Orleans, learn new activism skills, and be energized and inspired. The celebration ends with a performance of "The Vagina Monologues" on Saturday night with activists from across the globe, Ellen DeGeneres, Jane Fonda, Jennifer Hudson, Oprah Winfrey, a host of amazing musicians and more.Click here to join us.

St. Mark's School of Texas located in North Dallas is having an Eco Film Festival and everyone is invited!

Friday Feb 29 and Saturday March 1 (check out film schedule)

Please forward this to your other Eco/Green friends and lists !

DirectionsHERE

 

Link to the library wiki on the event with film trailers etc

Library wiki page for EcoFilm Fest.This page includes the schedule and links from your other websites, as well as trailers and links to more information at the library.

 

Need more info or questions ? Nancy Cunningham

Hope for Peace & Justice
Peace Practitioner™ Training Program
February 29 - March 2, 2008

Most everyone is for peace, but few know what to do about it, how to create it or how to overcome conflict in their own lives. This program not only will give you insights on why we seem to turn to violence as a first recourse for conflict resolution, it also will give you tools that you can use immediately in your life, community, church, temple or mosque to be a Peace Practitioner. Who Should Attend? This training program is designed for spiritual leaders, teachers, members of faith communities and anyone with a passion for creating peace in our world.

Program Schedule and registration HERE

By David Sirota

On this cold, snowy day here in Colorado on the eve of our February 5th caucus, I had some time to send out my once-in-a-while list of book recommendations from the pile of books I am reading right now. These are all great books, on topics that are at the center of our political debate right now.

The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism By Naomi Klein

My friend Naomi Klein, as usual, delivers a milestone achievement with this book about how conservatives have used catastrophes to justify imposing all sorts of punishingly regressive policies on victimized societies. We are seeing this right now in our own country, with lawmakers on Capitol Hill using the recession as a rationale to pass new corporate tax cuts under the guise of "economic stimulus." But as Klein shows, "disaster capitalism" is an ideology that has deep historical roots - ones that stretch all over the globe.

Nixonland The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America By Rick Perlstein

This book by Rick Perlstein is scheduled for release in mid-May, and available for pre-order. I have an advanced proof and I can say that from the first bits I have read, this is every bit as good as Perlstein's first book on Barry Goldwater. If you want to know how the Right came to prominence and built itself into a political machine, these books are must-reads. And the best part is that your guide is Perlstein - a talented story-teller who makes reading history truly enjoyable.

State of the Unions How Labor Can Strengthen the Middle Class, Improve Our Economy, and Regain Political Influence By Philip M. Dine

This is a good overview of where the labor movement fits in America's current political topography, and why strengthening the labor movement is so important to all the economic battles we are now facing as a country. As a correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dine is one of the few labor reporters left in the corporate media - and his book draws on his years of experience covering unions to explore their importance in today's world.

Blood Passion The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West By Scott Martelle

The Ludlow Massacre was one of the most famous events in the early part of the 20th century, but has since been forgotten by a media and pop culture that pays little - if any - attention to class-based politics. LA Times reporter Scott Martelle meticulously details this horrifying event, and how its central conflict over union recognition still haunts today's discussions of worker-management relations.

Free tickets for our members to a screening of the Academy award nominated documentary Taxi to the Dark Side 

I have the e-pass, please send me an email  and I'll send you one ( good for two) as an attachment 

Thanks, Nancy

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When:  February 12 7:30 pm

Where: Dallas Angelika

Written, Produced and directed by: Alex Gibney (Oscar nominated for "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room")

TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, the latest prize-winning documentary from Oscar-nominee Alex Gibney, confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today.  A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered by the greatest democracy on earth.  Intermingling documents and records of the incident with candid testimony from eyewitnesses and participants, the film uncovers an inescapable link between the tragic incidents that unfolded in Bagram and the policies made at the very highest level of the United States government in Washington, D.C.  Website

The military adventurers in the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups thought that they were the "smartest guys in the room" - the title of Alex Gibney's prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon outsmarted themselves. They failed even to address the problem of how to finance their schemes of imperialist wars and global domination.

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Huff Radio: Air America's "7 Days

Like it or Not, the Road to November Goes through Denver instead of a presumptive nominee in March, we instead have a Long March to November that runs through Denver.

 

If You Could Write a Memoir in Six Words, What Would It Say?

When Ernest Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, it proved that a whole, real life can be told this way too.

 

Stephen Colbert battles Huckabee for Texas delegates

 

F#@k You Romney
According to Mitt 's bailout speech yesterday, a vote for Hillary or Barack is surrendering to the terrorists. A Jon Stewart MUST SEE!

 

Less Jobs, More Wars: What Is This "Iraq War" Charge On My Bill?
The Iraq War has cost the average American family over $16,000 since the war began.

 

Michael Moore: "I'm Morally Prohibited from Voting for Hillary"
Moore also talks about how his 2004 film "Fahrenheit 9/11" is still banned from broadcast TV

 

McCain has been channeling Dr. Strangelove!

Duly inspired, Phillip and our Issues 2008 team jumped into action, and 24 hours later.

 

Read on

 

 

Listen to Laura on Air America

Radio Nation 12-1:00 pm Sundays

 Author of A Letter to America
 

Where's the Outrage?
Blog Podcast
 

 Listen to the Errington Thompson Show
Saturdays - 9am EST

Air America - Asheville, NC

880 the Revolution

KMNY (1360AM)

Steaming here

rationradio.org 

More info

 

Too many Americans are acting against their best interests, buying into a right-wing line whose practical effect is to leave them marginalized and struggling. Why are the representatives of the Right able to make their message so appealing? Because they've learned the techniques of effective communication-and you can too. More information and how to buy this great book.

 

 

Social Explorer

This site "provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1940 to 2000," by featuring "thousands of maps and hundreds of reports with thousands of variables." Includes interactive census maps (showing population, age, race, occupation, and other factors) and related reports. Additional features are available for a fee.

 

Even if you've seen one of the first editions YOU MUST see this final cut !

 

We here at Louder Than Words and Alex Jones productions are proud to officially release "Loose Change Final Cut" on Google Video in the highest quality possible.  Encouraging people to copy these films and hand them out, as well as hold screenings in Coffee Houses and Churches was a good start, but has not been enough in the past.  Our success in spreading awareness about the truth behind September 11th, 2001 is in large part with our ability to share our films freely through internet.

Watch Loose Change Final Cut hereand spread the word!

 A History of U.S. Presidential Primaries: 1912-64, by Bob Benenson, CQ Politics Editor, posted December 25, 2007: "When it comes to electing the President, the modern campaign era has its roots 95 years ago when North Dakota held the first presidential primary. CQ Politics looks back and charts for you, election by election, how this process grew over the last century into the long and sprawling campaigns that have become part of the political landscape. This first in a series covers 1912-64."

 

 A History of U.S. Presidential Primaries: 1968-72, by Bob Benenson, CQ Politics Editor, posted December 26, 2007: "When it comes to electing the President, the modern campaign era has its roots 95 years ago when North Dakota held the first presidential primary. CQ Politics looks back and charts for you, election by election, how this process grew over the last century into the long and sprawling campaigns that have become part of the political landscape. This second in a series covers 1968-72."