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Political Analysis - 1/31/12
January 31, 2012 Tonight on Political Analysis, host Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) talks to two of the nation’s leading progressives -- David Swanson and Joshua Frank -- about whether progressives need to shift their focus from electoral politics to more direct action. They discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the Occupy movement, why environmentalists need to start talking about war as a crime against humanity and against the environment and, as David Swanson puts it, why we need to “stop obsessing over who we elect," and organize to put the issues that matter most to us back on the agenda.
The show is the second in a series of conversations being aired on the Progressive Radio Network that takes on the issue of how progressives can best strategize -- and have their voices heard -- as we approach the 2012 elections.
David Swanson is a longtime anti-war activist, blogger and author of "War is a Lie." His most recent book, "When the World Outlawed War" offers a powerful account of how, back in the 1920s, people around the world actually managed to abolish the act of war as legitimate state policy … David Swanson’s groundbreaking work offers new ways of thinking about both war and political activism. Listeners can learn more about David Swanson at www.warisacrime.org.
Joshua Frank is an environmental journalist and author of (among other books) "Left Out! How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush." His forthcoming book, co-authored with Jeffrey St. Clair, is titled, “Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion.” In it, Frank and St. Clair make the case that the Obama revolution was over before it started – having (as Joshua Frank puts it) been gutted by the president’s “overweening desire to prove himself to the grandees of the establishment.” Joshua Frank’s investigative reports and columns appear in some of the country’s leading progressive publications, including CounterPunch, www.AlterNet.org, www.Truthout.org, www.Commondreams.org and www.solartimes.org.
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