Letters and Politics – April 11, 2013
Jim Dean with Democracy for America Rebecca Griffin with Peace Action West Irene Florez interviews Melanie Warner, author of Pandora’s Lunchbox
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Letters and Politics – Obama’s Budget
President Obama releases his budget proposal for fiscal year 2014. Its considered a blueprint for the President’s bargining position on future budget negotiations with Congress. We’ll go over it with economists Sylvia Allegretto and Max Fraad Wolff. As thousands rally in Washington DC today for a pathway to citizenship, we’ll be in conversation about the … Continued
Letters and Politics – An Hour with David Graeber
David Graeber, one of the original Occupy Wall St activists and author of the books Debt: The First 5,000 Years and The Democracy Project.
Letters and Politics – The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
Today we spend the hour on the legacy of Margaret Thatcher and those who opposed her with British based historian, writer and activist Iain Boal and economist Richard Wolff.
Letters and Politics – The Untold Story of Women in the Baseball Negro Leagues
With tensions on the rise in the Korean Peninsula, and as the threat of nuclear weapons are being discussed, we’ll look at the last 20 years of US Korean relations with Hyun Lee of the Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. With the opening day of the baseball season now … Continued
Letters and Politics – Movements of the Last 6 Decades
As the Supreme Court considers same gender marriage this week, we’ll spend the hour in conversation about the social movements that formed out of the LGBT community over the last 6 decades and the important role that transgender activists have played in these movements. Our guest is Dr. Ardel Thomas, the Chair of the Lesbian, … Continued
Letters and Politics – Anti-Communist Purges
The Supreme Court has wrapped up its second day of hearings on same gender marriage. Today the Court took up the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, that defines marriage at the federal level as being between a man and a woman. Coming up we’ll talk about what DOMA … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 26, 2013
As the Supreme Court hears two important cases this week on same gender marriage, we look at how sexuality became a Constitutional issue with Leigh Ann Wheeler, author of the book How Sex Became a Civil Liberty. But first we have audio from today’s Supreme Court hearing on California’s anti same gender marriage measure Proposition … Continued
Letters and Politics – March 25, 2013
Catch phrases such as chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction are back: 10 years after they were used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Today we talk about how such phrases have been used in the past and the history of western rhetoric towards the middle east with Deepa Kumar, Associate Professor of Media … Continued