Open Secret is a filmed re-enactment of Alabama's 1901 constitutional convention, which produced the constitution which Alabama currently operates under.  Delegates to the convention openly discussed ways to disenfranchise black and poor white voters, and dismiss women's right to vote.

Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.

Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary!

Conference at University of Minnesota on questions of neoliberalization and corporatization of higher education and the casualization of academic labor.

"If current trends continue, America could soon embark on an unprecedented social experiment by becoming the first advanced democracy to leave wide sectors of society and entire geographic regions without a fully functional, professional press."