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Don't forget, tonight HBO is broadcasting the Rolling Stones' Madison Square Garden concert live --for free. 9pm EST.
Update:8:20 p.m. MST: Gimme Shelter: War, children, is just a shot away...electrifying performance.
Put this on your calendars now: The Murder of Emmett Till will air on PBS Monday, January 20, 2003 at 9:00 pm, EST, check local listings for the time in your area.
A synopsis of the crime:In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman in a grocery store in Money, Mississippi. Emmett Till, a teen from Chicago, didn't understand that he had broken the unwritten laws of the Jim Crow South until three days later, when two white men dragged him from his bed in the dead of night, beat him brutally and then shot him in the head. Although his killers were arrested and charged with murder, they were both acquitted quickly by an all-white, all-male jury. Shortly afterwards, the defendants sold their story, including a detailed account of how they murdered Till, to a journalist. The murder and the trial horrified the nation and the world. Till's death was a spark that helped mobilize the civil rights movement. Three months after his body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, the Montgomery bus boycott began.
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We've been working today and unable to do our usual reporting and checking in with other blogs. So until we catch up in a few hours, here's the afternoon update:
Cartoonist Mark Fiore on Executions
By Recycling Pickering, Bush Resurrects Lott by Ruben Navarrette Jr., Seattle Times
(links via How Appealing)
Chicago City Council votes 46-1 to oppose war with Iraq
Sampling of this weekend's anti-war protests, Associated Press
The ACLU has a new report that says our privacy rights are being unjustly diminished and Big Brother is no longer a fiction.
The ACLU on the Rave Dismissals in Racine.
The defense team in the court-martial trial of the pilots who bombed Canadians in Afganistan, while taking "go pills" supplied by the Air Force to help them combat fatigue, blame communication errors for the mistake.
The Persecution of Pee-Wee Herman by Village Voice Columnist Richard Goldstein
And a bump to today's New York Times article on Law Professor Glenn Reyolds (Instapundit) and his new MSNBC weblog.
You knew it was only a matter of time before conservative/libertarian (depending on the issue) Bob Barr, former Congressman, surfaced on a cable news network with a paying job. True, back in August, we thought it would be Fox. But Atrios informs us it is going to be CNN.
Now that he's out of the House, his reputation as the " worst drug warrior in Congress" no longer scares us. We've always appreciated his civil liberties positions--as does the ACLU, which put him on the payroll after his primary defeat.
Bob Barr, "contributer" to CNN and "consultant" to the ACLU. Not bad for an incumbent who lost a primary.
Asked by Winfrey if they felt free, one of the four, Leroy Orange, said: "I feel physically free, but mentally, spiritually I don't care for the accusations that this man (Ryan) did the wrong thing. In spite of the statistics, it appears as if people are saying, `Some are innocent but kill them all and we'll get the right one.'"
This is quite a horror story of being seriously maltreated by cops. We are reprinting it in the hopes that someone in a position of authority or the media will take note, investigate and publicize. Thanks to Democratic Underground for sending the link.
Bill Clinton gave a speech in New York tonight. It was at a party at Cipriani's thrown by Gotham Magazine and GQ. After Clinton spoke, musical guest Michael Bolton sang a song. Among the guests were Al Sharpton, Donald Trump, and many, many models, including Heidi Klum. Also, Chris Noth (Mr. Big from Sex and the City) and Soprano stars Joe Pantalione and Federico Castelluccio, the good looking guy with the long pony tail who plays Furio, who Carmella fell for this season. We asked our source what Clinton's speech was about, but he said he wasn't paying attention, he was too busy talking to the models. Hopefully Page Six will have it tomorrow.
Her ads have nothing at all to do with her concern over whether not money used to buy gasoline in this country is somehow winding up in the off shore bank accounts of terrorists. Her issue is obviously her born again environmentalism. All of this talk about funding terrorism is a bunch of crap... If she wants to come out and say that the millions of SUV's driving around the United States are killing the environment, then f*cking say it! Don't cloak your agenda in some nonsense about terrorism, and make sure you're driving a Prius and living in a tent before you lecture others."Our Jeep drives great in the snow and mountains and we feel safe in it--if we were going to give up driving an SUV it would be because of rollover fears--not terrorism or the environment. If any of you out there who are feeling guilty over driving an SUV have a new BMW X5 or Lexus you'd like to unload via donation, we'll be glad to take it off your hands.
It's official. The voters have decided. The 2002 Media Whore of the Year Award goes to Bob Woodward. Why? Read Eric Alterman.
In a nutshell, according to MHO,Contrasts were drawn between the intrepid, power-challenging, authority-questioning Watergate investigative reporter of the 1970's, and the obscenely slavish, weasely celebrity-reporter of the New Millennium, who relies on bizarre and dishonest devices (inventing facts) to achieve the outcomes his powerful patrons desire. For this year's voters, the extreme and tragic transformation of Bob "Woody" Woodward - and his decadent journey from "All the President's Men" to "Ten Days in September" - represents a poignant microcosm of the national mainstream media's deterioration over the last thirty years.
Runner up was NBC's Tim Russert.
[link via Cursor , just about the top daily news source around.]
Anyone who reads Altercation, Eric Alterman's hip and biting MSNBC weblog on a regular basis, and that's lots of folks, including us, looks forward to "Slacker Friday"--the day that Eric posts replies from readers. Today, MSNBC gave Slacker Friday its own home .
Eric's new Nation column is out, but the editors have decided no longer to publish it on line for free. That's a shame, we suggest you write them in protest. At least you can still access his last column on Howell Raines.
From Nat Hentoff's new Village Voice column, An Indispensable Gay Man .
"On Monday, January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), the Public Broadcasting Service (Channel 13 in New York) will air Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. This long-due tribute vividly brings back to life a man who deeply and brilliantly influenced the course of the civil rights and peace movements."
"Because Bayard never hid that he was gay, he was abandoned, for a time, by leaders of both movements in this country. He died in 1987, and late last year, hundreds of residents of West Chester, Pennsylvania, where Rustin was born, signed petitions protesting the decision of the school board to name a new high school after him."
Hentoff says the film, Brother Outsider, "is a thoroughly honest portrait of Bayard and his tumultuous times." Hentoff knew him well in those years and says Bayard was a mentor to him. Go read the whole thing and then check out the movie site. (link above.)
"I know next to nothing about law enforcement, but I know enough to not wag my tail when someone's got a gun pointed at me.""Those without faith in law enforcement, namely liberals, will point to this as an abuse of power, yet I ask - what if that dog had gone on to injure someone? Who knows what information the police had.
"I'm sure we've all watched the hit series "The Shield". The cop on the show is abusive, but he gets the job done.
Great work Jesse!
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