COMMUNITY ACTIVISM: Bill Moyers / “How Citizen Power Can Save a Library”

In this web-exclusive Bill Moyers Essay, Bill professes his lifelong love for libraries and their strong cultural value, and points to a crisis in public library funding across the country. But he also shares a unique and controversial community effort in Troy, Michigan that kept its library from becoming a political casualty, and serves as “a reminder of what can happen when we act together.”

Watch the full video below that explains how the Tea Party put the library in jeopardy, and how the town — with the help ad agency Leo Burnett — successfully fought back.

BillMoyers.com

POLITICAL SATIRE: “Less Is More”

h/t: truthdig.org

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
~ John F. Kennedy

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE: Thom Hartmann / “School & Religious Freedom Dying in Louisiana”

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: Joseph Stiglitz / “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future”

ECONOMIC AUSTERITY: Joseph Stiglitz / “On Occupy and Why U.S.-Europe Austerity Will Only Weaken Economic Recovery”