My general worry is that the economic elite has irreconcilably split the rest of the country into a red and blue fight over mostly settled issues while they simultaneously siphon off most the growth in wealth of this country.   It’s a common tradition for people in the United States lie

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My name is Ju Hong and I am an undocumented immigrant. I was born in South Korea on October 23rd, 1989. In South Korea, my parents had a Japanese restaurant in downtown Seoul. Due to the economic recession, my parents hardly made any income from our business. Shortly thereafter, my parents

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I learned that Roger had passed in an email from my mother, read to me by Annabel while on one of our frequent road trips. It took a long while to sink in. It happens from time to time that there are erroneous reports. But when I read the blog post by his […]

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Selma, Alabama is, triumphantly, associated with voting rights. Newtown, Connecticut is, tragically, associated with gun violence. Tonight we connect the issues thanks to our special guests, Chellette and Darren, on The Middle Ground.   The Middle GroundTuesdays at 8 pm ETCLICK HERE for

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I recently wrote that “Rebranding the Republican party” and voter suppression are incompatible. Last year, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) seemed to agree. But this week he changed his mind about that to the surprise of many, including me. In 2012, McDonnell was hounded by members

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Eric and I have been filming in Selma, Alabama documenting the Bridge Crossing Jubilee held every year to commemorate the 1965 march for voting rights across Edmund Pettus Bridge and the violent treatment of the marchers by the police, referred to as Bloody Sunday. This year

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Annabel Park recently spoke to Diane Rufino, leader of the Eastern North Carolina Tea Party, at the “Honor the Oath” rally at the State Capitol in Raleigh. NOTE: Listen to Annabel Park & Eric Byler talk about this video on Coffee Party Radio Diane had drawn

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Rev. Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, was interviewed on MSNBC at a protest yesterday in front of the US Supreme Court as it considered striking down section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.  Barber later released this statement: When this nation began,

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In six years of collaboration, this is the first time I’ve uploaded a video of Annabel Park and me discussing our work. The night before, we had watched a classic documentary by Ross McElwee called Sherman’s March, and, as Annabel was dropping me off at the airport, we began a

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Eric and I are really enjoying and learning from the dialogue we are having on the Virtual Townhall series on Coffee Party Radio. The next Virtual Townhall is on Sunday (3/3) on the 3-year anniversary of the Coffee Party. This is the updated schedule for the Virtual Towhnall series in

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