Happy Turkey Day

Today- UC Berkeley students and workers strike to protest the privitization of public schools in California. This 15min segment airs on Flashpoints today

Purple sun, green sun, red full moon and an alien.

The show I produced with Mitch Jeserich occurs in the 2nd hour of this link. Our guests:

Robert Greenwald, director of “Out Foxed” with Brave New Films

Gregg Levine, managing editor of Firedoglake.com

Mickey Kaus, opinion journalist with slate.com

Text reads:

—“I wanna go to the party”

—“No we can’t”

—“I wanna go home”

TWINKLE TWINKLE…

Dug out of my archives: Eamon Dad duet from July 2008

Noam Chomsky was at the Paramount Theater in Oakland last night. His speech was by all means full of intelligentness and smart. That being said, here are one minutes worth of ‘umms’ and ‘uhs’ removed from 25mins worth of talking.

It may sound like these are looped, but each ‘uh’ is as unique as a snowflake on my honor.

As per kiddo’s request, I drew a maze.

Berkeley’s Foreign Policy?

Here’s what the News Anchor will read as the lede for my story tonight. Want to pretend you’re a radio announcer? Read the following out loud and then press play above.

THE CITY OF BERKELEY IS NOW THE FIRST GOVERNEMENT AT THE STATE OR LOCAL LEVEL TO BEGIN WORK TO COMPLY WITH THREE UN HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES WHICH WERE RATIFIED BY THE U.S. IN THE EARLY 1990’S. THE ITEM WAS PREPARED FOR COUNCIL BY THE CITY’S PEACE AND JUSTICE COMMISION. ERIC KLEIN HAS MORE