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CASEY MATSON – THE PERSISTENCE OF VIETNAM 2012

Hello to all who may read this synopsis of my “American Experience”. It will be difficult to make it brief enough to be readable yet not long enough to be boring but I will try. I was born in Portland in 1952, the oldest of three children. My Dad had a degree in Anthropology and […]
GEORGE HARRISON “LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD” BY OLIVIA HARRISON

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) “Living in the Material World” is Olivia Harrison’s book tribute to her husband. For me, immersed as I am in AMERICAN STORY and attuned to the early times we emerged from (times often overlooked) I […]
KEN GORMLEY “DEATH OF AMERICAN VIRTUE” 2010
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PEPPER SPRAYING DAVIS, CALIFORNIA 2011
But what I see (early 2011) concerns me tremendously: Supreme Court decisions that have given corporations expanded protections while police pepper-spray people gathered in non-violent assembly; income inequality of Third World proportions, endemic white collar crime, an inexorable slide in our global educational rank, and some in our population who cheer when the question is, […]
“JUST LET THEM DIE” 2011
But what I see (early 2011) concerns me tremendously: Supreme Court decisions that have given corporations expanded protections while police pepper-spray people gathered in non-violent assembly; income inequality of Third World proportions, endemic white collar crime, an inexorable slide in our global educational rank, and some in our population who cheer when the question is, […]
STEVE JOBS: A BRIDGE. 1955-2011

Every morning I wake up and then all day and into the night I use what Steve Jobs invented to invent. Steve Jobs’ life is a testament to many things, I think, and many have been singled out, appropriately. I like that he is spoken of in the company of Edison. For me, his life […]
PIRATE RADIO THE 2010 MOVIE

Slowly, a strange thing began to dawn on me: you never heard The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, or any of what would be the royalty of England’s rock on their own on broadcast radio. (Unbeknownst to me this had not always been the case. Pirate Radio had filled that void but had been […]