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The campaign to elect President Obama last year actively engaged millions of Americans who were previously indifferent or alienated from the political process. But just a mere 9 months after his inauguration, a rightwing backlash hostile to everything Obama-related, seems to have out-organized progressives. Obama\u2019s election campaign infrastructure has remorphed itself into a group called Organizing for America, firing off emails to millions of supporters around the country. Only recently did OfA seem to enjoy a successful mobilization with hundreds of thousands of people making phone calls to support a publicly funded optional healthcare system. Does the future of the progressive movement lie in a liberal president\u2019s ability to mobilize it for his political agenda? Or do progressives need to return to the historically effective approach to activism?<\/p>\n
GUEST: Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at University of Texas at Austin, and author of many books including Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity, Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity, The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege, and his latest All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice.<\/em><\/p>\n Robert Jensen will discuss his feminist critique of pornography | the entire program The campaign to elect President Obama last year actively engaged millions of Americans who were previously indifferent or alienated from the political process. But just a mere 9 months after his inauguration, a rightwing backlash hostile to everything Obama-related, seems to have out-organized progressives. Obama\u2019s election campaign infrastructure has remorphed itself […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThursday October 22 at 7 pm
\nOccidental College, Johnson Room 200
\nEagle Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"