Roy Casagranda teach-in

Occupy Austin teach-in on Monday, Oct. 31 featured Roy Casagranda, Political Science Professor, Austin Community College, on "Major Changes Are Necessary"

Produced for Austin Indymedia by Jeff Zavala

via zgraphix

and But I did everything right, "Law School's a Complete Waste of Time and Money"


Ok, this is pretty long, relative to our being accustomed to video clips embedded at blogs being 5 to 10 minutes tops, but when you can I encourage you to watch the whole thing. (His characterization of American liberalism is particularly interesting. Also, I think he's right that FDR was trying to save capitalism, and about why Warren Buffet wants his taxes to go up.)

I do have one minor quibble: Casagranda suggests it was the same group of people he characterizes as left-wing Christian activists in the '50s and early '60s who subsequently morphed into folks like the Moral Majority, et al, in the '80s, and I don't think that's correct. Even in the earlier era we had various right-wing social conservatives, although there's no question that the political impact of the Christian right is much stronger today. But as I said it's a minor point, and you should definitely watch this.


see also

Constitutional Daily, Cruel and Unusual Soy Beans

John Caruso, "Israel's Other Airline"

No Caption Needed, "Seeing Beyond American Exceptionalism"

Cüneyt, "Ethos"


...