OETA interview with Wilma Mankiller to repeat 1pm Sunday
OETA’s program “A Conversation With …” has completed that sentence with “Wilma Mankiller” and the program will be replayed several times in the next couple of weeks. An excerpt is …
Oklahoma Political News Roundup
Grassroots power. The Oklahoma Democratic Party is trying to keep funding the staff people that were part of Howard Dean’s 50-state grassroots party-building strategy. That program is being laid down, …
I'm creating the Peace Arena Activist Blog Awards
I’ve decided to bestow some blog awards to celebrate my upcoming 5-year blogging anniversary, which corresponds with Thanksgiving weekend. Since there isn’t a lot of time to prepare for this …
Oklahoma political news roundup
There’s some debate among Dems about the level of support the Oklahoma party got from the Obama campaign. On Daily Kos, Oklahoma’s election results get yet another round of …
Robin Meyers' controversial Gazette column goes national
I was going to post something about the column Robin Meyers (of Mainstream Baptist minister at Mayflower UCC Church in OKC) has in the latest issue of the Oklahoma Gazette, …
Oklahoma long rider story soon to be a major motion picture?
Remember that movie from a few years ago, The Straight Story, about a man who rode a lawnmower across a state to see his estranged brother before he died? It …
Oklahoma on Obama
Just for kicks I did a Google news search on Oklahoma+Obama. Well, after editing to remove all the sports crap, I got quite the collection. Here’s a sample: Racists rise. …
Oklahoman continues to blacklist progressive community news
I learn from Sinister that Tulsa World covered the Join the Impact! event there with a pretty decent article. No shocker: it was a not insignificant news event in the …
Join the Impact! badge for Oklahoma – add to your blog or sig
I’ve made this badge for the Join the Impact campaign (well, just edited and added the state name). You can get the code here. If you are a supporter and …