The Speech from Document Films on Vimeo. On the night of Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress – a rarity for any sitting president – we dragged an old tv into the waiting room to show the assembled patients and staff Obama’s speech and get their reactions. Here Robert Taylor and Sheon Slaughter, [...]
Let These Voices Be Heard (The Speech)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 20. Oct, 2009 in class and poverty, economic policy, friends, health, human rights, politics, video
Fatherhood (from The Waiting Room)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 24. Aug, 2009 in economic policy, film, friends, human rights, video
This video is from a film by my friend Pete Nicks, who is the guy with the camera in my banner image, above. The film, The Waiting Room, is a timely documentary about our health care system, as seen at The Alameda County Medical Center in Oakland, CA. THE WAITING ROOM will follow three people [...]
The Sting of Victory
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 14. Nov, 2008 in civil rights, civil rights movement, election, friends, glbt, politics, race and racism
By Amanda Cary As a lifelong New Englander, I spent the final days of this election season in California. On the evening of November 5, after searching every newsstand for a newspaper to remember the historic day that came before, I finally found a copy of the San Jose Mercury Times. The two headlines read: [...]
Eyes on the Prize
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 10. Nov, 2008 in civil rights, election, friends, glbt, human rights, podcast, politics, race and racism, Weblogs, women and feminism
This is Nicole. She is one of the many talented photographers whose work I follow on flickr. The same night that the country voted for a Black president, majorities of voters voted against gay families and the rights of gay people in California, Florida, Arizona and Arkansas. Nicole is angry and so am I. We [...]
Love Not Hate (No On 8)
by Benjamin T. Greenberg on 30. Oct, 2008 in glbt, human rights, race and racism
If you are not in California (as I am not), you can still help protect the freedom to marry by making a donation to the No On 8 campaign and by asking others to help support the cause.
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Folks I've got them hungry blues
And nothin' in this to lose
People tellin' me to choose
Between dyin' and lyin' and
keep on cryin'
Tired of them hungry blues
Listen ain't you heard the news
There's another thing to choose
A brand new world
clean and fine
Where nobody's hungry
And there's no color line
A thing like that's worth
anybody dyin'
I ain't got a thing to lose
But them doggone hungry blues
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