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25,000 Dockworkers Shut Down West Coast Ports in Historic Antiwar Protest

59:04 minutes (27.04 MB)

From Democracy Now!, May 2, 2008

In the largest labor strike since the invasion of Iraq, ports along the West Coast—all twenty-nine of them—were shut down as some 25,000 dockworkers went on a one-day strike to protest the war. We speak to Jack Heyman of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

Utah Phillips Needs Your Support!

2:12 minutes (1.01 MB)

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For over 40 years Utah Phillips has traveled this country using songs and stories about working people, their struggles, and their triumphs, to remind us of how deep and how strong our collective history runs.

Jim Hightower: The Public Rallies for Media Democracy

2:10 minutes (1.99 MB)

by Jim Hightower, Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Halloween was especially scary this year, thanks to a truly spooky move by Kevin Martin.

Jim Hightower: Why Bush Loves Musharraf

2:15 minutes (2.07 MB)

Monday, November 26, 2007, by Jim Hightower

If the Bush-Cheney Regime is so committed to its stated ideals of spreading western-style democracy throughout the Islamic world, why is George W hugging up and propping up the anti-democratic, military dictatorship of Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan?

Revisting the Arrest of Protesters

2:24 minutes (2.19 MB)

By Jim Hightower October 3, 2007 Published on jimhightower.com

If you just can’t bring yourself to believe that our government authorities would even think of suppressing the legitimate protests of peaceful demonstrators – look at the record of court cases recently coming out of New York.

Jim Hightower: War on Terrorists Gets Goofier

2:23 minutes (2.19 MB)

“In order to stop terrorists from destroying America’s democratic freedoms, we will destroy America’s democratic freedoms ourselves.”

Jim Hightower: GIVING AWAY APPALACHIA

2:19 minutes (2.12 MB)

From Jim Hightower's Today's Common Sense Co

THE BUST IN BUSH’S BOOM

2:23 minutes (2.19 MB)

From Jim Hightower's Today's Common Sense Co

REBUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS

2:22 minutes (2.18 MB)

Friday, August 31, 2007 Common Sense Commentary by Jim Hightower