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Where's Liddy? Stop the Racist Ad Against Obama!

2008-07-25T12:28:19Z

Pam Spaulding, of Pam's House Blend delivers a petition to NC US Senator Elizabeth Dole's office, requesting she put a stop to the racist attack ad against Barack Obama and NC Democratic candidates, Beverly Perdue and Richard Moore.

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New Year's Message from Chris Dodd to the Netroots

2008-07-25T12:18:57Z

Chris Dodd sends his thanks to FireDogLake and the netroots on New Year's Eve 2008 in Waterloo, Iowa.
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Writers Guild America - One Big Union

2008-06-14T03:29:36Z

There have been numerous fantastic videos put together by writers--many of them hysterical--to explain the reality of what is happening in Hollywood.

Yet, this one, made by the blogosphere's very own Firedoglake crew (sometimes Jane Hamsher is such a talented blogger that it is easy to forget she was a film producer), is the best, IMHO.

It dispels the myth that screenwriters are all big shots, by reminding the viewer that the average salary for a screenwriter is $62,000 per year and the average unemployment rate among this vocation is 45%. This is in a town where the median home costs $500,000.

Screenwriters are mostly middle class, while the corporate leeches in big production companies suck off their creativity and refuse to pay them what they're worth.

Watch the video! And share it with your friends...If you're a writer, or work creatively in any way, this should be...in fact, this IS personal.

P.S. Also go to FDL, where they have a tool that allows you to choose your favorite show, and you will be sent to the appropriate network executive to let them know how you feel about what's going on.

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Chris Dodd Live Chat With FDL On Efforts To Protect Our Constitution

2008-01-12T20:29:55Z

I watched some if it and it was very very cool.

In any sane democracy (or in one with a functioning media apparatus) that might view a presidential campaign differently than say an election for Prom Queen, a man this thoughtful, this principled and this willing to fight for what he believes in would be automatically be in the "top tier."

FOX ATTACKS: Bloggers

2008-07-15T13:08:58Z

WE’VE GOT A NEW ONE! That’s right, we’ve just launched our brand new video, Fox Attacks: Bloggers!

In case you didn’t know, Faux News has had a crazy hate-on for us left wing bloggers (and our readers) for a long time — the recent hysterical assaults by Bill “Negligee Situation” O’Reilly on DailyKos are just the latest examples. Faux seeks to frighten its viewers (who are disproportionately elderly and, most likely, not tech savvy) into thinking that progressive bloggers and netroots activist sites like MoveOn are nothing more than havens for extremists, hatemongerers, liars, and genocidal maniacs.

Faux Noise doesn’t know who they’re messing with.

If they want to pick this fight with the progressive blogosphere, they’re going to get it.

Check out Fox Attacks: Bloggers, forward it to all your friends, relations and enemies, then go here to volunteer to be a Faux Noise monitor. O’Loofah Boy is pretty proud of himself that he got a handful of his viewers to pressure JetBlue into hiding their sponsorship of YearlyKos. Let’s see how he feels when a few hundred thousand of us start calling his sponsors...

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Take Back America: Siun

2008-06-13T03:29:22Z

Siun of firedoglake.com talks about her appreciation for Senator Dodd's leadership in fighting against the Iraq supplemental bill. This video was shot at Take Back America conference.

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