What do liberals have?
Air America
if you don't have a station near you, stream it on your computer. Follow the links to "listen live."
Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, Mon.-Fri. 8-9 pm Eastern, repeating at midnight Eastern. The best clips are usually posted on Crooks and Liars which you can view any time or even download onto your computer and/or video ipod.
And there is always the Daily Show and Colbert Report on Comedy Central. Sadly, they give us more factual information than does the main stream news these days.
I know that reading books is the manna from heaven for liberals and progressives. Below you will find a few books that I recommend.
If you are really interested in finding out more about the books, the authors, or just engaging in conversation with others who are reading the same kind of material, hop over to
http://www.firedoglake.com
on Sunday afternoons at 5 (Eastern) for the Book Salon. Each book is discussed (usually)over the course of two Sundays and all of the discussions are archived going back to around mid-March. The author is usually present for the discussion for at least one of the two discussion threads.
In an exciting new development Jane Hamsher and Markos Moulitzas have formed Vaster Books to promote progressive writers. The first work due to arrive at a bookstore near you in the third week of January is:
Anatomy of Deceit, How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and out a Spy by Marcy Wheeler aka Emptywheel from The Next Hurrah. For those how have been watching this case unfold, Marcy has watched every step and misstep of this case since day one. I can't wait to get my copy as Irving (Scooter) Libby goes to trial.
Some books that you might want to read about progressive activism:
my favorite online progressive bookstore:
Powells Books
50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right
Earth Works Action
http://www.50simplethings.org
if you go to the link above, there is a tab that will give you sample chapters. Read them and then go buy the book. Gather your friends and neighbors and sit down and read through it page by page. Then make your own list of what you can do.
Bill Scher who has the web site Liberal Oasis has lots to say about changing the political landscape and the work that lies ahead in his book, Wait! Don't Move to Canada!.
Conservatives Without Conscience
by John Dean
Interview on Crooks and Liars: Keith Olbermann with John Dean here
Excellent post on this by Glenn Greenwald here
Crashing the Gate, Netroots, Grassroots and People Powered Politics
by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and Jerome Armstrong
http://www.dailykos.com
How Would a Patriot Act?
by Glenn Greenwald
http://www.glengreenwald.blogspot.com
Lapdogs, How the Press Rolled over for Bush
by Eric Boehlert
FUBAR America's Right Wing Nightmare
by Sam Seder and Stephen Sherril
more to come . . . .
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BLOGGING AND DON"T KNOW WHERE TO START,
check out the document in "Fun Files", Blogging 101. It gives a very basic overview of how they work..