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http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/24/naomi_klein_now_is_the_time

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95007340

give a listen. maybe npr news is "fluff" after all.

btw hope someone blogs/liveblogs the public address conference. i have to be out of the u.s. early in october -- and want to be -- so i couldn't be in madlysung this week. luff to the assembled. gunns to josh. a fine psu undergrad, kelly, will be in madison, thanks to the glorious and multitalented jessica sheffield.

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When I logged into Google Reader today, I got a message that I could read what journalists and what people from the Obama and McCain campaigns are reading. So, I subscribed and started reading "what they read":

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Voting is such a basic right in a healthy democracy, yet it becomes the nexus of so much corruption...here, and elsewhere in the world. The people are the stake-holders, as it were, and our votes are the stakes. But what happens when those stakes are denied us, or worse, forced upon us with no viable set of options. The ONE candidate, the ONE stake, sets up a sham election...and often a violent sham at that. Zimbabwe is a prime example of the classic double bind, damned if you do, damned if you don't. 'Hanging chads' takes on a whole new meaning (along with lynching/cinching the vote). What happened in Zimbabwe should be paired with classroom discussions and writing prompts as we enter this last stretch in the U.S. presidential election.

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