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  • 1980 Chakrabarty v. Diamond

    The Supreme Court case that helped put a ‘for sale’ sign on our genes

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  • 1992 First Critical Mass Ride

    Bicyclists take to the streets en mass in a fight over the ‘right to the city’.

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  • 1936 Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ Debuts

    Factories closed; Unions ignored; The Tramp asks, ‘What’s Next’?

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  • 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut

    Contraception as a right of privacy? The Supreme Court say, ‘Yes’

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  • 1992 The Invention of the Body Scanner

    Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

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  • 1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

    The camera, exposing social problems or becoming one?

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  • 1944 FDR’s 2nd Bill of Rights Speech

    Can and should the government guarantee economic security?

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  • 1972 Powell Memo

    A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960’s.

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1971 Powell Memo

1971 Powell Memo

1944 FDR’s 2nd Bill of Rights Speech

1944 FDR’s 2nd Bill of Rights Speech

1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

1908 Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

1992 The Invasion of the Body Scanner

1992 The Invasion of the Body Scanner

1965 Griswold v. Connecticut

1965 Griswold v. Connecticut

1936 Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ Debuts

1936 Chaplin’s ‘Modern Times’ Debuts

1992 First Critical Mass Ride

1992 First Critical Mass Ride

1980 Diamond v. Chakrabarty

1980 Diamond v. Chakrabarty

Check out our special features and scholar essays!

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Right Swing? by Jefferson Decker

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Right Swing? by Jefferson Decker

Interview: Joe Manning – Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

Interview: Joe Manning – Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor

Interview: Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Interview: Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Body Scanners and Civil Liberties 101, by Susan N. Herman

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Body Scanners and Civil Liberties 101, by Susan N. Herman

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Griswold v. Connecticut: A History, by Heather Munro Prescott

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Griswold v. Connecticut: A History, by Heather Munro Prescott

Interview: Susan Lloyd Yolen talks about Griswold vs. Connecticut

Interview: Susan Lloyd Yolen talks about Griswold vs. Connecticut

Interview: John Bengtson – Modern Times

Interview: John Bengtson – Modern Times

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936), by Charles Musser

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936), by Charles Musser

Interview: Chris Carlsson talks about 1992 First Critical Mass Ride

Interview: Chris Carlsson talks about 1992 First Critical Mass Ride

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Protest and Celebration – The Mystery of Critical Mass, by Chris Carlsson

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Protest and Celebration – The Mystery of Critical Mass, by Chris Carlsson

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Diamond v. Chakrabarty, by Sophie Kim and Glenn Cohen

Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Diamond v. Chakrabarty, by Sophie Kim and Glenn Cohen

Special Interview Series: Pilar Ossorio talks about Diamond v. Chakrabarty

Special Interview Series: Pilar Ossorio talks about Diamond v. Chakrabarty

Action Speaks Scholar Essays: Lewis Hine hired to Document Child Labor by Anthony W. Lee

Action Speaks Scholar Essays: Lewis Hine hired to Document Child Labor by Anthony W. Lee

Check out these companion documentaries to our live forums!

Check out these companion documentaries to our live forums!

2011 Schedule of films on Channel 36, Rhode Island PBS

2011 Schedule of films on Channel 36, Rhode Island PBS

Action Speaks Special: “Free Culture” Forum with Shepard Fairey & Lawrence Lessig

Action Speaks Special: “Free Culture” Forum with Shepard Fairey & Lawrence Lessig

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Special Interview Series

  • Interview: Joe Manning – Lewis Hine Documents Child Labor
  • Interview: Surveillance in America—needed or nightmare?
  • Interview: Susan Lloyd Yolen talks about Griswold vs. Connecticut
  • Interview: John Bengtson – Modern Times
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Action Speaks Newsletter

Past Radio Shows

  • 1981 President Reagan Fires Air Traffic Controllers
  • 1971 An American Family; Our First Reality TV Show
  • 1972 The Birth of Pong and Video Games
  • 1961 President Eisenhower’s Military Industrial Complex Speech
  • 1987 The Roaming Mobro Garbage Barge
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Scholar’s Essays

  • Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Right Swing? by Jefferson Decker
  • Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Body Scanners and Civil Liberties 101, by Susan N. Herman
  • Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Griswold v. Connecticut: A History, by Heather Munro Prescott
  • Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Modern Times (Chaplin, 1936), by Charles Musser
  • Action Speaks Scholar’s Essay: Protest and Celebration – The Mystery of Critical Mass, by Chris Carlsson

Markos Moulitsas’ Underappreciated Date

Recorded in Providence, Rhode Island, during Netroots conference in June 2012 by Marc Levitt

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