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Elia Herman interviews CNN’s John King about the campaign, the differences between Obama and McCain, and social media.
Recorded to video conversation site Seesmic
Video streamed live to the web via Qik.
Dan Patterson interviews Dr. Julianne Malveaux about race, gender, and the Democratic Convention. (7:37)
“At last [women] have a seat at the table,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D – CA) exclaimed to a crowd of cheering supporters at the Symposium for Unconventional Women in Denver. Notable Congresswomen and other champions of women’s causes spoke on the issues facing women’s participation in the federal government. Protesters from anti-war organization Code:Pink interrupted Pelosi’s speech on several occasions to voice their opposition to the American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In her speech Pelosi encouraged working women to run for federal office. “Isn’t it better to have working moms looking to Congress and seeing working moms?” she said. Pelosi’s words were echoed by Senator Claire McCaskill (D – MI) and Amy Klobuchar (D – MN) who recounted their experiences running for office as mothers.
The symposium also included women’s rights leaders Allana Goldman of She Should Run and Page Gardner of Women’s Voices, Women Vote. They noted the lack of single women running for office. Gardner said, “We can no longer afford to have single women sit on the sidelines of democracy.” Allana Goldman noted that while women tend to win elections at the same rate as men, too few are encouraged to run for office, a major reason that women constitute only 16% of Congress.
As Pelosi, the highest ranking female to hold office in the US, took the stage, members of Code:Pink rushed holding signs and pleading with the speaker to remove troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. One member denounced Pelosi from a balcony for supporting waterboarding and American military involvement in Afghanistan before being removed by security. Several members continued to interrupt Pelosi’s speech from the crowd, many insisting that Pelosi end the war. “I will stop the war,” Pelosi responded, while also saying she wished the protesters would “put their energy into voting for Barack Obama.”
by Emma Hills and Jessica Sall
At an anti-abortion rally today in Skyline Park downtown Denver, CO. a speaker said, “The holocaust is here.” Kaitlyn Mahoney, a coordinator of the event, described the protest as a peaceful “prayful” presence. The rally was comprised of multiple pro-life organizations from around the country, most prominently the Christian Defense Coalition and Stand True. Brian Kemper, the president of Stand True, explained their presence at the Democratic National Convention by saying, “The Democratic party says they stand for social justice. We just want them to stand for social justice where it begins: in the womb.”
The rally featured the story of Brandi Lozier, a woman whose mother tried unsuccessfully to abort her. “Just because a baby is in the womb doesn’t mean it’s not a baby,” she told the crowd. When asked if she would be voting for Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) she said, “He didn’t vote for me, why should I vote for him.”
Besides the music, prayer, and the speakers in Skyline Park, members of the rally have walked to the Pepsi Center where the DNC is being held where they placed roses in the fence surrounding the center to symbolize fetuses that have been aborted. “We hope to have 3,000 roses placed for the 3,000 babies that are killed each day,” Mahoney said.
* Hip Hop artist Will.I.Am speaks on the issues that interest him in the election of 2008.
* He wants to inspire people and wake them from ’slumber’ to get involved in politics.
* He says it is people like Obama, who fight for change, that gave him the chance to attend a good school, and give inner city kids the right to a better education.
Will.I.Am Speaks on Election '08 Issues and his Support for Obama: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSpeech given by Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, at the New Media Seminar held in New York City on June 6-7, 2008. This is his acceptance speech for the Freedom of Speech Award, awarded by Talkers Magazine.
**note** This speech includes one instance of profanity, spoken at time code: 6:14 to 6:19.
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TRNS Ellen Ratner interviews Pragati Pascal of the United Nations about the Millennium Development Goals and the progress that has been made in the first eight years of the new millennium. (5:53)
The Obama campaign held a conference call advocating the creation of a National Catastrophic Insurance Fund. The call focused on describing Senator Obama’s support for such a fund, as well as the way Obama’s opponent for the presidency, Republican John McCain, has sided with current president George Bush in “letting the market work itself out” instead of helping people in need of governmental assistance.
Obama’s supporters described a system which the people in the states most in need of affordable disaster insurance could acquire it, with particular attention being paid to Florida (being that they are the most susceptible to being effected by a natural disaster). The call hosts noted that the money needed to lower insurance costs would come from private funding, and they mentioned that this would help make certain that states unwilling to pay for the insurance of people in other states would not have to do so. (more…)
Every year, the Talk Radio News Service produces Talk Radio Day at the United Nations. The annual event precedes TRNS’s annual talk radio conference and features high-profile guests. Previous guests have included personalities such as Al Sharpton and Alan Colmes, as well as high-level UN ambassadors and representatives. Talk Radio hosts have included Marc Bernier, Jack Rice, Lars Larson, Michael Medved, Thom Hartmann, Doug Stephan and Joe Madison.
We’ll continue to update pictures, video, and audio through the day.
More pictures from TRNS 3rd Annual United Nations Talk Radio Day
By Michael Harrison,
Are we not talk radio?
The legally reckless FCC crackdown on broadcast indecency poses a deadly threat to the well-being of talk radio as well as the entire radio broadcasting industry. Worse, it is an affront to the American people that unabashedly infringes on First Amendment rights.
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