The Works Progress Administration (WPA) of the New Deal employed 8.5 million people in the latter part of the 1930s. For 25 cents an hour, they did everything from building bridges and roads to writing plays and painting murals on public buildings. The WPA announced plans in 1938 for the Azalea Garden project in Norfolk, Virginia. With most of the male labor force at work on other city projects, a group of more than 200 African American women and 20 men were assigned to the Azalea Garden. Some of them are shown in the 1938 photo above. For the next three years, the crew cleared dense vegetation and carried the equivalent of 150 truck loads of dirt by hand to build a levee for the lake and plant azaleas, rhododendrons, daffodils, trees and shrubs.
Each week Fairness and Accuracy in Media posts a mini-critique of a few events covered, or, as in the case of the People's Climate March, not covered by the national media.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2008—Communication Advice For Joe Biden:
With permission, I am going to post some advice for Joe Biden from a pair of risk communication professionals (risk communicators are the people that help advise officials how to talk to the public, for example, about natural disasters.)
Peter Sandman and Jody Lanard, who run the well-respected risk communication website http://www.psandman.com , thought this might be interesting to Daily Kos readers. I posted a link to their earlier risk communication advice about the campaign, Risk Communication Talking Points for Hillary Clinton in June 2008 on the occasion of her concession speech.
Breaking the Fourth Wall: How Joe Biden Should Debate Sarah Palin. Many have commented on Joe Biden’s dilemma for Thursday’s debate. Assuming Sarah Palin reveals her unpreparedness – a safe assumption – Biden risks looking vicious if he attacks and patronizing if he doesn’t. This wouldn’t be a problem if Palin were at least minimally qualified, and it mightn’t be a problem if she were an unqualified man. But how to debate a likeable-but-unqualified woman in front of millions of undecided voters is a genuine dilemma. |
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How the Khorasan Group went from "imminent threat" to "aspirational" to maybe-not-even-a-thing in two weeks:
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