Posts tagged “daybreak”
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David Swanson at Walnut Creek Community Center
November 22, 2009
November 22, 12:30pm, Walnut Creek Community Center, 1375 Civic Drive (in Civic Park), Walnut Creek CA, 94596. For more information (including other events on this date in the Bay Area), please see David’s website.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson in Fresno, CA
November 21, 2009
November 21, 10:30am - 12pm, Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno, 2672 E. Alluvial Ave, Clovis CA. For more information, please see David’s website.
Tags: california, current events, david swanson, daybreak, fresno, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson in Nevada City, CA
November 20, 2009
November 20, 7pm, Unitarian Universalists Community of the Mountains, 246 S. Church St., Grass Valley, CA.
Tags: california, current events, david swanson, daybreak, nevada city, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson at the Avid Reader in Davis, CA
November 19, 2009
November 19, 6:30pm, Avid Reader Bookstore, 617 2nd Street, Davis, CA. For more information please see David’s website.
Tags: avid reader, california, current events, david swanson, davis, daybreak, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson at Martha’s Vineyard
November 7, 2009
November 7, 4-6pm, Oak Bluffs Library, 56R School St, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, martha's vineyard, massachussets, politics/government, q&a
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David Swanson at Longfellow Bookstore in Porland, Maine
November 6, 2009
November 6, 6pm, Longfellow Bookstore, 1 Monument Way, Portland, Maine. There will also be a rally at 5pm: for more information, see David’s website.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, longfellow bookstore, maine, politics/government, portland, q&a
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David Swanson in Bangor, Maine
November 5, 2009
November 5, two events:
12:30 p.m. Talk on “Undoing the Imperial Presidency”
Bangor Room, Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono, Maine7:00 p.m. evening talk on “Forming a More Perfect Union: Rights We’ve Lost and Rights We’ve Never Had”
Peace and Justice Center of…Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, maine, politics/government, q&a, university of maine
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David Swanson in Philadelphia
November 4, 2009
November 3-4, three events: please see David Swanson’s website for more information.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, philadelphia, politics/government, q&a, radio, university of the arts, villanova university
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David Swanson at Kutztown University
November 4, 2009
November 4, 7pm, Kutztown University, 15200 Kutztown Road, Kutztown PA 19530. For more information and for directions, visit the Kutztown University website at http://www.kutztown.edu.
Tags: Authors, david swanson, daybreak, kutztown, kutztown university, pennsylvania, q&a, readings
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David Swanson interviewed at Rain Taxi Review of Books
October 30, 2009
The Rain Taxi Review of Books has just put up a fantastic interview with David Swanson, author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. See more within.
Tags: articles, current issues, david swanson, daybreak, interviews, politics/government, rain taxi review
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David Swanson: The Militarization of America’s Youth
October 27, 2009
From Daybreak author David Swanson’s article, The Militarization of America’s Youth:
“This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee. “I just came to the mall to skateboard but everyone said this was pretty cool. I just had to try it and it’s great!”
The person reporting on this youthful enthusiasm was Pat Elder, who serves on the Steering Committee of the National Network Opposing the Militarization of Youth. Elder also described young teenagers congratulating each other for “killing ragheads” and “wiping out hajis.”
All of this fun went on at the Army Experience Center (AEC), a 14,500-square-foot “virtual educational facility” in the Franklin Mills Mall in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The U.S. Army opened the center in August 2008 and planned to run it for two years as a pilot program. If the center proved able to recruit as many new soldiers as five ordinary recruiting stations, the Army planned to build them nationally. The AEC cost more than $12 million to design and construct, but of course the Army spends several billion dollars a year on recruitment.
Tags: articles, current events, david swanson, daybreak, global research, military, politics/government
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David Swanson: Will You Love Every Future President?
October 15, 2009
From David Swanson’s post today at TomDispatch:
Bush claimed for the presidency the power to detain people without charge or legal process — and then used it. Obama stood in front of the U.S. Constitution in the National Archives in Washington and asserted the same power, in violation of the right of habeas corpus found in that torn and tattered document. Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta and presidential advisor David Axelrod have similarly made clear that the president still claims the power to engage in “harsh interrogation techniques” but chooses not to use it. Torture in this way has been transformed from a crime into a policy choice, with the intended message apparently being that we can stop torture temporarily by choosing to elect Democrats.
Tags: articles, current events, david swanson, daybreak, obama, politics/government, tomdispatch, torture
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Daybreak reviewed in the North Coast Journal
October 13, 2009
From Dave Berman’s review of David Swanson’s Daybreak at the North Coast Journal:
. . . Focusing on the relationship between the three branches of federal government, Swanson documents the illegal redefinition of roles in recent times, via signing statements and other executive overreach; abdication of spending powers; refusal to impeach and other congressional self-castration; and selective judicial activism. While recommending many Constitutional changes, Swanson also writes: “The most glaring problem with [the Constitution] is not dated concepts or ambiguous wording, but our failure to enforce it.”
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, north coast journal, opednews.com, politics/government, reviews
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David Swanson on Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize
October 9, 2009
From Daybreak author David Swanson, on the subject of Barack Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning:
What a sick, sick joke. . . . Please stop telling me that the way to get Obama to actually work for peace is to cheer for him having received a peace award as a war monger. I respectfully find this well-intentioned and counterproductive. We can’t influence a president and shouldn’t want power to rest with a president. This takes us away from forcing the House to cut off the money for the war, which is the best chance we have. Not to mention the little glitch that Obama has not done anything to celebrate. Protesting a war-making president is bad enough. Celebrating him and pretending he’s peaceful is beyond pathetic. I get that it’s intended as strategic and smooth and taking advantage of big news and so forth. But intentions don’t save lives.
Tags: articles, barack obama, current events, david swanson, daybreak, nobel peace prize, politics/government
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David Swanson on his arrest at GRITtv
October 7, 2009
On October 6, David Swanson talked to GRITtv by phone regarding his arrest, along with 61 other protesters, at the White House on Monday. Included is footage of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs denying that the president knew about the protest and the arrest — and David Swanson’s opinion about whether or not the press secretary is telling the truth.
Tags: current events, david swanson, david swanson arrest, daybreak, grittv, laura flanders, politics/government, radio, video
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David Swanson arrested in Washington, DC
October 6, 2009
From Daybreak author David Swanson’s blog post at Antemedius about his arrest:
The crime? Exercising free speech in a group of more than 25 people. Seriously. We’re charged with failing to obey a lawful order. And the order was to move farther away from the White House because with more than 25 people you have to have a special permit in order to exercise free speech. At least 50 of us, maybe closer to 100, went to jail, while many more chose to comply with the lawful (if unconstitutional) order.
And what did the Park Police SWAT team do? Nothing but follow orders. They followed orders to the exclusion of all thought. They asked us not to encourage them to think. They didn’t want to think about freedom of speech. They didn’t want to think about arresting nonviolent people for peacefully demanding peace. They didn’t want to think about whether protesting illegal wars actually constitutes something closer to law enforcement than what they themselves were engaged in. And they certainly didn’t want to think about the men and women and children in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan who will die because the US Park Police arrested peaceful people assembling and speaking, rather than arresting war criminals like Richard Cheney who confess to felonies on television and lives right across the river.
Take a look at the full post for The Real News’s video coverage of the protest, featuring commentary from David Swanson and footage of his arrest.
Tags: arrest, articles, current events, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government, videos, washington dc
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David Swanson with WSLR 96.5 LP FM
October 6, 2009
On October 2nd, David Swanson talked with WSLR 96.5 LP FM about Daybreak, about the imperial presidency — begun by Bush and possibly continuing into the Obama era — and the structural changes we can make to our government in order to form a more perfect union. Listen below.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, interviews, politics/government, radio
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David Swanson’s Second Bill of Rights
October 3, 2009
In an excerpt from Daybreak published at BlackCommentator.com, David Swanson sets out the changes the country needs in the wake of eight years of imperial presidency — among them the right to vote (for real, this time), the right to basic welfare, and the right to freedom of the press from war-related obligations. Take a look within.
Tags: blackcommentator.com, current events, david swanson, daybreak, excerpts, politics/government, web articles
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David Swanson at Full Circle Books in Oklahoma City
September 18, 2009
September 18, 6:30-8:30pm, Church of the Open Arms, 3131 N. Pennsylvania, Oklahoma City, OK. Books for signing provided by Full Circle Bookstore (50 Penn Place in Oklahoma City.) For more information, see David Swanson’s site.
Tags: Authors, david swanson, daybreak, full circle books, oklahoma city, q&a, readings
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David Swanson at the Oklahoma County Democrats Extended Speaker Luncheon
September 18, 2009
September 18, 1:30-2:30pm, Oklahoma County Democrats Extended Speaker Luncheon, Boulevard Cafeteria, 525 NW 11th Street, Oklahoma City, OK.
Tags: david swanson, daybreak, oklahoma, oklahoma city, q&a, readings
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David Swanson at KKFI in Kansas City, MO
September 17, 2009
7pm, September 17, KKFI, 39th and Main, Kansas City MO. For more information, visit David Swanson’s website.
Tags: david swanson, daybreak, kansas city, kkfi, missouri, q&a, readings
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David Swanson on Russia Today: Health care debate is a moral outrage
September 16, 2009
David Swanson talks about Daybreak, institutionalized corruption, and health care to Russia Today.
Tags: current events, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government, russia today, videos
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David Swanson’s Twelve Twisted Truths About US Politics
September 15, 2009
David Swanson speaks at Busboys & Poets about his Twelve Twisted Truths About US Politics:
Tags: busboys and poets, current events, david swanson, daybreak, politics/government, videos, washington dc
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David Swanson at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC
September 13, 2009
Evening of September 13, Busboys and Poets Restaurant, 2021 14th St. NW, Washington, DC. For more information, visit David Swanson’s listing for this event.
Tags: busboys and poets, david swanson, daybreak, q&a, readings, washington dc
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Bob Fitrakis on David Swanson at Areopagitica in Columbus, OH
September 11, 2009
Activist, journalist and author Bob Fitrakis introduces David Swanson at a stop on the Daybreak tour at Areopagitica in Columbus, Ohio. Take a look below:
Tags: areopagitica, bob fitrakis, current events, david swanson, daybreak, ohio, politics/government, q&a
“daybreak” Posts
- Nov 22, David Swanson at Walnut Creek Community Center
- Nov 21, David Swanson in Fresno, CA
- Nov 20, David Swanson in Nevada City, CA
- Nov 19, David Swanson at the Avid Reader in Davis, CA
- Nov 7, David Swanson at Martha’s Vineyard
- Nov 6, David Swanson at Longfellow Bookstore in Porland, Maine
- Nov 5, David Swanson in Bangor, Maine
- Nov 4, David Swanson in Philadelphia
- Oct 30, David Swanson interviewed at Rain Taxi Review of Books
- Oct 27, David Swanson: The Militarization of America’s Youth
- Oct 15, David Swanson: Will You Love Every Future President?
- Oct 13, Daybreak reviewed in the North Coast Journal
- Oct 7, David Swanson on his arrest at GRITtv
- Oct 6, David Swanson arrested in Washington, DC
- Oct 6, David Swanson with WSLR 96.5 LP FM
- Oct 3, David Swanson’s Second Bill of Rights
- Sep 18, David Swanson at the Oklahoma County Democrats Extended Speaker Luncheon
- Sep 17, David Swanson at KKFI in Kansas City, MO
- Sep 16, David Swanson on Russia Today: Health care debate is a moral outrage
- Sep 15, David Swanson’s Twelve Twisted Truths About US Politics
- Sep 13, David Swanson at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC
- Sep 11, Bob Fitrakis on David Swanson at Areopagitica in Columbus, OH
