Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry - part 1

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  • Author: logosthedestroyer

Tags: art  beat  bioregion  corso  deep  ecology  gary  ginsberg  haiku  kerouac  poet  snyder 

This great video shows Snyder talking about a great many important issues and also he reads and discusses some of his work.

Antiwar Activism Digitalized

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  • Author: liamh2

Tags: Abu  Activism  Bush-Cheney  Capitol  Gang  Ghraib  Gitmo  Hill  House  Hughes  Iraqi  Protest  Torture  War  White  William 

On the streets, in the Halls of Congress, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, at the gates of the White House itself, and elsewhere, activists have opposed the Bush-Cheney Gang's illegal and immoral war in Iraq, as well as the torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo. This video, which...

Does Activism Matter?

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  • Author: scarboz40

Tags: activism  bush  chomsky  iraq  protest  vietnam 

Is our society more or less civilized?

The Academic Working Poor

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  • Author: MarcBousquet

Tags: "Marc  "working  AAUP  adjuncts  Bousquet"  Colleges  faculty  PhD  poor"  poverty  professors  students  universities  Wal-mart 

Working in an airport gift shop, standing in line for free cheese, sharing a bowl of soup for dinner... these are the all-too-typical coping strategies adopted by the working poor among the contingent faculty who are now the overwhelming majority of the professoriate. In part 2 of our interview,...

HamNation: Better Living Through Activism

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  • Author: mkhammer

Tags: al  carbon  global  gore  hamnation  knut  MKH  offsets  townhall.com  warming 

Townhall.com's Mary Katharine Ham learns how to save the Earth and all the animals, lefty-activist-style.

Growing Activism: Undocumented Students/DREAM Act

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  • Author: uctelevision

Tags: college  congress  DREAM  education  immigrants  students 

Undocumented immigrants who are students at UC San Diego reveal the obstacles to higher education that many in their community face as they call on Congress to pass the DREAM Act, which if enacted, would give the eligible students temporary legal residency, access to financial aid and potential...

Sandra Day O'Connor talks judicial activism

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  • Author: theflathat

Tags: Activism  and  Day  Flat  Hat  Judges  Judicial  Mary  O'Connor  Sandra  TV  William 

Sandra Day O'Connor condemns lawmakers who threaten the independence of the judiciary by accusing judges of being activists in a speech at the College of William and Mary.

This is video activism

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  • Author: undercurrentspaulo

Tags: action  activism  direct  love  videomakers 

Find out about undercurrents, the radical videomakers. Videos to save the world!Wicked stuff and funny too.

Free Downloads of Armchair-Activism Book Excerpts

  • Length: 3:38
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  • Author: HeatherWokusch

Tags: activism  Bush  Facebook  political  progressive  Wokusch 

Head to progressiveshandbook.com/action for the excerpts... The original offer for Facebook members mentioned in this video has been extended. You can still download the armchair-activism files for free!

Inspiring talk from Bono on activism for Africa

  • Length: 28:37
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  • Author: TEDtalksDirector

Tags: Africa  Bono  TED  TEDPrize  TEDTalks  U2 

http://www.ted.com Rock star and activist Bono accepts the 2005 TEDPrize with a riveting talk about our moral obligation (and economic incentive) to help lift Africa out of poverty. He unveils his TEDPrize wishes by challenging the TED community to help build a social movement of more than one...

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