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Click here to listen to Debs in Canton |
On June 16, 1918, America’s leading voice of conscience, Eugene Victor Debs, stepped onto a stage in Canton, Ohio, and gave a soul-stirring speech against American intervention in WWI. He did so knowing the cost would be severe: Debs was charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and sentenced to 10 years in a federal penitentiary for sedition. The 63-year-old cofounder of the Socialist Party of America ran for president from his jail cell in 1920. He received nearly a million votes.
Debs was an architect of FDR’s New Deal policy that saved the American working class and gave the middle class a chance to build a better and more just life. Today, he is known as being a personal hero to contemporary political thinkers like Bernie Sanders. To those who knew him as “The Man from Terre Haute”, Debs was a simple man, an extraordinary writer and orator, and an energetic believer in the best of humanity and the promise of this great nation.
Debs’ unwavering social conscience and his deeply held Christian faith created the foundation of his political philosophy. But it has never been easy for any man to risk everything - from his possessions, his family, his freedom, or his health - to do what he knows is right. Debs’ crisis is dramatized in Debs in Canton, a new work of audio fiction from SueMedia Productions and Midsummer Sound Company that looks at what his life might have been like in the months leading up to this seminal moment in American history.
Debs was an architect of FDR’s New Deal policy that saved the American working class and gave the middle class a chance to build a better and more just life. Today, he is known as being a personal hero to contemporary political thinkers like Bernie Sanders. To those who knew him as “The Man from Terre Haute”, Debs was a simple man, an extraordinary writer and orator, and an energetic believer in the best of humanity and the promise of this great nation.
Debs’ unwavering social conscience and his deeply held Christian faith created the foundation of his political philosophy. But it has never been easy for any man to risk everything - from his possessions, his family, his freedom, or his health - to do what he knows is right. Debs’ crisis is dramatized in Debs in Canton, a new work of audio fiction from SueMedia Productions and Midsummer Sound Company that looks at what his life might have been like in the months leading up to this seminal moment in American history.
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Click here to listen to Never Again War
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Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz
In commemoration of the centennial of World War I, Midsummer Sound Company and SueMedia Productions produced the original audio drama, Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Käthe Kollwitz by Helen Engelhardt.
Hosted by Marsha Mason (Academy Award nominee / Golden Globe winner), Never Again War, takes us into the mind and life of the great German graphic artist and sculptor, Käthe Kollwitz, renowned for her body of work dedicated to depicting the lives of the working poor.
After her youngest son, Peter, was killed in Belgium in October 1914, during the opening weeks of World War I, she devoted the rest of her life to using her art in the service of her grief and opposition to war.
" I was deeply moved by "Never Again War," a very sensitive, quiet and reflective production.
And daring too, to show a German's point of view in a positive light, during the two great wars.
Wonderful performances by everyone.
I haven't heard anything that touched me so deeply in a long, long time. “
Tom Lopez — ZBS
And daring too, to show a German's point of view in a positive light, during the two great wars.
Wonderful performances by everyone.
I haven't heard anything that touched me so deeply in a long, long time. “
Tom Lopez — ZBS