Voices for Change :: YES! Reports from DC
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"I bought my plane ticket to DC earlier in the election season when it became clear to me that Obama was going to be our next president. I had been to Clinton’s inauguration while working in an urban service corps in DC, and I went to Bush’s inauguration to cover the massive protests that greeted him. I did the same work I always do—talking to people about who they are, what they think, and where they see us as a nation at this particular point in time.
YES! was a natural partner for me on this project. As a longtime subscriber I knew the kind of video that I shoot is directly connected to the positive, solutions oriented stories that YES! readers are seeking. I wanted to hear from people what they thought was now possible, what Obama’s mantra of ’change’ meant to them, and how they are working to be that change they wish to see in the world.
So I set out walking the streets, collecting interviews, talking to strangers, and attending events. The positive vibration that dominated our nation’s capitol that week was unlike anything I’d ever felt before. If this tangible new spirit of unity and common cause in America is an indicator of the direction we head, then certainly the future is a bright one."
—Len Davis
Click on the images below to watch the comments, stories, and songs.
 Promises for Peace Medea Benjamin, Founder of CODE PINK |
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 That Open Door We've Been Waiting For Valerae Washington, School Teacher |
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 Watching a Black Person Touch the Sky Devonte Noel from Trinidad |
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 If I Had a Hammer Yarrow & Vereen at the Alliance For Peace and Justice |
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 Enjoying the Moment Barry |
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 Rallying Around the Message of Hope Christiana Wyly, Green Inaugural Ball |
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 Seeing People's Minds Changing Carrie Bridges |
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 The Deliverance of the Dream A family visiting from Waterford City, Ireland |
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 Ready to Do the Work Tania Petterfords Wates |
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 Woke Up With My Mind Set On Obama Bethany Yarrow, Singer-Songwriter |
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 Obama Treads on New Territory Glynn Crooks, Shakopee Widwa Ketan Sioux in MN |
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 Moving Away From Polarization Francesca Loftis, Community Organizer |
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 This Inauguration Moved My Soul Retired First Sergeant Anderson Love |
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 Permission to Like Each Other Brian Viglione and Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls |
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 Inspiration For My Children Anderson Family from California on the Ellipse |
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 Universal Health Care is Good for All Kim Cohen, CO Health Care Activist |
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 The most Awesome Day of My Life Native American Activist Betty Taylor |
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 First We Need the Economy Fixed Folami, Kekeli, and Nataki |
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 He'll Do Great Things to Your Country Charlotte Pope, a British Visitor |
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 Just What it is it That We Love About America Barack Obama at the We Are One Concert |
For more of Len Davis's videos of good things in this world visit LiveHistory.net and youtube.com/LenDavis.
