Letters and Politics – April 30, 2012
May Day round table with folks from Occupy Los Angeles, San Francsico & Oakland and immigrant rights organizers and journalists.
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.
May Day round table with folks from Occupy Los Angeles, San Francsico & Oakland and immigrant rights organizers and journalists.
Arun Gupta, founding member of Indypendent & Occupy Wall St Journal, on the state of the Occupy Movement. Kieth McHenry, founder of Food Not Bombs.
Live report from protest at Wells Fargo shareholders meeting. Legal analysis of Supreme Court hearing on SB 1070.
This week on Capitol Hill with Alice Ollstein of Free Speech Radio News. David Solnit on Wells Fargo Shareholders meeting. A report on Occupy the Farm in Albany. Ken Jennings on artificial intelligence.
With this week marking the 2nd anniversary of the BP oil spill off the Gulf Coast, we’ll be in conversation with Abrahm Lustgarten, he covers energy issues for Pro Publica and he is author of the book Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deep Water Horizon Disaster. Ira Shapiro on the Senate … Continued
Simon Johnson, professor of economics at MIT, former Chief Economist the IMF and author of the book White House Burning. Tom Mueller on the olive oil industry.