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Rick Sanchez was lucky to have lost his CNN job on a Friday. Along with calling "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart a "bigot," Sanchez made off-color comments about Jews on Thursday before being fired by the network. But the weekend allowed the dust to (mostly) settle, and without the late-night jokesters laughing at his expense, Sanchez could pack his things in peace. And in disgrace, of course.

At a charity event on Saturday, Stewart couldn't resist entirely. When he asked attendees to make a donation toward autism education, he said: "If you dented a car, $50. If you cheated on something to get ahead, $500. And if you went on radio and said the Jews control the media … you better hold onto your money." He showed some restraint, but on Monday night on "The Daily Show," Stewart had his chance, and he took the high road. More or less.

"I want to clarify something here; we weren't making fun of Rick Sanchez because of some slight to his ethnicity," Stewart said on Monday's show. "It's just that we here see him as kind of a complex television character, who is flawed but fascinating to watch every week, and we put this whole bit together to kind of demonstrate that point. And then they fire the guy! So doing the whole bit now just seems kind of mean." Stewart paused. "But you gotta have just a little taste of it!"

The montage that followed perfectly paired clips of Sanchez with Michael Scott, the bumbling, politically incorrect boss on "The Office," who, Stewart noted, needs a replacement. "Sanchez is available," Stewart reminded, in his trademark, condescending falsetto.

As for Sanchez, sensitive as he is, he has to know this ribbing could've been much worse.

-- Joe Coscarelli

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Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]

Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.

Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”

Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.

Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.

Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.

You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.

If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.

Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.

Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.

As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”

There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.

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Rick Sanchez was lucky to have lost his CNN job on a Friday. Along with calling "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart a "bigot," Sanchez made off-color comments about Jews on Thursday before being fired by the network. But the weekend allowed the dust to (mostly) settle, and without the late-night jokesters laughing at his expense, Sanchez could pack his things in peace. And in disgrace, of course.

At a charity event on Saturday, Stewart couldn't resist entirely. When he asked attendees to make a donation toward autism education, he said: "If you dented a car, $50. If you cheated on something to get ahead, $500. And if you went on radio and said the Jews control the media … you better hold onto your money." He showed some restraint, but on Monday night on "The Daily Show," Stewart had his chance, and he took the high road. More or less.

"I want to clarify something here; we weren't making fun of Rick Sanchez because of some slight to his ethnicity," Stewart said on Monday's show. "It's just that we here see him as kind of a complex television character, who is flawed but fascinating to watch every week, and we put this whole bit together to kind of demonstrate that point. And then they fire the guy! So doing the whole bit now just seems kind of mean." Stewart paused. "But you gotta have just a little taste of it!"

The montage that followed perfectly paired clips of Sanchez with Michael Scott, the bumbling, politically incorrect boss on "The Office," who, Stewart noted, needs a replacement. "Sanchez is available," Stewart reminded, in his trademark, condescending falsetto.

As for Sanchez, sensitive as he is, he has to know this ribbing could've been much worse.

-- Joe Coscarelli

RELATED

CNN fires Rick Sanchez after remarks

Who you calling a bigot?

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]

Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.

Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”

Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.

Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.

Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.

You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.

If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.

Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.

Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.

As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”

There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.

Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark

BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today./> /> Image Courtesy of class='blippr-nobr'>Flickrclass="blippr-nobr">Flickr, pfly

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Rick Sanchez was lucky to have lost his CNN job on a Friday. Along with calling "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart a "bigot," Sanchez made off-color comments about Jews on Thursday before being fired by the network. But the weekend allowed the dust to (mostly) settle, and without the late-night jokesters laughing at his expense, Sanchez could pack his things in peace. And in disgrace, of course.

At a charity event on Saturday, Stewart couldn't resist entirely. When he asked attendees to make a donation toward autism education, he said: "If you dented a car, $50. If you cheated on something to get ahead, $500. And if you went on radio and said the Jews control the media … you better hold onto your money." He showed some restraint, but on Monday night on "The Daily Show," Stewart had his chance, and he took the high road. More or less.

"I want to clarify something here; we weren't making fun of Rick Sanchez because of some slight to his ethnicity," Stewart said on Monday's show. "It's just that we here see him as kind of a complex television character, who is flawed but fascinating to watch every week, and we put this whole bit together to kind of demonstrate that point. And then they fire the guy! So doing the whole bit now just seems kind of mean." Stewart paused. "But you gotta have just a little taste of it!"

The montage that followed perfectly paired clips of Sanchez with Michael Scott, the bumbling, politically incorrect boss on "The Office," who, Stewart noted, needs a replacement. "Sanchez is available," Stewart reminded, in his trademark, condescending falsetto.

As for Sanchez, sensitive as he is, he has to know this ribbing could've been much worse.

-- Joe Coscarelli

RELATED

CNN fires Rick Sanchez after remarks

Who you calling a bigot?

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]

Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.

Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”

Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.

Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.

Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.

You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.

If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.

Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.

Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.

As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”

There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.

Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark

BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today./> /> Image Courtesy of class='blippr-nobr'>Flickrclass="blippr-nobr">Flickr, pfly

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Making money is never "easy". Easy money is usually not as easy as you think it might be and easy money, in many cases, is not very legal, or in the very least, not safe. Making legitimate real money takes hard work and planning. You have to provide for yourself and your family and you need money in order to make ends meet. The good news is that there are ways that you can make money using the Internet with a minimal amount of work on your part. With a solid strategy you may will be able support you full time, or simply use the added income to help you with spending money and other expenses.

So, if this has peaked your interest, then you may wonder how to make easy money online. Your computer is a great way to utilize some creative and completely legal. The Internet is full of ways to help you make money and if you do a little research and learn how to implement your newly found techniques, then you are on your way to extra spending cash. Here are some other ways how to make easy money online.

Selling items: If you like to shop online, then you are not alone. Millions of people love shopping the Internet. Half.com and eBay are popular shopping sites and you can get a piece of this action when you learn how to sell items. Half.com allows you to sell all kinds of books and with eBay, if you can get your hands on it, you can sell it. How about making some money on those old childhood toys you still have sitting around in the attic? How about selling those old college textbooks taking up shelf space? Dust that stuff off, and get busy on the Internet. You can even comb flea markets and garage sales for items to sell on these websites. In no time, you will make easy money online.

Writing articles: There are many websites that you can join that will actually buy your articles that your write. Look at Associated Content for starts. You can join the site, write original content and start making $10 or more per article. With some work, you can build up readership and make money with your articles. There are also websites that will give you contacts for clients that will buy your articles. This does take work, but it will lead you to money.

Graphic Design: If you have a savvy eye and some creativity, you can make some money as a graphic designer using the Internet. There are people from all over that will love to buy your work and will need it for their own purposes. Make business cards, brochures and even work on websites and logos. This is a great way to use the Internet for making money.

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?

For Colored Girls Trailer

By show of hands, how many movies by Tyler Perry have you looked forward to in your lifetime?

Yeah, just about that many.

What makes this trailer so compelling is that this doesn’t look like the obnoxious, tired retread of material he’s done again and again. I don’t blame the guy, though, as he’s kind of the Kevin Smith of black film: he knows his audience, he makes movies for that audience, and these productions make money because he’s smart about how much to spend making them. Perry, as well, is an affable guy who you kind of root for when you realize what he’s done to get where he is and so going into watching this trailer I was wholly expecting to just observe what he’s put on display and move on. What’s here, though, has attached itself to me.

What this trailer manages to do, and is no less a miracle in my book, is to make me interested in what he has to say. I’ll go further and say that this looks like the kind of film that I want to be first in line to see after understanding that this is a movie that will strip away the artifice of farce and satire and lay bare the contemporary issues that women, notably women of color, have to contend with in modern social circles. I don’t know how this trailer is able to get this across but it does while, additionally, making me believe that seeing a movie with Whoopi Goldberg and Janet Jackson (who I last saw in the theater for Poetic Justice) would be a good thing.

The trailer is a slow burn in the best way possible. The music and pacing here work in tandem to establish a mood and it is unlike anything I’ve seen this year for a piece of marketing looking for your cash. It’s a risky thing, to show the plight of women who all seem to be done wrong in some kind of fashion or who are struggling to overcome some bad situation, because at the basic level why would I want to pay to be bummed out? That’s because, like the hope you have with any book you open, that you’ll be better at the end than you were at the beginning.

There are some dramatic performances here and, bless Perry in this department, it doesn’t look shot like a sitcom. There seems to be a real mutability with how we transition from one moment of sadness to another with varying intensity. All the while, however, you can’t help but think that here is the movie I hope can make me see what millions already have. There’s promise here and that’s the best thing you can come away with when you see this trailer.

Sint Trailer

“Getting presents can be fun. But you always end up getting crap you don’t need.”

Who will fly me out and open their home to me in the Netherlands, opening weekend, to see this movie? I cannot wait to see how absurd this film turns out. I mean, how can you not be amped after seeing this and hearing the above line being delivered by a guy who crystallizes the entire charade of Christmas in one fell swoop?

Thanks to the power of modern translation this movie looks like it’s a mix of the genuine fear of Halloween, the absurd horror of Gremlins, automatic weaponry, and lots of a’splosions. Almost taking a page out of the B movie playbook of features like Leprechaun or Jack Frost this movie looks like it’s just going to up the body count with a movie that does a lot more than have a clever premise. It looks like it’s going to take over an entire city with old Saint Nick looking to quench his thirst for a high body count.

The trailer is expertly paced with just enough front-loaded information, all of it heavy handed of course, that as soon as the idea of the movie is established we just get right down to it. From the woman home alone with a kid, to the couple looking to get freaky when they’re all alone, the setup is just too irresistible to pass up.

When the real terror starts coming in this trailer it rains down hard with the hard-nosed cop looking to end this once and for all, with Nick getting in some quality kills, with the po-po getting off spectacular shots as Nick tries to flee across a series of rooftops, this thing just looks like insane fun from beginning to end.

And how can you not want to see a movie directed by a guy with the name of Dick Maas? I know I do.

Today’s Special Trailer

To begin, I will pay a bounty on any person within the sound of my written voice who can silence the cheeky voiceover guy in this trailer.

The annoyingly pitched vox takes away from what looks like a very enjoyable film about a guy who needs to come to terms with his own cultural past. Instead, what I get that this is an independent film that’s fun for the entire family and that wackiness will ensure as soon as I start watching it. Truth of the matter is, however, it stars Dean Winters, who always looks like he could fight anyone at anytime, and Aasif Mandvi, who many people will recognize from Spider-Man 2 as the guy who fired Peter Parker from his delivery gig, and who really needs a better picture on IMDB (seriously, can’t anyone upload a high quality glossy for the guy?).

So, apart from the voiceover which really grates, we get a picture of Aasif in his current life as a brilliant sous chef along with lots of kudos from the many festivals where the film has played. It’s vital to keep these kinds of things to keep viewers hooked and it hits the post perfectly.

What else it does, as the damn voiceover  literally gets in the way of me trying to appreciate the subtlety about what’s happening within the family dynamics, is to paint a portrait of a man who needs to be taken down a peg. Yes, we’ve seen this kind of movie before where a few coats of paint magically transform a rundown, ramshackle of a business into a thriving enterprise and where that same guy, unbelievably, finds the love of his life but I see the sincerity here.

It’s not Todd Solondz newest epic masterpiece about incestuous grandmothers and it’s not some independent film about the hardships of midwives living in Vermont but it is the kind of film that just seems like it would be a pleasure to watch. The editing of this trailer is tight and the fact that it’s being co-written, along with Mandvi, by Jonathan Bines, writer on The Man Show, The Daily Show, and now Jimmy Kimmel, give me hope that it could be slightly funnier than any of its budgetary equals.

Frank Barry, professional services manager at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media, and fundraising so they can focus on making an impact and achieving their missions. Find Frank on Twitter @franswaa.

Non-profit organizations are leading the way when it comes to creatively harnessing the power of social media. A report by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth shows that the largest U.S. non-profit organizations continue to outpace Inc. 500 businesses and higher education institutions in their familiarity, use and monitoring of social media.

In fact, 93% of the top U.S. charities have a class='blippr-nobr'>Facebookclass="blippr-nobr">Facebook page, 87% have a Twitter profile, and 65% have a blog. Why does this matter? Because the rapid growth and adoption of social media is helping non-profits in their quest for change — they truly are using social media for social good.

But what about the little guys? The social web can give smaller players a big voice if they know how to leverage it. Here are three inspiring success stories of small non-profits who met or exceeded their goals with the help of social media.

1. Create a Video, Start a Movement

Darius Weems and the Darius Goes West project will inspire you. Suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Darius and 11 of his best friends decided to head out on a cross country road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles, where Darius hoped to have his wheelchair spiffed up by MTV’s Pimp my Ride. Though his wheelchair did not get pimped by MTV on that trip, there was a far better outcome that even Darius couldn’t have imagined.

The 25-day trip resulted in memories, experiences and 300 hours of video which were turned into a documentary that has impacted thousands of people around the world. That very same documentary has now raised over $2 million for DMD research.

According to the Darius Goes West team, “We had offers from distributors, but, in the end, we decided to self-distribute our film. By opting to self-distribute, we bear the responsibility for marketing, but we also have the power to devote $8 of every DVD sale to promising DMD research.”

It’s apparent that social media has played and continues to play a significant roll in helping to raise both awareness and money for DMD research through Darius and his friends. Here’s a snap shot of their social media footprint:

They’ve accrued close to 700,000 views on YouTubeclass="blippr-nobr">YouTube, collected more than 14,000 Facebook fans, obtained roughly 2,000 Twitter followers, and raised almost $45,000 through Facebook Causes and FirstGiving.

2. Empower Your Supporters to be Free Agent Fundraisers

Well known cycling blogger Elden Nelson did something incredible a few months ago — he raise more than $135,000 in less than 10 days for LIVESTRONG and World Bicycle Relief using his blog, Twitterclass="blippr-nobr">Twitter and Friends Asking Friends.

It all started when Nelson sent Lance Armstrong’s racing team manager, Johan Bruyneel, an open cover letter as if he were applying for a job.

Nelson, who dreamed of becoming a pro cyclist, reached out to Bruyneel, with low expectations on its return. But through the power of social media, Bruyneel did see it, and he challenged Nelson via Twitter and his blogclass="blippr-nobr">blog to raise $50,000 for LIVESTRONG and $50,000 for World Bicycle Relief. Nelson took on that challenge and completed it in less than two days.

Without the ability to quickly connect and mobilize his network using social media, this wouldn’t have been possible in such a shot amount of time. Nelson tweeted numerous times as the story unfolded, as did Bruyneel, @livestrong, @livestrongceo and @lancearmstrong. Those three accounts combined have over 3.5 million Twitter followers. Add to that the numerous blog posts, Facebook status updates and YouTube videos, and you get a social media-fueled fundraising phenomenon like we’ve never seen.

3. Raise Funds by Creating a “Heartspace”

Mothers Day 2010 brought about quite a few online fundraising initiatives, but none were more impressive than the To Mama with Love campaign created by the passionate folks at Epic Change and a host of great volunteers. The goal was simple — raise money to support Mama Lucy in her efforts to educate children in Tanzania.

Mama Lucy is a change agent who saved her own income and used it to start a primary school in Tanzania, believing that education is the key to transforming a country gripped by poverty. Over the last six years, Mama Lucy has grown the school from one classroom with fewer than 10 students, to a school that now serves more than 300 children at eight grade levels.

The initiative was simple but powerful. Supporters were encouraged honor their own mothers by making a donation and then creating a virtual scrapbook or “heartspace” on the site, including photos, videos, notes, and artwork. They could then share their “heartspace” with their mother, friends and family via Twitter and Facebook, or via a customized e-card.

Using social media as the primary communication and engagement mechanism, Epic Change was able to raise close to $17,000 and provide a safe home for 17 children in Tanzania, while also encouraging more than 300 mothers along the way. They did all of this in about a week’s time with a staff of two.

So you see, social media has truly enabled non-profits both large and small to reach out and make some real change. Tell us about the social cause campaigns you’ve donated to in the past in the comments below.

More Social Good Resources from Mashable:

- 5 Easy Ways to Support a Cause Through Your Social Network/> - 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Social Good/> - 10 Ways to Start a Fund for Social Good Online/> - How Social Good Has Revolutionized Philanthropy/> - 5 iPhone Apps to Help Fight Poverty

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?

For Colored Girls Trailer

By show of hands, how many movies by Tyler Perry have you looked forward to in your lifetime?

Yeah, just about that many.

What makes this trailer so compelling is that this doesn’t look like the obnoxious, tired retread of material he’s done again and again. I don’t blame the guy, though, as he’s kind of the Kevin Smith of black film: he knows his audience, he makes movies for that audience, and these productions make money because he’s smart about how much to spend making them. Perry, as well, is an affable guy who you kind of root for when you realize what he’s done to get where he is and so going into watching this trailer I was wholly expecting to just observe what he’s put on display and move on. What’s here, though, has attached itself to me.

What this trailer manages to do, and is no less a miracle in my book, is to make me interested in what he has to say. I’ll go further and say that this looks like the kind of film that I want to be first in line to see after understanding that this is a movie that will strip away the artifice of farce and satire and lay bare the contemporary issues that women, notably women of color, have to contend with in modern social circles. I don’t know how this trailer is able to get this across but it does while, additionally, making me believe that seeing a movie with Whoopi Goldberg and Janet Jackson (who I last saw in the theater for Poetic Justice) would be a good thing.

The trailer is a slow burn in the best way possible. The music and pacing here work in tandem to establish a mood and it is unlike anything I’ve seen this year for a piece of marketing looking for your cash. It’s a risky thing, to show the plight of women who all seem to be done wrong in some kind of fashion or who are struggling to overcome some bad situation, because at the basic level why would I want to pay to be bummed out? That’s because, like the hope you have with any book you open, that you’ll be better at the end than you were at the beginning.

There are some dramatic performances here and, bless Perry in this department, it doesn’t look shot like a sitcom. There seems to be a real mutability with how we transition from one moment of sadness to another with varying intensity. All the while, however, you can’t help but think that here is the movie I hope can make me see what millions already have. There’s promise here and that’s the best thing you can come away with when you see this trailer.

Sint Trailer

“Getting presents can be fun. But you always end up getting crap you don’t need.”

Who will fly me out and open their home to me in the Netherlands, opening weekend, to see this movie? I cannot wait to see how absurd this film turns out. I mean, how can you not be amped after seeing this and hearing the above line being delivered by a guy who crystallizes the entire charade of Christmas in one fell swoop?

Thanks to the power of modern translation this movie looks like it’s a mix of the genuine fear of Halloween, the absurd horror of Gremlins, automatic weaponry, and lots of a’splosions. Almost taking a page out of the B movie playbook of features like Leprechaun or Jack Frost this movie looks like it’s just going to up the body count with a movie that does a lot more than have a clever premise. It looks like it’s going to take over an entire city with old Saint Nick looking to quench his thirst for a high body count.

The trailer is expertly paced with just enough front-loaded information, all of it heavy handed of course, that as soon as the idea of the movie is established we just get right down to it. From the woman home alone with a kid, to the couple looking to get freaky when they’re all alone, the setup is just too irresistible to pass up.

When the real terror starts coming in this trailer it rains down hard with the hard-nosed cop looking to end this once and for all, with Nick getting in some quality kills, with the po-po getting off spectacular shots as Nick tries to flee across a series of rooftops, this thing just looks like insane fun from beginning to end.

And how can you not want to see a movie directed by a guy with the name of Dick Maas? I know I do.

Today’s Special Trailer

To begin, I will pay a bounty on any person within the sound of my written voice who can silence the cheeky voiceover guy in this trailer.

The annoyingly pitched vox takes away from what looks like a very enjoyable film about a guy who needs to come to terms with his own cultural past. Instead, what I get that this is an independent film that’s fun for the entire family and that wackiness will ensure as soon as I start watching it. Truth of the matter is, however, it stars Dean Winters, who always looks like he could fight anyone at anytime, and Aasif Mandvi, who many people will recognize from Spider-Man 2 as the guy who fired Peter Parker from his delivery gig, and who really needs a better picture on IMDB (seriously, can’t anyone upload a high quality glossy for the guy?).

So, apart from the voiceover which really grates, we get a picture of Aasif in his current life as a brilliant sous chef along with lots of kudos from the many festivals where the film has played. It’s vital to keep these kinds of things to keep viewers hooked and it hits the post perfectly.

What else it does, as the damn voiceover  literally gets in the way of me trying to appreciate the subtlety about what’s happening within the family dynamics, is to paint a portrait of a man who needs to be taken down a peg. Yes, we’ve seen this kind of movie before where a few coats of paint magically transform a rundown, ramshackle of a business into a thriving enterprise and where that same guy, unbelievably, finds the love of his life but I see the sincerity here.

It’s not Todd Solondz newest epic masterpiece about incestuous grandmothers and it’s not some independent film about the hardships of midwives living in Vermont but it is the kind of film that just seems like it would be a pleasure to watch. The editing of this trailer is tight and the fact that it’s being co-written, along with Mandvi, by Jonathan Bines, writer on The Man Show, The Daily Show, and now Jimmy Kimmel, give me hope that it could be slightly funnier than any of its budgetary equals.

Frank Barry, professional services manager at Blackbaud and blogger at NetWits ThinkTank, helps non-profits use the Internet for digital communication, social media, and fundraising so they can focus on making an impact and achieving their missions. Find Frank on Twitter @franswaa.

Non-profit organizations are leading the way when it comes to creatively harnessing the power of social media. A report by The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth shows that the largest U.S. non-profit organizations continue to outpace Inc. 500 businesses and higher education institutions in their familiarity, use and monitoring of social media.

In fact, 93% of the top U.S. charities have a class='blippr-nobr'>Facebookclass="blippr-nobr">Facebook page, 87% have a Twitter profile, and 65% have a blog. Why does this matter? Because the rapid growth and adoption of social media is helping non-profits in their quest for change — they truly are using social media for social good.

But what about the little guys? The social web can give smaller players a big voice if they know how to leverage it. Here are three inspiring success stories of small non-profits who met or exceeded their goals with the help of social media.

1. Create a Video, Start a Movement

Darius Weems and the Darius Goes West project will inspire you. Suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Darius and 11 of his best friends decided to head out on a cross country road trip from Atlanta to Los Angeles, where Darius hoped to have his wheelchair spiffed up by MTV’s Pimp my Ride. Though his wheelchair did not get pimped by MTV on that trip, there was a far better outcome that even Darius couldn’t have imagined.

The 25-day trip resulted in memories, experiences and 300 hours of video which were turned into a documentary that has impacted thousands of people around the world. That very same documentary has now raised over $2 million for DMD research.

According to the Darius Goes West team, “We had offers from distributors, but, in the end, we decided to self-distribute our film. By opting to self-distribute, we bear the responsibility for marketing, but we also have the power to devote $8 of every DVD sale to promising DMD research.”

It’s apparent that social media has played and continues to play a significant roll in helping to raise both awareness and money for DMD research through Darius and his friends. Here’s a snap shot of their social media footprint:

They’ve accrued close to 700,000 views on YouTubeclass="blippr-nobr">YouTube, collected more than 14,000 Facebook fans, obtained roughly 2,000 Twitter followers, and raised almost $45,000 through Facebook Causes and FirstGiving.

2. Empower Your Supporters to be Free Agent Fundraisers

Well known cycling blogger Elden Nelson did something incredible a few months ago — he raise more than $135,000 in less than 10 days for LIVESTRONG and World Bicycle Relief using his blog, Twitterclass="blippr-nobr">Twitter and Friends Asking Friends.

It all started when Nelson sent Lance Armstrong’s racing team manager, Johan Bruyneel, an open cover letter as if he were applying for a job.

Nelson, who dreamed of becoming a pro cyclist, reached out to Bruyneel, with low expectations on its return. But through the power of social media, Bruyneel did see it, and he challenged Nelson via Twitter and his blogclass="blippr-nobr">blog to raise $50,000 for LIVESTRONG and $50,000 for World Bicycle Relief. Nelson took on that challenge and completed it in less than two days.

Without the ability to quickly connect and mobilize his network using social media, this wouldn’t have been possible in such a shot amount of time. Nelson tweeted numerous times as the story unfolded, as did Bruyneel, @livestrong, @livestrongceo and @lancearmstrong. Those three accounts combined have over 3.5 million Twitter followers. Add to that the numerous blog posts, Facebook status updates and YouTube videos, and you get a social media-fueled fundraising phenomenon like we’ve never seen.

3. Raise Funds by Creating a “Heartspace”

Mothers Day 2010 brought about quite a few online fundraising initiatives, but none were more impressive than the To Mama with Love campaign created by the passionate folks at Epic Change and a host of great volunteers. The goal was simple — raise money to support Mama Lucy in her efforts to educate children in Tanzania.

Mama Lucy is a change agent who saved her own income and used it to start a primary school in Tanzania, believing that education is the key to transforming a country gripped by poverty. Over the last six years, Mama Lucy has grown the school from one classroom with fewer than 10 students, to a school that now serves more than 300 children at eight grade levels.

The initiative was simple but powerful. Supporters were encouraged honor their own mothers by making a donation and then creating a virtual scrapbook or “heartspace” on the site, including photos, videos, notes, and artwork. They could then share their “heartspace” with their mother, friends and family via Twitter and Facebook, or via a customized e-card.

Using social media as the primary communication and engagement mechanism, Epic Change was able to raise close to $17,000 and provide a safe home for 17 children in Tanzania, while also encouraging more than 300 mothers along the way. They did all of this in about a week’s time with a staff of two.

So you see, social media has truly enabled non-profits both large and small to reach out and make some real change. Tell us about the social cause campaigns you’ve donated to in the past in the comments below.

More Social Good Resources from Mashable:

- 5 Easy Ways to Support a Cause Through Your Social Network/> - 5 Trends Shaping the Future of Social Good/> - 10 Ways to Start a Fund for Social Good Online/> - How Social Good Has Revolutionized Philanthropy/> - 5 iPhone Apps to Help Fight Poverty

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You would think that Californians had learned their lesson by now.

Remember Darrell Issa? Issa, who ran against Barbara Boxer in 1998, but lost his party's nomination to Matt Fong, the California Treasurer. In that race, Issa spent $12 million of his own money and, after losing, went on to get elected to the House in 2000. Issa actually stands to become the head of the House Government Operations Committee if Republicans take control of the Congress in he next election.

Issa, you may recall, gave Californians Arnold Schwarzenegger as their governor. Issa contributed $1.6 million toward the recall of Gray Davis and presumed he would be his party's nominee to replace Davis. Then, following the recall of Davis, the party tapped Issa on the shoulder and said, "Your work is done." Schwarzenegger became governor. And California, like the rest of the country, sank into even worse economic shape than when Davis was in office.

Now, California Republicans want you to refocus. The man who had no governmental experience whatsoever, yet who went on to become the chief executive, was really a highly successful movie actor with little aptitude for the job. That may not have been the best idea. What California needs now is a businessman. Or businesswoman. Enter Meg Whitman.

Beyond being another figure in a business success story who now believes that power is her next entitlement and governing is the next challenging hobby, Whitman, like Schwarzenegger, has no government experience. That is problematic for two reasons. One is that California is a remarkably diverse state. Its near hemispheric political divide between its northern and southern constituencies makes politics in the state capitol very complicated. In these economic times, to send another candidate to Sacramento who simply mouths that "Government needs to be run like a business" would be disastrous.

The second issue is Whitman's opponent. In my opinion, Jerry Brown is one of the most visionary and dedicated public servants I have ever encountered during my life time. Smart, tough, experienced, committed, Brown wasn't making a fortune for himself these past four decades. He was serving the people of California. The attack ad that Whitman shows of Bill Clinton laying into Brown is unfair, inaccurate and repugnant. Primary races can be bloodier than the general election and Brown versus Clinton exemplifies that. But Clinton is guilty of a bit of hyperbole when he states that Brown spent down California's surplus while in office. The most casual examination of the record shows that, in classic California fashion, a loss of property tax revenues forced Brown to spend a good deal of the state's surplus, but not all of it. Californians, with their preposterous property tax laws, never seem to recognize that a loss of revenue to the counties and/or cities usually spells undue pressure on the state to find that money elsewhere. Even Schwarzenegger, the fitness role model, was reduced to selling state park land to make up for huge gaps in his budget. Clinton in full attack mode is a sight to behold, but not one Californians should base this race on.

In their websites and in their official statements, both Whitman and Brown say the usual things about jobs, taxes and education. But it is in the area of jobs from clean energy technologies and in pension reform that Brown holds the clearest edge. California has, through necessity, been a leader in environmental policy-making. Spend any time in California and see how many hybrid cars are on the road. How many wind turbines are in operation. How much photo-voltaic equipment is already in place. Brown knows that this is just the beginning. Where Whitman and other business types believe that markets themselves will lead us where we need to go, Brown knows that government must lead. The push to bring as much of the American power grid into the renewable market must come from government. The money we spent on Iraq alone might well have begun to solve this problem once and for all.

Whitman the businesswoman lacks the political skill to bring the pension issue into the 21st century. Unions and pensioners must be brought to the table for talks that recognize them as entitled on one hand yet partners with taxpayers on the other. Brown will do that. And he must before the pension problem in California crushes the government into insolvency.

All governments need to be run in a more business-like manner and now more than ever. But government should never literally be run like a business. Business is about cold numbers, strict adherence to bottom lines and the ascent of those with the greatest skills and advantages. Governing requires a humanism that we find largely absent in the business world of today. It calls for skills that the business world often overlooks or shuns. Governing requires the ability not to follow spreadsheets and marketing advice but to weigh all of the relevant information and decide what is best for all of California in both the long and short term.

There is no one better for that job than Jerry Brown.

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A post script regarding the New York governor's race. Voter dissatisfaction is real and valid. But Palladino versus Cuomo is a nearly impossible distortion of that reality. The difference between Carl Palladino and Andrew Cuomo, in terms of effectiveness, talent and experience, is the between a water pistol and a fire hose. A pea shooter and a cannon. When Eliot Spitzer was elected, a great man became governor. That man faltered and was replaced by an interim governor who has struggled. Now, New Yorkers can return another brilliant, hard-working public servant to the governor's office by electing Andrew Cuomo.

As thousands of demonstrators marched in European capitals on Wednesday to protest recent austerity measures, officials in Brussels proposed stiffening sanctions for governments that fail to cut their budget deficits and debt swiftly enough. ("Workers In Europe Protest Austerity Measures", New York Times, 9/30/2010)

Oh, do the super-rich hate the sound of "class struggle." Dare to utter the words and they'll reach for their red-baiting paint guns and spray you silly with invective. It's un-American. It's socialistic. It's an insult to democracy and freedom.

But try as they might, they can't paint over the reality, which the new Fortune 400 listings make so clear: Wall Street billionaires have more money than they'll ever be able to use--at a time when more than 29 million of us don't have that most basic necessity, a full-time job. A hidden class war got us to this point. It's not hidden anymore.

Once upon a time there was a tangible connection between the plutocrats and the rest of us. Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller built sprawling enterprises that employed tens of thousands of workers (even if they did treat them brutally). But today's billionaire financiers, about 100 of whom are on the Fortune 400 list, have a tough time explaining how their money-making schemes produce any jobs at all. Very few of us have a clue about how they even make their money.

But we are clued in to the way our society is splitting apart. What's good for the Wall Street tycoons is not good for America. The wealthy may loathe hearing about "class struggle," but we're in the middle of one -- and it's a doozy.

Back in the 1800s (and onward), "class struggle" meant the economic conflict between the interests of working people and those who owned "the means of production." But that construct proved too rigid to describe a complex modern economy. Companies are often run by managers who aren't owners. Most middle managers and supervisors also are workers, not owners, though they may identify with upper management. In glamor industries like Hollywood and sports, some workers are far richer and more powerful than the managers and owners. And many workers are "owners" through stock purchases made individually and through their pension funds.

"Class struggle" also doesn't capture the symbiotic relationship between workers, managers and owners. Yes, we fight over everything from plant shutdowns to job safety and health care benefits. But we also have common interests - workers want to keep their jobs, and for that they are dependent upon "owners." Instead of class struggle, we often see workers lobbying alongside owners for policies that might keep their industry afloat. This worker-boss connection is often much stronger than any sense of broad class solidarity among workers across the country. Most of us define ourselves as middle class, not working class, and we don't see ourselves at war with the business owners.

Until now. The financial crisis is squaring up a new class struggle: The handful of financial elites versus the rest of us. Where's our common interest? What's good for them (a $10 trillion bailout) costs us jobs and public services, and deepens the public debt. Financial elites have effectively hijacked our economy and there will be hell to pay to get it back.

Beginning in the mid-1970s the twin policies of financial deregulation and tax cuts for the super-rich laid the groundwork for the rise of financial industry billionaires. We were told these policies would fuel an enormous investment boom that would cause all boats to rise. Not quite. Income certainly gushed to the top fraction of one percent. But then we entered the financial industry Twilight Zone: The super-rich accumulated so much money that they literally ran out of investments in normal industries that produced real goods and services. Wall Street, now a deregulated Wild West, rode to the rescue by creating all manner of new paper investment opportunities. Instead of buying a piece of a factory or company through stocks and bonds, you bought derivatives. Or you gave your money to hedge funds where you could "earn" outsized returns with little risk -- just what the super-rich craved. Unfortunately, the entire enterprise was built upon layer after layer of leverage. The result was an unstable upside-down pyramid of "structured finance" balancing on a very narrow base of real tangible assets.

All of this worked just fine until it didn't. You know the rest of the story. When housing prices stopped rising, these paper assets - the CDOs and all the rest - went up in smoke, incinerating the rest of the economy in the process. (Please see The Looting of America for an easy-to-read account.)

On their long way up, financial industry billionaires grabbed our economy by the cojones-- and they're not letting go. Here are a few of the indicators:

1. Financial sector profits dramatically increased in the past several decades, peaking at over 40 percent of all corporate profits just before the economic collapse. Now the industry's profits are chugging back up again.


2. After the inevitable crash, the financial sector and its investors had all the political clout they needed to ensure their swift rescue by the government. Instead of paying a hefty price for wrecking the economy with their bad bets as dictated by free market principles, they got bailed out at taxpayer expense.


3. The 2010 financial reform bill did not break up financial institutions that were too big to fail or too interconnected to fail. It also didn't rebuild the Glass-Steagall Act's wall between investment banks and depository banks. The six largest banks are now bigger than ever.


4. Congress rejected our calls for a windfall profits tax or financial transaction tax to help pay for the financial sector's catastrophic damage to our economy. Instead Wall Street elites are again reaping enormous profits, leaving 29 million unemployed and underemployed people in the dust.


5. To pay for our rising public debt we're being told to tighten our belts so that they don't have to tighten theirs.

Economists assure us that the financial sector's role is to prudently move excess savings into investment. But that's not how Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, the largest private equity funds and the largest hedge funds are raking in their billions. Their real cash cow is their secretive daily practice of "proprietary trading" -- the equivalent of gambling in a rigged casino. This has nothing to do with investing in industries that might put our people to work. So our paltry economic growth is generating financial industry booty, not jobs.

Our billionaires might want us to think of them as great statesmen working to help our nation prosper and grow. But in reality, they're busily siphoning off our nation's wealth -- and blocking all efforts to regulate or tax their destructive behavior.

Wall Street's class warfare doesn't just target workers. While many top multinational corporate CEOs are in league with the big financiers, most of the medium and small business owners now struggling to find the capital to stay alive have few friends on Wall Street. Workers, supervisors and middle managers alike now live in fear that they'll lose their jobs -- and it's all because of the financial shenanigans on Wall Street. You don't have to be a Marxist to know that we bailed out the very people who wrecked our economy. You'll find precious few defenders of Wall Street anywhere in America.

This new class struggle will soon begin playing out on some new battlefields. The weight of the U.S.'s massive debt (created by the financial crisis and our failure to tax the super-rich the way we used to) will be put on our backs. The financial elites, along with their richly funded think tanks and compliant political hacks, will tell us to privatize Social Security, reduce its benefits and extend the retirement age. We'll be told we must cut funding for schools and health care services. We'll have to live with a crumbling infrastructure and a deteriorating environment -- because, well, the money just isn't there.

But if we call for raising taxes on the super-rich to prevent these dire developments, they'll bring out their paint guns and scream "socialism!" -- and threaten us with more economic catastrophe. Of course, they can fly their private jets over our collapsing infrastructure and send their kids to private schools. And they have no worries about jobs, health care or retirement, since they and their families have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes. Talk about a class struggle!

The Wall Street billionaires utterly refuse to accept any blame for our economic woes. They simply can't believe that their billions came from fatal flaws in our system rather than from their own genius. They'll fight to the end to convince us and themselves that they are indeed God's gift to our economy. (Wouldn't you if you had a billion dollars?)

It's time to make them pay their fair share for the damage they've done. That will help finance the massive jobs programs we need to put our people back to work. Of course, the super-wealthy can afford to pay. Only their pride will suffer.

In truth most of us would prefer to duck this fight. We just want to find a job, or keep the one we have, be with our families and cope with what life throws at us while enjoying as much of it as we can. We don't want to go to war with the richest people in the world, even though we greatly outnumber them. But we can't avoid this battle--it's coming to our doorsteps. The Dow may hit 12,000 but unemployment will haunt us for a decade to come. We can't afford the brutal cuts to retiree benefits, healthcare or education that they're pushing on us.

It will take a lot of time and effort to figure out how to fight back and win. But don't despair. As the old union song suggests, the toughest question always is "Which side are you on?" In the new class struggle, that decision has already been made for us.

Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009.

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You would think that Californians had learned their lesson by now.

Remember Darrell Issa? Issa, who ran against Barbara Boxer in 1998, but lost his party's nomination to Matt Fong, the California Treasurer. In that race, Issa spent $12 million of his own money and, after losing, went on to get elected to the House in 2000. Issa actually stands to become the head of the House Government Operations Committee if Republicans take control of the Congress in he next election.

Issa, you may recall, gave Californians Arnold Schwarzenegger as their governor. Issa contributed $1.6 million toward the recall of Gray Davis and presumed he would be his party's nominee to replace Davis. Then, following the recall of Davis, the party tapped Issa on the shoulder and said, "Your work is done." Schwarzenegger became governor. And California, like the rest of the country, sank into even worse economic shape than when Davis was in office.

Now, California Republicans want you to refocus. The man who had no governmental experience whatsoever, yet who went on to become the chief executive, was really a highly successful movie actor with little aptitude for the job. That may not have been the best idea. What California needs now is a businessman. Or businesswoman. Enter Meg Whitman.

Beyond being another figure in a business success story who now believes that power is her next entitlement and governing is the next challenging hobby, Whitman, like Schwarzenegger, has no government experience. That is problematic for two reasons. One is that California is a remarkably diverse state. Its near hemispheric political divide between its northern and southern constituencies makes politics in the state capitol very complicated. In these economic times, to send another candidate to Sacramento who simply mouths that "Government needs to be run like a business" would be disastrous.

The second issue is Whitman's opponent. In my opinion, Jerry Brown is one of the most visionary and dedicated public servants I have ever encountered during my life time. Smart, tough, experienced, committed, Brown wasn't making a fortune for himself these past four decades. He was serving the people of California. The attack ad that Whitman shows of Bill Clinton laying into Brown is unfair, inaccurate and repugnant. Primary races can be bloodier than the general election and Brown versus Clinton exemplifies that. But Clinton is guilty of a bit of hyperbole when he states that Brown spent down California's surplus while in office. The most casual examination of the record shows that, in classic California fashion, a loss of property tax revenues forced Brown to spend a good deal of the state's surplus, but not all of it. Californians, with their preposterous property tax laws, never seem to recognize that a loss of revenue to the counties and/or cities usually spells undue pressure on the state to find that money elsewhere. Even Schwarzenegger, the fitness role model, was reduced to selling state park land to make up for huge gaps in his budget. Clinton in full attack mode is a sight to behold, but not one Californians should base this race on.

In their websites and in their official statements, both Whitman and Brown say the usual things about jobs, taxes and education. But it is in the area of jobs from clean energy technologies and in pension reform that Brown holds the clearest edge. California has, through necessity, been a leader in environmental policy-making. Spend any time in California and see how many hybrid cars are on the road. How many wind turbines are in operation. How much photo-voltaic equipment is already in place. Brown knows that this is just the beginning. Where Whitman and other business types believe that markets themselves will lead us where we need to go, Brown knows that government must lead. The push to bring as much of the American power grid into the renewable market must come from government. The money we spent on Iraq alone might well have begun to solve this problem once and for all.

Whitman the businesswoman lacks the political skill to bring the pension issue into the 21st century. Unions and pensioners must be brought to the table for talks that recognize them as entitled on one hand yet partners with taxpayers on the other. Brown will do that. And he must before the pension problem in California crushes the government into insolvency.

All governments need to be run in a more business-like manner and now more than ever. But government should never literally be run like a business. Business is about cold numbers, strict adherence to bottom lines and the ascent of those with the greatest skills and advantages. Governing requires a humanism that we find largely absent in the business world of today. It calls for skills that the business world often overlooks or shuns. Governing requires the ability not to follow spreadsheets and marketing advice but to weigh all of the relevant information and decide what is best for all of California in both the long and short term.

There is no one better for that job than Jerry Brown.

------

A post script regarding the New York governor's race. Voter dissatisfaction is real and valid. But Palladino versus Cuomo is a nearly impossible distortion of that reality. The difference between Carl Palladino and Andrew Cuomo, in terms of effectiveness, talent and experience, is the between a water pistol and a fire hose. A pea shooter and a cannon. When Eliot Spitzer was elected, a great man became governor. That man faltered and was replaced by an interim governor who has struggled. Now, New Yorkers can return another brilliant, hard-working public servant to the governor's office by electing Andrew Cuomo.

As thousands of demonstrators marched in European capitals on Wednesday to protest recent austerity measures, officials in Brussels proposed stiffening sanctions for governments that fail to cut their budget deficits and debt swiftly enough. ("Workers In Europe Protest Austerity Measures", New York Times, 9/30/2010)

Oh, do the super-rich hate the sound of "class struggle." Dare to utter the words and they'll reach for their red-baiting paint guns and spray you silly with invective. It's un-American. It's socialistic. It's an insult to democracy and freedom.

But try as they might, they can't paint over the reality, which the new Fortune 400 listings make so clear: Wall Street billionaires have more money than they'll ever be able to use--at a time when more than 29 million of us don't have that most basic necessity, a full-time job. A hidden class war got us to this point. It's not hidden anymore.

Once upon a time there was a tangible connection between the plutocrats and the rest of us. Carnegie, Mellon and Rockefeller built sprawling enterprises that employed tens of thousands of workers (even if they did treat them brutally). But today's billionaire financiers, about 100 of whom are on the Fortune 400 list, have a tough time explaining how their money-making schemes produce any jobs at all. Very few of us have a clue about how they even make their money.

But we are clued in to the way our society is splitting apart. What's good for the Wall Street tycoons is not good for America. The wealthy may loathe hearing about "class struggle," but we're in the middle of one -- and it's a doozy.

Back in the 1800s (and onward), "class struggle" meant the economic conflict between the interests of working people and those who owned "the means of production." But that construct proved too rigid to describe a complex modern economy. Companies are often run by managers who aren't owners. Most middle managers and supervisors also are workers, not owners, though they may identify with upper management. In glamor industries like Hollywood and sports, some workers are far richer and more powerful than the managers and owners. And many workers are "owners" through stock purchases made individually and through their pension funds.

"Class struggle" also doesn't capture the symbiotic relationship between workers, managers and owners. Yes, we fight over everything from plant shutdowns to job safety and health care benefits. But we also have common interests - workers want to keep their jobs, and for that they are dependent upon "owners." Instead of class struggle, we often see workers lobbying alongside owners for policies that might keep their industry afloat. This worker-boss connection is often much stronger than any sense of broad class solidarity among workers across the country. Most of us define ourselves as middle class, not working class, and we don't see ourselves at war with the business owners.

Until now. The financial crisis is squaring up a new class struggle: The handful of financial elites versus the rest of us. Where's our common interest? What's good for them (a $10 trillion bailout) costs us jobs and public services, and deepens the public debt. Financial elites have effectively hijacked our economy and there will be hell to pay to get it back.

Beginning in the mid-1970s the twin policies of financial deregulation and tax cuts for the super-rich laid the groundwork for the rise of financial industry billionaires. We were told these policies would fuel an enormous investment boom that would cause all boats to rise. Not quite. Income certainly gushed to the top fraction of one percent. But then we entered the financial industry Twilight Zone: The super-rich accumulated so much money that they literally ran out of investments in normal industries that produced real goods and services. Wall Street, now a deregulated Wild West, rode to the rescue by creating all manner of new paper investment opportunities. Instead of buying a piece of a factory or company through stocks and bonds, you bought derivatives. Or you gave your money to hedge funds where you could "earn" outsized returns with little risk -- just what the super-rich craved. Unfortunately, the entire enterprise was built upon layer after layer of leverage. The result was an unstable upside-down pyramid of "structured finance" balancing on a very narrow base of real tangible assets.

All of this worked just fine until it didn't. You know the rest of the story. When housing prices stopped rising, these paper assets - the CDOs and all the rest - went up in smoke, incinerating the rest of the economy in the process. (Please see The Looting of America for an easy-to-read account.)

On their long way up, financial industry billionaires grabbed our economy by the cojones-- and they're not letting go. Here are a few of the indicators:

1. Financial sector profits dramatically increased in the past several decades, peaking at over 40 percent of all corporate profits just before the economic collapse. Now the industry's profits are chugging back up again.


2. After the inevitable crash, the financial sector and its investors had all the political clout they needed to ensure their swift rescue by the government. Instead of paying a hefty price for wrecking the economy with their bad bets as dictated by free market principles, they got bailed out at taxpayer expense.


3. The 2010 financial reform bill did not break up financial institutions that were too big to fail or too interconnected to fail. It also didn't rebuild the Glass-Steagall Act's wall between investment banks and depository banks. The six largest banks are now bigger than ever.


4. Congress rejected our calls for a windfall profits tax or financial transaction tax to help pay for the financial sector's catastrophic damage to our economy. Instead Wall Street elites are again reaping enormous profits, leaving 29 million unemployed and underemployed people in the dust.


5. To pay for our rising public debt we're being told to tighten our belts so that they don't have to tighten theirs.

Economists assure us that the financial sector's role is to prudently move excess savings into investment. But that's not how Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, the largest private equity funds and the largest hedge funds are raking in their billions. Their real cash cow is their secretive daily practice of "proprietary trading" -- the equivalent of gambling in a rigged casino. This has nothing to do with investing in industries that might put our people to work. So our paltry economic growth is generating financial industry booty, not jobs.

Our billionaires might want us to think of them as great statesmen working to help our nation prosper and grow. But in reality, they're busily siphoning off our nation's wealth -- and blocking all efforts to regulate or tax their destructive behavior.

Wall Street's class warfare doesn't just target workers. While many top multinational corporate CEOs are in league with the big financiers, most of the medium and small business owners now struggling to find the capital to stay alive have few friends on Wall Street. Workers, supervisors and middle managers alike now live in fear that they'll lose their jobs -- and it's all because of the financial shenanigans on Wall Street. You don't have to be a Marxist to know that we bailed out the very people who wrecked our economy. You'll find precious few defenders of Wall Street anywhere in America.

This new class struggle will soon begin playing out on some new battlefields. The weight of the U.S.'s massive debt (created by the financial crisis and our failure to tax the super-rich the way we used to) will be put on our backs. The financial elites, along with their richly funded think tanks and compliant political hacks, will tell us to privatize Social Security, reduce its benefits and extend the retirement age. We'll be told we must cut funding for schools and health care services. We'll have to live with a crumbling infrastructure and a deteriorating environment -- because, well, the money just isn't there.

But if we call for raising taxes on the super-rich to prevent these dire developments, they'll bring out their paint guns and scream "socialism!" -- and threaten us with more economic catastrophe. Of course, they can fly their private jets over our collapsing infrastructure and send their kids to private schools. And they have no worries about jobs, health care or retirement, since they and their families have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes. Talk about a class struggle!

The Wall Street billionaires utterly refuse to accept any blame for our economic woes. They simply can't believe that their billions came from fatal flaws in our system rather than from their own genius. They'll fight to the end to convince us and themselves that they are indeed God's gift to our economy. (Wouldn't you if you had a billion dollars?)

It's time to make them pay their fair share for the damage they've done. That will help finance the massive jobs programs we need to put our people back to work. Of course, the super-wealthy can afford to pay. Only their pride will suffer.

In truth most of us would prefer to duck this fight. We just want to find a job, or keep the one we have, be with our families and cope with what life throws at us while enjoying as much of it as we can. We don't want to go to war with the richest people in the world, even though we greatly outnumber them. But we can't avoid this battle--it's coming to our doorsteps. The Dow may hit 12,000 but unemployment will haunt us for a decade to come. We can't afford the brutal cuts to retiree benefits, healthcare or education that they're pushing on us.

It will take a lot of time and effort to figure out how to fight back and win. But don't despair. As the old union song suggests, the toughest question always is "Which side are you on?" In the new class struggle, that decision has already been made for us.

Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009.

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