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February 22, 2014

`Forward 13: Waking Up the American Dream' Film Review: "Eye Opening"

Eleanor J. Bader Review Fix

Nonetheless, the film's central premise is important - and asks us to imagine what it would be like to have a government that serves workers, the poor, and the elderly and disabled as devotedly as it serves corporate interests.

February 22, 2014

One Percent Day

- Steve Nutley - K Chronicles

February 22, 2014

2016

Editorial The Nation

Truthful Tuesdays in South Carolina

February 22, 2014

The South Carolina Progressive Network's Truthful Tuesdays join North Carolina's Moral Mondays. Folks from NAACP to longshoremen to postal workers to firefighters to churches to Black legislators say Enough is Enough.

February 21, 2014

Friday Nite Videos -- Feb 21, 2014

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Ellen Page at Time to Thrive. Flashmob: Ravel's Bolero. Truthful Tuesdays in South Carolina. 'Ew!' with Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell & First Lady Michelle Obama. Carolina Slim -- Every Day I Have the Blues.

Ellen Page at Time to Thrive

February 21, 2014

On Friday, February 14, actress Ellen Page speaks to the Time to Thrive conference about the brave decision to live openly and authentically.

Flashmob: Ravel's Bolero

February 21, 2014

Banda Simfònica d'Algemesí stages a flash mob performance of Ravel's Bolero in the main square of the Spanish city of Algemesí.

'Ew!' with Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell & First Lady Michelle Obama

February 21, 2014

First Lady Michelle Obama teaches Sara and Stacy that being active and eating right isn't so "ew!"

Carolina Slim -- Every Day I Have the Blues

February 21, 2014

Bluesman Carolina Slim (b Elijah Staley) started his journey in South Carolina and spent the last two decades as far north as 107th & Broadway in NYC. Mostly he played the subways. He moved on to his next destination last week at the age of 87. RIP.

February 21, 2014

Scott Walker’s Dopey Defenders: Beltway Hacks Think Racist Emails Are a Snooze

Joan Walsh Salon

A day and a half after the release of 27,000 emails obtained in the first completed investigation, the verdict of the national media is in: This Walker scandal is boring, which in Beltway-speak commands that all serious journalists just move along.