I had intended to make two other points that I cut from the last draft of the speech for time. One point was to list the reasons I believed that we are experiencing the collapse of industrial civilization: The structural problems inherent in capitalism combined with the greed of the financial class, the corruption of governments and the energy and environmental crises exacerbated by the disaster in the Gulf. It was originally there so that the statement about the collapse of industrial civilization, which makes "The Great Recession" unlike other economic downturns, would not seem so hyperbolic.
My second point concerned that portion of KPFA's listenership that claims that things were better at KPFA when no one was paid; they would like to see those days return. To them, I say here that as long as we are stuck in a money economy, community radio workers have the same right to support themselves with their skills as do the community janitors, grocery workers, nurses and teachers who look to KPFA to cover their labor struggles.
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