Letters and Politics – December 17, 2012
Tom Diaz of the Violence Prevention Center on the massacre in Connecticut. Heather Cox Richardson on the Massacre of Wounded Knee.

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Tom Diaz of the Violence Prevention Center on the massacre in Connecticut. Heather Cox Richardson on the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
Beyond dancing around the forest in green tights, the legend of Robin Hood is based in an English radical tradition to reclaim the commons. Today we talked about that history with historian Paul Buehle. We also looked at a campaign calling for a so called Robin Hood tax to levied on financial transactions with Sarah … Continued
Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post on the “fiscal cliff.” Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, author of The Globalization of NATO.
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical “hacktivist” collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.