Monday, December 3, 7:00 p.m. "The Saints Come Marchin In" on the stereo.
Alec Baldwin's here tonight to lead a panel discussion after the impeachment proceedings. Also here tonight are journalist Lewis Lapham, New Orleans public housing organizer Sam Jackson, Judith Browne-Dianis, of The Advancement Project, Tiffany Gardner of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, author Cynthia L. Cooper, and Erica Hunt of the 21st Century Foundation.
Performers include Bobby Cannavale, Callie Thorne, Tracie Thoms, Denis O'Hare, Jodie Markell, Bradley White, Nana Mensah, and Chris McKinney.
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Allan Buchman takes the stage to speak about the federal government's continued seeming inability to do anything about New Orleans post-Katrina. What would Bobby Kennedy do? What would Martin Luther King Jr. do? Buchman reports that the government is planning to bulldoze houses in New Orleans, and he's going to do what he can (stand in front of the bulldozers).
DISCLAIMERS: My family is from New Orleans and Baton Rouge, originally, though I grew up in Atlanta. My great-aunt Gail's house on State Street, a milk-carton-shaped two story building from eighty years ago, now leans thirty degrees to one side and is filled with pale green and black molds, like something out of a Miyazaki movie.
I am also a huge Alec Baldwin fan (well, a Baldwin fan in general). He sat next to me for a moment just now, taking notes, I think.
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Right now, we're running through the origins and purpose of impeachment again, as we did the last three nights. Perhaps moving more swiftly? The quotes still hit home, very efficiently framing the ideas behind impeachment - and reiterating that it was created to use against just such men as Bush and Cheney, men who, whatever their crimes, have not been in all ways open and honorable before the United States citizenry they serve.
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