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Still Marching!

Fifty years later, we're still marching. Fifty years (and six months) ago, 200,00-300,ooo people turned out for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. This past Saturday 80,00-100,0o0 showed up in Raleigh North Carolina for the Moral March , something that has actually been happening in Raleigh every February since 2007 as part of the HKonJ -Historic Thousands on Jones Street (where the legislature meets). Writing about the march for RH Reality Check, PFAW's Peter Montgomery explains Last year’s merciless legislative assault on voting rights, public education, health care, and poor families gave progressive organizing a renewed urgency. Multimillionaire [...]

By nicolesandler|February 10th, 2014|Tags: corporate media, Fools on the Hill, Jeff Bryant, marching, Michael Sam, Moral March, Moral Mondays, Nicole Belle, North Carolina, Olympics, Peter Montgomery, Rev Barber|Comments Off

The Damage Done

As the country was getting collectively ready to gorge itself on food and beer while watching grown men hitting each other as hard as possible in their pursuit of a ball, we got a collective punch in the gut when the news broke that Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his NYC apartment. The kicker was that the hypodermic needle was still in his arm. By all accounts (including two I got directly from two different people who considered him a friend), PSH was a wonderful, caring, down-to-earth person who had a continuing battle with demons. Aside from depriving [...]

By nicolesandler|February 3rd, 2014|Tags: Allen West, Coke commercial, Dylan Farrow, FOIA Terrorist, jason leopold, Nicole Belle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Super Bowl, Woody Allen|Comments Off

The TPP and More Monday Madness

At his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama publicly invoked the Trans Pacific Partnership for the first time, claiming "To boost American exports, support American jobs, and level the playing field in the growing markets of Asia, we intend to complete negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership. And tonight I'm announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union, because trade that is fair and free across the Atlantic supports millions of good paying American jobs." When he spoke those words on Feb 12, 2o13, my jaw dropped. We had [...]

By nicolesandler|January 27th, 2014|Tags: Alan Grayson, Fools on the Hill, grammys, inequality, libido, Mackelmore, Maher, Mike Huckabee, misogeny, Nicole Belle, poverty, TPP|Comments Off

Dream On!

The picture above is the La Cienega Blvd exit of LA's 10 Freeway, which collapsed during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. It hit at 4:31am that Monday morning, on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. On any other morning, I would have driven on that freeway and gotten off at that exit to go to work at KLOS where I produced The Mark and Brian Show. But I made a spur-of-the-moment-and very uncharacteristic decision the Friday afternoon before, and told my boss Carey Curelop (then PD of KLOS) that I was going to take Monday off. MLK Day wasn't a day off for [...]

By nicolesandler|January 20th, 2014|Tags: copyright, emptywheel, Fools on the Hill, Maher, Marcy Wheeler, Marking Luther King Jr, Mary Matalan, MLKIII, Nicole Belle, Northridge earthquake, NSA, Obama, Philhomena|Comments Off

A Bridge and Toxic Water

Chris Christie has a problem with a bridge, and over 300,ooo residents of West Virginia have toxic water. Welcome to Monday! I think Christie's troubles are just beginning... pop some popcorn and settle in, because this one will last a while. Stay tuned! Although the NY Times and Washington Post both have been covering the sickening story out of West Virginia, apparently none of the Sunday talk shows thought it was a big enough story to compete with Christie's troubles, a baby panda's debut or the three-year anniversary (later this week) of Sully Sullenberger landing his plane on the Hudson River. [...]

By nicolesandler|January 13th, 2014|Tags: ACHE act, Bob Kincaid, chemical leak, Chris Christie, Crooks and Liars, GW Bridge, Nicole Belle, toxic water, West Virginia|Comments Off

Cold Start to a New Year

Even here in Florida! For some reason, the mercury will hit 85 this afternoon, and dip down to 45 tonight. But no, there's no climate change. Not at all. The best part of my day was watching Maysoon Zayid's brilliant TED talk. In case you haven't seen it yet, have a look now. It's been too long since Maysoon joined us, so she came on this morning to talk about that experience and why General Hospital should hire her (and they should!) And, as it's Monday, Nicole Belle of Crooks and Liars joined in with our first Fools on the [...]

By nicolesandler|January 6th, 2014|Tags: Crooks and Liars, Fools on the Hill, Maysoon Zayid, Nicole Belle, TED talk|8 Comments

At Least We’re Not Freezing!

So we've got that going for us. This weekend, I attended the "First Annual" Lauderdale Live Music Festival. I put "first annual" in quotes because the organizers were confident enough to include that in its promotional materials, but given the anemic attendance, I can't imagine there will be a second annual outing. And that's too bad. I was surprised when I saw the lineup, as bands I love like Lyle Lovett, Indigo Girls and Robert Randolph don't often venture down to these parts. We have no decent radio who'd ever played any of those artists, and a weird population mix [...]

By nicolesandler|December 9th, 2013|Tags: affordable care act, Crooks and Liars, FloriDUH, Ft. Lauderdale, healthcare costs, Indigo Girls, Lauderdale Live, Lyle Lovett, Mandela, Nicole Belle, Paul Waldman, radio|Comments Off

Unfettered Capitalism

That unfettered capitalism that the Pope recently decried was on full display this holiday weekend in all its ugliness. A San Diego man, dressed as Santa, decided to ridicule all the idiots lined up on Thanksgiving night to save a couple of bucks: Of course, it wasn't only the lowly minimum-wage workers who had to leave their family gatherings early to wait on the gluttons, but the police who were called in to work too. At least one Black Friday death was reported, plus stabbings, tramplings and general fights over stuff. It's worth a click here to see some of [...]

By nicolesandler|December 2nd, 2013|Tags: Black Friday, capitalism, Cliff Schecter, Nicole Belle, Pope Francis, Sunday shows, Thuck You Thursday|Comments Off

High Hopes

When I heard we'd get a new Springsteen song called "High Hopes," I wondered if it was a new song or a cover of the old Sinatra "classic". It was neither... From the liner notes to the forthcoming album, also called High Hopes (due out Jan 14, 2014), Springsteen wrote: I was working on a record of some of our best unreleased material from the past decade when Tom Morello (sitting in for Steve during the Australian leg of our tour) suggested we ought to add "High Hopes" to our live set. I had cut "High Hopes," a song by Tim [...]

By nicolesandler|November 25th, 2013|Tags: filibuster, Fools on the Hill, High Hopes, Iran, Nicole Belle, Springsteen, Trita Parsi|Comments Off

What’s New Pussycat?

I always say we need some comic relief on the show - and we didn't have to go very far. In fact, the actual comedy from Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was even better than the comic sendoff of his lunacy from SNL... See for yourself: Via SNL The Real Thing I'll take truth over fiction any day. Although sometimes, the truth just simply sucks. Today, I spoke with my favorite Congressman Alan Grayson about some issues he's been quite candid about: the TPP, Drone strikes in Pakistan, the NSA spying program and the attacks on Glenn Greenwald and other journalists, [...]

By nicolesandler|November 18th, 2013|Tags: ACA, Alan Grayson, drones, Fox, Greenwald, Kennedy, Nicole Belle, NSA, Pakistan, pussy, Rob Ford, TPP|Comments Off

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