A Second Chance to be Inspired by Thomas Paine on PBS

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Ian Ruskin as Thomas Paine
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Thomas Paine's radical voice inspired the first American Revolution. His passionate words are just as appropriate today, and have been given vibrant life by Ian Ruskin in the one-man play, Thomas Paine's To Begin the World Over Again. If you missed the PBS broadcast last week, you have another chance: many PBS stations across the US are rebroadcasting this film on July 9th. There is more info in the article, America's Birthday: Fueling the 2nd Revolution with Paine's Passion, including a list of stations and dates.

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)

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