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How We Got Here & What NEEDS to Happen: Watch "An Unreasonable Man"

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This was an attack on the people's rights to be represented or to have opinions which differ from the corporate agenda.

This opening salvo in the War on America was not considered "newsworthy." You can now witness live footage of this shameful event, which until now has never reached American TV screens, in "An Unreasonable Man" this week in an Independent Lens production on PBS. Seven years late.

America has come to a troubling historic crossroads through decades of machinations and power-grabs, where the power of people and its democratic institutions has been consistently diluted or ignored and the power of corporations ever-increased, too often through fraud or deceit, to the point of privatizing nearly everything, including our military. D
uring this there have been hundreds, if not thousands of warning signs along the way.

There is indeed, something very disturbing
about a society which can miss ALL the signs, and yet seek to place blame for these ills precisely upon an individual and a movement attempting to warn us and to show us how to change directions before it is too late.


This week.

On this December 18th, on the very day the FCC is poised to give corporate print media outlets further unprecedented access to TV and radio -- against the wishes of the majority of American people and the Congress -- PBS presents a film on the life and struggle of Ralph Nader, "An Unreasonable Man."

You owe it to yourself to watch.

In my home town of Miami, the program airs Tuesday, 10 pm on WPBT, Channel 2. It re-airs on Thursday at 1:00 am.

You can find other listings through:

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