Wednesday, Dec 26, 2007

TTT#26-Progressives

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Fifty years of creeping conservatism has created a mountain for progressives to climb to stop the slide into racism, sexism, increasing economic disparity, an education wasteland, moribund healthcare, and political corruption.Can we push that rock up to preserve democracy and install the promises of our founding documents?
TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with seasoned and beloved political and social activists and scholars in whom the fires of freedom still burn hotly.

GUESTS: KENNETH TILSEN – Attorney and public advocate for such high profile conflicts as Wounded Knee, the Minnesota Eight and the Powerline protestors; LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK – Native Activist and Communications Consultant; MARV DAVIDOV – lifelong anti-war advocate and corporate critic, founder of The Honeywell Project protesting local manufacture of bombs and nuclear weaponry; TOM O’CONNELL, PhD. – Professor of Political Science, Metropolitan State University, whose dissertation, “Toward the Cooperative Commonwealth: An Introductory History of the Farmer-Labor Movement in Minnesota (1917-1948)” examines the roots of Minnesota’s progressive politics.

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