Tag: American Podium
Advocates—and pioneers—of grass-roots journalism and grass-roots power, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan discuss their new book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance and Hope. The book tells of ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power. Pulling back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig into the politics
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Posted: November 6th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan, The Silenced Majority
David Domke, chair of the University of Washington Department of Communications, believes President Barack Obama has been subjected to historically unprecedented disrespect by legislators and many citizens. Is this evidence of racism toward our first African-American president? What role has the Tea Party played in this animosity? What does public-opinion data tell
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Posted: October 17th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Christopher Parker, David Domke, President Barack Obama, racism
With consensus-defying positions on evolution, global warming and stem-cell research, the modern Republican party is considered by many observers an enemy of science. OK, says Seattle science writer Alex Berezow, those beliefs are scientifically wrong—but there are equally dangerous attacks on science originating on the other side of the political spectrum. Citing
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Posted: October 10th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: Alex Berezow, American Podium, science
Seattle-based AP photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Barry Sweet shares his new book of photographs, Split Seconds: Four Decades of News Photography from the Pacific Northwest and Beyond, which chronicles his 30-plus-year career. In photos and text, Sweet tells stories of the most memorable people he's covered including Northwest artists Jacob
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Posted: September 4th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Barry Sweet, photography
Former U.S. Congressman and Florida's former attorney general Bill McCollum organized and led the multi-state lawsuit challenging the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. McCollum delivers the keynote address at The Washington Policy Center's 10th Annual Health Care Policy Conference in Seattle, where he discusses the recent Supreme Court decision to
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Posted: August 7th, 2012 under Public Health, Take 21.
Tags: Affordable Care Act, American Podium, Bill McCollum, health care reform
Journalist Kirsten Grind traces the rise - and spectacular fall - of Washington Mutual, the largest bank failure in American history. As a reporter at the Puget Sound Business Journal in 2009, during the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Grind wrote the first detailed stories about Washington Mutual. Now, the
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Posted: July 17th, 2012 under Economy, Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Jon Talton, Kirsten Grind, Washington Mutual
The author of 18 books, a senior contributing editor at Sports Illustrated and a regular contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, Frank Deford has been a working journalist for 50 years, having joined Sports Illustrated out of Princeton in 1962. In a recent talk at the Seattle Central Library, Deford discusses his latest
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Posted: July 3rd, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Frances Moore Lappe, sports
As part of the 2nd Annual Celebration of People Power, Alice Walker and Frances Moore Lappé speak about choosing a meaningful path. Food-justice and democracy advocate Lappé is the author of Diet for a Small Planet and Ecomind. Walker is an activist and award-winning author of The Color Purple and Why War
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Posted: June 26th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: Alice Walker, American Podium, environment, Frances Moore Lappe, Makana, social justice
Four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell reveals the unique lessons that have shaped his life and legendary career in public service. Powell discusses his new book It Worked for Me, which begins with his "Thirteen Rules" - notes he gathered over the years and that now form the basis
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Posted: June 19th, 2012 under City Issues, Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, CityClub, General Colin Powell
Former state legislator Mary Ellen McCaffree and her co-author Anne McNamee Corbett discuss their new book Politics of the Possible, which de-mystifies the gears of governing and posits that our political system really can function as our founders intended. McCaffree and McNamee recount a 1960s government overhaul to offer today's citizens tools
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Posted: June 12th, 2012 under City Issues, Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Books, governing, Politics
