The Simpsons and Fresh Air turn 30 years this year. Fun listening to the clips (from 10+ years ago mostly).
It's got me thinking about all the amazing things from decades ago that continue to need our support and be relevant today.
What's something great from the past that we still do or need to support today?
- People have been playing chess for generations. The modern precursor started in India in the 6th century! https://www.chess.com/blog/jim_ostler/history-of-chess12
- The Nation has been publishing powerful insights and news since 1865. "Founded by abolitionists in 1865, The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine, serving as a critical, independent voice in American journalism and a platform for investigative reporting and spirited debate on issues of import to the progressive community. " https://www.thenation.com/about-us-and-contact/
- Consumer Reports has been around for 80 years protecting the public by providing independent reports. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/about-us/index.htm
- Our kids have watched Sesame Street since 1969. http://www.sesameworkshop.org/faqs/
- KPFT has been in Houston since 1970, surviving 2 initial bombing attacks by the Klan and supporting listener funded radio, speaking truth to power and building community https://www.facebook.com/pg/kpfthouston/about/?ref=page_internal http://kpft.org/about/
- The Citizens' Environmental Coalition (CEC) has been educating people and government about the environment in Houston since 1971, http://www.cechouston.org/CEC/about-cec/cec-history/
- Mother Jones has been around for 40 years supporting. It "does independent and investigative reporting on everything from politics and climate change to education and food (plus cat blogging). Some 11 million people come to this site each month, and we also publish a bimonthly, 200,000-circulation magazine." http://www.motherjones.com/about
- Democracy Now has been around over 20 years https://www.facebook.com/pg/democracynow/about/?ref=page_internal https://www.democracynow.org/
- Some good thoughts on how the world is pretty similar to the past. "So what are we to make of all this? Two things. First, that we can be awfully narcissistic, and boring—frozen in the past while making great pronouncements about the present. And second, that while we do notice what is changing—something’s always changing—we don’t notice the great many things that are not.4 But be careful of these, because we can’t manage change without managing continuity. There’s a word for change without continuity: anarchy. Would you like to live in times of great anarchy?" http://www.mintzberg.org/blog/continuity
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