Kucinich On What He Would Do To Counter The FCC’s New Media Ownership Rules (If He Were President)

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This footage is from the “Democratic National Candidates Forum” organized by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that took place on June 22, 2003 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers in Chicago, IL.
Here’s the original question that was presented to the candidates (courtesy of Jesse Jackson).
Kucinich On Media Ownership (Small – 3 MB)

“I’ll have my Justice Department file suit to break up all the monopolies in the media. That’s number one. And while they’re at it, they’ll start to pay attention to the concentration of wealth that’s going on in this society, and file suit to break up monopolies in energy, in agriculture and communications.” — Dennis Kucinich.

Video and Audio Of Greg Marutani From The Japanese America Citizens League

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This footage is from the protest in front of the INS building that took place from noon to 1pm at 444 Washington Street in San Francisco on June 13, 2003.
Speaker: Greg Marutani
Organization: Japanese American Citizens League
Greg Marutani in San Francisco (Small – 12 MB)
Audio – Greg Marutani in San Francisco (MP3 – 4 MB)
Greg Marutani, Japanese American Citizens League

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Democratic Candidates On The FCC’s New Media Ownership Rules

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Just wanted to provide a cross-reference to my Democrats By Issue – Media Ownership category, which covers the speeches of Howard Dean, Al Sharpton, Carol Moseley Braun, Dennis Kucinich, John Kerry and Dick Gephard as they ALL explain how they would re-regulate the media industry.
(6/25/03 – Note that I’m still in the process of linking to all of these, but if you can’t wait, you can look at them all — named accordingly in this directory.)
To date, all of my footage on this issue is from “Democratic National Candidates Forum” organized by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that took place on June 22, 2003 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers in Chicago, IL.
In the future, I may post clips of candidates discussing this topic from other sources.

Howard Dean On The FCC’s New Media Ownership Rules

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This footage is from the “Democratic National Candidates Forum” organized by the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition that took place on June 22, 2003 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers in Chicago, IL.
Here’s the original question that was presented to the candidates (courtesy of Jesse Jackson).

Howard Dean On The FCC’s New Media Ownership Rules

“…when the Dixie Chicks were kicked off the air for disagreeing with the President of the United States over the Iraq invasion, I suddenly realized that this was a corporation who was censoring our ability to get information on our airwaves.” — Howard Dean.

Complete transcript of the above video clip:
Q: Governor Dean. The FCC made this decision. The market’s gonna react. Companies are going to be acquiring more outlets. What are you gonna try to do? Try to undo it?
Dean: Yup.
(applause)
Dean: Look, I’m not a big country music person. I like it alright. I don’t know much about the Dixie Chicks. But when the Dixie Chicks were kicked off the air for disagreeing with the President of the United States over the Iraq invasion, I suddenly realized that this was a corporation who was censoring our ability to get information on our airwaves. So, yeah. Deregulation has been a failure. We need to re-regulate the media. They’ve behaved irresponsibly, and when people behave irresponsibly, they need to have the privileges that we’re giving them using our airwaves taken away.
So yes. I would re-regulate the media. I would limit the ownership of stations in a particular market and limit the overall ownerships in the entire country. We made a mistake in deregulation. We need to re-regulate.

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Video and Audio Of Global Exchange’s Ladan Sobhani At Friday 13 INS Mass Deportation Protest

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This footage is from the protest in front of the INS building that took place from noon to 1pm at 444 Washington Street in San Francisco on June 13, 2003.
Speaker: Ladan Sobhani
Organization: Global Exchange
Ladan Sobhani in San Francisco (Small – 12 MB)
Audio – Ladan Sobhani in San Francisco (MP3 – 4 MB)
Ladan Sobhani of Global Exchange

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Shrub Sets New Deficit Record

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CBO Expects Deficit to Shatter Record
By for the Alan Fram for the Associated Press.

Congress’ top budget analyst warned Tuesday that the government is on track this year for a record deficit exceeding $400 billion, providing fresh fodder to President Bush and Democrats in their battle over taxes and spending.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office had estimated last month that the 2003 shortfall would surpass $300 billion. But that was before lawmakers approved fresh tax cuts for families and investors plus aid for cash-strapped states, projected to cost $61 billion this year alone. It also did not fully reflect the economy’s malaise, which has constricted revenue.
The deepest shortfall ever, $290 billion, occurred in 1992. This year’s deficit will be the second straight, a jarring turnabout from the four consecutive annual surpluses that marked the last years of the Clinton administration.
“The president has us on an utterly reckless course,” said the Senate Budget Committee’s top Democrat, Kent Conrad of North Dakota, referring to budget pressures that will intensify when the baby boom generation starts retiring late this decade.

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MoveOn’s “Distortion Of Evidence” Page

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Just wanted to make sure you guys saw this:
MoveOn: Distortion of Evidence

Distortion of Evidence
The President took the nation to war based on his assertion that Iraq posed an imminent threat to our country. Now the evidence that backed that assertion is falling apart. We believe that:
“Congress must establish an independent,
bipartisan commission to investigate and
hold the President and his officials accountable
if they manipulated or fabricated intelligence
to justify taking the country to war.”
Please join us below. We’ll send your comments to your Representative and your Senators, and we’ll keep you posted about what more you can do to support this campaign.

Video and Audio Of Penelope Houston At Howard Dean Rally In San Francisco

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Penelope Houston performed two songs at the San Francisco node of Howard Dean’s nationwide launch last Monday night, June 23, 2003.
I’ve created a couple different edits of these movies:
– Movies that have both songs, with an introduction to the second song in the middle.
– Movies consisting of each song as a separate clip.
– A “radio edit” of “Scum” in case you wish to add it to your MP3 collection without having to listen to the talking at the beginning everytime (although Penelope teaching the audience the words to the song is pretty fun to listen to).
(That’s me singing backup along with the guitar player at the end of “Scum.” I think it came out pretty good actually, considering 🙂
Penelope has asked me to retain our traditional copyright on this footage until she has a chance to look over the Creative Commons Licenses in more detail. (Sounds fair to me!)
Thanks again for an incredible show, Penelope!


Penelope Houston At Howard Dean Rally – “American In Me” and “Scum” (With intro to “Scum” in between)
Penelope Houston – Both Songs (Small – 17 MB)
Penelope Houston – Both Songs (Hi-res – 234 MB)
Audio – Penelope Houston – Both Songs (MP3 – 8 MB)
Penelope Houston At Howard Dean Rally – “American In Me”
Penelope Houston – American In Me (Small – 7 MB)
Penelope Houston – American In Me (Hi-res – 92 MB)
Audio – Penelope Houston – American In Me (MP3 – 3 MB)
Penelope Houston At Howard Dean Rally – “Scum” (w/intro)
Penelope Houston – Scum w/intro (Small – 10 MB)
Penelope Houston – Scum w/intro (Hi-res – 137 MB)
Audio – Penelope Houston – Scum w/intro (MP3 – 5 MB)
Penelope Houston At Howard Dean Rally – “Scum” (Radio Edit – no intro)
Penelope Houston – Scum (Radio Edit) (Small – 8 MB)
Penelope Houston – Scum (Radio Edit) (Hi-res – 111 MB)
Audio – Penelope Houston – Scum (Radio Edit) (MP3 – 4 MB)