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Tagged with “articles of confederation” (2)

1. Third Paradigm: 3P-025 Was the Constitution an Act of Treason?

   Reviews the context in which the Articles of Confederation were replaced with the Constitution - how it was done and who benefited. Presents the warnings of the "anti Federalists:" Patrick Henry, Brutus, and Federalist Farmer. Makes a case that the "Founding Fathers" destroyed the people’s government in order to perpetuate slavery, extort taxes in gold and gain possession of citizens’ land.

   Reads the poem "Earth Your Dancing Place" by May Swensen. Reports on the sovereignty news: Dow Chemical’s NAFTA suit against Quebec for banning lawn pesticides, Zaproot’s videoblog, "Who Owns the Rain?" Brasscheck TV’s "Facts to counter swine flu hysteria," and GRAIN.org’s "A food system that kills: swine flu is the meat industry’s latest plague."

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   http://3rdparadigm.org/3p_025.php

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2. Third Paradigm: 3P-023 Taxing in a Time of Trouble

   This episode critiques Credo’s action alert in Afghanistan, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and Making Contact’s episode "Tax Me, I’m Yours."

   Examines the concept that US troops should protect Afghan women as a way of justifying the occupation. Reads the poems "When They Sleep" by Rolf Jacobsen and "Hallelujah" by Mary Oliver to the music of "Welcome Ghosts" from EIS. Plays the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" sung by Rufus Wainwright, "Here in the Going Going Gone" by Greg Brown, and "Cry Me a River" sung by Susan Boyle. Compares the Articles of Confederation, the original Constitution, and the Universal Declaration in terms of sovereignty and the human right to land.

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   http://3rdparadigm.org/3p_023.php

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