TED Speech On Income Inequality

A six-minute clip of Amazon.com co-founder Nick Hanauer (a very rich man). Shame on TED for taking this clip off their site. (I got it from a copy taken by Lawrence O'Donnell and posted at msnbc.com.)

"We've had it backwards for the last 30 years. Rich people like me don’t create jobs. Jobs are a consequence of an eco-systemic feedback loop between customers and businesses. And when the middle class thrives, businesses grow and hire and owners profit. That's why taxing the rich to pay for investments that benefit all is such a fantastic deal for the middle class and the rich. So ladies and gentlemen, here's an idea worth spreading: in a capitalist economy, the true job creators are middle class consumers. And taxing the rich to make investments that make the middle class grow and thrive is the single shrewdest thing we can do for the middle class, for the poor, and for the rich."

Progressive Information Project

Click here for a list of progressive radio and video sites. It's an awesome list, but you have to follow the "Click here" link in the line above; the underlined items below are not clickable. 

Oh, wow, they are clickable! Enjoy!

All Power To The Positive—Featuring Sensei Gregory C. Lewis and Jacob “The Jacobin” Brown (radio)

Alternet Radio Hour—With Joshua Holland (radio)

The Anonymous Show—With Mr. X aka John Smith (radio)

BearMan Radio Show—Featuring the BearMan (radio)

Blacking It Up—Featuring Elon James White, L. Joy Williams and Aaron Rand Freeman (radio)

The Blatant Minority—Featuring Greg Hanson (radio)

Bob and Chez Show—Featuring Bob Cesca and Chez Pazienza (radio)

The Breakdown—With Richard Eskow (radio)

Brookland Café—(radio)

Captain Jack Show—With Captain Jack (radio)

Clearing the FOG (Forces of Greed)—With Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers (radio)

Coffee Party Radio—Featuring Annabel Park and Coffee Party volunteers (radio)

Create the Change—(radio)

The DC Sports Beat—With Mitch Malasky (radio)

DC Voice’s Education Town Hall—With Thomas Byrd (radio)

Democracy Now—With Amy Goodman (video/radio)

Digital Politics Radio—With Karen Jagoda (radio)

The DMZ at BloggingHeads.TV—With Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis (video)

Earth Radio One—Featuring Doctor Drake and Doctor Truth (radio)

Equal Time Radio—With Frank Blair, Traci Kelly, Andrew Bacon (radio)

The Matthew Filipowicz Show—Featuring Matthew Filipowicz (radio)

Filter Free Radio—With Jacob Dean (radio)

Fireside Chats at BloggingHeads.TV—With various hosts (video)

The Flaming Sword of Justice—With Ben Wikler (radio)

Foreign Entanglements at BloggingHeads.TV—With various hosts (video)

The Richard Fowler Show—With Richard Fowler (radio)

The Frank Factor—With Frank (radio)

Friedersdorf at BloggingHeads.TV—With Conor Friedersdorf (video)

The Glenn Show at BloggingHeads.TV—With Glenn Loury (video)

The God Above God—Aeon Byte (radio)

GoLeft TV—Featuring Mike Papantonio (video)

Green Power—Featuring Akili West (radio)

GRITradio—With Laura Flanders (radio)

The Thom Hartmann Show—Featuring Thom Hartmann (radio)

ill doctrine—Featuring Jay Smooth (video)

In Deep and Live From the Left Coast—With Angie Coiro (radio)

In Your Face Radio—With JD & Greg Zollo (Radio)

The Inside Scoop—With Mark Levine (radio)

Leaning Left—With Rutherford Lawson and Sandi Behrns (radio)

Left Jab Radio—Featuring Mark Walsh and Dave Goodfriend (radio)

Liberal Oasis Radio Show—Featuring Bill Scher & Traci Olsen (radio)

The Josh Lopez Show—Featuring Josh Lopez (radio)

The Luv Lounge—Featuring Jamal Muhammad, aka Dj One Luv (radio)

Majority Report—Featuring Sam Seder (video)

The Leslie Marshall Show—Featuring Leslie Marshall (radio)

Media Matters Radio—With Bob McChesney (radio)

The Stephanie Miller Show—With Stephanie Miller (radio)

Moment of Clarity—Featuring Lee Camp (video)

MOMocrats—Progressive mom bloggers writing about politics from a mom's perspective (radio)

The Shannyn Moore Show—Featuring Shannyn Moore (radio)

The More Me Show—With DJ Downtown and Eddie Herradura (radio)

Moyers and Company—Featuring Bill Moyers (video)

The Nation Conversations—With various hosts (radio)

One on the Right—Maine politics with Gerald Weinand (radio)

The Other Side—With Ron Moten (radio)

The David Pakman Show—Featuring David Pakman (radio)

The Posner Show at BloggingHeads.TV—With Sarah Posner (video)

Power To The People—With Mike (radio)

The Power To The People Radio Program—Featuring The Bedouin (radio)

The Bill Press Show—With Bill Press (radio)

The Professional Left—Featuring Driftglass & Blue Gal (radio)

The Professor Rex Show—Florida politics with Professor Rex aka Kenneth Quinnell (radio)

Progressive Blend Radio—On Radio or Not (radio)

Progressive News Network—Florida politics (and beyond) with Richard W. Spisak Jr. (radio)

Ring of Fire—With Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder (radio)

Roots Radio—(radio)

The Nicole Sandler Show at Radio or Not—With Nicole Sandler (radio)

The Ed Schultz Show—Featuring Ed Schultz (radio)

The Sara Schulz Show—Wisconsin politics with Sara Schulz (radio)

The Scream Cafe—With Grobeck and Monkeyhead (radio)

The Nancy Skinner Show—Featuring Nancy Skinner (radio)

Soulful Green Living—With Vicki Blues (radio)

SpeakEasy—With Kymone Freeman and Ron Pinchback (radio)

Take Action News—With David Shuster (radio)

Talking Left—With Danielle, the Left Neck Chick, and Shane-O (radio)

This Week In Blackness—Featuring Elon James White (video)

The Trees Radio—With Stone Kawala (radio)

True Blue Talk—With Steve M. (radio)

Turn Up the Night—With Kenny Pick (radio)

Virtually Speaking—Featuring Jay Ackroyd, Stuart Zechman, Alan Boyle, Tom Levenson and various other hosts (radio)

Washington Squares at BloggingHeads.TV—With Michael Brendan Dougherty (video)

A World of Progress Radio—(radio)

Worldwise at BloggingHeads.TV—With various hosts (video)

The Wright Show at BloggingHeads.TV—With Robert Wright (video)

The Young Turks—Featuring Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz, Michael Shure, Brian Unger, Wes Clark Jr., RJ Eskow (video)

Your World News—From the University of Maryland (radio)