Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Even if Obama becomes president

Things will not really change unless we demand it. Fascinating video from the NetRoots Nation meeting in July.

If you have an hour and a half, listen as if your Constitution and your country depend on it, because they do.

(side note, after the speakers are through, there are odd silences. The mic did not pick up people asking questions.)

On Saturday, July 19th 2008, at the NetRoots Nation conference in Austin, Texas, Jen Nessel (CCR) moderated a panel of speakers including Vince Warren (CCR), Jameel Jaffer (ACLU), Jeremy Scahill (DemocracyNow), and Dahlia Lithwick (Slate.com) who spoke and answered questions about Constitutional Rights.

Considering the fact that the Bush administration has worked systematically over the last seven years to violate U.S. and international law, and that legal advocates and journalists have uncovered the facts and identified those responsible, this panel explored what accountability should now look like. Additionally they discussed what the courts and the next administration must do in its first 100 days to make things right.

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