Impressions from Denver

By VideoNation & Brett Story

August 30, 2008

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Cutting through the spin and the stagecraft, Nation correspondents on the scene in Denver worked all week to find the stories behind the carefully-scripted speeches at the DNC. On the eve of Barack Obama's historic speech, The Nation's Katha Pollitt, Patricia Williams and Richard Kim talk about the real significance of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, looking at what history was really made.

About Brett Story

Brett Story is a freelance journalist and independent documentary filmmaker based out of Montreal and New York City, and a 2008 spring intern for The Nation. more...
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