This Brave Nation: Tom Hayden & Naomi Klein

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Author, Activist and Former California State Senator Tom Hayden talks in depth with the author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, about the state of the fourth branch of government: journalists. Both Hayden and Klein became serious journalists in college, and it was during that time that both experienced their defining moment. When Tom Hayden interviewed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr at the 1960 DNC in Los Angeles, he asked questions while imagining the headline, "Tom Hayden Interviews MLK," but by the time he wrote the article he knew there were more important things in the world than personal glory. Naomi Klein rebelled from her liberal, feminist mother until Mark Lepine gunned down fourteen women in what became known as the Montreal Massacre. It was then she realized people were dying for the beliefs her mother fought for, and that realization awakened the activist within her. After both events, Hayden and Klein dedicated their lives to telling the truth about the world, and doing everything in their power to not use subjects like "they," but use "we" instead. It is that distinction that defines their journalism to this day.

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  • Production Date: 06/01/2009
  • Catalog Number: 8154
  • Archive Number: 8154
  • Series: none
  • Length: 00:27:25
  • Town: National
  • Geography: National
  • Event Type: General
  • Content Type: Other

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1 Sunday July 5, 2009 at 7:00 PM
2 Saturday July 25, 2009 at 1:30 PM
3 Saturday September 19, 2009 at 6:10 AM
4 Saturday September 19, 2009 at 12:10 PM

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