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Friday Nite Videos -- November 8, 2013

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Jon Stewart -- Affordable Horror Story. Liquid Art. Canned Heat -- Woodstock Boogie. Burn: Detroit Firefighter Documentary. Professor Louie -- What Does it Mean to be Working Class?

Affordable Horror Story

The Daily Show

President Obama qualifies his formerly definitive statements regarding the Affordable Care Act, and his opponents lie like motherf**kers about its effects
 

Liquid Art

A single drop of water at 2,000 frames per second, by Markus Reugels and Ludwig Lehner . Gorgeous!

Burn: Detroit Firefighter Documentary

BURN is a feature documentary about Detroit, told through the eyes of Detroit firefighters, who are charged with the thankless task of saving a city that many have written off as dead. For viewing options, go here.

Where You're Safe From Gun Violence

Andy Borowitz The New Yorker
Study: Americans safe from gun violence except in schools, malls, airports, movie theatres, workplaces, streets, own home

Babies Remember Melodies From the Womb

Alok Jha The Guardian
Brains of babies who heard melody before birth react more strongly to tune after birth and at four months, scientists say

Watch Out: the ACA is Coming! Briefing Paper Now Available

Labor Campaign for Single Payer Labor Campaign for Single Payer
Some unions have called for the repeal of Obamacare and a return to the status quo before its passage. We in the Labor Campaign believe that such a call would be a disaster for the labor movement. Rather, we believe that this is a moment to move forward to healthcare justice by ac- knowledging the weaknesses in the ACA while defending its gains and moving to establish a single-payer Medicare for All system that would make healthcare a right for everyone in America.