audio--Taking Politics Seriously: Beyond the Election and Beyond Election

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/08/18549792.php [1]
Recording by Mike Rhodes, editor, Community Alliance newspaper, Fresno, CA
Audio at:
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2008/11/08/robert_jensen.mp3 [2]

In his Nov. 8 lecture “Taking Politics Seriously: Looking beyond the Election and Beyond Elections” at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fresno, Jensen talked about the vision, analysis, and strategy for a left/progressive movement in the aftermath of the election.

Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center. His latest book, All My Bones Shake: Radical Politics in the Prophetic Voice, will be published in 2009 by Soft Skull Press. He also is the author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity (South End Press, 2007); The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege (City Lights, 2005); Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity (City Lights, 2004); and Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream (Peter Lang, 2002). Jensen can be reached at rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu [3] and his articles can be found online at http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~rjensen/index.html [4].