Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Part of the failure of the corporate media is that they don't dig out stories anymore. They are looking down from the top floors. Media work used to be something that was down on the ground level. Now they are looking out of the windows in the top suites, and they don't know what's going on out there. And then there are the corporate owners who don't want this stuff reported because if one town learns that the next town has defeated Wal-Mart or stopped sweatshop goods, then other towns are going to want to do the same thing.

If it's dangerous to talk to yourself, it's probably even dicier to listen.

Well, I've been in the political arena all of my life, and 10 years of that as a candidate and elected official, and that's about enough.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.