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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 12:20 PM
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Studs Terkel on www.democracynow.org

You can listen live on west coast now or at
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/04/161221

Talking about the voice vote on $87.5 billion and
Robert Byrd's speech against it.

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Studs Terkel, 91, has worked as an activist, a civil servant, a labor organizer, an ad writer, a television actor, and a radio DJ, among many other occupations. But since the 1960s, he's been particularly well-known as a world-class interviewer, a writer and radio personality who draws celebrities and, far more often, average citizens into sharing their oral histories.
For 45 years, Studs Terkel spent an hour each weekday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conversing with famous and not-so-famous guests and with a loyal audience of Chicago listeners.

With his unique style of oral history on subjects such as race, war and employment, Terkel has spent decades interviewing Americans across the country, creating intimate portraits of everyday life and chronicling changing times through this century.

Hope Dies Last is the latest in the series of American oral histories he's been publishing since his first book, Division Street: America appeared in 1967. In the thirty-six years between then and now, he's covered, in separate books, the Great Depression, World War II, race relations, working, the American Dream, and aging. Hope Dies Last features interviews with presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, Voices in the Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly, Tom Hayden and many others.

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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 12:30 PM
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1. Hes endorsed DK too for the record
as has Zinn.
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MiddleRiverRefugee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 12:30 PM
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2. Listening now...
Edited on Tue Nov-04-03 12:30 PM by unidentifiedbassplay
The. Best. Ever.

Want a good thought for today? Imagine Studs Terkel and Helen Thomas, laughing together..
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 12:32 PM
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3. That is a nice thought
A beginning of a great dinner party...
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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-04-03 01:36 PM
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4. THANKS, THANKS, THANKS. I loved this interview.
I watched C-Span this morning and when the RW female shill on digital radio (I don't remember her name, thank goodness) started repeating all the RW PUKE with a straight face, righteous voice, and ABSOLUTE authority that did not leave any room for discussion, I almost started crying.
Studs Terkel is a gift from heaven. We need many more like him and senator Byrd. Voices in the wilderness of crass ambition, cowardice, and inhumanity.
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