Even A Dead Fish Can Go With

Ronald Reagan's Idea Of A Good Farm Program Was Hee Haw.

When I Entered Politics, I Took The Only Downward Turn You Could Take From Journalism.

What Created Democracy Was Thomas Paine And Shays Rebellion, The Suffragists And The Abolitionists And On Down Through The Populists And The Labor Movement, Including The Wobblies. Tough, In Your Face People... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King And Caesar Chavez. And Now It’s Down To Us.

There's Enormous Progressive Activism And, More Often Than Not, Success At The Grassroots Level - Everything From Living Wage Campaigns To Efforts To Finance Our Elections Are Having Terrific Success.

Part Of The Failure Of The Corporate Media Is That They Don't Dig Out Stories Anymore. They Are Looking Down From The Top Floors. Media Work Used To Be Something That Was Down On The Ground Level. Now They Are Looking Out Of The Windows In The Top Suites, And They Don't Know What's Going On Out There. And Then There Are The Corporate Owners Who Don't Want This Stuff Reported Because If One Town Learns That The Next Town Has Defeated Wal-mart Or Stopped Sweatshop Goods, Then Other Towns Are Going To Want To Do The Same Thing.