By SueN
- Guests:
- Candi Cushman, Education analyst for CitizenLink (formerly Focus on the Family Action).
- Crewmember Leila Deen on board the Esperanza.
- AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
- Markos Moulitsas, founder/publisher of Daily Kos, Founder of Kosfest, contributor Newsweek & The Hill, talks about his brilliant new book, "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right".
- Topics:
- Best of the rest of the news
- How many more children will have to die before the homophobes back off?
- Greenpeace scores a victory off the coast of Greenland!
- How are Unions helping bring back the middle class?
- Geeky Science Rocks!
- "American Taliban: How War, Sex, Sin, and Power Bind Jihadists and the Radical Right"
- Bumper Music:
- School Day, Chuck Berry.
- I'm Not Over, Carolina Liar.
- Because I Got High, Afroman.
- I Feel You, 3 Doors Down.
- Science Rocks!, Rock Chick & Science Geek.
- How do you like me now?, Toby Keith).
- Crazy, Gnarls Barkley.
- Which side are you on?, Natalie Merchant (video).
- All You Wanted, Michelle Branch.
- Itsy Bitsy Spider, Barney.
- Democracy, Leonard Cohen.
- What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong.
- Grand Canyon, Dmitriy Lukyanov (you need to search for it) (with additional sounds by Jacob).
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "Let the workers organize. Let the toilers assemble. Let their crystallized voice proclaim their injustices and demand their privileges. Let all thoughtful citizens sustain them, for the future of Labor is the future of America." -- John L. Lewis.
- Clip:
""During the long lane of the history yet to be written America knows that this world of ours, ever growing smaller, must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect...
Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose...
May we be ever unswerving in devotion to principle, confident but humble with power, diligent in pursuit of the Nation's great goals.
To all the peoples of the world, I once more give expression to America's prayerful and continuing aspiration:
We pray that peoples of all faiths, all races, all nations, may have their great human needs satisfied; that those now denied opportunity shall come to enjoy it to the full; that all who yearn for freedom may experience its spiritual blessings; that those who have freedom will understand, also, its heavy responsibilities; that all who are insensitive to the needs of others will learn charity; that the scourges of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made to disappear from the earth, and that, in the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love."
Dwight D. Eisenhower January 17, 1961, farewell radio and television address to the American people, Washington, D.C. (transcript).
