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As women have become more influential and powerful in day-to-day life since Betty Friedan gave this speech 40 years ago, the portrayal of women in commercial media has continued to portray them as sex objects and intellectually challenged. At this special forum at Pasadena City College, A Figure of Speech looks at feminism then and the portrayal of females today and the lesson is clear: we still have a long way to go.
We speak with students and faculty about the unique challenges today's veterans face as they swap a clear chain of command, uniforms, barracks, a mess hall. the comradeship of hundreds of fellow soldiers, discipline, training, orders, and a firm sense of identity as a "soldier"--both individually and as team members--and suddenly embark on new paths as students. Even as they navigate choices, career paths and make new friends, veterans also must interact with civilians with no knowledge or specific understanding of some experiences. Hear them talk, in their own words, about how they learn to deal with returning to post-military life as veterans.
Part 2 of our examination of today's Banking Crisis as we sit down with Emanuel Pleitez, Candidate for Congress and team member of President Elect-Obama's Economic Transition Team. What's the same? What's different? From a Stanford graduate who was working on Wall Street in the hallowed halls of Goldman Sachs and was there to see socialism save capitalism from itself. Disaster has been averted--but now here comes the hangover from corporate greed and institutional dishonesty and we're all feeling the pain.
Fresh off President Elect Obama's Economic Recovery Transtion Team, Emanuel Pleitez is here to help us understand the economic actions needed under FDR's watch and now Obama's and to tell us about his own Congressional campaign for change.
Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice of L.A.'s Interim Executive Director Gary Phillips lends his insight into the political climate of today's labor movement.
Standard Podcasts [27:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (701)With the recent scandal and public outrage over AIG bonuses while the Employee Free Choice Act is before Congress pending legislation, now more than ever, the unapologetically optimistic words of Cesar Chavez from 1984 add depth to a discussion of today's political realities in the middle of an economic quagmire.
Standard Podcasts [15:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download | Embeddable Player | Hits (469)In the Inaugural Show of A Figure of Speech we launch our time travel machine for 1933 and land front and center in Washington, D.C. where FDR is addressing a nation in the grips of the Great Depression and begins an Administration that addresses the economic disaster and communicates to the American in a way sadly lacking in the wake of the market meltdown in September 2008 where the Chief Executive was on his way out the door and mum on the subject.
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