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Lonni Tanner, Chief Change Officer, New York Dept. of Design and Construction New York, New York, March 16, 2012 On Obama, 9/11 and Occupy, 8:41 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The hard thing for me about a consultant at all is that often times you’re asked to solve problems that aren’t the right problems to be solved. |
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Nick Spitzer, Radio Journalist New Orleans, Louisiana, March 22, 2010 On New Orleans post-Katrina, 11:45 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. It comes up out of all these neighborhoods and cultures that have long been here together in pain and pleasure and there’s a greater sense of unity, post-disaster, in what we can do together than I’ve seen in all the years I’ve been in Louisiana. |
Nettie Smith Interview
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Nettie Smith, School Teacher Boulder, Colorado, January 14, 2010 On improving education, 10:40 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I know people want change fast, but then I also see how slowly things change in any bureaucracy, and so I guess I don’t put my expectations too high. I try not to. |
Fred Moten Interview
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Fred Moten, Poet and Professor Durham, North Carolina, March 6, 2012 On Obama, 17:40 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I’ve just become so committed, and believe so much in a certain notion or understanding of the black radical tradition, and I believe that Obama knows something about that tradition, and I’m very, very angry with him, because I believe that he betrays this tradition. |
Zac Fabian Interview
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Zac Fabian, Ice rink worker and media for OccupyCville Charlottesville, VA, December 13, 2011 On OccupyCville, 26:01 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. What we’re doing isn’t novel, it’s not revolutionary. It’s actually traditional. What people used to do is they used go to public spaces and have discourse. That doesn’t happen anymore, and we’re actually being criticized for doing it. |
Sarah Cox Interview
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Sarah Cox, Student New Haven, Connecticut, October 12, 2011 On Occupy Wall Street, 31:21 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The point of [Occupy Wall Street] is that there is this space where people can relate to each other in a completely different way and can talk about what their issues are, whatever they are… in a way that’s just not available anywhere else. |
Chase Niesner Interview
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Chase Niesner, Student New Haven, Connecticut, October 11, 2011 On Occupy New Haven, 27:03 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I think eventually they’re going to have to have some sort of leadership or structure. Just because a politician who wants to listen to them and wants to enact policy that will appease them can’t sit down with 20,000 people. |
Sarah Klein Interview
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Sarah Klein, Student New Haven, Connecticut, October 13, 2011 On Occupy Wall Street, 31:38 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. We don’t have an equivalent of Bobby Seal on trial, so we don’t have that sort of catalyst in this moment, but we do have this same sort of crazy long war. It’s hard to find it not it a little reminiscent of [the campus protests of the 1970s]. |
Vinay Prasad Interview
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Vinay Prasad, Student New Haven, Connecticut, October 12, 2011 On Occupy Wall Street, 15:47 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I do think that nonviolent protests can be effective, that’s very clear, but I think in order for it to be effective, I think people have to be more committed to their cause. |
Cyrus McGoldrick Interview
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Cyrus McGoldrick, Civil Rights Director, Center for American Islamic Relations Harlem, New York, New York, March 24, 2011 On Islamophobia, 34:00 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. … you look at the statistics, I know you’ve seen them all, that 60, 70% of Americans have a negative view of Islam. But that is, 50% out of that 70% say they’ve never even met a Muslim. |
Maria Pineda Interview
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Maria Pineda, University Administrator Olympia, WA, April 22, 2010 On changes in the Yakima Valley, 6:49 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. …Having walked with Cesar Chavez and doing all the work that he did for the gente and immigration and workers’ rights and all that. It’s just in that succession. There’s still struggle. There’ll always continue to be struggle. |
Nikhil Singh Interview
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Nikhil Singh, History professor New York, New York, January 20, 2010 On Obama’s first year in office, 7:20 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I think, you know, it’s not an accident when that Senator Jim DeMint said, if we can stop him on healthcare, we’ll break him. And I have to say, I know we’re going to get to this, but there are echos of the slave driver in that, obviously, the South Carolinian, “we’ll break him.” |
Ricardo Levins Morales Interview
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Ricardo Levins Morales, Artist Minneapolis, Minnesota, February, 19, 2010 On Obama, 13:53 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. When I looked at where power is, it to me seemed clearly it wasn’t in the White House. The things [Obama] was talking weren’t within his power to do around free trade. |
Rosilyn Edgerton and Leonette Butler Interview
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Rosilyn Edgerton and Leonette Butler Amtrak from NY to Washington DC, Inauguration Eve 2009 On historical memory and the prospect of Obama’s inauguration, 4:45 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. It was a grassroots effort. It was just the everyday, working people who supported [Obama]. It’s like, how do you eat an elephant? You have to eat it one bite at a time. You can’t just gobble it down. And that’s how we did it. |
Shepard and Jean Geller Interview
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Shepard Geller, Federal Judge, and Jean Geller Gainesville, Florida, October 9, 2009 Pictured: Shepard Geller’s train set On immigration, 4:56 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The thing I like about conservative ideas is, I think they’re more realistic. They’re not as happy and as nice and clean, simple, as the liberal ideas, but I think they work a little better. Simply because they take into account the realities of human failure and human competition. |
Margaret Bodell Interview
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Margaret Bodell, Gallerist, Director of Project Storefronts, New Haven, Connecticut, November 18, 2010 On economic decline, urban space, and creative efforts at revitalization, 14:19 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Being a storefront hugger, I see a storefront and I see possibilities… It has never been easy to convince a landlord to let me come in and do something creative and build a community. |
Dan Russo Interview
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Dan Russo, Hedge fund manager New York, November 3, 2009 Dan Russo preferred not to be photographed On the onset, scope, and culpability of the economic crisis, 10:36 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. And I don’t think it’s the fact that people are bad by nature. I don’t think that at all. I just think that people are Darwinian a little bit, and they’re also self-serving, and they’re also going to protect what they’ve built. |
Vic Rosenthal Interview
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Vic Rosenthal, Community organizer Minneapolis, MN, February 20, 2010 On optimism, Obama, and small victories, 11:23 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I’m really struck by how little is said about what I believe is an attack on Obama for no other reason than that he’s black. |
Alejandro Lara-Briseno Interview
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Alejandro Lara-Briseno, Student Berkeley, California, October 18, 2010 On the budget cuts, protests, and riots at UC Berkeley in 2008-09, 18:15 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. I was a year old, and as some of my friends say, I was imported along with a lot of other stuff. It wasn’t a decision for me, it was my parents’ decision to immigrate. But that has always remained somewhat in my mind; that though I am an immigrant it isn’t the same narrative or the myth around many people who immigrate to the U.S. If you’re a child you have no choice. You just come along. |
Michael Cohen and Leigh Raiford Interview
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Michael Cohen and Leigh Raiford, Professors Berkeley, California, October 17, 2010 On the budget cuts, protests, and riots at UC Berkeley in 2008-09, 35:12 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. On the economic collapse in California, 17:51 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. We see despair setting in amongst the students. We see that every time they raise student fees…students have to get outside jobs… And I know what that means. It means they’re not doing their homework. They’re not reading what I assign them. They do poorly on their tests. And they become less and less interested in things like history, literature, culture, and are more and more interested in whatever it is that they can do that is going to get them a job, so they can pay off $100,000 worth of loans. |
Margaret Southern Interview
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Margaret Southern Portland, Oregon, April 20, 2010 Margaret Southern preferred not to be photographed On Obama’s election, 10:15 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. On racial integration in 1970s Portland, OR, 17:54 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
Bonnie Fox Interview
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Bonnie Fox, Office manager, unemployed New York, New York, October 29, 2009 On the recession, business closures in Manhattan, 9:54 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. On the recession and the experience of unemployment, 1:19 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Well this is the Upper East Side. And now all of a sudden– And it’s not because of the Second Avenue subway and all the construction that is going on about that –but I walk up and down: First Avenue, Second Avenue and Third Avenue and Lexington Avenue, and everywhere I look businesses are closing. All kinds businesses. And I think, this is really frightening. And they’re not re-opening. Nobody’s taking over the space. |
Bonnie Fox Interview #2
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Bonnie Fox, Medical Office Administrator New York, New York, March 12, 2013 View Full Interview |
Daisy Khan Interview
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Daisy Khan, Co-founder, Cordoba House Islamic Center New York, New York, November 4, 2010 On Muslim identity in America, 5:58 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The community wanted us [the Cordoba Initiative]. The irony is all the opposition was coming from outside New York City. You know, Pam Geller, Spencer and Gingrich, and all these other people who don’t even live in New York, who don’t have a stake in New York and are speaking on behalf of the 9/11 families as if they represent the 9/11 families. |
Ivo Rabell Interview
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Ivo Rabell, Realtor, Blueberry Farmer Gainesville, Florida, October 7, 2009 On the recession, on economic trends in Gainesville over time, 10:38 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. |
Lesley Karsten-DiNicola Interview
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Lesley Karsten-DiNicola, Cantora, Film Maker New York, New York, November 4, 2009 On the current moment in US history, childhood in the shadow of the Holocaust, and coming to political consciousness in the ’60s, 16:10 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I’ll never forget my father one day later in his life. We were driving and he pulled the car over to the side of the road. And he said to me, I hope the ideals that I’ve lived with haven’t been a burden to you. And I thought, No. Actually, they’re the greatest gift you ever could have given me. Though they are a burden. They are also a burden. It was a wise question. |
Gary Bretton-Granatoor Interview
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Gary Bretton-Granatoor, Rabbi New York, New York, February 5, 2010 On coming to political and religious consciousness, 30:24 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Here we are, 30 years out, almost 40 years out [from the Civil Rights movement]. Did it change? On the one hand, there were changes. Was the goal realized? The answer to that question is no. |
Jimee Lowe Interview
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James H. “Jimee” Lowe, Activist, Film Maker, Administrator Olympia, Washington, April 22, 2010 On Obama, racism, and his own Civil Rights-era childhood in Alabama, 7:11 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I think [President Obama] needs to really speak out on racial issues. I know he was forced to. But he shouldn’t have to be forced to. He’s a black man. He’s experienced. Just because you’re a politician doesn’t mean you stop being a black person. You can speak as a black person and speak as a President too. |
Mayalan Keita-Brown Interview
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Mayalan Keita-Brown, Lawyer, Immigrants’ Rights Advocate Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 19, 2010 On Liberia, immigration, and immigrants’ rights activism in Minnesota, 12:42 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. But I see a lot of immigrants who are considered illegal, undocumented. There should be a system, to create a situation for these people to be legal and documented, so that they are not forced into situations where they become labeled as criminals. |
Seitu Jones Interview
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Seitu Jones, Artist Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 20, 2010 On his family’s history, racism, art, cultural nationalism, and his political education in the wake of the Emmet Till murder, 13:41 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. …the tenets of the Black Panther Party and cultural nationalists, many folks felt that art should advance these political concerns. So I was doing pamphlets, brochures, illustrations for posters, and that’s how I saw my work. I saw my work being a part of this movement. |
Nora Burn Interview
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Nora Burn, High tech worker, unemployed Boston, Massachusetts, January 5, 2010 On the recession and unemployment, 7:10 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Even with the stress and uncertainty of what I was going to do next, I was still so much happier than the people still working. The people with jobs were just spread so thin and stressed– so they were doing three jobs under the threat of losing their job if they didn’t do it. |
Jim Sleeper Interview
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Jim Sleeper, Teacher, Writer New York, NY, February 3, 2010 On civic, “small r” republicanism, Obama’s first year, and the “Fox News shouters” and contemporary conservatism, 28:02 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. You know, I remember, when I was going around saying to people early in 2008 was, it’s an actuarial question: how many of the people who will never pull the lever for a black man are still alive? We have to wait for a layer of people to just pass from the scene before a guy like this can get elected. |
Sarah Queener-Plourde Interview
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Sarah Queener-Plourde, Student Olympia, Washington, April 22, 2010 On her French-Indian ancestry, childhood in the Willamette Valley, and her dawning understanding of race and racism, 12:37 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. For us to move as a community I feel we have to be bridges between the generations in order to share the knowledge and the intelligence that we both carry… we have to learn to listen to each other…That’s what to me being a bridge is. And it takes all of us. It takes all of our colors and all of our experiences to do that. |
Sheila Payne Interview
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Sheila Payne, Postal Worker, unemployed Gainesville, Florida, October 9, 2009 On agricultural work and labor organizing, from Florida tomato fields to Washington state wineries, 7:20 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I organized in the fields because it really is true that if you don’t have a bathroom in the field–you know, that’s like such a small thing to have people have dignity. And that’s what farm workers talk about. It’s not about pay. It’s about how I’m treated. |
Paul Landry Interview
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Paul Landry, Carpenter New Orleans, Louisiana, March 23, 2010 On coming home after Hurricane Katrina, 3:08 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I kicked the door and walked in, seeing my house, it was tore up, man. Tore up. Everything was everywhere. Everywhere I went I cried, cried. Even my pictures that I had from my daughters — all that’s gone. All the memories that I have of her right now is in my head. |
Nikhil Singh Interviews Matthew Jacobson
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Nikhil Singh interviews Matthew Frye Jacobson Brooklyn College, April 3, 2012 There are so many interviews in the archive that you just hear a kind of vernacular theorizing about the world that is nothing short of brilliant, but is nothing that you’re gonna hear when you click on the TV and listen to the people who were paid to make pronouncements. View Full Interview |
Thomas Dyja Interview
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Thomas Dyja, Writer New York, New York, July 2, 2012 I don’t see this going into a second civil war, only because we’re all so comfortable with our stuff. View Full Interview |
Bob Moses Interview
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Bob Moses, Math educator and Civil Rights activist Princeton, New Jersey, June 25, 2012 |
Jerry Jacobson Interview
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Jerry Jacobson, Psychoanalyst (retired) Boulder, Colorado, June 19, 2012 On how his profession impacts his understanding of politics, 8:54 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. The injection of fear into every public issue has been has been part of the poison in the system. It seems to justify the thoughtless, irresponsible blocking of governance. Because governance would be worse, is the implication of the argument. |
Ann Powers Interview
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Ann Powers, Rock Critic Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 28, 2012 On present-day changes in the music industry, 15:43 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. A counterculture that doesn’t make space for women will eventually have a moment in which women rise up. |
Robert Viscusi Interview
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Robert Viscusi, Poet and Professor Brooklyn, New York, April 3, 2012 On the importance of race and ethnicity to America, 14:42 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. But there are consequences. Because if you can’t speak the language, then you are cut off from your own, specific history. |
Min Jin Lee Interview
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Min Jin Lee, Novelist New York, New York, January 18, 2012 On becoming a writer, 7:35 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I didn’t start writing fiction until junior, senior year because I kind of thought that’s what really, I guess, privileged people did. |
Betty Shamieh Interview
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Betty Shamieh, playwright New York, New York, December 16, 2011 On being an Arab-American playwright post-9/11, 12:38 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. It’s hard not to like President Obama…. But the fact of the matter is I feel very, as an Arab-American, I feel very vulnerable even under an Obama administration. |
Alicia Schmidt Camacho Interview
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Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Professor New Haven, Connecticut, September 28, 2011 On immigrants’ rights efforts in New Haven, 25:32 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Part of the deep concern is how the criminalization and desire to remove or to contain migrants in a position of subordinate membership and diminished rights and protections has been the willingness of citizens to accept and participate in the erosion of their own rights, and their own freedoms from this government. |
Lizzy D’Sousa Interview
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Lizzy D’Sousa, Journalist New York, New York, April 28, 2010 On immigration policy, 8:16 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I mean I don’t hold much hope under an Obama Administration that things — I think the work that I’ve done around immigration has led me to understand that it’s going to take a generation before we get to a place where immigration is not understood in a framework of criminal justice or criminality or something that needs to be policed. |
Paul Raushenbush Interview
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Paul Raushenbush, Pastor and Huffington Post Religion Editor New York, New York, July 13, 2011 On the wide divergence of opinions on pressing social issues, 14:59 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. What does it mean for me and Michelle Bachmann to both call ourselves American, and to feel very committed to this country, and feel religiously engaged in the well-being of this country?
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Carol Hogue Interview
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Carol Hogue, Computer Systems Analyst New York, New York, November 10, 2009 On our current moment, 2:35 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. We’re an empire, and we’re going under, like all the other empires have done. |
Wendy Knox Interview
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Wendy Knox, Theater Director Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 19, 2010 On running a transient theater company in uncertain economic times, 22:15 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. We performed in every theater venue in town, but then we started going, “Hey, look at those warehouses”…We sort of bring a life to the building, and then being able to bring people into the building, that’s really exciting. |
Greg Welk Interview
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Greg Welk, Financial Advisor Boulder, Colorado, January 15, 2010 On seeing the economic crisis unfold in the financial world, 14:36 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I attended all day seminars about collateralized debt obligations and collateralized mortgage obligations. And how they were the best thing since sliced bread. That they were completely safe. That it was a perfect asset to put clients into… And we later know that that wasn’t the case. |
Dorothea Von Moltke and Cliff Simms Interview
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Dorothea Von Moltke and Cliff Simms, Book Sellers Princeton, New Jersey, May 10, 2010 On the changing nature of book selling in the new economy, 18:28 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. That is one of the roles that a bookstore still plays, is that you come across [a book], you didn’t know it existed, you weren’t looking for it, but you found it, and it ends up being just what you were looking for… [but then] they order it on Amazon right then and there. |
Bernie Hesse Interview
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Bernie Hesse, Grocer and Union Organizer Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 20, 2010 On the impact of the economic downturn on union organizing, 5:23 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. There’s never been a great time [to organize], but I think with certain sectors, people say, we’ve got nothing to lose. |
Alvin Jackson Interview
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Alvin Jackson, Pastor New York, New York, March 8, 2010 On Obama, 13:38 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. So we’re not as far along as we think we are on the subject, on this whole race situation. |
Steve Jones Interview
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Steve Jones, Investment Banker New York, New York, March 29, 2011 On the onset of the economic crisis Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I think capitalism pervades government, so we just need to think of our policies in a global sense. Dollars will flow to where cheaper labor exists, lower taxes exist. That’s what will happen. |
Kathleen Toomey Interview
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Kathleen Toomey, Car Service Dispatcher Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 9, 2011 On the counter-Tea Party protest she organized in 2010 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. I just started in a new office, and if I say, “hey, I did this protest against Sarah Palin,” I’m almost afraid of what people are going to say, because it’s almost acceptable to hate the president, when it wasn’t acceptable 6 years ago. |
Eleanor Lewis Interview
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Eleanor Lewis, Transplanted Southerner Lincoln, Massachusetts, March 8, 2011 (Eleanor Lewis preferred to publish an image of her cat rather than of herself.) On being a woman in graduate school in the ’50s and ’60s and activism, 14:17 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. And having a Southern accent was not an advantage. It was horrible. I finally got to the point where I could say to people, I got here under the same rules you did it. So I am not stupid. I may have an accent that makes you think that I am, but I am not. |
Timothy McCarthy Interview
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Timothy McCarthy, Social Justice Activist and University Lecturer Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 9, 2011 On Obama and LGBT Equality, 16:14 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. We can never take progress for granted. That we always have to be agitating in order to stop the flow of reaction. To stop the kind of juggernaut of conservatism. |
Gillespie, Daniels and Betts Interview
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Melinda Gillespie, Alvinia Daniels, Lekisha Betts and Tory Betts National Mall, Washington, D.C., Inauguration morning 2009 On the importance of Obama’s inauguration, 6:21 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. This day means a new life, a new life for each one of us. |
David Montana Interview
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David Montana, Second Chief, Yellow Pocahontas New Orleans, Louisiana, March 20, 2010 Sharing a poem he wrote about Hurricane Katrina, 2:32 Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Now I traveled through water that started to rise, with a bag on my back and tears in my eyes |
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