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Wage and wealth inequity are perhaps the fundamental issue of our time and no single thing is clearer evidence of it’s impact than the affordable housing crisis. Finding rents that are 30 percent or less of net wages is getting more and more difficult all over the country and in Sarasota. Jon Thaxton (above), life-long […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Grateful Dead Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon August 26th, 1983 2 Sennheiser 421 microphones > Sony TC-D5M – AUDMC Recorded by […]

The Florida chapter of the NOW is working hard to make Florida the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Monday there will be demonstrations all over the state including one in Bradenton at Senate President Bill Galvano’s office to perhaps persuade him to support the effort. Joining Steve and Lew will be Kim […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Grateful Dead Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA August 19, 1970 Recording by Gene Taback: Master Audience Cassette; Sony TC-124 with […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” Panama Dead The Leif Bar. Brooklyn, N.Y. August 11, 2018 Multi Track > Zoom F8 @ 48K/24 bit Ronnie Penque […]

Encouraging Critical Media Literacy and Civic Engagement  These FREE ONLINE RESOURCES are from the book The United States of Distraction by Nolan Higdon and Micky Huff. We interviewed Nolan August 7, and these are from his appendix, with his permission. Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME) is an independently funded critical media literacy education network that […]

This Wednesday 8/7/19 we’ll talk to Dr. Nolan Higdon, the author of the new book United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It). Dr. Higdon is a lecturer of history and media studies in the San Francisco Bay Area. Higdon is the co-host of the podcast Along The Line and […]