Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – Reaction to NSA/Verizon Surveillance
We hear Attorney General Eric Holder being questioned about the NSA/Verizon surveillance story at a Senate hearing earlier today and we’ll talk to Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Shahid Buttar with the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Then later in the show we talk to radical feminist Merle Woo about rape … Continued
Letters and Politics – Lilly Ledbetter
The gender wage gap with Lilly Ledbetter and Noreen Farrell of Equal Rights Advocates. Jonathon Hansen, author of Guantanamo: An American History.
Letters and Politics – June 3, 2013
Jeff Paterson, Director of the Bradley Manning Support Network Michael Klare, author of The Race for What’s Left.
Letters and Politics – US Colony Guam & the Pivot to Asia
Today we talk about how Guam, legally a US colony, plays into the Obama administration’s Pivot to Asia with two Chamoru indigenous activists Julian Aguon and Michael Leon Guerrero. Later we spoke to one of President Obama’s religious advisers Jim Wallis.
Letters and Politics – May 28, 2013
Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University. William Dalrymple, author of Return of the King: The Battle for Afghanistan 1839-1842