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Our Mandate: Making Media Matter
"Our Mandate" is an audio argument designed to stimulate debate on media reform based on my essay in Melville House’s best-selling book “What We Do Now.” I contributed a chapter called Making Media Matter. “Our Mandate” is an audio mix/call-to-action by musician Polar Levine of Polarity 1 and myself.
Listen to the 5-minute version below. The full 10-minute version is available for free download and mp3 streaming in the Internet Archive.
See www.melvillehousebooks.com/wwdn.html for more on the book that features essays by Greg Palast, Howard Dean and others.
i don’t have a credit card and for months i’ve been trying to find the book what we do now. i can send a money order, but can you send me an adress? thank you.
March 29th, 2005 at 3:41 pmbarbara mooney
eric@nwonline.net
Barbara, you can write or call Melville House Publishing:
P.O. Box 3278
Hoboken, NJ 07030
Voice: (201) 222-2640
http://www.melvillehousebooks.com
If that doesn’t work contact the distributor, Independent Publishers Group:
814 North Franklin St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Phone: 312.337.0747
Orders Only: 800.888.4741
http://www.ipgbook.com/
Incidentally, those with credits cards can buy “What We Do Now” through Amazon or Powell’s, and help support this blog (we get a cut!)
March 29th, 2005 at 4:54 pmI was once a member of the U.S. Military. Since 9-11 I have been dismayed and disgusted by the attitude Americans have taken about patriotism, flag-waving, and fear. What, do we forget Vietnam and how we treated those who fought there? Now all the sudden former flower children wish to reaffirm themselves as good Americans even though they spent their youth on LSD and didn’t raise their children worth a shit? Oh, we just forget the past, forget the sixties, and chant, “Oh I’m proud to be an American…” What a bunch of hypocritical horseshit. I’m just amazed at the way Americans today want to wrap themselves in the flag they didn’t hesitate to burn just a few years ago. Now all the sudden everyone’s a patriot, everyone’s a Christian, everyone’s a conservative, everyone has balls bigger than grapefruits. I’d just like to see some of these people exercise these balls in a real-life situation. Seems to me most Americans today carry enough gas to make their cars run with nary a fill-up.
March 30th, 2005 at 4:22 pmBetsy Rosenberg
I know its not got to do in this blog but I always look at blogs when I am at work. It tickles me when my boss catches me and I close it down quick
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August 3rd, 2005 at 10:17 amhahah very funny! I like that :D
August 4th, 2005 at 5:13 amthx for the information necessary to me.. and no comments (c)
February 14th, 2006 at 6:36 am{Its good to be here tickling is a really good stuff. A lot of fun. Lots of people are into tickling now. You should try it also ;)}
Thx for info
February 28th, 2006 at 11:19 amGee Betsy, I guess you are one of those people who never learns, or changes your mind, or regrets mistakes, or grows up.
While I deplore utterly the bogus patriotic cheering so many of our fellow citizens manifest, I’ll bet that most of them were definitely not taking LSD or spitting on our soldiers. I am older than the so-called baby boomers, and I remember well when patriotism was the expected response to our troops at war. Of course those wars were legitimate, necessary and for good causes. Our recent military actions have been dubious and entered into for motives far from noble, based on lies. So here’s to our men and women in uniform, let’s bring them home and cheer them.
February 28th, 2006 at 2:19 pmThanks
March 2nd, 2006 at 7:49 amDanny, I love the audio blog. The informality of it is just great combined with your expertise. I feel like I’m on the phone with you. Thanks, and keep it up!
May 4th, 2006 at 11:51 amHey,
I love what you’e doing!
Don’t ever change and best of luck.
Raymon W.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:04 pm