This Brave Nation

posted by Peter Rothberg on 05/12/2008 @ 12:06pm

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Take a sneak peek at a unique new documentary series from Brave New Foundation and The Nation coming out this June.

The initial series comprises five episodes featuring produced conversations between historic figures discussing the issues and movements that have inspired and informed their work. The conversations will be produced as both short viral videos as well as thirty-minute DVD mini-documentaries.

Here's a two-minute teaser of a conversation between the legendary singer/songwriter/activist Pete Seeger and Majora Carter, the young and indefatigable founder of Sustainable South Bronx, an organization working to clean up the run-down neighborhood of her youth by replacing vacant lots and dilapidated buildings with river front parks and sustainable gardens. It took place recently in an apartment overlooking lower Manhattan.

Aside from Seeger and Carter, participants include Dolores Huerta, Tom Hayden, Naomi Klein, Bonnie Raitt, Van Jones, Carl Pope, Ava Lowery and Anthony Romero, who all share their ideas, lessons and experiences so as to inform, enlighten and inspire a new generation to seize the moment.

In recognition of that new generation we're also sponsoring a contest in which you can nominate local heroes making a difference in communities coast to coast. Click here to nominate yourself or someone you know. We'll also soon be announcing ways you can arrange house parties to watch the series so check out BraveNation.com for more info.

Comments (27)

Posted by HAPPY3 at 05/12/2008

So you're arguing against people "buying stuff"?

or against parks and gardens?

Posted by Mask at 05/12/2008 @ 12:56pm
Posted by HAPPY3 at 05/12/2008

do nothing. fiddle away. be happy!!!!

Posted by ibbleblibble at 05/12/2008 @ 12:57pm
Happy-If you suburbanites already have gardening tools then why are there so many stores that sell gardening tools in the suburbs and why are there so many suburbanites in those stores buying gardening tools?Hoe fetish?

Posted by i'm nobody at 05/12/2008 @ 1:09pm
i saw a pheasant near the old tiger stadium....

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 1:10pm
this is great stuff peter. i guess there is something in it that happy thinks threatens his stock portfolio, but go figger.

i am increasingly coming around to the "think globally, act locally" mantra because it really really really does maximize the fruits of one's progressive labor. gonna be planting a garden soon myself - just got a bunch of books. now to see if this pink thumb of mine is brown or green...

Posted by ibbleblibble at 05/12/2008 @ 1:12pm
suburban gardening is flowers and chemlawn and such

hopefully 'hoed with mexican hands.

not always of course. but having the local superdupermegawowmart stocked up with the freshest of south african produce sure makes farmin' seem so old fashioned.

well, at least the folks in the 'hood can have some florida tomatoes at the local bk.

happy, why don't you start up a collection with your neighbours and donate some of those old tools to a program like this?

you know the ones,

the ones that say "made in u.s.a." on them.

the antiques.

Monday, May 12, 2008 1:20:16 PM

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 1:17pm
here, HAPPY17,453,687:

give these folks in HOUSTON a hand.

http://www.urbanharvest.org/

this sure looks urban to me:

http://www.urbanharvest.org/programs/cgardens/graphics/construction.jpg

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 1:20pm
Happy-In other words,suburbanites have to buy gardening tools just like the urbanites.What we need to do is teach you how to buy the right tools and how to use them without breaking them or letting them rust.You don't buy tools in the suburbs.You buy them in a farming community.That's one of the reasons we're heading back to the country as soon as the wife retires.Better quality everything.Costs a bit more,but lasts forever or is healthier to eat.

Posted by i'm nobody at 05/12/2008 @ 1:38pm
I don't much gardening but still, I've got to replace at least one or two shovels, rakes, hose heads (the pistol-grip type I, heheheh, `enjoy'!) or water hoses!

Given how fast Houston's suburbs are growing, I don't need to wonder......where you live, I can understand!

Now, if you'll excuse me....I need to go make a 20-mile run, burn some carbon and listen to Rushbo!

Posted by HAPPY3 at 05/12/2008

you should buy some stock in those shitty tool manufacturers - PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE IS $$$$$ FOR SOMEONE!!!!

but i'm sure you know that.

ah...what beautiful, decadent times! when virtue is vice and vice is virtue...when hard work and quality are forgotten and all that remains is smoke and mirrors hucksterism and profiteering! when pride in quality and craftsmanship is replaced by pride in sleazy schemes that fleece somnambulant consuming units of their hard earned $$$$!

Posted by ibbleblibble at 05/12/2008 @ 2:19pm
not just planned obsolescence,

but also,

debtfueled-inflation-hiding cheapness.

praise the lord and pass the next rake, please.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 3:26pm
rubber money, rubber rakes.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 3:31pm
...and listen to Rushbo!

Posted by HAPPY3 at 05/12/2008

Wonder how HAPP reconciles the fact that Rush hates McCain, maybe even wants him to lose (to give a "real conservative" at shot at 2012...and to boost Rush's ratings with a Dem Prez and Dem Congress to rail against)....

and HAPP's prognostication and support for a McCain candidacy?!??!

Posted by Mask at 05/12/2008 @ 3:50pm
Wonder how HAPP reconciles the fact that Rush hates McCain,

Posted by Mask

bloodweiser.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 5:24pm
Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008

No, no...I'm sure a "high-powered investor" like HAPP would only drink Tsingtao beer.

Plus it's outsourced to China and he's probably "making a killing" unlike us dopes who still drink American beer that keeps Americans employed!

Posted by Mask at 05/12/2008 @ 7:33pm
bloodweiser,

the kingmaker of beers.......

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 8:04pm
not landscaping.

food.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 11:08pm
shovels and rakes are for so.....yesterday!

Posted by HAPPY3

and tomorrow.

you'll see.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 11:12pm
I want to splurge in the beer

posted by HAPPY3

that's disgusting!

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 11:23pm
It's all about the Kokanee baby. That was our cheap beer in college, especially since I was friend with a Canadian. My father is partial to Labatt's but is also seriously repatriating us all (nous sons Quebecois) though he doesn't want to be stuck in Quebec and Mom doesn't speak a lick of French.

Posted by yutsano at 05/12/2008 @ 11:30pm
yutsano

THIS is beer:

http://www.unibroue.com/

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/12/2008 @ 11:34pm
Quebecois microbrews? J'ADORE!!!

Posted by yutsano at 05/13/2008 @ 02:47am
Posted by SSBxCommunications

i've got tons of swampland for sale in detroit.

keep up the good work.

thanks,

fz.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/13/2008 @ 1:18pm
younger people will eat what you give them.

they don't do the shopping.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:27:57 PM

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/13/2008 @ 1:22pm
lvliberty1

full of vitamin b!

it's the brewer's yeast.

good for the soul, too.

Posted by frosty zoom at 05/13/2008 @ 2:56pm
None of those bottles of rotten grain taste anywhere near as good as the nastiest juice or soft drink.

Why are solvents, this cultures drug of choice?

There are better ways than pickling oneself, to uncoordination, assholeness and eventual impotence, to attain a buzz.

Quit drinking when i was 21-22. Nicotine (the other shitty cultural drug of choice) to much longer.

Eric

Posted by Malcontent at 05/13/2008 @ 11:57pm
took*

Posted by Malcontent at 05/13/2008 @ 11:58pm
To all my friends & acquaintances at the Brewery B&B. Keep drinking those O'Keefes! In moderation of course & don't miss curfew.

Posted by Sorelish at 05/14/2008 @ 8:49pm