Episodes
Thursday Aug 01, 2013
Leid Stories - 08/01/13
Thursday Aug 01, 2013
Thursday Aug 01, 2013
Which Way Forward?: Changing Course in America Today marks the 50th-anniversary month of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On Aug. 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people delivered a demand in person to the government to end political, social and economic apartheid in America. Two landmark pieces of legislation, the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965), grew out of the march. There is a general sense among Americans today that government is a failing, or failed, institution—either unwilling or unable to erase the same fissures that run deep into America’s landscape. Leid Stories asks the question: Which way forward?
Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
Leid Stories - 07/31/13
Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
Wednesday Jul 31, 2013
Edward Snowden & The Prism of Whiteness It’s enough, in many quarters, that Edward Snowden has disemboweled Prism, the NSA’s massive cybersurveillance program, and is serving up its entrails at his whim on silver platters for the whole world to see. He’s hit Big Brother where it really hurts. He’s recalibrated the power equation between the government and the governed. He’s a world-class hero, worthy of unqualified, no-questions-asked, global support. Leid Stories takes a look at Snowden, his actions and expressed beliefs and the current situation through the prism that shapes his world—the prism of whiteness. It is an undemocratic world that negates certain realities and histories while arrogating onto itself the “natural” power and “right” to reorder and reshape things to its own liking. People of color in the United States and all around the world know this story only too well.