Yeast Video Jim Hightower, Daryl Hannah, and Amy Goodman at The Green Festival in SF November 5 2005

I met Jim Hightower four years ago when he came to Chicago to give a presentation for the Community Media Workshop’s annual fundraiser at Malcolm X College. I bought a copy of his book “There’s Nothing In The Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadilloes,” and was fascinated by it. He’s a really engaging speaker, and his populist message really resonated with me (he talked a lot about class warfare–and this was even before Bush was elected!).

It’s going to catch on more and more, too, as people realize that the two- (or even three-) party system doesn’t speak for them anymore…